There is a fair bit of freee content included - all of the base figues (Genesis #) have a Starter Essentials package, with the figuer, at least oen hair, and at least one outfit, plus soem props and there are also a number of eady-to-render scene collections. The freebies forum here also has quite a bit of free content. Any site offering content from Daz or another store for free is almost certainly offering warez, for which the crator has received at best one sale's worth of income 9and quite possibly not that if they used stolen card details to purchase). However, there are people - most of whom are likely to post on one of the main sites - offering their own created freebies.

Yes, you can ceate your own content  - the only bits not available to the general user are HD morph import (but we can use normal maps and displacement) and dForce Hair (strand-based dynamic hair - we can make non-dynamic strand-based hair, and we can use the dForce cloth engine on hair made from polygons). For example, with your clothes you could either rig them using Edit>Figure>Transfer Utility - set teh figuer as the Source and the imported model as the Target, ideally you should model around the base shape but there are ways to handle morphed figuers) or you coudl apply a dForce modifier (from the Simulation Settings pane option menu) and just simulate to get the draping.

You can buy morph sets (e.g. the basic Daz Head and Body Morph sets for the figure) to create characters, or you can use a modelling or sculpting application to create your own then use Edit>Figure>Morph Loader to import as a new morph - this has to be made on the base figure, no SubD active and no add-on parts). You can use an image editor or 3D painting tool to create textures.

What sort of game? For a game with 3D data that is used on the host machine to generate the user experience you do need the Interactive License, but for a game that needs only 2D images (e.g. most Visual Novels, or RPG Maker games with 2D sprites) the standard license is enough.

As this is a thread about liquid style shaders for DAZ Studio's 3Delight render engine I need to relate what I'm looking for. I'm sure many here know how realistic the water mats are in Bryce 7.1 Pro. They render out really well, and provide the kind of reflectivity you would expect from water of many different placements. By placements I mean Pools, Ponds, Streams, Rivers, Lakes, Seas, and Oceans. There are Water materials for many of these placements that make it look real. You can even tweak the refraction to match the known indexes for each type. The problem is the amount of memory Bryce can access. If I wish to put a large ship with several textures on it in the water, Like Kibarreto's JetCarrier, (which I just acquired recently), Bryce will not let the fully textured ship complete the import.  As that ship has what to me appears to be a watertight hull on its ventral area, I thought, well this ship is like the Helicarrier in Marvel's movie "Avengers". To me Kibarreto's JetCarrier looks much more awesome, which is why I want it in Bryce. But the only way I can get it in is without the texture maps! A study in frustration, I assure you! Bryce being just a 32 bit application, only has access to 2 GB of RAM. So bringing a model like the JetCarrier in with the textures optimized for Bryce causes the application to run out of memory before the import is completed. I know about the DAZ Studio to Bryce Bridge, and yes that happens when I try using it to send the JetCarrier to Bryce by way of that bridge also. With the texture maps, the JetCarrier is just too big in file memory. Getting the model into Bryce on its own without the texture maps is possible, but then I'm left with a big model that has several material zones, with no in application textures to apply to it that will look close to how it does in DAZ Studio!

So what I need is to create my Bryce image as a backdrop for DAZ Studio, but I need the water that I have the JetCarrier settled into to look like it is a seamless continuation of the water in the Bryce generated backdrop. That will take a lot of work to get right, but if I can get some really good water shaders, it won't be as work intensive. So I will be checking into the ones available in The Renderosity Free Stuff. I'll likely be downloading all I can find, as I do not even have one water shader for DAZ Studio at this time. Thanks to tsarist for the link to the relevant page. Hopefully I can make at least one of those shaders work the way I need it to.

WendyLuvsCatz said:

Bunyip02 said:

WendyLuvsCatz said:

Bunyip02 said:

WendyLuvsCatz said:

mmm wonder why mine fail to import, shall try my other computer Win10, was my Win 7

same thing i/0 error

maybe upload your eye duf (it's just a character preset so OK)

Here you go, was for the female morph applied to one - also shaders need some work to get to operate okay.

 

works 

I wonder why mine doesn't though, 2 computers, 2 installs, 2 libraries 

mmm D|S4.21? 

Good to hear that it works for you !!!

Am running DAZ Studio 4.10

AHa

that could be the secret sauce, I have 4.11 on my Win7 but used the 4.21 beta 

same error basic wear but autofitted stuffs saved as support assets work

and grew a nice mane of dynamic hair on him (simulated animation ) Mimic plugin works with 8.1 configuration dmc too!

It's Brian!!!

"Are you ready Steve?"

"Andy?"

"Mick?"

"Alright, fellas.... Let's GOOOOO!!!!"

Hurray! You may discover that you are missing metadata for things you customized, if you had not saved User Data before the crash. But you should have recovered the Daz metadata at least.

To repopulate Smart Content, you could first try reimporting metadata from the Content Library pane. It is an option in Content DB Maintenance.

One last question, if I want to adjust eye position using Canary3D's method, could I just simply do it between step4 and step5, like below?
It seems to be working for me, but please do give me advice if I'm doing anything stupid :P

4.After the rigging to shape has finished, Load and attach genesis 9 Eyes to your figure

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4-1.Adjust eye psition, don't care about rigging here (just like Canary3d did in the youtube video)
4-2.Export the eye parts as a obj
4-3.Restore all the changes you made at step4-1 and load a new genesis 9 eye
4-4.Import the exported eye you made at step4-2 using morph loader pro (seems to work better with Reverse deformation:OFF here)
remember to use the same morph name you made at step2. and overwrite it. This will merge the 2 morphs
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5.make sure only the morph dialed up is the one you made so far.
Select that morph and use “Adjust Eye Rigging” from the G9 dev tool

Padone said:

@dmnmf That depends on the figure proportions, if the armature pivots don't change or change a little, then you can import body morphs without ERCs and they will work fine enough. If the pivots change then you need ERCs otherwise you get the distortions as in your picture, because the armature pivots are not located correctly. Then ERCs can't work with IK, you are limited to the daz rig

Thanks, i will give it another try!

I don't know if the Blender method changes the uvs or not.

There is a trick using Hexagon. In D/S parent all the pieces to one item. Send that one item over the bridge to Hexagon. {clear the scene in D/S but do not close it}

Then in Hexagon, rename "all" the groups [the pieces listed in the scene tree] to be exactly the same. Then select them "all" and export them to the desktop or wherever.

Clear the scene in Hexagon and import back in that one obj. Send it back over the bridge to D/S. Polish the obj [get rid of the default material, etc.] and save it as Figure/Prop.

I'm trying to sculpt morphs to fix anatomical issues that arise with certain poses, but because my sculpts are of the posed figure as their base, i can't just import them and dial them up as is because that would cause the figure to further bend whatever body parts are already rotated. Therefore I need to apply a morph that zeroes out the pose to the anatomical fix morph.

JackyBrown said:

Hylas said:

JackyBrown said:

 

#01! AMC Matador Police car by Marsupi 3d
https://www.dmi-3d.net/rescue1.html  (item 19)

Hey @JackyBrown, how did you import this model in DS?

That site seems like a really cool resource but I cant figure out the file format!

I converted it from .lwo to .obj with PoseRay. https://sites.google.com/site/poseray/ This small (8mb) and free utility can also edit the materials (most of the times) in cases that the OBJ file has just one material group. Very handy! :)

Thank you, will check it out!

NorthOf45 said:

You can have several installation destinations (Libraries) as long as they are all configured in DIM and Studio (they must match, otherwise some content will not be available in Studio). DIM can only deal with one destination folder at a time, so if you forget to switch, it can get confusing. Some users like to split up their Libraries, but that is a matter of personal choice. There is a way to filter by install path, but it is rather technical, and the documentation warns that it is an old version (Advanced Filtering [Documentation Center]). Look for Path...

You can move content safely if you take the proper steps to re-integrate it into the database. I helped someone recently with a similar situation, the info should be relevant for you: Transferred Files to New Harddrive. The database still has the metadata, but the connection to the content location is broken. Basically, you have to modify the manifests to point to the new locations. Worst case is to re-install from DIM.

The thing is, Studio knows about the products you have bought since you had previously used Connect. That info is stored in the database, and you will always see the Connect icon overlays on the product thumbnails, and those products will show in the Available tab, but just ignore them. If they are in colour, then Studio recognizes the library used by DIM, so it is all good. I do not use Connect, so I am not sure how to clear that information (since it is now of no use to you) without resetting the database and re-importing the metadata. It is kind of a nuclear option.

That's helpful thank you. The weird thing now is I've got files in the correct location but Daz still thinks they're in Connect, so I'm having to uninstall and reinstall one by one in DIM and then they show up correctly in Smart Content without me having to log in..

You can have several installation destinations (Libraries) as long as they are all configured in DIM and Studio (they must match, otherwise some content will not be available in Studio). DIM can only deal with one destination folder at a time, so if you forget to switch, it can get confusing. Some users like to split up their Libraries, but that is a matter of personal choice. There is a way to filter by install path, but it is rather technical, and the documentation warns that it is an old version (Advanced Filtering [Documentation Center]). Look for Path...

You can move content safely if you take the proper steps to re-integrate it into the database. I helped someone recently with a similar situation, the info should be relevant for you: Transferred Files to New Harddrive. The database still has the metadata, but the connection to the content location is broken. Basically, you have to modify the manifests to point to the new locations. Worst case is to re-install from DIM.

The thing is, Studio knows about the products you have bought since you had previously used Connect. That info is stored in the database, and you will always see the Connect icon overlays on the product thumbnails, and those products will show in the Available tab, but just ignore them. If they are in colour, then Studio recognizes the library used by DIM, so it is all good. I do not use Connect, so I am not sure how to clear that information (since it is now of no use to you) without resetting the database and re-importing the metadata. It is kind of a nuclear option.

outrider42 said:

marble said:

outrider42 said:

Heh, I use Hexagon for morphs if at all possible. I have used Blender for some morphs, it depends on what I need to do. But Hexagon can be easier than Blender for some tasks, especially with the real bridge between them (one that goes BOTH ways.) That is a what I consider to be a bridge. IMO a bridge is only a bridge if it goes both ways. If you take a bridge to the outer banks but cannot get back, that's not much of a bridge is it?

That bridge was a major wishlist for Blender but now I hardly notice the export/import routine. As I said, I quite liked Hex but it crashes far too frequently for me and I am not disciplined enough to keep saving every 10 seconds. Also, the sculpting tools in Blender are progressing significantly and are maybe not that far behind ZBrush for the average DAZ Studio user.

Once I remove textures, I never get anymore crashes. I saved a Genesis material preset for Hexagon. If I need to, I'll save a material preset for the character I am working on (for the import back), then apply my Hex Preset.

Its about the speed. With how I have it set up, I can do this faster than I can with Blender. Which would be a given because I am slower in Blender anyway. And I don't have to worry about an accidental incorrect setting on import/export. I have done that because I am doing other things besides just Genesis.

Also, Hexagon seems to handle Genesis topology better at times. Maybe that's just my imagination, but there are times where the brushes in Hex just seem to look smoother than Blender's. I think it is a real shame that Hexagon development went dormant.

I am not a modeller so maybe that's why I find the Blender sculpting brushes feel more natural to me than the edit tools. That's not to say that I found Hex difficult - it was surprisingly easy to make morphs after following a couple of tutorials. But I'm now getting more and more comfortable with the Blender sculpt brushes and I can only see them improving whereas Hex is stuck in limbo.

If DAZ were to follwo their own lead with the bridge plugins, they should probably make one for exporting Obj files to Blender for morphing (much like the Hex and GOZ bridges). Or maybe even USD files!

marble said:

outrider42 said:

Heh, I use Hexagon for morphs if at all possible. I have used Blender for some morphs, it depends on what I need to do. But Hexagon can be easier than Blender for some tasks, especially with the real bridge between them (one that goes BOTH ways.) That is a what I consider to be a bridge. IMO a bridge is only a bridge if it goes both ways. If you take a bridge to the outer banks but cannot get back, that's not much of a bridge is it?

That bridge was a major wishlist for Blender but now I hardly notice the export/import routine. As I said, I quite liked Hex but it crashes far too frequently for me and I am not disciplined enough to keep saving every 10 seconds. Also, the sculpting tools in Blender are progressing significantly and are maybe not that far behind ZBrush for the average DAZ Studio user.

Once I remove textures, I never get anymore crashes. I saved a Genesis material preset for Hexagon. If I need to, I'll save a material preset for the character I am working on (for the import back), then apply my Hex Preset.

Its about the speed. With how I have it set up, I can do this faster than I can with Blender. Which would be a given because I am slower in Blender anyway. And I don't have to worry about an accidental incorrect setting on import/export. I have done that because I am doing other things besides just Genesis.

Also, Hexagon seems to handle Genesis topology better at times. Maybe that's just my imagination, but there are times where the brushes in Hex just seem to look smoother than Blender's. I think it is a real shame that Hexagon development went dormant.

Hylas said:

JackyBrown said:

 

#01! AMC Matador Police car by Marsupi 3d
https://www.dmi-3d.net/rescue1.html  (item 19)

Hey @JackyBrown, how did you import this model in DS?

That site seems like a really cool resource but I cant figure out the file format!

I converted it from .lwo to .obj with PoseRay. https://sites.google.com/site/poseray/ This small (8mb) and free utility can also edit the materials (most of the times) in cases that the OBJ file has just one material group. Very handy! :)

Also I do not have any trouble with that site. I don't even allow any scripts (Firefox with NoScript) and can download everything without any warning of my Internet Security software. :)

Hylas said:

JackyBrown said:

 

#01! AMC Matador Police car by Marsupi 3d
https://www.dmi-3d.net/rescue1.html  (item 19)

Hey @JackyBrown, how did you import this model in DS?

That site seems like a really cool resource but I cant figure out the file format!

lwo is lightwave format, I'm not sure it can be imported to daz but I do know Hexagon and Blender both can import so you can save out as obj.  3ds is an autodesk file and can be imported to Hexagon or Blender, not sure if daz can with the newer versions. Can't remember what .mov is. But at least you have options to convert the files. Oh and a .max file can't be converted unless you ask someone with that program.

If you mean wavefront obj, its format is standardized... For instance, you wanna export multiple objects as one obj file from Ds to Blender -: 1) Ctrl + select multiple root nodes in Scene pane; 2) Export to obj -: in OBJ Export Options dialog box, tick 'Write Separate Objects', tick 'Filter Objects' and choose 'Selected Roots'; 3) Import obj file with Blender -: If you tick 'Split by Object', you'll get multiple objects...otherwise you'll get a single mesh.  Such a way is frequently used for fixing various morphs in Blender, i.e. exporting Base figure + multiple wearables as one obj file.

If you use GoZ, you'll easily get multiple objects as separate sub tools. It should be the same with other bridges...

JackyBrown said:

 

#01! AMC Matador Police car by Marsupi 3d
https://www.dmi-3d.net/rescue1.html  (item 19)

Hey @JackyBrown, how did you import this model in DS?

That site seems like a really cool resource but I cant figure out the file format!

I was using Autoposing, but the hands acted as if they were pinned in world space, only rotating a little while the shoulder went nuts to keep them in position. I'll keep trying, but I don't know if there are any import or export settings I've got set incorrectly that could be causing this. Thanks.

My project already supports the in game customization with different clothing usable for all the Daz G8 characters. Diffeomorphic1.7 can import clothing for any character into Blender and then use the merge rigs option for the clothing to use the same skeleton as the character, then transfer shapekeys from the body to the clothing. I'm using UE5 and the cloth simulation is built in feature of the engine, but I'm not advising to switch to Unreal as it doesn't offer the freedom of custom choices supported by Unity, except that someone can dig deep into the source code of Unreal and make custom builds of the engine