If you are a content creator, getting a complete understanding of dForce is one of the holy grails needed to create attractive content to customers.

Everyone wants dynamic, realistic clothing or hair and there is an expectation to see real folds, real creases and real draping for content.

"How can I extend the use of dForce to add realism to scenes and environments?"

If you are an artist, you may want to have your scenes "more lived in" and discover other extraordinary uses dForce has in DAZ Studio. You may want to convert older clothing assets to use dForce.

But dForce can be tricky. By its very nature you need to run a ton of simulations to understand it, adjust it, let alone apply it to your content.

Once you understand dForce and can successfully apply it to your content, you are in a pole position as a vendor or artist.

Richard Schafermeyer presents this nine tutorial video course who is an expert on the dForce engine. He has helped many artists in the DAZ forums understand and explore dForce's capabilities. Richard gives a solid foundation for the dForce basics and goes over all of the surface parameters in depth before going onto more advanced topics. This course is suitable for both beginners and more advanced users of dForce.

When creating cartoon characters, we often need to deform their eye shape past the traditional sphere. The deformation creates the desired cartoonish effect, but also leads to several challenges. First, we want to maintain the eye’s rotation around its center as if it were still a sphere, even though it is now deformed. Second, we seldom want the iris and pupil to deform with the eye shape. Instead, it is preferable that they remain circular. As if those two issues weren’t tricky enough, we also want the pupil to be capable of contracting and dilating – independent of the main eye’s deformation! These requirements are pretty complex, but there is a powerful solution that allows you to achieve them all, as well as any deformation you could possibly require. Best of all, it is all in a single rig! Check out this course to learn how to tackle these challenges and create a professional looking cartoon eye, including materials, a realistic movement and reflections and finally attaching it to your rig. Each part of the course includes a written “recipe” to help you follow along.

 A huge benefit of computer graphics is the ability to quickly and efficiently duplicate or instance (link duplicate) geometry. This means we can spend more time building and detailing a single object then duplicate it many times to compound our scene’s level of complexity. But with such an ability it can be very easy for our duplication to feel too perfect; to feel “CG” and fake. To achieve realism we must implement controlled randomization to break up our CG-ish repetition. Mr. Roman employs such intelligent repetition along with his top-notch rendering skills to mesmerize us with gorgeous complexity. In this course, I want to walk you through a fairly simple example of this idea. From start to finish I’ll show you how to create a realistic snapshot of vintage mailboxes!

This Unity game project is for beginners who want to learn how to build a game from the ground up. You'll learn the basics of physics to move tanks around using forces. The premise of the game is simple: shoot the enemy tanks until they explode! Moving is done solely through recoil forces of the firing of the ball. Playing this game may seem simple...but it is harder than it looks. In the video tutorial, you'll learn how to build these tanks and expand them for new levels. I'll teach you how to write each individual script line by line. Various mechanics will include understanding how to rotate the turret of the tank using mouse and keyboard inputs and shooting a projectile with force that coincides with an audio clip playing and a particle effect.

Photo scanning and the process of photogrammetry is an amazing new technology that enables artists to convert real-world objects into extremely realistic 3D models with minimal effort. In this Blender tutorial course, we’ll be using Meshroom, a free photogrammetry software, and Blender 3D to create a realistic 3D scanned pumpkin!

Augmented Reality is one half of the "cross reality" field also known as XR. While VR brings you into a virtual world, AR brings the digital aspects into your real environment. AR is a rapidly growing field and it's not just for games, it's been used for product displays, educational training, and even utility type apps in the form of measurements and GPS tracking. This course is aimed at those new to building augmented reality apps using Unity.

In this course you’ll learn to make complex and engine friendly rigs, animate for a game then import and integrate these animations and the rigged character inside the engine. By using ARTv1 the process of rigging becomes more faster and easier.