@TheKD

Yes, Alembic only exports finalized geometry. This is, of course, assuming I've correctly figured out how to wait for all the modifiers to finish, which I think I have... :)

Excellent! As much as I love diffeo for the material work, the rest overkill for my uses. I only do still shots, so the rigs and whatnot is a bit much to deal with lol.

If you export the character in the pose you need for import by Diffeo, then it can be used as is in Blender; no need to pose, it will already be posed as you exported.

At least that is how it used to be, I haven't tried that in 1.5 as I usually want to experiment with poses and scene setup in Blender.

Do you drape the clothes using dForce or the Blender Cloth sim? I guess it would be impossible to take advantage of the Blender cloth with Alembic. Disclaimer: I have yet to try the Blender cloth sim but I've read that it is superior to dForce.

It can be, but for dforce specific items, dforce generally works much better. I've I have to protect feet/hands/eyes/mouth - some or all of em in Blender to prevent weird gathering.

If I was doing a static pose, with the character in the shape I wanted, so all I want to do in blender is render, then do everything first, then export it.

If the clothes don't transfer quite right, re-sim perhaps in Studio, export as an obj, import into Blender and copy the materials from the diffeo imported clothes.

I'll see if I can do an example. No matter, I've not tried Sagan as yet.

Hi everyone! Does anybody knows any Face Transfer alternative for Mac OS?

"Cower before me mortals for I am Twinkie Lord"

Definitely broke Hiro with this one, he looks great but the are a few small problems. Fitting clothes to him sucks and his arms break when posed, not sure how to fix that last one. So no art with him... for now.

 

Why don't you transfer the shapes to G8?

I did with Aiko 3; for the texture I just created one that closely resembled the one that came with the character. It was normal texture but no obvious distinguishing marks, moles, spots or freckles.

yeah that folder thing did I learned too :)

yes I did, I just made a morph for a car part, and then realized there WAS a morph -.- and I had it 2 times on that car xD... so I made 2x a morph when the morphs was already there, just on different bones, that was sad...

How much certain things hurt in transfer time gets multiplied by other things.  For instance, how much a morph costs depends on how much of the character the morph affects in verts.  If you're exporting many morphs, and using subdivision, and have really heavy hair or clothing assets, it can become a surprising amount of mesh data real quick.  

yehp, that is why you must becarefull with "what you are trying to export, while is cool have a "ultra realistic, heavy poly count character with 9999 morphs and 1 million + polygons remember it will "have a cost" in both your machine and unreal and any other program which is "real time render", then pay attention to those details.

How much certain things hurt in transfer time gets multiplied by other things.  For instance, how much a morph costs depends on how much of the character the morph affects in verts.  If you're exporting many morphs, and using subdivision, and have really heavy hair or clothing assets, it can become a surprising amount of mesh data real quick.  

Known issues:

By changing the skeleton and bone names the Post Process animation that drives the corrective morphs no longer works.

Hi :) first of all, ty so much for your work. Secound, if need some help, people to experiment things, call me :) (i dont speak english so well, but...). Just few questions, if possible to answer:

 

1 need retarget all bones? 2. "Process animation that drives the corrective morphs no longer works" its the single morph what we, eventualy, export to UE? 

 

Apreciate, sorry my english

You're welcome and thank you, I will keep you in mind for testing future experiments.

Answer to 1:

Because the character comes in with the same bone names and order as the Unreal Engine Mannequin there is no need to manually retarget and create new animations.

In the translation retargeting options there is a way to tell Unreal whether to strictly use the animation data or to use the information of the skeletal mesh. Im not 100% sure if that is the best explanation or how they should be set.

If anyone has a better description or some insight on that part I would love to get a better idea how to set that up.

Answer to 2: Sorry that was an over simplification.

The Post Process animation is an Animation Blueprint that basically keeps track of about 50 different bone rotations and applies a corrective morph to the skeletal mesh as each joint bends.

There is one of these set up in the plugin for Genesis 8 and Genesis 3 skeletons. There isn't one set up for the UE mannequin rig that we are using for our Daz character.

It is possible to make one by copying the Event Graph from the Plugin's Post Process Animation Blueprint and pasting it into one for the UE skeleton. You would then need to change the names of the bones(sockets) that are being watched to drive the corrective morphs.

One of the script testers came up with that solution and I believe got it working OK.

Ah the joys of youthful bliss making discoveries :-) Did you remember to zero and save the morph before closing the program?

btw - After the word Morph you can type more separation names if ever you want to: i.e. Morphs/Doors/whatever - and each will become a "folder" ;-)

It would be great if it can transfer MDL shaders too.

A single g8f. I try follow the tutorial on youtube, but i fail. Looks like need be opened Ue4 and daz same time... On retarget bones, for exemple - where i fail - i dont find the base from 8, only g3. :) About the time, looks like 'time or processing' (im playing here in a i5 :S ) but dont crash and this is a great notice to me, just take some time. I ll try later again. REEDIT - and looks like was the morphs... on litle screen, i read 'animation' (last thing, i think... in this exp process). looks like this morph get some time to export (maybe)...

yea to export you need to have "both open at same time"

 

you need to check the "ammount of morphs you are trying to export" the more morph the more time it can take, unreal have a large limite on how much morphs you can export but the more you put the more time it will take, for me using a i7 witth 16 giga ram it normally take few minutes to export a character with like 50 to 80 morphs, it is a lot of info.

Thanks for the answer :) yes, sure, i ll pay more atention next time and, no morph, i think its not so hard do animations in ue4... at last, few animation (i ll use this ONLY to do movies, short movies). But i like Iray from Daz, and i found a good configuration to my 'animes' with some sketch shaders. The render is fast or are fast without many elements in my viewport. I really love Daz man... i just need a better computer :3

to be fair it's not like you "ca'nt export morphs" or no moprhs just don't go exporting "every moprh possible like want to expor 100+ morphs it can really take sometime, since your spec is not " atop note" spec, then start adding like 20 and see the time it's take then go adding few more like 2 or 3 more then test until you see you have enough and know how much time it can take.

Yes, if it's weightmapped you can use the transfer utility with existing prop as the source and it will try project the rigging on the new prop.

Thanks!

BTW - starting to think how much work is to rig a human body - do the human models which the artists make for sale are rigged in the same way - by copying?

Do you mean standalone figures? No, it's not allowed to copy one figure's rigging to create your own figure if you want to distribute it (well, unless you created the first figure, I suppose), you'll need to rig it yourself from scratch.
You can only reuse the figure's rigging to create conforming add-ons like clothes.

Yes, if it's weightmapped you can use the transfer utility with existing prop as the source and it will try project the rigging on the new prop.

Thanks!

BTW - starting to think how much work is to rig a human body - do the human models which the artists make for sale are rigged in the same way - by copying?

most of the Poser legacy stuff was using "Dork" and "Posette" the P4 male and female

DAZ rigging is protected under the EULA so most stand alones do not use the same rigging often using the Poser or Autodesk Biped one

only DAZ store figures can use the DAZ genesis+ rigging bone hierarchy

Yes, if it's weightmapped you can use the transfer utility with existing prop as the source and it will try project the rigging on the new prop.

Thanks!

BTW - starting to think how much work is to rig a human body - do the human models which the artists make for sale are rigged in the same way - by copying?

Yes, if it's weightmapped you can use the transfer utility with existing prop as the source and it will try project the rigging on the new prop.

A single g8f. I try follow the tutorial on youtube, but i fail. Looks like need be opened Ue4 and daz same time... On retarget bones, for exemple - where i fail - i dont find the base from 8, only g3. :) About the time, looks like 'time or processing' (im playing here in a i5 :S ) but dont crash and this is a great notice to me, just take some time. I ll try later again. REEDIT - and looks like was the morphs... on litle screen, i read 'animation' (last thing, i think... in this exp process). looks like this morph get some time to export (maybe)...

yea to export you need to have "both open at same time"

 

you need to check the "ammount of morphs you are trying to export" the more morph the more time it can take, unreal have a large limite on how much morphs you can export but the more you put the more time it will take, for me using a i7 witth 16 giga ram it normally take few minutes to export a character with like 50 to 80 morphs, it is a lot of info.

Thanks for the answer :) yes, sure, i ll pay more atention next time and, no morph, i think its not so hard do animations in ue4... at last, few animation (i ll use this ONLY to do movies, short movies). But i like Iray from Daz, and i found a good configuration to my 'animes' with some sketch shaders. The render is fast or are fast without many elements in my viewport. I really love Daz man... i just need a better computer :3

The English Mastiff morph is a nice one. You could try some of @JOdel 's suggestions for hair with it, but I shudder how that would tax a system if you went the Tibetan Mastiff route.

but I have the ear selected and also the hands are highlighted in the shape panel... I am sure a Ear morph should not touch the fingers :O

In looking at a YT video regarding Character Creator 3, the narrator showed how it was possible to morph (via slider) individual body parts. Is such a feature available in DAZ? (In CC3, it was part of "Essentials".)

Also, by rolling over various areas, they would become high-lited in Yellow. He was then able to adjust such areas (in a broad way). Is that feature also in DAZ?

Thanks!

Can't open Studio atm, but iirc you could try the Transfer Utility?

You can do the same also by editing the morph files in Notepad++.

You just have to figure out the structure (not difficult) and on the plus-side, knowing the inner workings of a morph file comes in handy with the troublesome warnings in the log as well.