I feel the pain, although some things are slightly easier with a photography background, but even so, it does frequently feel like "no pain, no gain" when doing stuff with Daz. Then again I'm also learning Davinci Resolve and that is no different either....You know I can't tell you how many tutorial videos I've watched on YouTube about three point lighting and not a single fucking one actually took the time and explain to me the purpose of each light. You just taught me more about lighting and I have in the three or four years I've been doing 3D modeling.
You really are saying the right things and I agree with you. I want to add some facts, again, please ignore if your knew it already.I feel the pain, although some things are slightly easier with a photography background, but even so, it does frequently feel like "no pain, no gain" when doing stuff with Daz. Then again I'm also learning Davinci Resolve and that is no different either....
I like the 3 point light setup a lot, although I find myself doing a lot more with Sun-Sky and messing with all those environment settings, you can get some very good lighting effects as a result, but it really is trial and error and a lot of tweaking to get the output that you want. I still find that I'm jumping over to Photoshop to make other adjustments for single images.
But for complex lighting requirements especially interior shots then you have no real option other than to work with different light sources. I use planes a lot and modify the surface on them to make much softer lighting, just as I would use a lightbox IRL.
Of course there are lots of photography videos on the use of lights and setup etc., so don't feel that you only have to rely on Daz tutorials for lighting.
It's mainly Japanese style dforce uniforms from what I've seen but there is a few that might work.Designing new characters is pretty fun. Btw, anybody knows any good college/school uniforms with dForce? Not those naughty girl uniforms, but a normal high quality western school uniform that girls could wear going to christian college or something.