One of the main uses is where you want to take your high-poly models into a game engine and where you can’t guarantee that the end users will have enough processing power to handle such high poly models.

There are lots of times when a plugin like this comes in useful. This plugin reduces the number of polygons that are used to create a mesh. Problem! Up steps the solution, the Decimator plugin.

We download it and import it into our scene only to find that it’s stacked with so many polygons that it slows our project right down. We’ve all been there, haven’t we? We’ve found a really nice 3D model that will look absolutely perfect in our project. Image credit (as supplied by PR): itSeez3D If you want to give it a spin then there is a free version that is built into Daz Studio but if you want to remove the watermark that is applied then you’ll need to upgrade to the pro version. If you need to recreate specific people in your 3D world or you just want to speed up the process of creating realistic looking faces then this is a great plugin to try. After uploading your photo into the plugin it’ll work out all the data required to recreate the face shape, bone structure, texture and tone in a 3D format. Just use the Face Transfer Unlimited plugin. Got a photo of a person that you want to recreate in 3D? Simple. Image credit (as supplied by PR): LayLo 3D

This plugin works with both Genesis 3 and 8 characters. Through 50 hand sculpted face poses and a set of controls to tweak your motion capture you can really bring your facial poses to life. It is within the Face Mojo plugin that the magic really happens though. Through the FBX file format you can easily take the motion capture data from your iOS device into Daz Studio. With just an iOS device that has a TrueDepth front-facing camera and one of the supported Apple ARKit Apps you can capture the motion of your face and translate it directly to your 3D character. This is a cracking plugin to get us started.

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