There isn't much information there on how to use the plugin. It's just a few screen caps and a glossary. I already know what a normal map and a bump map is and I can see what the menu looks like when I'm working with it. I'm not sure what the point in this kind of documentation is.
"Rightclick the preset and "Copy as new material", then drag that new material onto a Scene Surface. It is very easy!"
If you do that with the material in the scene, it's just going to build a new material based on what's already assigned to it in Daz Studio. That's pointless. That's why I have by defualt. If you do that with a material in the live DB, it creates a unused shader. In either case, it doesn't help me assign a template to an existing shader so that I can get the settings where I need them without having to go in and edit each setting individually each time I want to edit an existing shader.
"That is incorrect. The UV mapping of the model is untouched."
It may not be the UV then, but it certainly has the same effect. I'm attaching an image to show what I'm talking about.
- This is the effect I'm referring to as the UV map having been changed.
Certainly, if you decide to paste the template, you'll find that it replaces the material name and all. Then you'll need to rename the material back to it's original name and delete the unused material unless you want to have 50 instances of "copy of wood shader (1)" that you have a hard time keeping up because the names of your materials no longer make sense (assuming you are applying the wood shader settings to 50 materials). Of course, you could drag and drop the wood shader 50 times, but you'll have the same problem. Naturally, either way you'll find that it creates the problem that the image maps no longer line up right that I referred to as the UV map having been changed. Alternatively, you could apply the settings only. This way you won't need to worry about it renaming the material and creating an unused material (actually I assume it's probably creating a new material and unassigning the old one but it's the same effect). I don't think this creates the same problem with image maps that don't line up, but it does mean that you'll have to go through and individually replace each image map for each usage of the shader. This is truly laborious if you have 50 materials you need to edit each with 3 image maps.
"You seem to be raising issue which no one else has. Have you read the manual? Have you watched the tutorials at docs.otoy.com (Getting Started->Video Catalogue)."
As I said, the manual contains no useful information unless you want to know what a normal map is without googling it. As for the videos, I think I've found the link you attempted to give me. "https://docs.otoy.com/manuals/video-catalogue/". About all I could find was a link to a youtube channel with some videos on the standalone application. "https://www.youtube.com/user/OtoyNZ/videos". None of it relates to the Daz Studio plugin.
