Mirage Creative 04a1 is available now!
Hi dear patrons,
Thanks to your support, today I am able to release a promised Importer.
Mirage Creative is an Importer (Unity project) + sandbox to test and play with your creations. To use it you need to install Unity 2021.3.2 and few other apps. I have created a series of video tutorials to getting you started: https://morganavr-steam.com/tutorials
Mirage Creative contains Importer that allows you to import DAZ assets (Genesis 3 Female) - characters, clothes, hairs to display them in a built-in Mirage Unity scene. This special scene, called MirageCreative, is identical to Mirage 035 game but thanks to the fact that it runs inside Unity you can customize it heavily: change 3D environments, add new objects, animations, sounds, write your own C# scripts, change materials - entire Unity toolset is in your disposal.
Right now I am modifying current Mirage version (035) to read AssetBundles created in MirageCreative so you will be able to copy files from MirageCreative to a stand alone build of Mirage.
Download it now and start creating!
Download link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/mirage-creative-76433545
Regular Mirage 035 version is available at https://www.patreon.com/posts/mirage-0-3-5-and-48772729
Comments (8)
How do I get the steam key? I've been a patreon member since august of last year, I forgot to come ask for the steam key tho.
Thx for your great project morgana and that you put so much heart blood in it!
Thx for all the tutorial videos, they are very good!! I am not that good with that stuff and nevertheless i managed to get to the point when importing starts. I will continue my journey learning this when i am fitter. I am not in a hurry. @Tom that you did it encourages mke:-)
Morgana, I watched your tutorial "Mirage Creative Tutorial 05 - Importing characters you created yourself" and that answers almost all my questions on that process. But it seems it will not work without the manifest and supplement files and you used a program to generate them - please tell me where I can get that Manifest Generator so that I can complete this process! thanks, /t
Hi Tom, You can find Manifest Generator here: https://mirage7.notion.site/Video-Tutorials-e0cc8d50776147f28d94f12fa1cee36f
This is a nice bit of progress. I've cycled through a couple of times. It is very nice to get more characters into your scene... the best part IMO is the interaction with the DAZ characters, the way you have rigged them up to move and respond is tremendous. I had relatively few Genesis 3 characters. (Almost) none of them except Victoria had gens mats... at that generation artists were leaving us to rely on torso mats and UVs for the gens. so, that tends to leave a gap. Being able to work with the torso UVs, or with no gens, would be a good addition to Mirage importer. DAZ had Genesis 3 characters on sale cheap this week and I picked up a dozen! Looking forward to more progress here. I'd also like to be able to make my own characters and bring them in. Can you tell me what is needed in the zip file for your importer to work, if I make my own zip? As for your tutorial, a simple text list of steps would be a VERY good thing to add. When I forget some detail going back through the videos to find it is time consuming and frustrating. Keep up the good work! /t
This is unbelievably confusing. How do I simply edit existing assets included in Mirage? First It was the patreon paywall and now I need to pay DAZ too? Just to create a scene and edit a model that should be already included? Please make a bare bones tutorial because currently all the information is scattered all over the place.
Hi Sławek, You can download the latest build of Mirage at https://www.patreon.com/posts/mirage-0-3-5-and-48772729 In regular Mirage you can change scene parameters including characters appearance via Morphs sliders. Mirage Creative is a separate application. > First It was the patreon paywall and now I need to pay DAZ too? You don't need to pay DAZ and can create a character yourself in DAZ and import to Mirage Creative. Tutorials are here: https://morganavr-steam.com/tutorials