kgrosser said:

Zev0 said:

 you will break jcm's etc if everything is baked into one dial. If a used morph relies on jcm's etc it is best that morphs function is preserved as well as its jcm's. So yes you can get one dial that relies on nothing, but don't expect it to function remotely the same, and all you will have is a shape that looks the same but the minute you pose it it will not work as the source.

That's what I learned the hard way... unfortunately this limits the number of morphs I hoped to reduce by porting my characters from G3 to G8 and speed up DS Stil, a bit OT, but while I have you: any projection on the transgender X-Transfer and G8 -> G3 version?

 

BTW If you could come up with a tool that  allows to manually select and redirect JCMs to a baked morph this would be a hot seller, I think...

Thats not how it works. JCM's will be looking for the shape morphs they were designed for. If the morph it is looking for is baked into something else all links get broken.

"any projection on the transgender X-Transfer and G8 -> G3 version"

No idea......We need to get the G8 to G3 module out first before we do that.

im been trying to get face transfer working for 8.1 and i was wandering how i could do it or if its even avalible for 8.1 yet

First the obvious question: are you sure those were meant for Genesis 3?

Anyway, this may provide some useful information on the issue of your morphs: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/403231/installing-a-3rd-party-morph-suite

Textures are something different, they're often already assigned with specific character presets. Fair disclaimer: my experiences with them outside of the smart contents pane are limited, so keep this in mind. Having said that: I'd start looking into the 'Surfaces' pane. Select your Genesis 3 figure, open 'Surfaces' and then check out the different skin options. That's where I'd start.

Hope this can help you out a bit.

Zev0 said:

this does not adjust rigging. That has to be done prior to any morph you decide to include in your dial.

Hmm... another one. Correct me where I go astray here: While you (and me in my library) have a tool with Shape Rigger+ this function is not included and rigging to shape nneds tobe done BEFORE using Dial Fusion.  But the way ShapeRigger+ is set up I need to have a dial to favorize it  in order to rig..... so I need to adjust rigging to shape manually, which to my experience basically mandates the figure being zeroed out - wseems like a hen/egg problem to me at least when it comes to figure creation.

Zev0 said:

 you will break jcm's etc if everything is baked into one dial. If a used morph relies on jcm's etc it is best that morphs function is preserved as well as its jcm's. So yes you can get one dial that relies on nothing, but don't expect it to function remotely the same, and all you will have is a shape that looks the same but the minute you pose it it will not work as the source.

That's what I learned the hard way... unfortunately this limits the number of morphs I hoped to reduce by porting my characters from G3 to G8 and speed up DS Stil, a bit OT, but while I have you: any projection on the transgender X-Transfer and G8 -> G3 version?

BTW If you could come up with a tool that  allows to manually select and redirect JCMs to a baked morph this would be a hot seller, I think...

Hello DAZ Friends,

For some reason, the plugin is NOT exporting the morphs I selected in the morph dialog window in DAZ. When the character gets to Blender has no morps at all.
The only way I get some morphs exported is if I check the "Include Minimal Morphs" option but than I get the preset morphs, not my "custom" selected morphs!
I'm using  DAZ 4.15 and Blender 2.91  (64bits)
Is this happening on your end as well? Any suggestions on how to fix this?
 

Thank you!
PS - Is there a way to import CVS rules file with this plugin?

Hi everyone!, I've downloaded a face morph and a face texture from deviantart, I can't apply the texture nor the morph to the Genesis 3 female model, can anyone help me solve this issue?

Novica said:

@vwrangler   Thanks for the review. :) 

Has anyone gotten characters from sithlordsims? (elsewhere)  I just picked up Karl but I won't be installing him right away. One of his characters (Pedro) has the most exotic leopard/pawprint tattoos- really cool! 

 I've got four: Alex, Benicio, Coilin for G3M and Archie for G8M, as well as the ABC Genetics package they put out to bring the shapes for Alex-Benecio-Coilin from G3M to G8M. They tend to a certain sameness -- SithlordSims is fond of a cerain face shape, and a certain type of long, slim, very muscular body -- but I like them overall. Coilin is kind of amusing; he has what Sithlordsims calls a "big dad" morph, to which I can but say: I do not think that means what they think it means. (Buff with a belly that still has a six-pack is not really a dadbod, no.) One thing to be aware of with Coilin is that he has Leo-style size and scaling -- he's supposed to be about 6-5, and his height is all in his body slider -- so if you try to combine him with another character, they're going to wind up being very tall.

Is there some special prerequisite for an environment to be compatible with the plugin (i.e. naming convention, geometry type) ? The environment transfer doesn't appear to work with DAZ primitives or imported objs.

Not intentionally.  I tested it by loading a bunch of different Preload environments in Daz Studio and transferring them.  If something doesn't work, it's probably just a bug because of a case I never hit.

FYI I'm working on a model that I rigged and weighted and made morphs for in Cinema4D R18, exported with FBX2014 and imported into D|S and not only did the geometry import correctly....

- the bones and weights also came in correct, which I didn't really expect but wasn't that big a surprise

- the morph targets (created and started in Cinema's native PoseMorph tag) all imported without my even realizing it and all worked correctly

The only thing that doesn't import all that well is polygon selections for body part picking in the viewport. Here's hoping you guys keep improving FBX format.

@gilbertneyens Seems to work fine here .. You need to import units and expressions first of course for the pose to work, otherwise the pose won't find them and do nothing. Please note that the HD morph is not imported yet, then Xin is working to provide HD support.

https://bitbucket.org/Diffeomorphic/import_daz/issues/357/it-is-possible-to-read-dhdm-files-directly

Alternatively, if you don't want to use expressions, you can pose the face bones in daz studio and save the pose. Then you can import the pose in blender without importing units and expressions first. Then personally I'm not aware of any way to "bake" the expressions to the face bones in daz studio, so it seems you can't save the expressions as face bones, but I'm not a daz expert so may be there's a way.

Alternatively, once you import the expressions in blender, you can also convert to shapekeys so you don't need the drivers anymore. See advanced setup > morphs > convert standard morphs to shapekeys. This is also useful to export to game engines.

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@Drzap

Thanks...but
I am a 3D content creator, animator and VFX artist.
I need more than just a good realtime play back engine and pretty figures
with 700 joints.
I DO NOT BUY CANNED CONTENT anymore.

Sure, If those Meta human figures can autorig my custom Sci fig armors/cloths 
with few mouse clicks like CC3 or even Daz studio 
I would consider trying them out in Blender
if their facial Blend shapes transfered to Blenders shape key editor
,via FBX, as does the Reallusion CC3 figures.

I have no interest in noneditable formats like alembic
for Character transfer.(No experience with USD although Blender supports it)

But I wont move to a Game/playback engine for production because I prefer to produce
animated films in a Real 3DCC.

 
The number one ruler of content creation is,
perform your look dev in the target render engine
and with all of my content modeling, sculpting & shading tools
like hardops,boxcutter& decal machine for me that is Blender

Lookdev is the most time consuming part of CG production
for a lone artist and I build my sci fi clothing an enironmental sets with the Shader nodes & lighting of Blender.

If I send everything over to UE4/5 all of the lighting and shader node work I did in My content creation app will have to be redone with UE lighting and shaders to get the best quailty 
from UE4.

I just started production on a web Micro series of 3-5 minute episodes to be delivered weekly.
EEVEE/Cycles is fine for my purposes and hardware 

I am happy to see Epic take agency in this critical aspect of their Eco-system
it is way over due.

Philemo - No, it doesn't work for clothes and it doesn't transfer UV mapping. There are other products for UV Map trnasfer, I think. I don't look because Genesis 1 already has so many to choose from.

Silene - Rosie 5 has Much larger eyes than the new Rosie 5.5

I decided to dial them back a bit. Well... her whole head shape is different, so I actually had to dial them up, but they're much smaller than cute little Rosie 5's huge eyes! :)

wolf359 said:

RTX card and and Iphone for facial mocap??

Good on Epic for being on the cutting edge in
developing their own  high quality Character eco system.

Once rolled out, IMHO there will likely be little reason for UE5 users to bother
with Iclone/CC3 or Daz Studio/genesis.

Most people prefer to stay within one Eco-system

As a content creator ,I think they need to have a cloth weighting system that is as easy as the one-two click system of Reallusion CC3 pipeline or the Daz transfer utility.

I personally have no reason to use any game engine
,which is essentially just a play back tool, where I still have to create my 
Character clothing and environmental sets& props externally and import them and adapt to the engine's shader system.

I need to build entire virtual civilizations and 
Although I use Iclone/CC3 for Base layer animation creation& export 
I am fully emersed in the Blender eco-system where I have invested in many powerful add-ons like Hard Ops/box cutter,Decal machine and  likely soon flip fluids,
and of course I have the EEVEE realtime engine.

 

I am a sci-fi guy and  dont need more naked people no matter the quality/realism
if I have to migrate to a different eco-system& pipeline to access them fully.

The competition going forward will be between entire eco-systems
not just pretty human figures because everyone has them now.

Those who manage to keep away from Epic's offering will be in short company.  That facerig alone is worth 5 figure$.  It is full VFX quality with 660 blendshapes and over 700 joints.  It favorably compares with my $10K Snappers rig.  The body rig is full IK/FK and 100 corrective shapes.  Epic is offering all this for free to UE4 users.  Since Blender is a partner, it could very well mean its users will be able to download these goodies in .blend or .fbx files at a bargain cost.  Make no mistake, this system looks to be a complete game changer.  Anyone can have a professional VFX rig for animation.  Also, you might want to consider UE4 if you're into realtime.  UE4 renderer puts Eevee in the weeds.  No comparison.  I'm an Arnold user and even I'm thinking about it.

If the hair doesn't have any scaling or adjustment morphs that work, you can select "Show Hidden" in the Parameters-Tab, drop down menu (right-click) or Pane Options (Four horizontal lines) -> Preferences -> Show Hidden, and you can use all the activated morphs of the character to adjust the hair.

The activated morphs of the character are transferred to all the fitted items, they are just hidden.

Sometimes if the morphs that are activated, are not giving what I want, I go find one that does and change the value of the dial to 1 or 0.1, something that's enough to activate it on the character, then I can go to the fitted item, search for the morph, use the gogwheel to open parameters, remove the autofollow and hidden checkmarks and I have the morph I needed.

4.15.0.9 (February 11, 2021)

• NVIDIA Iray
  • Integrated Iray 2020.1.4 (334300.6885); see this thread for more detail
    • REQUIRES: NVIDIA Driver 451.48 (or newer) on Windows; see NVIDIA Driver Downloads
      • NVIDIA recommends installing Studio Drivers
  • ...
• Universal (Rotate, Translate, Scale) Tool
  • Fixed an issue where the configuration of a figure that resulted in no possible IK solution (due to disabled transform properties) would crash if IK was enabled and a user dragged a node in the viewport - e.g., Genesis 8.1 (Female/Male) Face Controls
  • Improved IK compute performance
• Pose Tool
  • Now considers the locked state of properties when determining whether or not a transform property is inactive
    • Only hidden properties were considered previously
  • No longer attempts to set the value of inactive rotation properties
  • Updated drawing of manipulators to reflect rotation property active state
• Face Transfer
  • Added support for selected Genesis 8.1 (Female/Male) figures in the scene
    • Makes use of the Base (8.0) UV Set
    • Makes use of the "Genesis 8 Legacy" Surface Selection Set
    • Requires recent Genesis 8 (Female/Male) Starter Essentials update
• Morph Loader Pro
  • Fixed or improved feedback/logging when saving/applying configuration files
  • Preset selector
    • Added a "Manage Presets..." option
      • Launches an OS file browser to the path that preset files are stored and applied from
    • Added a "Refresh" option
      • Causes the contents of the Preset selector to be rebuilt and reflect the current contents of the path that preset files are stored and applied from
  • Source List context menu
    • The "Save a Preset" dialog now validates the (file)name being entered
    • The "Save a Preset" dialog now provides options for existing preset names (e.g., to aide in updating, or derivative names)
    • Added an "Apply Preset" submenu to the morph item context menu
      • Allows a preset to be applied individually to a listed morph after being added to the list - rather than only when a loading preset is selected from the Preset selector above the Source List
  • Now provides feedback when accepting the dialog and no morphs to load have been added
  • Fixed sizing issues with simple dialogs
  • ...
• Hexagon Bridge
  • Advanced View
    • Fixed or improved feedback/logging when saving/applying configuration files
    • Added a Preset selector
      • Enabled when the chosen operation includes morph creation, disabled otherwise
      • "None" is displayed when no preset is available
      • "Choose..." is displayed when one or more preset is available
      • Selecting a preset applies it immediately
        • This behavior differs from the similarly placed feature in Morph Loader Pro
      • Provides a "Manage Presets..." option
        • Launches an OS file browser to the (common) path that preset files are stored and applied from
      • Provides a "Refresh" option
        • Causes the contents of the Preset selector to be rebuilt and reflect the current contents of the (common) path that preset files are stored and applied from
    • Source List context menu
      • The "Save a Preset" dialog now validates the (file)name being entered
      • The "Save a Preset" dialog now provides options for existing preset names (e.g., to aide in updating, or derivative names)
    • ...
  • Fixed inconsistencies between Basic and Advanced views
  • The surfaces of new objects now use the default material type for the active renderer - e.g., Iray Uber material is applied if the active renderer is NVIDIA Iray
• GoZ
  • Update dialog
    • Advanced View
      • Fixed or improved feedback/logging when saving/applying configuration files
      • Added a Preset selector
        • Enabled when the chosen operation includes morph creation, disabled otherwise
        • "None" is displayed when no preset is available
        • "Choose..." is displayed when one or more preset is available
        • Selecting a preset applies it immediately
          • This behavior differs from the similarly placed feature in Morph Loader Pro
        • Provides a "Manage Presets..." option
          • Launches an OS file browser to the (common) path that preset files are stored and applied from
        • Provides a "Refresh" option
          • Causes the contents of the Preset selector to be rebuilt and reflect the current contents of the (common) path that preset files are stored and applied from
      • Source List context menu
        • The "Save a Preset" dialog now validates the (file)name being entered
        • The "Save a Preset" dialog now provides options for existing preset names (e.g., to aide in updating, or derivative names)
    • Fixed syncing issues between the Basic/Advanced views
    • Now validates required fields
      • Disallows empty Morph Name when creating a morph
      • Disallows empty UV Set name when creating a new UV Set
  • Fixed issues with unsupported characters in root node labels (e.g., space, hyphen, period)
    • Characters that are not supported by the GoZ SDK are now encoded in file/subtool names
    • This affected compatibility with Genesis 8.1 (Female/Male) figures
  • Fixed an issue that caused a subtool other than the base figure to be selected initially within ZBrush
  • Added a (Edit > Preferences... > Bridges : GoZ : Update Path) for controlling whether or not the application path is updated when sending to ZBrush
    • Default "No" (off) - preserves previous behavior
    • When "Yes" (on), each execution of the "Send to ZBrush" action causes the application path known to ZBrush to be updated to that which initiated the operation - so that when the object is sent back, it is sent to the (running) application that initiated the operation instead of potentially launching another application at a different path
      • Note: does not currently account for multiple running application instances
  • Fixed sizing issues with simple dialogs
  • Fixed object/shape/geometry/material naming when importing as a new object
  • The surfaces of new objects now use the default material type for the active renderer - e.g., Iray Uber material is applied if the active renderer is NVIDIA Iray
• Preparations toward migration to a considerably newer version of the application framework (i.e., Qt)
  • Changes made should have no discernible impact on use of the application
• Scripting API
  • Made additions in various areas; see the Change Log for more detail
• Fixed bugs and/or made improvements in various areas; see the Change Log for details

• Failed apply/save actions now provide feedback

If a morph has been distributed with non-zero default value, it doesn't (usually) appear on the "Currently Used" list, since the value has not been changed from it's default value.
"Currently Used" does not mean "Show all the dials with non-zero value" or "Show all the dials that are active"

To fix any ill-behaving (has non-zero default value) morphs, do as follows;

1. Load your base figure or the developer version.
2. Select "Show Hidden" in the Parameters-Tab, drop down menu (right-click) or Pane Options (Four horizontal lines) -> Preferences -> Show Hidden Properties
3. Zero the figure (Found in Parameters-Tab, drop down menu)
4. Memorize the figure (Found in Parameters-Tab, drop down menu)
5. File->Save As->Support Asset->Save Modified Assets

This procedure will zero the default value in the ill-behaving morph/morphs, and while saving DS also shows you a list of the morphs it is changing.

Edit>Figure>Bake Transforms will move the values from the cotnroller to the individual bones, if they are bones - it doesn't, however, touch morphs controlled by another morph/property slider.

Daz to Blender bridges is NOT exporting the morphs I picked in the morph window in DAZ!  Help!
When the character gets to Blender has no morps at all.
The only way I get some morphs is if I uncheck the extract minimal morphs box but than I get the preset morphs, not my "custom" ones.
Using DAZ 4.15 and Blender 2.91  - 64bits

Thank you!
PS - Is there a way to import CVS rules file with this plugin?