Diffeomorphic - Export selection only?

DrGonzo62

Hi,
I apologize if this has been asked here before, but oddly enough I didn't see any reference to this topic.

Most DAZ exporters (obj, fbx etc) allow you to export only a selection of objects in the scene, usually by hiding the other undesired objects.
I take it that Diffeo is either all or nothing?

Thanks!

Padone

In the global settings there's an option to "ignore hidden objects". Other than that everything in the scene is exported, so to export a selection you will have to temporarily save a subset. However the intended workflow is that you save figures and scenes separately to import in blender, also figures are intended to be exported in rest pose.

Though it is possible to export a scene with multiple posed figures but that will not work for animation.

DrGonzo62

Thanks Padone.
"Ignore hidden objects" doesn't seem to work with complex objects like figures.
It worked fine with 2 primitives, though. The hidden one didn't get imported.
But with two or more DAZ characters, the hidden ones were still imported into Blender (Jason Char in the image below was fully hidden in DAZ).

Do you know why Thomas designed this as a "don't import hidden into Blender" workflow, as opposed to the usual "don't bother exporting hidden objects from DAZ"?
That would seem to make more sense.

 

Padone

Thomas knows very well python and a lot of the blender api, on the contrary the daz script and api seem very hard to understand and use. That's basically why the exporter is reduced to a minimum, and options are rather done on the import side.

DrGonzo62

Got it, thanks Padone.