MD2 and DAZ Studio: Creating your Avatar

Marvelous Designer Guide for Daz Studio Users

There are many reasons that you might take the decision to use MD, but for now, I’m assuming that you wish to create a piece of 3D art using your own characters and your own clothing designs.

This is the first of a series of tutorials that will take you through the process of exporting your character from Daz, importing it into MD, designing your outfit, animating the avatar into your desired pose, and exporting the clothing back into Daz.

I'm still using MD2 but if you are fortunate to own MD3, the principles and the process are the same, only the interface is different.

The described process uses .obj format because that's the way I've always done it, due to the .dae export not working properly when MD first came out. As far as I know it does work now, although I've never tried it, so you're welcome to substitue .dae export for .obj and see what happens.

The download zip also contains the tutorial in .pdf format if you want to print it out

Other tutorials in the series can be found here: dylazuna.deviantart.com/galler…