Daz to Unity or Unity to Daz ?

Anki

I've recently been fiddling with Unity and I wanted to make a scene with a Daz character in a Unity environment. My aim is for still pics only. No animations/interactions. Set up the scene and screenshot.

Question is : Should I import my Daz character into Unity, or my Unity scene into Daz ?

- If I import my Daz character into Unity : Will it still have all its features ? Bones, pose, morphs, textures... ? Will I still be able to change its poses ? And what about Dforce clothing ? I can't imagine there being Dforce simulations in Unity. 

- If I import my Unity scene into Daz : Will it keep all its materials ? (base texures, Gaia + CTS shaders, Aura2 waters...) What about volumetric fog ? I haven't seen anything close to that in Daz.

Thanks for your advice !

IsaacNewton

Wouldn't a reliable transfer (or integration) between DS and Unity also be great for animations?

FSMCDesigns

materials in Unity are different from DAZ and Iray, so you will have to either import the ones that come in or tweak the existing ones. Either way you will have to tweak things. Question is,  which is the focal point of the scene, the environment or the character, if the character, import from unity.

IsaacNewton

Sounds like fertile ground for skilled programmers to produce plugins for DS to make the necessary conversions easy for the hobbyist DS/Unity user.

FSMCDesigns

IsaacNewton said:

Sounds like fertile ground for skilled programmers to produce plugins for DS to make the necessary conversions easy for the hobbyist DS/Unity user.

Not that fertile in my experience with the game community.

Anki

FSMCDesigns said:

(...)Question is,  which is the focal point of the scene, the environment or the character, if the character, import from unity.

Oh, I didn't think of that.
I will have different scenes of course. So the focal point will sometimes be the environment (for example an aerial view of a city and surounding lands : in Unity) and sometimes the characters (in Daz).

Can I use Unity to make HDRIs and then use those as skies in Daz ? That would work for the decor around maybe 100 meters away (depending on camera height/angle) and I would then only have to "fill in" the decor around the characters, say with architecture or nature props and stuff imported from Unity.

 

IsaacNewton said:

Wouldn't a reliable transfer (or integration) between DS and Unity also be great for animations?
(...)
Sounds like fertile ground for skilled programmers to produce plugins for DS to make the necessary conversions easy for the hobbyist DS/Unity user.

I don't know. Unity is mainly for making games. It has a powerfull tool for creating realistic terrains which in why I want to use it for my Daz scenes, but I don't think most people do that. Programming would this would take a lot of work, for very little profit.