discussion Tools of trade: why is Daz popular here?

[lardlewd]

So, why not UE+CC4, Blender, ZBrush etc, what's the appeal of Daz for game creation?

 

[Ilikepie]

There are thousands of pre-made assets for Daz that you can just plug and play. In my opinion that's why it's so popular. A lot of those assets are made with Blender and/or ZBrush or some other 3D program. Its animation functions are lacking though when compared to something like Blender.

 

[eezergoode]

Basically, it's pretty easy to work with, and there are somewhere around eleventy billion pre-made assets available for use. Many of which are <cough> freely available <cough>

 

[Trunk Monkey]

Short answer: Low cost, ease of use, and large selection of available assets.

 

[goregames]

DAZ 3D is best, and used for more than 90% of AVNs, and it's free to use (apart from the assets)

 

[lardlewd]

Ok, but what about, say, Unreal plus CharacterCreator? For animation / games that should give you easier results.

 

[GeeVerity]

Unreal animations always look weird to me in VNs, there's too much motion or a floatiness to the models. Or I'm probably just used to DAZ.