dForced geometry data of each frame are saved within DUF file. The more frames you used with Simulation, the bigger the DUF file size will be.

To avoid this issue, you can export the simulated result at the last frame to OBJ. Clear the sim result, then import OBJ to the dforce item as a Morph.

I did have some issues with mixing install methods, but had that figured out eventually. I have practiced installing content from 3rd party vendors for many years now, as there are always some products I like from other sources. I also make models, which I import, and then save as figure/prop assets, basically making my own content.

Keeping my old version of DS 4.10 has saved me space on my HD since the more advanced tools won't work anyway on my machine. My laptop is of a similar age, and could keep me active in DS when I'm not home. Since it too is an older computer, I just wanted to know if I could copy my installer file to the laptop HD and manually install it. I would then download the DIM to the laptop to start installing most of the content I have in my Product Library here at DAZ 3D. I do have a ton of DAZ Studio content from DAZ 3D.

I will also be installing Bryce 7.1 Pro. Yes I still use it, even though it has not been updated since 2009 or 2010. It still does great for a 32 bit application. I have won a few contests with images I did in Bryce, and I use it a lot to make backdrops for DAZ Studio. I have also made a lot of content for Bryce within Bryce, and imported models I made in my favorite modeling app. I also use the DAZ Studio/Bryce bridge to move content from one to the other.

But I digress. From what I just learned here, I believe I got confirmation that copying an installer for an old version of DAZ Studio to another of my computers is possible. The question now is "Will I have to register it for the other computer?"

I am trying to change the user keywords of an asset. I have created a metadata file and tried to import it via DzAssetMgr.importMetadataFiles(), but this does not work for all products.
For categories, I have found methods in DzAsset to add or remove them. Is there a similarly simple way, or any way at all, to do this for user keywords?

Hi everyone,

I’m having trouble importing an animated Genesis 8 Female (Gen8) character into Blender and Unreal, and I think it might be related to the FBX import process.

Here’s what I’ve tried and observed so far:

1. Importing the Base Character: If I import only the Gen8 character to Blender (without animation) using the DAZ to Blender bridge, the model appears normal in its default pose.

2. Importing with Animation: When I import the character with animation (specifically, “MMS Animation Hot 130” from RenderHub), I notice that certain body parts, particularly the pelvis and crotch area, appear distorted and pointy. This issue happens both in Blender and when using the DAZ to Unreal bridge.

3. Using Diffeomorphic: If I use Diffeomorphic to import the character and then apply the DAZ pose file directly in Blender, the problem doesn’t occur, and the animation looks fine.

4. FBX Export Issue: Here’s the strange part—when I export the well-applied animation via Diffeomorphic as an FBX and then import it again into Blender or Unreal, the pelvis distortion reappears.

Additional Details:

• I’ve attached images to show the difference: one from DAZ (normal) and one from Blender (with the pelvis issue).
• The animation I used is “MMS Animation Hot 130” from RenderHub.

This issue has been really frustrating, so any insights or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

I do a git pull and make my own zip. And yeah, I finally found that dropdown. Thanks.

Now to determine why I get import errors....

So I downloaded the new plugin, thanks to David.
 

Tried to search info about the new functions, only to find out, there's basically zero.
I had to check the source code, to find out, this new skeleton convert thing is a right click context menu.

Yet still have issues, genesis8 convert just crashes unreal editor, genesis9 is converting, but since it's rotated by 90° every convert came out awful.
Now I have two choice, re-import all character, or don't use the function at all, both are pretty bad option, since I did not saved the characters is daz.
Can we have a comprehensive and up-to-date documentation about the correct usage/settings of d2u plugin please?

The import side stopped working for me in Blender 4.2.2 and for the life of me I cannot figure out how to reinstall it. Are there updated instructions?

The geograft bones are in the custom layer, that's hidden by default. For animation you need first to import the geograft morphs with daz favorites or custom morphs. Then some morphs may not work fine for example scale maps are not supported in blender. Then again, diffeomorphic is mainly designed to animate in blender, though it provides some features to import and export daz animations.

If you want to animate in daz then import in blender it is better to use Sagan.

https://bitbucket.org/Diffeomorphic/import_daz/wiki/Setup/Morphs/Import DAZ Favorites

lilweep said:

I will hijack this thread for my own questions:

1. If you do diffeomorphic transfer and get rigged character into Blender, then animate in Blender using the default rig, is that animation transferable back to Daz? E.g., by fbx export?
2. Are JCMs maintained through transfer to diffeomorphic so that the animated figure in Blender will roughly match the figure in Daz Studio when applying the animation in Daz?

1. There is a save pose button in diffeo that you can use that will make a pose preset, same as if you did save pose preset in Daz. In Daz, click your character, file/merge and apply the saved file and it'll transfer. You can use the regular skeleton or Simple IK (Which is what I do all my animations with since it has proper IK setup and easily transfers back to Daz). I think you can do it with MHX or Rigify, but there's an extra step that I just don't care to figure out since Simple IK can do everything I need, plus I can hand animate lip sync and such and the keys will transfer back to Daz as well. 

2. I think everything gets transferred over for JCMs, there's a checkbox when you import a character for JCMs. 

Well, that was it exactly.  Thank you very much!  That was really starting to irritate me.  I guess I'll have to dig into Daz metadata to see if I can figure out how to fix it.

If you expand the "Default" category, you should see all your usual categories. Some product with bad metadata has created a new top-level "Poses" category instead of using the standard "Default/Poses", which makes Studio display the two top-level categories, where if there was just one it would usually display all its subcategories.

I'm having a problem where, when I open Daz3d 4.23, I see only a few options in the Smart Content panel's category list.

[Smart Content 1]

Then, I click All Products, and my products all seem to appear properly in the pane to the right.

[Smart Content 2]

Then, I enable Filter by Context, and suddenly I get the full list:

[Smart Content 3]

Finally, I add a figure to the scene and want to go back and add poses, wardrobe, hair, etc., and now I'm back to only the two options I saw at the start.  Selecting or not selecting the figure in the scene doesn't appear to make a difference, nor does selecting or unselecting Filter by Context.

To try and resolve this, I've already done a RMB > Content DB Maintenance and ran Reset Database, then Condense Database, Process Metadata Queue, and Re-Import Metadata.  It didn't seem to affect the behavior at all.  I also completely uninstalled and then reinstalled Daz, to no effect.

Anyone have suggestions for what else I might be able try?

However, when using the steps from the video manually, the export and import into unity does work. 
The main difference between my script steps and the steps in the video is that through script, I don't see a way to get or set the Name value for a property.  So while you can copy/paste the name field in edit mode when creating a property in Daz, it doesn't seem you can do the same for the name field through script.  My new property through script just ends up with "Value" for name.  I believe this mismatch is what causes the script method to fail. 

EDIT - That would also explain the non-unique name error, since every newly added property has the name "Value" instead of the actual name.

I can confirm that a 100% match is not always possible with diffeomorphic, mainly because morphs are approximated compared to daz. That said your mistake was simply that you didn't load the morphs for the geograft so it didn't animate. For a 100% match with daz there's Sagan which exports as alembic so it also works with dforce. Diffeomorphic is more to import in blender then animate there, though it provides some nice features to import and export daz animations.

https://bitbucket.org/Diffeomorphic/import_daz/issues/2246/geografts-animation

Diffeomorphic should import the HDRI just fine, check the global settings and be sure that World is set to "always" or "dome". Then it doesn't import tone mapping of course, because this varies among applications and blender has a different approach. So depending on the settings in daz studio you may have to adjust the intensity.

An animation in Blender that matches Daz 100% isn't just about the rig, and using 'import action' doesn’t work with the genitals and 'import pose' either. I’ve already tried it. The developer suggested doing something beforehand, but I’ve already tried a ton of different things. It's driving me crazy!

First of all, I wanted thank you for making such an awesome plugin! It's going to save me tons of time in the long run. The following are bugs to fix and features that would make it even better.

1. Unnecessary Geograft Meshes

When you import the Alembic file into Blender, the geografts will combine with the mesh but also be added as extra, separate meshes. Deleting these causes no issues, as they just seem unnecessary.

2. Vertex Mismatch & Streched Uvs

Regarding the character's main body mesh (with the combined geoshells), there seems to be a bug with how vertices are being calculated. Comparing the seemingly identical mesh from Diffeomorphic, the Sagan import has 399 fewer vertices, which I initially thought was due to how the geografts were being merged in Diffeo. However, when you link object data between a Diffeo body mesh and an Alembic body mesh, suddenly the vertex count is the same. Copying object data doesn't work if mats have nomal maps, uv maps/udim tiles, it will show they transfered over but the materials can't use them for some reason. 

3. Hair Seperate By Mats

Unlike Diffeo's imported mesh, you can't go into edit mode and use CTRL+P to split by material. For some reason, doing this just copies the hair mesh for each material that exists.

4. Scale Issue

So i've been exporting my character with it's default scale which tends to reset after I apply a pose (because I choose not to bake transforms on my character (in daz)). Her default scale for some reason is 99.4 not 100%. The scale resets a lot when applying certain pose presets (probably because I'm using full body and proportion morphs, not sure though). The scale that I WANT to use and have been using is 89.46%. When I noticed her scale was reset to 99.4% after I loaded a pose preset I reset it to 89.46% and followed the same steps I had been to export with diffeo and then export with Sagan and link object data in Blender, but then the mats Uvs are streched and in the incorrect places. So I went back and set the scale to 100% and got the same issue. But then if I ALT click the scale in Daz so it defaults back to 99.4% and export, everything works.​ 

5. Support for Hair Curves

Hair cards are fine until you realize your render is going to require 35 transparent light bounces and take 5 hours to render. Blender's new hair curves are an excellent alternative, and Diffeo's "Make Hair" option is fantastic for achieving this. However, the problem with the Alembic import is that once hair cards are converted to hair curves, they don't follow the Alembic animation. Since Alembic requires the "Mesh Sequence Modifier" for all animation data, hair curves are left out because no such modifier exists for curves. I've tried using geo-nodes to attach hair to the surface, parenting in every way imaginable, using constraints, and nothing seems to work. Aditionally, when adding quick fur to the Alembic character some hairs do not attach to the surface (Via Surface Deform geo-node). Someone had previeusly suggested that this was an issue with hairs being placed on or very close to a UV seam.

Thankyou so much. I had a play around then, didn't know about surface groups. That solves that and big relief. How do I take a surface group and move it all along a axis like you would in dform, thats what i mean by having all in red so i can play in dform. Can i import the surface selection to a weight map? Like you do with push modifies ect. It's kind of like i'm trying to push in and out one side of a cube, but needs to be via surface selection because of complex edges.

The removing parts i'll get to, one thing at a time. Surface selections and moving them means I can avoid deleting surfaces if i can pull off the above

Padone said:

Usually diffeomorphic is perfectly able to load daz scenes and you get the same in blender. If the daz scene is using morphs you can try to import as "dbz" in mesh fitting, or "morphed" if you want to preserve the morphs in blender. Also of course look at the console if there's any error.

What I wanted was the blue sky light and the strong sun light, even though I tried dbz or morphed  
It's different from the screen on the daz. Is this the only way to do it directly from the blender?

josiahmora20 said:

lilweep said:

This question should have been posted in the Blender subforum probably.

I havent used diffeomorphic "make hair", but when you say you have Hair Curves i assume you actually mean Hair Curves and not standard Curve nor Particle Systems type objects.  

I dont know the answer to your question as not too familiar with hair curves, but I wonder if you should "make hair" directly on the Alembic cap instead of on the diffeomorphic imported cap.

For the new geometry node Hair Curves, I assume there is a stack of geometry node modifiers that will get it to attach to a haircap. Also make sure the Surface is set to the haircap in the Hair properties window.

You could try parenting the Hair Curves using the 3 vertex parenting to the hair cap but that's probably not ideal.  

 

 

Thanks, Yeah I tried to make hair with hair on the alembic import, the problem is that the hair cant be seperated for some reason. When you go to edit mode, cnt+P and seperate by material it just creates 4 copies of the hair! But even then, if i just use the body mesh instead of the cap it doesn't stay connected to the mesh. Selecting "3 Vertices" puts the hair in a weird location without changing any of it's transform data.

I think you're right, with quick fur it creates a geo-node stack and you can choose the surface, but I was using my own very simple stack and so maybe I need to figure out how to do that with geo nodes.