HEAT and Diffeo

brainmuffin

Has anyone tried Studio to Blender via Diffeo and applied the new HEAT animations via the Blender Plug-in?

wolf359

If you can save the HEAT animation as animated pose file (.Duf)  it would seem that the "import action"  feature of Diffeo would work.

Padone

I can confirm HEAT will work as a duf animation. However HEAT seems a limited time offer just for users to test it out, since we already have Mixamo for free I don't see why HEAT does any good.

brainmuffin

wolf359 said:

If you can save the HEAT animation as animated pose file (.Duf)  it would seem that the "import action"  feature of Diffeo would work.

I was thinking of applying the HEAT animation after it was in Blender. Oddly, under Linux Blender, the animation download stops at 91%. Under WINE, Blender downloads fine.

wolf359

Padone said:

I can confirm HEAT will work as a duf animation. However HEAT seems a limited time offer just for users to test it out, since we already have Mixamo for free I don't see why HEAT does any good.

 

@Padone
They promise a new variety of animations.
 

Also For Daz Studio users the HEAT plugin appears to do the retargeting to G9-8 within Daz studio.
Right now the only ways to get Mixamo motions onto a genesis 8 figure is the apply it to a G1-2 and convert it to a G8-9 yourself with this free plugin.
https://www.renderosity.com/users/n_alexandru/freestuff

....or buy this $18 Dollar third Party solution to get ALL of mixamo onto G9 inside Daz studio  
https://www.renderhub.com/anabran/mixamo-retarget-rig-for-daz-genesis-9

or this $99 Solution for getting Mixamo noto G8...

https://www.facemotion3d.com/shop/

 

it seems to me many people have no interest in having to involve G1-2 
in their workflow so direct use of the HEAT motions in Daz studio might be an option 
assuming you want to pay $765 per year to access them for commercial use.

 

Padone

Another option is to use the BVH retargeter by Thomas.

https://bitbucket.org/Diffeomorphic/retarget_bvh/wiki/Main/Load And Retarget

brainmuffin

Padone said:

Another option is to use the BVH retargeter by Thomas.

https://bitbucket.org/Diffeomorphic/retarget_bvh/wiki/Main/Load And Retarget

I need to retry moving a character from Studio to Blender for animating. It's been quite some time.

wolf359

Padone said:

Another option is to use the BVH retargeter by Thomas.

https://bitbucket.org/Diffeomorphic/retarget_bvh/wiki/Main/Load And Retarget
 

Does it export accurate BVH back to Daz studio for G8-9?

Padone

@wolf359 I don't see why not, BVH is baked FK animation so you should be able to export it back to daz with the pose preset tool as usual.