Problems with facial expressions

Is there a way to import custom made facial expresions into Diffeomorphic.

Importing the .duf file doesn't work.

So I tried to make my own morph in Daz 3D.  After import as custom morph in Diffeomorphic the morph funktions.

Transfering it as shape key to the mesh didn't work. 

Has someone an idear how to solve this problem?

Hi, everyone.

Is there any morph that changes the position of the eyelashes?

Like the picture above, I want to make G8 female's eyelashes positioned at the end of eyes.

Hello!  I am not a "new" user but have been mostly a fiddler/hobbyist for many years.  My whole life, really. The first new-release apps I ever started playing were Asymetrix WEB3D, Poser 3 and Cinema 4D GO!.  But I recently dug in hard and started getting into some advanced modeling and morph-building with Hexagon and Daz.

I know how to save a character or scene preset.  What I'd like to know is if I can save my modified figure as a "zeroed" version.

For example, let's say I've changed the scale and orientation on certain parts of a figure, such as extending the length of the forearm from 100% to 120% and other various adjustments using only the tranformers.  I want to get the figure as close to what I'm going for using the dials before I start adding D-Formers.
If I save as a preset/subset, I can load the modified figure into a blank scene and do whatever, but if I use Edit > Figure > Zero options it goes back to the original, not the version I saved as a preset.

So, my question is: is it possible to make a figure that's been modified using transformers the "base" it will return to when using Edit > Figure > Zero options?

Thanks for any help/advice! 

josephlopez175 said:

I create 2D digital arts portraits using Daz. Legally can I sell my work or do I need some special license for this? I can't find anything specific to what I'm trying to do. 

Yes  as stated in the EULA

For the best  results with these eyes:

dial in the cornea

dial in the hd iris morph

use the default settings on the eyes

make sure your render settings are set super high. I believe the render settings are on page 1 of this thread.

They take longer to render but the little ring is barely visible and doesn't stand out.

Inspired by j.cade with the same HDRI, here's my first Michael 8.1 render (beefed up with 50% Alistair body):

Also used Edward HD details and an Auto Face Enhancer smile morph to make him appear a bit older. Some postwork with Nik Collection Photoshop plugin.

If you want to transfer the texture and use the new PBR shader, you'll also need to create a "Head" texture like this....

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/467571/howto-create-missing-genesis-8-1-head-skin-maps-from-genesis-8-3-skin-maps#latest

craddockcmnsmaureen said:

brainmuffin said:

craddockcmnsmaureen said:

Frankly speaking from a customer view, and a lot of daz customers share my point of view.  i see absolutely no point to download the " official" daz to blender bridge, when diffeo is here.

I am an animator in blender, and thanks to diffeomorphic and BVH retarget both tools of mister thomas i can do absolutely everything in blender and i'm really extremely satisfied of those tools, and i don't think the official plugin can do something similar now or in the near future.

I have a similar point of view. I use Diffeo to move items to Blender in Linux. I'd run Studio natively in Linux if it could, but at the moment, I use it in macOS. I do hope to understand how to successfully copy animations to Blender soon.

It's very easy,

2 steps:

1) download diffeo

2) download BVH retarget 

both tools from thomas website.

import action ( the animation ) with diffeo then go to  BVH retarget, edit-) transfer FK to IK.

snap IK with MHX rig, and tadaa you have an animation from daz fully IK rigged, without BVH retarget its impossible to correctly pose an animation this tool is a must except if you want snap ik frame by frame ... ( for an animation with 1000 frames good luck with that! )

 

WendyLuvsCatz said:

ATLPR said:

Sci Fi Funk on Youtube 

Yes, I understand, and numerous aspects of don't products don't work. My recent gripe (voiced for the first time here), is: As far as I can tell, the new "8.1 Face Controls" cannot be used on my e.g. V4,Gen,Gen2,Gen3 characters. I thought it was just the mesh being bent in various ways. Why can't it be used for all of them (just like my mesh grabber)?

 

it is actually a conformer that fits to the facial bones on G8.1 

Yes. Wendy's right. It's taking leaps into higher-end technology, like that used in Alita Battle Angel.

While 8.1 is Not made using all of the advanced tech of Alita, it Is leveraging a lot of the philosophies used. Daz 3D has always been on the forefront of delivering some (some) of the utmost latest tech in their CG Characters.

That said, we Carrara users also have a huge boon of this same nature that was gifted to us by a high-end amazing animator collaborating with one of our brilliant plugin designers. Her Carrara call sign then was "Faba" and she worked with Fenric to help him produce a plugin that's so powerful that few of us truly understand how to put it to full use - besides Faba, that is.

But she tried to teach us all with amazing details that are still available today.

In Carrara, we could use Fenric's Carrara Enhanced Remote Control to create an interface almost exactly like the 8.1 FACS interface, or we could customize it however we want. With a free ShareCG account, we can download some really cool tutorials and addons for this amazing (and now free) plugin via Faba's gallery: fabaone, and in particular regarding this, her Carrara Custom Helpers, which she made when I was asking her how she made them in the older Daz forums of the time. I'm glad that she moved it all to ShareCG when Daz shifted to a new forum software!

In the examples she did for the Carrara ERC, she demonstrated using helpers like these to control hand gestures. But with Carrara ERC, we can connect any morph or joint to any control, so we could use this to make our own facial control rig just like what we see on 8.1, but we can also have it as a simple controls sytem that stays with our view rather that sticking in to the head of the figure, so as we rotate the character around, our controls remain in the same place in our working view - if we wanted. 

Edit for clarification - we can attach any Morph(s) to any control - even if that control happens to be a morph dial or joint rotation, and if more than one morph is attached they ca each be set up to behave completely independant of the others attached - if you follow. It sounds complicated because it certainly can be if we let it. It's Incredibly powerful tech here!

If we use Carrara ERC on Genesis 2 and earlier figures, we can use it to control the many facial morphs in ways that it would 'feel' like we're controlling facial bones in a way. If we used it on Misty's Genesis 3, 8 or 8.1 presets in Carrara, we could actually control the movements of those facial bones and/or use it to control morph dials. Quite powerful!

That's what Faba thought that Carrara was missing all along - being the incredible animator that she is. So I was very grateful to her and Fenric for making this a possibility - even though it was waaay over my newbie head.

I was just saying in another thread that, for a "Legacy Software" Carrara sure is ahead of its time in a Lot of ways! It was fun to see that some of the new features in LightWave a couple years back were things that Carrara's had for quite some time! No... I'm not saing that Carrara's better than LW! Please don't misinterpret! LOL

It's the people using Carrara that make it so advanced. The Daz 3D devs that were working on it were pumped about it. Spooky had a great team and they had a lot on their plate. It was truly inspiring and amazing to see what all they got done in the time they did it in - especially when they rewrote it to bring it to 64 bit!!!

Our plugin makers never cease to amaze me - the things they create. have a look for yourself in my Carrara Plugins section!

kevdawgsutton57 said:

How to make Daz 3d character to photorealism like skin, eyes and hair texture and even increase the polygons subd. This is my first time.

 

 

Hi Kev!, there is already a thread about photorealism using inside Daz and iRay in this forum, for Zbrush complementing Daz the only path would be creating new textures with polypaint and fakeing skin pores too, create new textures like AO and micropore maps for detail channel on iray, No need for high resolutions and porting from Zbrush to Daz as a morph would be a new geometry and not the entire figure.

Nevertheless (did I wrote right?), Realism is an advanced tecnique that not only involves skin and normal maps, lights takes more than 50% of the recipe:

and there is always the  negative reaction of "she does not look 100% realistic for me" when somebody criticizes your render:

believe me, even happens with experienced Zbrushers on their own forum.  

below you can see 2 of my "failed tries" doing realism rendering.

how do i transfer carrara rigged swivel chair and toilet seat to daz studio?

carrara creates vertex models.  

Mr Hyde was also a Genesis morph

NylonGirl...and includes a deflate morph

DAZ_sam said:

DaremoK3 said:

@ DAZ_sam :

Swing and a miss...

Disabling animation export is not what benniewoodell was implying is needed, but it is a good idea to add as option for users who wish not to have animation automatically exported when not wanted.

However, it might be a good idea to add an expression collection box (like the one for general morphs that are not auto-exported [which is still hit-or-miss in some use cases]) to filter exporting only desired expressions over to Blender to speed up the export (as with benniewoodell's case of an enormous amount of expressions available to him, slowing down the export).

Then, on the Blender side, add a way to import any further desired expressions one at a time, or by collection selection for those needing to add more after the import.

But, what do I know...  It's not like I have been working on a Daz Studio/Blender bridge for over a year or anything...  Thanks for the shout-out...  wait...  no, nevermind...  I've got to get back to coding  --  Trying to code the auto-ERC for the auto-Adjust Rigging To Shape against the highly cryptic SDK is still kicking my ass, but at least I am still making progress.  Hell, it only took me a little over two months just to get the code working properly for Presentation Color presets...

Now, the real question is;  Did DAZ fire the master coder, Rob W. in lieu of cheaper labor, or did they hire extra coders to work solely on the bridging efforts.  As I appreciate seeing you here, and hope you will actually be a liaison for us, I am rather fond of Rob and have been following him for decades since he first showed me the way to hack Poser CR2 files (not directly, of course), and I pray he is still gainfully employed at Daz3D...

Ah haha thanks for catching that for me. @benniewoodell sorry for the misunderstanding!  So are you saying that instead of automatically exporting all the Expressions like it's doing right now, give the option to choose from the expressions? We do have it as a plan to fix up the Dazscript on DaztoBlender but, as the team over at Daz is small for the bridges @DAZ_vish and I will be the only ones working on it internally.  I definitely want to make the morph exporter much better so, I am always happy to hear suggestions. 

Absolutely, don't automatically export expressions if at all possible when you get a chance would be the best option, let us choose what, if any, we want. Quite honestly, I'm doing everything with Face Motion, which transfers with this bridge now, so I don't need any expressions, and if I need one, I'll tweak it myself in Blender. This way it could work both ways, for the folks that want to export expressions and take the time to do so, and for those of us who don't, we can get it exported much quicker. Thanks so much! 

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Starring: Ellie and Linda

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Other free software used: GIMP v2.10.14 and Irfanview 4.54

Postwork: used the AltaLux Image Enhancement Filter (Effect) by Stefano Tommesani that comes with Irfanview and some filters (oa) that come with GIMP. Also used mcjDenoise by mcasual. (https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts9/mcjdenoise)

"Old Resolutions"

biguanna ssmile morph  

It could be this one?https://www.daz3d.com/delphi-hair-for-genesis-3--8-females I have this product and it does have a morph to put the hair behind the shoulders like in the picture. The hairline looks so similar but the texture of the hair looks different. Oh, and it's not dforce.

Is all clothing and hair or only some?  I have used that morph quite often and have not had the problem you are descibing.  I seem to remember that the Growing Up morphs had this problem with somethings.

JackyBrown said:

3D Art Freebie Challenge January 2021 "New Years Resalutions"

 

Ah, it must be from the verb (to) re-salute, a New Year's re-salution! Miss spelled what? :)

[Best watched at full size for details.]

"Old Resolutions"

Starring: Ellie and Linda

The tale:

"Aren't these Mother's New Year's Resolutions from last year?" Ellie said questioningly, "Well, let me see that..." Linda said. "And she didn't even use the electronic cigarette we gave her for Christmas that same year one single time..." Ellie continued complaining to her older sister. She was listening to 'I Gotta Feeling' by the Black Eyed Peas after taking a shower and then found the gift box with the New Year's Resolutions in her mother's closet. "Put your smelly running shoes away, you know mama hates that!" Linda just said...

Soundtrack:

Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling (© 2009)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwdrtwZiQ9E

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[Bracelet]

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---    Casual Outfit 2 for G3M by Tab [Bracelet]
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---    Comfortable Chair by Mada (The Holiday Loyalty Sale 2019 Free Item)
---    MMX Fantasy Eyes Mini by Mattymanx (The Holiday Loyalty Sale 2020 Free Item)
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Rendered with DAZ Studio 4.10.0.123 (nVidia Iray)

Other free software used: GIMP v2.10.14 and Irfanview 4.54

Postwork: used the AltaLux Image Enhancement Filter (Effect) by Stefano Tommesani that comes with Irfanview and some filters (oa) that come with GIMP. Also used mcjDenoise by mcasual. (https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts9/mcjdenoise)

 

"Old Resolutions"

All Links Check Out Plz Post This To The Entries Thread

D|S already does really accurate and clean FBX import and export, and FBX is much better supported in a huge selection of content creation apps than OBJ - it would be so helpful if one could load morphs directly onto a D|S object/figure straight from FBX format.

NB: this is not a request for help on how to do this