Creating Thumbnails In DAZ Studio

Author: Dandrea Design

Tools Needed

* DAZ Studio

If you search through the tutorials you will find several tutorials for creating thumbnails in Poser and DAZ Studio using multiple programs, but I will show you how to do it just using DAZ Studio

Have you ever wondered where your thumbnails are while working in DAZ Studio or Poser? Well, Here we will show you exactly how to fix that problem using only DAZ Studio. As you can see here I have no thumbnails in my MAT folder for the Baby Doll Hair for Aiko.

First since this is a hair prop I will Load Aiko and the Baby Doll Hair.

Then as this is also going to be a custom thumbnail that I have to look at I will set up my photo lighting.

As I have chosen the MAT files for the Baby Doll Hair I applied the proper MAT file to the scene at this point.

If your using the standard color set for DAZ Studio then you should go to the drop down menu next to your viewport control menu and select Background Color.

Select one of your custom color boxes so that you can always get a nice background. This step will make you avoid having to set transparencies in the render and the need for another program.

Set the RGB to 60, 60, 60. This is the color of the background of the standard DAZ Studio Content Panel. Now click the “Add to Custom Color” button and click “OK”

Now go to your render settings (Ctrl+Shift+R in Windows)

In the Dimension preset drop down menu click the Square (1:1) setting

Thumbnail images must be 91 pixels by 91 pixels square so place those numbers in the pixel dimensions boxes

Once you change your render settings you will have a square in your scene that has a 1:1 in the corner. Now center whatever it is your trying to get a thumbnail for in that box (in this case the Baby Doll Hair)

Once it is complete rendering your image what you see is exactly what your thumbnail will look like so make any adjustments you may think it needs and re-render if you want to.

Go to File - Save last Render and change the save file type to PNG.

It is very important that you have the exact same file name as the item that you are creating the thumbnail for.

As you can see in this image we still don't have the thumbnail. DAZ Studio doesn't auto refresh the content window so you need to change content folders and go back to it.

Now we have the proper thumbnail for our MAT file for the Baby Doll Hair.

This will allow you to create thumbnails for items that don't have them and to create custom thumbnails for your collection. I hope this helps you all out and have fun being different.