Looking for help on finding a good tutorial to import from daz to blender and then back to daz

Schaaka

I want to import a figure from daz, bring it to blender, fix up a few things with the mesh then import it back and hopefully everything still functions as it did before (rigging, texture, ect).

I want to fuze two different meshes together, basically.

I know it sounds silly, essentially posting a google search in the forum here but I wasnt confident in the searches I found for what i am looking for.

Im not familiar with blender at all. I used 3ds max back in college but lost my copy since.

Or if anyone has a suggestion for anything else to use I am all ears and happy to hear them.

Thanks!

 

Padone

If you just need to make morphs for a daz figure then hexagon gets a bridge. You may ask in the hexagon forum. That is, hexagon is probably easier to learn than blender.

felis

Essentially you can't import anything to Daz Studio and keep rigging and textures.

What you can do is creating morphs to the item inside Daz Studio.

Schaaka

felis said:

Essentially you can't import anything to Daz Studio and keep rigging and textures.

What you can do is creating morphs to the item inside Daz Studio.

Aw bummer, is there a way to fuze pixels together on a model? (in daz)*

Kainjy

Can you be more specific about what you are going to do ? You can create a morph exporting and importing obj files (using in DAZ Morph Loader Pro). You can edit your figure with almost every 3D software (3dsmax, Maya, Hexagon, Blender...). You can also create a new figure and transfer rigging in Daz from Genesis to your model. You can edit textures with Photoshop, Gimp, etc.. if you want to change colors

Schaaka

Kainjy said:

Can you be more specific about what you are going to do ? You can create a morph exporting and importing obj files (using in DAZ Morph Loader Pro). You can edit your figure with almost every 3D software (3dsmax, Maya, Hexagon, Blender...). You can also create a new figure and transfer rigging in Daz from Genesis to your model. You can edit textures with Photoshop, Gimp, etc.. if you want to change colors

Its a silly thing but im trying to remove a gen 8 head and put a cats head in its place, but im not going for an anthromorph just a cat head on a human body. I'd like to fuze the polygons together so that there isnt the empty void between them when it moves (i know there will be stretching but thats fine). I can parent the cat head to the human rig so that it moves with it.

Padone

The easy way is to make a cat morph for the human head. But will probably deliver not too good results, and requires good modeling skills anyway.

The hard way is to make a rigged geograft for the human head. Will deliver the best result since you can sculpt the topology as needed. But requires excellent modeling and rigging skills.

 

Or there's these. Or more if you google for "daz cat people", can't link outside the shop for the forum policy.

https://www.daz3d.com/cat-world-for-genesis-8-female-s

https://www.daz3d.com/catgirl-megapack-for-genesis-8-female-s

http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/read_me/index/54697/start

https://www.daz3d.com/hfs-ultimate-shapes-bundle

Kainjy

If you want to reuse the cat mesh you have 2 option: geograft or convert the face cat into a weareable mask. I suggest the second solution: take your cat head, close mesh holes, import in DAZ and parent to Head joint

Schaaka

Kainjy said:

If you want to reuse the cat mesh you have 2 option: geograft or convert the face cat into a weareable mask. I suggest the second solution: take your cat head, close mesh holes, import in DAZ and parent to Head joint

Ah, that makes more sense. I'll prob do that, thanks!