DS doesn't have to phone home at all to load content. You have the option to install content directly from DS smart content tab when you log in, but that's not mandatory. You can also still install content manually or via DIM, and use the Content library tab which shows the actual folders and files rather than  Smart Content tab relying on metadata.
 

And your old content should still work fine. It might not appear in Smart Content tab due to not having metadata but should be visible in Content library. If your content is not displayed in content library then there's something wrong in your settings.

Padone said:

Both the operations you ask for are very basic and described in the docs. To export you run the daz script. To import you can use easy import with default options or add the features you need as jcms and expressions for example. To import a daz animation there's import action. To animate in blender there's rigify or mhx that you can also choose in easy import.

https://bitbucket.org/Diffeomorphic/import_daz/wiki/Export/Export To Blender

https://bitbucket.org/Diffeomorphic/import_daz/wiki/Import/Easy Import DAZ

https://bitbucket.org/Diffeomorphic/import_daz/wiki/Posing/Import Action

I usually use Collada format to MD... I just tested export / import to C4D 2023.2 with default settings, the mesh seemed Okay.  Which C4D version are you using?

jepegraphics said:

necroscension said:

I decided to give the bundle a try...

Jepe, I can confirm what you are seeing. I can apply the Suit with gens to G9 Dev Load, but when I try to use a shape dial Daz dies. Looking at the log file, nothing is being logged for Daz failing.

For my second try this is what I did:

Load G9 Dev Load

With it selected, load the G8.1M Material Suit for male elements in the Anatomy folder

I applied the PBR Skin shader to the anatomy

Reselect G9, select my HMAT (I used Novak Revisited for G8.1M), and click the shortcut for the hierarchical materials

Materials are applied, everything looks good.

Making sure G9 is selected, I selected CGI Kurt for G9's shape preset.

Daz appears to start to load the morph, and then dies.

Log:

2023-05-23 19:13:36.885 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Received update to 00119 iterations after 40.605 s.
2023-05-23 19:13:37.199 [INFO] :: Prepare asset load (merge): /People/Genesis 9/Characters/Color Galeria/CGI Kurt/CGI !!Kurtis Apply All.duf
2023-05-23 19:13:37.199 [INFO] :: Locking viewport redraw...
2023-05-23 19:13:37.199 [INFO] :: Viewport redraw locked.
2023-05-23 19:13:37.388 [INFO] :: Native format content directories: 1
2023-05-23 19:13:37.388 [INFO] :: Poser format content directories: 1
2023-05-23 19:13:37.389 [INFO] :: Other import format content directories: 0
2023-05-23 19:13:37.389 [INFO] :: Begin asset load (merge): /People/Genesis 9/Characters/Color Galeria/CGI Kurt/CGI !!Kurtis Apply All.duf
2023-05-23 19:13:37.389 [INFO] :: Determining missing assets...
2023-05-23 19:13:37.390 [INFO] :: Setting textures...
2023-05-23 19:13:37.390 [INFO] :: Applying animations...
2023-05-23 19:13:37.442 [INFO] :: Finished asset load (merge): 0m 0.54s - /People/Genesis 9/Characters/Color Galeria/CGI Kurt/CGI !!Kurtis Apply All.duf
2023-05-23 19:13:37.494 [INFO] :: Loaded morph deltas: 0m 0.49s - /data/Daz 3D/Genesis 9/Base/Morphs/Color Galeria/CGI Kurt G9/CGI0423Kurtis_head_bs_Head.dsf
2023-05-23 19:13:37.816 [INFO] :: Loaded morph deltas: 0m 0.273s - /data/Daz 3D/Genesis 9/Base/Morphs/Daz 3D/Base Masculine 9/BaseMasculine_head_bs_Head.dsf
2023-05-23 19:13:37.868 [INFO] :: Loaded morph deltas: 0m 0.14s - /data/Daz 3D/Genesis 9/Base/Morphs/Color Galeria/CGI Kurt G9/CGI0423Kurt_head_cbs_FixEyelid.dsf
2023-05-23 19:13:38.017 [INFO] :: Loaded morph deltas: 0m 0.126s - /data/Daz 3D/Genesis 9/Base/Morphs/Color Galeria/CGI Kurt G9/CGI0423Kurt_body_bs_Body.dsf
2023-05-23 19:13:56.588 +++++++++++++++ DAZ Studio 4.21.1.48 starting +++++++++++++++++

No error message. The DAZ Studio starting message is from me restarting it to see the log.

 

EDIT: DAZ will also close without error If G9 is shaped and then add the Material Suit with anatomical elements. This does not happen with the non-anatomical elements suits, you can apply a shape and then apply the suit.

Thank you very much for your information, good to know I'm not the only one! It is exactly the same here, exactly!  

Sorry @Jepegraphics and @necroscension that you are having problems.  Are either of you comfortable with the structure of the HMap duf files?  The Apply script takes the selected HMap file, copies it to the Daz temp directory as a d##.duf file (e.g., d12.duf), transforms it by adding some text and replacing text, and then finally applies it to the material suit.  If you can take one of the d##.duf files and figure out what inside it is making DS unstable (i.e., by changing it in a text editor and applying it and seeing if that makes DS crash), I can fix the script.

necroscension said:

I decided to give the bundle a try...

Jepe, I can confirm what you are seeing. I can apply the Suit with gens to G9 Dev Load, but when I try to use a shape dial Daz dies. Looking at the log file, nothing is being logged for Daz failing.

For my second try this is what I did:

Load G9 Dev Load

With it selected, load the G8.1M Material Suit for male elements in the Anatomy folder

I applied the PBR Skin shader to the anatomy

Reselect G9, select my HMAT (I used Novak Revisited for G8.1M), and click the shortcut for the hierarchical materials

Materials are applied, everything looks good.

Making sure G9 is selected, I selected CGI Kurt for G9's shape preset.

Daz appears to start to load the morph, and then dies.

Log:

2023-05-23 19:13:36.885 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Received update to 00119 iterations after 40.605 s.
2023-05-23 19:13:37.199 [INFO] :: Prepare asset load (merge): /People/Genesis 9/Characters/Color Galeria/CGI Kurt/CGI !!Kurtis Apply All.duf
2023-05-23 19:13:37.199 [INFO] :: Locking viewport redraw...
2023-05-23 19:13:37.199 [INFO] :: Viewport redraw locked.
2023-05-23 19:13:37.388 [INFO] :: Native format content directories: 1
2023-05-23 19:13:37.388 [INFO] :: Poser format content directories: 1
2023-05-23 19:13:37.389 [INFO] :: Other import format content directories: 0
2023-05-23 19:13:37.389 [INFO] :: Begin asset load (merge): /People/Genesis 9/Characters/Color Galeria/CGI Kurt/CGI !!Kurtis Apply All.duf
2023-05-23 19:13:37.389 [INFO] :: Determining missing assets...
2023-05-23 19:13:37.390 [INFO] :: Setting textures...
2023-05-23 19:13:37.390 [INFO] :: Applying animations...
2023-05-23 19:13:37.442 [INFO] :: Finished asset load (merge): 0m 0.54s - /People/Genesis 9/Characters/Color Galeria/CGI Kurt/CGI !!Kurtis Apply All.duf
2023-05-23 19:13:37.494 [INFO] :: Loaded morph deltas: 0m 0.49s - /data/Daz 3D/Genesis 9/Base/Morphs/Color Galeria/CGI Kurt G9/CGI0423Kurtis_head_bs_Head.dsf
2023-05-23 19:13:37.816 [INFO] :: Loaded morph deltas: 0m 0.273s - /data/Daz 3D/Genesis 9/Base/Morphs/Daz 3D/Base Masculine 9/BaseMasculine_head_bs_Head.dsf
2023-05-23 19:13:37.868 [INFO] :: Loaded morph deltas: 0m 0.14s - /data/Daz 3D/Genesis 9/Base/Morphs/Color Galeria/CGI Kurt G9/CGI0423Kurt_head_cbs_FixEyelid.dsf
2023-05-23 19:13:38.017 [INFO] :: Loaded morph deltas: 0m 0.126s - /data/Daz 3D/Genesis 9/Base/Morphs/Color Galeria/CGI Kurt G9/CGI0423Kurt_body_bs_Body.dsf
2023-05-23 19:13:56.588 +++++++++++++++ DAZ Studio 4.21.1.48 starting +++++++++++++++++

No error message. The DAZ Studio starting message is from me restarting it to see the log.

 

EDIT: DAZ will also close without error If G9 is shaped and then add the Material Suit with anatomical elements. This does not happen with the non-anatomical elements suits, you can apply a shape and then apply the suit.

Thank you very much for your information, good to know I'm not the only one! It is exactly the same here, exactly!  

First check your Windows user name, it has to be pure Ascii characters (for instance: contato) other than a name in 'unicode'. This plugin does not support unicode. Besides, if you Windows user name belongs to ADMINISTRATORS user group, the import might also fail. A friend of mine ever had the same problem, after creating a new user (set to Adminitrator user group), everything worked fine...

Both the operations you ask for are very basic and described in the docs. To export you run the daz script. To import you can use easy import with default options or add the features you need as jcms and expressions for example. To import a daz animation there's import action. To animate in blender there's rigify or mhx that you can also choose in easy import.

https://bitbucket.org/Diffeomorphic/import_daz/wiki/Export/Export To Blender

https://bitbucket.org/Diffeomorphic/import_daz/wiki/Import/Easy Import DAZ

https://bitbucket.org/Diffeomorphic/import_daz/wiki/Posing/Import Action

jepegraphics said:

RiverSoftArt said:

jepegraphics said:

I bought the Material Suit for G8M in the hope to be able to use some textures of G8M on G9, but everytime I try to make something with the male genitals, DAZ Studio crashes. I asked Sickle at DeviantArt for a step by step description how to and got following anser:

Set a custom action for your hierarchical mat script. There is a button in the scripts folder that does it for you.

Load your g9.

Load on a material suit preset with genitals on it. These are in People, not Scripts.

Select g9 or the full body suit.Navigate to the hierarchical material preset you want to use.

Select it in Smart Content or Content Library so it is highlighted.Go to the Scripts option above your top bar and click the custom action for hierarchical materials.It should apply the h. Mat to both g9 material suit snd the genitals conformed to the suit.

I did as suggested, I loaded the DEV Load G9, the Material Suit applied, the Material applied, but as soon as I touched G9 to change the shape, DAZ Studio closed, without a warning, it simply shut down, disappeared. Both, the public and the beta version. I am totally confused, why all the scripts, why all the suits as wearables and why there is no clear explanation in the PDFs how to? It works without genitals, but not with.

Are there any experiences or any tips what I did wrong?

That is strange.  I guess the first thing to figure out is if it is the Apply Hmap script or the mat suits themselves.  If you add the mat suit with genitals and just try to change shape, any crashes?  If you add the mat suit without genitals, apply Hmap, and THEN add genitals mat suit, any crashes?

Thank you for the reply, I assume the Hmat scrip works fine, also the Suit applies fine, but as soon as I touch G9 to change the shape, DAZ Studio crashes. When I apply the Suit without gens, all works fine, the Hmat applies,and I can change the shape of G9. Now only it is without gens - when I then try to add the G8 Anat Element Masc Suit, Studio crashes without warning and without any error message, it simply closes. It is frustrating. All gens versions don't work on my machine, the G8F/M with Masc Gens, the G8.1 F/M with Masc gens and also the single Masc gens suits. Funny that I seem to be th eonly one yet with that problem - odd with all the buyers!!!

I decided to give the bundle a try...

Jepe, I can confirm what you are seeing. I can apply the Suit with gens to G9 Dev Load, but when I try to use a shape dial Daz dies. Looking at the log file, nothing is being logged for Daz failing.

For my second try this is what I did:

Load G9 Dev Load

With it selected, load the G8.1M Material Suit for male elements in the Anatomy folder

I applied the PBR Skin shader to the anatomy

Reselect G9, select my HMAT (I used Novak Revisited for G8.1M), and click the shortcut for the hierarchical materials

Materials are applied, everything looks good.

Making sure G9 is selected, I selected CGI Kurt for G9's shape preset.

Daz appears to start to load the morph, and then dies.

Log:

2023-05-23 19:13:36.885 Iray [INFO] - IRAY:RENDER ::   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Received update to 00119 iterations after 40.605 s.
2023-05-23 19:13:37.199 [INFO] :: Prepare asset load (merge): /People/Genesis 9/Characters/Color Galeria/CGI Kurt/CGI !!Kurtis Apply All.duf
2023-05-23 19:13:37.199 [INFO] :: Locking viewport redraw...
2023-05-23 19:13:37.199 [INFO] :: Viewport redraw locked.
2023-05-23 19:13:37.388 [INFO] :: Native format content directories: 1
2023-05-23 19:13:37.388 [INFO] :: Poser format content directories: 1
2023-05-23 19:13:37.389 [INFO] :: Other import format content directories: 0
2023-05-23 19:13:37.389 [INFO] :: Begin asset load (merge): /People/Genesis 9/Characters/Color Galeria/CGI Kurt/CGI !!Kurtis Apply All.duf
2023-05-23 19:13:37.389 [INFO] :: Determining missing assets...
2023-05-23 19:13:37.390 [INFO] :: Setting textures...
2023-05-23 19:13:37.390 [INFO] :: Applying animations...
2023-05-23 19:13:37.442 [INFO] :: Finished asset load (merge): 0m 0.54s - /People/Genesis 9/Characters/Color Galeria/CGI Kurt/CGI !!Kurtis Apply All.duf
2023-05-23 19:13:37.494 [INFO] :: Loaded morph deltas: 0m 0.49s - /data/Daz 3D/Genesis 9/Base/Morphs/Color Galeria/CGI Kurt G9/CGI0423Kurtis_head_bs_Head.dsf
2023-05-23 19:13:37.816 [INFO] :: Loaded morph deltas: 0m 0.273s - /data/Daz 3D/Genesis 9/Base/Morphs/Daz 3D/Base Masculine 9/BaseMasculine_head_bs_Head.dsf
2023-05-23 19:13:37.868 [INFO] :: Loaded morph deltas: 0m 0.14s - /data/Daz 3D/Genesis 9/Base/Morphs/Color Galeria/CGI Kurt G9/CGI0423Kurt_head_cbs_FixEyelid.dsf
2023-05-23 19:13:38.017 [INFO] :: Loaded morph deltas: 0m 0.126s - /data/Daz 3D/Genesis 9/Base/Morphs/Color Galeria/CGI Kurt G9/CGI0423Kurt_body_bs_Body.dsf
2023-05-23 19:13:56.588 +++++++++++++++ DAZ Studio 4.21.1.48 starting +++++++++++++++++

No error message. The DAZ Studio starting message is from me restarting it to see the log.

EDIT: DAZ will also close without error If G9 is shaped and then add the Material Suit with anatomical elements. This does not happen with the non-anatomical elements suits, you can apply a shape and then apply the suit.

kervala said:

RiverSoftArt said:

3DRT said:

RiverSoftArt said:

3DRT said:

I'm using the G8M converter on a custom character and it seems like it's applying the G8M clone to every converted morph which stacks on the G9 figure when I mix and match producing rather horrendous results. Dialing in just one is fine. Is there a way to prevent the G8M clone from being applied multiple times?

Applying the clone is part of the process to get the figures to match before transferring morphs, so every converted morph will have the G8M clone in it for males.

Does this mean that I can't use the converted morphs in a mix-and-match way because right now it seems if I convert a character composed of multiple body and head morphs, the result is that the G8M clone is baked into every converted morph and applied multiple times to G9 which messes up the results. For custom characters, I would need to combine all the morphs into a single character morph by exporting as obj and reimporting for it to work properly? Can't we instead just have a link to the G8M clone that is included in G9 in the output morphs?

You should be able to use some converted morphs in a mix-and-match way, but they do affect the whole body.  I am not sure what you mean by a link to the clone.  The G8M clone is provided by Daz in /data/Daz 3D/Genesis 9/Base/Morphs/Daz 3D/Clones/CloneGenesis8Male.dsf

I think he's talking about new G8 converted characters depending on your "Actor/Full Body/People/Feminine/Genesis 8 Female Body" that is a G8F clone, but with the same height as G9 :) We currently can't use directly official G8 clones for G9 because they don't have a correct rigging (even though we can do "Adjust Rigging to Shape..."), but yours is 100% functional.

If new converted characters were both depending on it, we'll be able to mix them because the morph would represent only the differences from G8F, so if we want to mix several G8F characters, we would have to enable "Genesis 8 Female Body" at 100% and all other characters at their respective proportions.

Okay, so. When we work on converters, we have to choose.

We can dial in the clone when we convert the morph, so that it looks just like it looked on G8. This is what we did.

OR we can copy the morph directly without using the import/export on the clone itself. We did not do this, because the result is that you would get the morph's effect versus G9 base, and it wouldn't look masc or fem as it did on G8F or G8M.

The result is that yes, each morph that is copied is being combined with the G8 head or body clone, so that it will look like it looked on G8.

Padone said:

Yes I know, the online tutorials and videos around are quite old now and not up to date. Unfortunately not Thomas nor I have time to make videos, so the docs are the only available reference that you can trust. Hopefully as users learn to use the new features they will make new videos or update the old ones.

I would gladly make videos if I understood what to do and got things to work. For my ever growing sci-fi scene, I finally had to import characters and animations from Mixamo.

crosswind said:

If the character is G8 or G9, you can use HeadSplit dFormer in Starter Essentials products to split body / head. Export the figure to obj, load the HeadSplit dFormer to the figure, then use Morph Loader Pro to import obj as head morph and body morph separately, with Attenuate option. Pls refer to Josh' video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY6eJ0Awg9Q&t=253s

You may also consider to use Character Splitter in which there're HeadSplit dFormers for G2/G3 : https://github.com/Mike3D/Character-Splitter-for-DAZ-Studio

This is amazing and extremely useful. I'm in the middle of a large project and when I'm done with it, I'll give these a try. Thank you for pointing me at these.

If the character is G8 or G9, you can use HeadSplit dFormer in Starter Essentials products to split body / head. Export the figure to obj, load the HeadSplit dFormer to the figure, then use Morph Loader Pro to import obj as head morph and body morph separately, with Attenuate option. Pls refer to Josh' video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY6eJ0Awg9Q&t=253s

You may also consider to use Character Splitter in which there're HeadSplit dFormers for G2/G3 : https://github.com/Mike3D/Character-Splitter-for-DAZ-Studio

@spa You have to save the pose presets then import them in blender. The geograft will have its own animation since it is a separate figure. Of course you need to import the morphs you used for the animation otherwise it will not work. Actually there's no support for object animation so you can't import the camera, that's a requested feature anyway so Thomas is aware.

note. You import the geograft animation on the merged rig. Only the geograft bones and morphs will be affected. For geografts you have to set "object transformations affect = none" to don't overwrite the figure location.

Or you can use Sagan that will export an alembic animation of the whole scene, that's probably easier to transfer from daz studio to blender. While diffeomorphic is more intended to import in blender then animate there, though it can import daz animations.

Hello,

When I import an object created in blender into DazStudio, a shadow may appear as shown in the attached figure.
I tested the shadowed condition.
As a result, shadows appear when the object is processed.

For example, create a cylinder in Blender.
Even if you import it into Daz, the shadow will not appear, but if you extend the top of the cylinder as shown in the figure, the shadow will appear.

There is no problem with the shape, just a shadow on the object.
There is no problem with the texture as it is, but I would like to know the cause of the shadow.

<Contents tested>
-Aligned normals.
-change faces to triangles
-Re-textured

thank you.

I'm not new to Diffeo, but trying to bring my first animation over to blender.
Is there any way to keep the (scene) position and the morphs of for example db-xy and ngv8 when i import to blender?
I really want to use the daz animation in blender.

What I did:

- export characters in A pose.
- import action
Characters are not in the right spot (they are in 0/0/0) and ngv8 and dbxx are not transferred.

TIA

Export from DS at 100% import at 100% it will work in hexagon.  Hexagon and DazStudio have the exact same scale.

Poser  on the other hand has an infinitely small scale  and messes up all sorts of sizing.  the Poser multiplier is approx.  -24000

That is why sometimes,  people say they imported an obj from poser but they can't find it. The reality is its there,  they just can't see it.  Zoom in on zero position (0,0,0,) until you find that miniscule import.  If its in the scene tree it is usually there,  just really, really, really small. 

Hello,

That's a dumb question (I'm least I'm aware :-p) but what is the best way to adjust tight shapes for custom clothes? Do I have to fix it in Blender and import again each time? It seems to ignore morph deltas and updating geometry make things worse. Any advice?

Some .obj files import into Hexagon to the correct size if one uses either the "m" or the "cm" option at 0.41 value.

crosswind said:

Usually you may try:
1. to use some products with undressed morphs like above mentioned;
2. to make undressed morphs by yourself with modeling / sculpting software, blender, ZBrush, etc. and import back to the garment;
3. or another trick is: you seek the garment (A) (having some undressed morphs) that is similar to the one (B) you use, and use Transfer Utility to transfer the undressed morph targets from (A) to (B) and finetune it with blender / ZB. In most case, it might be faster... even without tweaking sometimes denpending on the garments...

Okay, I'm glad I was at least partially correct with the Blender line of thought. :)

The transfer utility is a tool with which I am unfamiliar and this is the first time I'm learning of it, so I shall look into it. Thank you Crosswind.

AgitatedRiot said:

If I understand, many people say not to log in while in Daz because it can cause problems. I see you are logged in to DAZ Studio. Can someone confirm this warning I've been reading about? Does it mess up your install locations? Does it have its file path up in the My Documents>Connect folder? 

There is no reason to log in if you are not usign connect, and if you are logged in you may inadvertently install content (again) through Connect (by double-clicking on a product that is not installed at all or that is isntalled but failed to register correctly). You will also get metadata updates, which might cause issues if the actual installed files do not match up.