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dForce Saving as Morph?

AngelAngel Posts: 1,204
edited November 2017 in The Commons

Silly question. pobably easily answered. Is there a way to save a simulation as a morph asset? Would help me a lot because sometimes the simulation goes a little overboard and only 70 or 80% of the total simulation is nessesary.

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  • wolf359wolf359 Posts: 3,764

    Export the draped clothing as an .obj file onthe frma you need , and use morphloader pro  to reimport it

  • AngelAngel Posts: 1,204
    edited November 2017

    that assumes i dont have a complex scene going on.... There should be another way...

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  • CybersoxCybersox Posts: 8,760
    Angel - Wings said:

    that assumes i dont have a complex scene going on.... There should be another way...

    There are always memory limitations, but I'd think you should be able to save the whole scene, then save just the affected items out as a preset, clear the scene and reload the preset and do the export/import in the reduced version of the scene, then transfer the morphed version back to the full scene.  It sounds convoluted, but I've taken to doing a lot of my stuff lately by breaking big scenes down into smaller, more manageable presets and then combining everything right before going to render.  

     
  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 96,858
    Angel - Wings said:

    that assumes i dont have a complex scene going on.... There should be another way...

    Hide everything but the draped item, export as OBJ (which by default ignores hidden items), import as morph - if the draped item is away from the origin you'd need tor eset that before exporting, then use under to put it back in place.

  • SotoSoto Posts: 1,437
    edited November 2017

    This script lets you export the selected object only.

    http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/referenceguide/scripting/api_reference/samples/file_io/export_obj_silent/start

    You can use "true" or "false" depending on your needs. In this case:

    oSettings.setBoolValue( "SelectedOnly", false );

    Change it to "true"

     

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  • Design Anvil - Razor42Design Anvil - Razor42 Posts: 1,234
    edited November 2017
    Hellboy said:

    This script lets you export the selected object only.

    http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/referenceguide/scripting/api_reference/samples/file_io/export_obj_silent/start

    You can use "true" or "false" depending on your needs. In this case:

    oSettings.setBoolValue( "SelectedOnly", false );

    Change it to "true"

     

    I went ahead and modified the Daz script linked above for those not quite sure where to start. I have attached it below as a zip, just unzip the content into your Scripts folder.

    It will export only the selected node as an obj file with correct scaling as per the popup options.

    Shared under: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

    Pls let me know if their are any issues.

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  • xmasrose (aka tulipe)xmasrose (aka tulipe) Posts: 1,403

    Thank you!

  • ebergerlyebergerly Posts: 3,255

    Thanks for the tweak. And thanks for opening my eyes that there's a script like this that exists !! Hugely useful for me, since I regularly export scene elements to Blender.

    However, I've tried it multiple times and when I import into Blender the mesh seems to exist (it indicates how many vertices the object has) but I can't see it in the 3D view. I looked all over the scene and it's nowhere to be found. 

    Anyone know what's going on? 

    Thanks.

  • ebergerlyebergerly Posts: 3,255
    edited November 2017

    Hold on I think I've got it...apparently the script overwrites whatever options you choose in the export dialog. So I opened the script in Notepad++ and tweaked it to set it for Blender as default....

    Darn. That didn't fix the problem...

    EDIT: Nevermind, got it. I think I had a scale factor entered as an integer rather than decimal so it went goofy. 

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  • ebergerlyebergerly Posts: 3,255
    edited November 2017

    Cool, I tweaked the DAZ script to export from DAZ to Blender, with correct scaling and orientation (XYZ) so you can import directly into Blender with its default preset import settings (one less thing you have to monkey with). And it saves a character as one object, not a bunch of groups (so that a character appears in Blender as a single object). But I did it based on Imperial (feet/inches) scales in Blender, so only people in the US care smiley

    Now I'm working on figuring how to make the window that asks for all the export settings (which the script overrides anyway) not come up, since it's useless. 

    Thanks to DAZ for providing the script. Though it would be great if it was built-in to Studio....................

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  • wolf359wolf359 Posts: 3,764

    "Now I'm working on figuring how to make the window 
    that asks for all the export settings 
    (which the script overrides anyway) not come up, since it's useless.

    "Useless" perhaps for your specific purposes but quite useful
    for those of us using Daz content .obj exports in other programs like C4D &Lightwave.cheeky

  • ebergerlyebergerly Posts: 3,255
    wolf359 said:

    "Now I'm working on figuring how to make the window 
    that asks for all the export settings 
    (which the script overrides anyway) not come up, since it's useless.

    "Useless" perhaps for your specific purposes but quite useful
    for those of us using Daz content .obj exports in other programs like C4D &Lightwave.cheeky

    Not in this case...

    The script OVERRIDES anything you might enter into the export settings window. So it will ignore whatever you put in. Of course you can change the python script, but the way it comes from DAZ defaults to ignoring your input. 

  • wolf359wolf359 Posts: 3,764
    edited November 2017

    I see.. you mean this script subverts My DS  export options making them useless when the script is  being utilized 
    ...understood 
    I thought you were implying the DS export options were useless
    in general.

    I stand corrected.blush

     

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  • ebergerlyebergerly Posts: 3,255

    It's easy to change it. Just tweak one line of python code. Problem solved. 

  • Leonides02Leonides02 Posts: 1,379
    Design Anvil - Razor42 said:
    Hellboy said:

    This script lets you export the selected object only.

    http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/referenceguide/scripting/api_reference/samples/file_io/export_obj_silent/start

    You can use "true" or "false" depending on your needs. In this case:

    oSettings.setBoolValue( "SelectedOnly", false );

    Change it to "true"

     

    I went ahead and modified the Daz script linked above for those not quite sure where to start. I have attached it below as a zip, just unzip the content into your Scripts folder.

    It will export only the selected node as an obj file with correct scaling as per the popup options.

    Shared under: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

    Pls let me know if their are any issues.

    Hot damn, this is useful. A belated thanks!

  • marblemarble Posts: 7,449

    Just found this and tried to use it with Marvelous Designer (export a G8F OBJ for an Avatar). However, it does seem to ignore my export preferences even though the pop-up screen shows them. I'm not clear from the conversation above how to fix that, bearing in mind that I am not a programmer so suggesting tweaking the python code is not going to get me far. Is there a ready-tweaked version which remembers the export preferences?

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