An Introduction to the software and basic concepts of CGI

Hexagon. Is a mesh modeler. Here is where you can make practically any shape possible if you know how and have the time

Daz Is a charecter modeler . Here you can clothe and pose model and backgrounds and render images.

Bryce is a landscape creator, It has tools to create water and sky and cloud effects, you can also render images in Bryce

Daz and Bryce also have animation tools, though I don't know how robust they are.

Some basic concepts and how they work together to create an image

Mesh - Also Objects - These are your items, created from squares (more accuratly 2 triangles forming a square) you can do almost anything given enough time skill knowlege and effort.

Textures - Also Bitmaps - This is the colour applied to your mesh at it's most simple a plain colour . A bitmap is a 2d file used for the purposes of defining how the surface will look. You can apply many diffrent bitmaps to many diffrent ascpets of a surface to create a final effect.

Lights - Spotlights, omni directional lights (like light bulbs) , theres many diffrent abjects you can use to bring illumination to the scene.

Camera - Not a lot to say really does what it says on the tin.

Action- Well the render button anyway, this is what you hit when your ready your computer thinks about it for a while (used to be bloody ages believe me, fairly snappy now in comparison) and shows you a beatifully rendered image of what the camera could see.

A basic workflow pretty much follows that order

-Create objects and surface

-Put things where you want them to be

-Light the scene as realistically as possible

-Find your best camera angle

-Hit render ... Wait

-Be not entirely happy and go and repeat some stage until you are.

Simples.

Enjoy

Perhaps your first task might be to search your suites directory tree and find what types of goodies come with it (daz just tells you) and see what you can do given what you now know.

You use a porgram called Triexporter to extract them, someone else has already made a nice Tutorial to go with it.

Maybe there is a way to do this without a script in blender that I am unaware of. Anyone know of how to do what I'm talking about; in any program? .

Mid terms :( So painful!

Anybody know how to extract the background seen in the game? I'm assuming they are cubemaps, just not sure where to find them, or how to manipulate them so they can be rendered. I guess I've found a few, but they seem awfully low res.