to "Import Custom Morphs" for Muscle Volumes (Flex Control) not working

jochensutter

I tried to import “Muscle Volumes” respectively the “Muscle Flex Control” of this Custom Morphs

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The Files are not named with JCM but with xFLX. 

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After importing them with “import Custom Morphs” I get a section, but no shapekeys. Is there a way to imort this xFlex file as JCM shapekeys?

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Padone

It depends how it works in daz studio. If this is a control for other morphs you have to load the other morphs too and these will appear in the shape keys. You can see the used morphs in daz studio with the "currently used" button in the parameters tab.

jochensutter

Thank you very much! Yes that's the solution. In the "Muscle Volumes"\xenic101\Musculature" all shapekeys are in different folders, also the xflx (flexions) are in a seperate folder. So I copied all shapekeys into one new folder and imported all together with "import Custom Morphs". Now it works! 

Krys Kryngle

@jochensutter - I looked at those morphs and they look super interesting.  Just wondering how you liked them.  Are the flexions automatically driven in Blender or do you have to change the morph/shape key value manually?

Padone

@Krys If the morphs have drivers then the same drivers are created in blender. Same as jcms.

hookflash

Padone said:

@Krys If the morphs have drivers then the same drivers are created in blender. Same as jcms.

Oh wow, I had no idea! For some reason, I just assumed Diffeo only set up drivers for morphs with JCM in the filename. Does this mean something like Auto Muscle Enchancer could be used in Blender?

Padone

@hookflash HD morphs are another story. Yes they can work but you have to use the HD addon by Xin and the true HD option that's not good for animation. Or bake the HD maps and add them to the materials yourself that's not so friendly to setup. In general I'd avoid to go too deep with morphs in blender, just bake your HD shape to dbz then try the standard jcms for basic deformations, if it works fine enough you're done.

https://diffeomorphic.blogspot.com/p/hd-meshes-version-16.html

https://bitbucket.org/Diffeomorphic/import_daz/issues/814/blender-addon-to-generate-rigged-hd-meshes

hookflash

Padone said:

@hookflash HD morphs are another story. Yes they can work but you have to use the HD addon by Xin and the true HD option that's not good for animation. Or bake the HD maps and add them to the materials yourself that's not so friendly to setup. In general I'd avoid to go too deep with morphs in blender, just bake your HD shape to dbz then try the standard jcms for basic deformations, if it works fine enough you're done.

https://diffeomorphic.blogspot.com/p/hd-meshes-version-16.html

https://bitbucket.org/Diffeomorphic/import_daz/issues/814/blender-addon-to-generate-rigged-hd-meshes

Ah, cool, thanks for the heads up!