Can't get dae files to load in DAZ Studio

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• Richard Haseltine Posts: 109,028

  January 18

  Any .dae file, or ones from certain sources only?
• vicster56 Posts: 94

  January 19

  Hey. Pretty much any dae file I've downloaded. Mainly from Sketchfab. Do ineed to convert in Hexagon? Thanks!!
• Richard Haseltine Posts: 109,028

  January 19 edited January 19

  I don't know, it may be worth trying. I was asking diagnostically - and I was going to try a Blender export myslf, but aparently that has now dropped Collada export (in favour of GLB, which DS doesn't support as far as I can see).

  Post edited by Richard Haseltine on January 19
• WendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,438

  January 19

  FBX converter maybe

  https://aps.autodesk.com/developer/overview/fbx-converter-archives
• Richard Haseltine Posts: 109,028

  January 19

  Richard Haseltine said:

  I don't know, it may be worth trying. I was asking diagnostically - and I was going to try a Blender export myslf, but aparently that has now dropped Collada export (in favour of GLB, which DS doesn't support as far as I can see).

  Have you tried FBX, if that is an option? The DS FBX importer has had a lot of work done to it.
• Bejaymac Posts: 1,964

  January 20 edited January 20

  Most collada files should load, however their Opacity settings are the reverse of what DS needs, so most load invisible, they also load in "mirrored" so the normals are now pointing inward.

  Post edited by Bejaymac on January 20
• vicster56 Posts: 94

  January 20

  Hey all. Thanks!!

  1.  I can Import FBX files

  2.  Bejaymac - "Most collada files should load, however their Opacity settings are the reverse of what DS needs, so most load invisible, they also load in "mirrored" so the normals are now pointing inward." Is there anything in DS that I can do to reverse this?

   
• Richard Haseltine Posts: 109,028

  January 20

  vicster56 said:

  Hey all. Thanks!!

  1.  I can Import FBX files

  2.  Bejaymac - "Most collada files should load, however their Opacity settings are the reverse of what DS needs, so most load invisible, they also load in "mirrored" so the normals are now pointing inward." Is there anything in DS that I can do to reverse this?

  1. Tools>Geometry Editor
  2. Right-click>Geoemtry Selection>Select All
  3. right-click>Geometry Editing>Flip Normals of Selected Polygons
• vicster56 Posts: 94

  January 20

  Richard - Thanks!! I'll try this!! 
• Bejaymac Posts: 1,964

  January 20 edited January 20

  Richard Haseltine said:

  1. Tools>Geometry Editor
  2. Right-click>Geoemtry Selection>Select All
  3. right-click>Geometry Editing>Flip Normals of Selected Polygons

  That won't fix the UVs being backwards

  Need to scale it -100%, if it sits right in the scene then use scale x -100%, if it's back is to the front of the scene then scale z, if it's upside down then scale y.

  You then need to export it an an OBJ to lock the changes in place.

  Post edited by Bejaymac on January 20
• Richard Haseltine Posts: 109,028

  January 20

  Bejaymac said:

  Richard Haseltine said:

  1. Tools>Geometry Editor
  2. Right-click>Geoemtry Selection>Select All
  3. right-click>Geometry Editing>Flip Normals of Selected Polygons

  That won't fix the UVs being backwards

  Need to scale it -100%, if it sits right in the scene then use scale x -100%, if it's back is to the front of the scene then scale z, if it's upside down then scale y.

  You then need to export it an an OBJ to lock the changes in place.

  True, I was just addressing the reversed normals bit of the quote not going back to your full statement.
• WendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,438

  January 20 edited January 20

  wouldn't running it through FBX converter like I suggested fix all this?

   

  fixed typo

  Post edited by WendyLuvsCatz on January 20
• vicster56 Posts: 94

  January 20

  WendyLuvsCatz - "wouldn't running it through FBX concerter like I suggested fix all this?" - Thanks!! I've downloaded the program. I'll give it a try