Ok so am I right in thinking that if I have any Daz morph'sinstalled that can be use to pose bodies that will effect the export?, and thus be the reason the pose moves a little when I export it, might be easyer and better then to try set a T pose on anything I'm going to export to work on if that the case

I'm just trying to learn this stuff and set me up a work flow to do these things when I wish to, develop a process so tospeak

In any event, if a particular morph set develops an issue (and I do agree, if you are still seeing the problem it's unlikely to be NPM) then reinstalling the base figure won't help. Moprhs (UV sets, projection templates, etc.) do not modify the base files but add their own which DS finds when it loads the base figure.

The easiest way to transfer morphs is with GenX2. This product has 2 required other packages.

https://www.daz3d.com/genx2-addon-for-genesis-3

https://www.daz3d.com/genesis-generation-x2

https://www.daz3d.com/genx2-addon-for-genesis-2

The other way is quite messy. You have to save the rename the morphs for Hercules to end in .zip and then unzip them to uncompress them. Then with a text editor you change all instances of "male" to "female." I used to do it before GenX2 came out so I don't remember all the little nit picky details. Also, if you are interested in the HD shape, that won't transfer at all with either GenX2 or the brute force method. So this would only work for Hercules SD morph.

I thought about buying Hercules but I have one question if you could please answer. Does the head have a separate morph from the body? Is there both a full Hercules morph and a "Hercules Head" and "Hercules Body" morph? SimonWM's previous characters called "Swole" had this. It made it so you could have different face shapes on the bodybuilder.

So if the head morph isn't seperate, then you probably wouldn't want to port it over to G3F anyway. You would just end up with a G3F who has both Hercules' body and face.

Otherwise, try this Massive morph for G3F:

https://www.daz3d.com/massive-morphs-for-genesis-3-female-s

It really is quite easy. I couldn't get ipi to work directly with Carrara though.

So once you've created your animation in ipisoft follow the insructions on their website to import it into Daz Studio. Then just create an aniblock from studio keyframes, save the aniblock to disc. Then open Carrara and import the aniblock with the aniblock importer. This works great for Genesis and Genesis 2 and I assume it'll work fine with M4 and V4 but haven't tried them. The only problem I ran into was with an original figure like Mestophales' Brute X. I originally intended this animation for Brute X. The animation imported into studio just fine, but I tried several different ways to transfer the animation over to Carrara with no luck. So I switched to the Infernal Behemoth and it works just fine with him.  (maybe even better because of his oversize arms)

Also the animation was not edited in either studio or Carrara. That's how it looks straight out of ipisoft. I would recommend it to anyone that's interested, I'll be diving in more myself. This is for a music video for a friend, Xoe Fitzgerald the time traveling transvestite.

Try reinstalling and unisntalling the NPM product, reisntalling Genesis 3 female won't do anything to other morph sets.

Further to other suggestions, I'd like a shark-human hybrid. I know Raw Art did one ('Jawz'), but was disappointed to find it can't be 'bulked down' by using emaciated and thinning shaping morphs. I ideally want one which looks like it's more properly streamlined, rather than overly muscular (nothing wrong with that, of course, but the option should be there and Jawz doesn't have a seperate head shaping morph to be dialled in with a different body).

Could easily see a streamlined shark-like hybrid being useful for both genders of base character.

Do you know philosopher's egg website? he has fantastic shark hybrid morhs, they are for V4 and M4 but you could transfer the morphs to genesis 3 with those three products

https://www.daz3d.com/genesis-generation-x2

https://www.daz3d.com/genx2-addon-for-genesis-2

https://www.daz3d.com/genx2-addon-for-genesis-3

here is the philosopher's egg sharks bundles:

shark:

http://philosophersegg.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_10&products_id=81

hammerhead shark:

http://philosophersegg.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_10&products_id=85

and the skins could be transfered with Texture transformer:

https://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/texture-transformer-version-2/120633/

addon v4 to genesis 3 female

https://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/v4-to-g3f-add-on-pack-for-texture-transformer/112851/

addon m4 to genesis 3 male 

https://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/m4-to-g3m-add-on-pack-for-texture-tranformer/113499/

What kind of controls are missing? If you highlght Morph Targets in the list of General Options what settings do you have in Extended Options?

So again, following Esha's tutorial about creating and setting up JCMs, and I ran into a bit of a problem. I couldn't figure out why I was getting inconsistent morph values when it should have been at 100% (or zero, or any specific value). Anyway, eventually I found the outdated documentation for creating JCMs http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/userguide/creating_content/assembling/tutorials/creating_joint_controlled_morphs/start . I figured out how to link them manually, and found that it had been inputting the wrong maths into the scalar value (when relying on automatic solution). I fixed it, and reproduced the issue.

I'm working with Genesis 2F, and I've only noticed the issue on the left thigh Z rotation (of the rig extracted for the model). Has anyone else had this issue? Anyway, it's sorted, and I'm happy to have learned to hook up the morphs manually, and finally be done with a nagging issue.

Good maths ^_^

Bad maths -_-

Please help. For some reason Growing up for Genesis 3 female is not working corectly anymore. When dailing in the youth morph the gen 3 f breasts deform and some wierd looking ridge forms in the middle of her chest. I know not to use anything but the original G3F body but now that seems to be corrupt. Can I delete the G3F obj and reinstall it perhaps? Please help. Problem started when I used posermatics NPM. It appears one of these morphs became permanent. I deleted it and the data part of it but I still have a damaged G3F

I was wondering if someone knew how to get with Genesis 3 (male and female) the same expression as when you dial the MouthSmile-Frown (both, L and R) with V4 and M4.

Further to other suggestions, I'd like a shark-human hybrid. I know Raw Art did one ('Jawz'), but was disappointed to find it can't be 'bulked down' by using emaciated and thinning shaping morphs. I ideally want one which looks like it's more properly streamlined, rather than overly muscular (nothing wrong with that, of course, but the option should be there and Jawz doesn't have a seperate head shaping morph to be dialled in with a different body).

Could easily see a streamlined shark-like hybrid being useful for both genders of base character.

As Mike says, you need to model around the zeroed figure or to use Reverse Source Shape from Target in the Transfer utility.

A morph cannot remove, add, or reorder the mesh - all it can do is push around the existing mesh. What you could do is use the Transfer Utility, setting the Source to the original figure and the Target to your modified mesh, to create a new figure.

I have a gown I've sent over to Zbrush with Goz, made some edits (had to separate the subtools and then reassemble) then sent back to Daz. When it comes back it comes in as a new object vs updating the old one. Is there a way to have it update the old one or transfer all the morphs and such from the old to the new?  If I send it and don't separate it I can send it back just fine.

Any help would greatly be appreciated.

Wayne

Thanks for the feedback.

It's my impression from research conducted so far that SketchUp-OBJ to Daz is problemeatic in terms of material transfer and other isues.  There is also the need to have the Pro version of SketchUp in some cases.  It's my hope that the exporter I have in mind will provide a direct path from SketchUp to Daz that transfers a model with everything intact; but of course time will tell.

In Trainz, the SketchUp models came in as scenery items; in this case I envison them coming in as props.  At the moment I have no illusions of anything grander than this.

Regards,
Mike

Just an average guy- with some not-so-average options.

Three Brow options with one No Brow option, each face has additional options to choose from; Stubble, Base, Stubble with Scarring, Scarring and a Stubble with Goatee.  There are morphs for his head (which only requires the Genesis 3 Head Morph pack for the Cornea Bulge option-if you use it), torso (which requires no additional morph packs), combined head/torso and an HD Morph that I was gifted from a fellow PA-ChangelingChick!

There are 5 Eye Colors and 2 Eyelash colors, along with a selection of tattoo options ranging from Black Out Torso/Arms/Head and Leg, to a few tattoos on his arms, and a mash up of all of them for greater variety.

Anatomical Elements are included.

Materials are Iray only.

He's accepted and in testing- so soonish. XD

one more question, i posted this earlier but didn't get much response.

There was an awesome morph pack called "genesis 2 morph infusion for G3F" but I'm not sure who created it or where to find it. I have a character that heavily depends on these morphs. Does anyone know where to find them?

A nice sweltering 90F day is a good day to not be doing yard work, lol. The past few days I've done some simple things around my desk that I needed my tools for. As for other stuff, I watched buildzoid (on twitch earlier) bring a GT730 memory clock up significantly, on air. I'm even more tempted to see just what the Zotac card can do within reason without producing Iray artifacts. Tho that will at the least wait till temps in here settle down to the 25c (75F) mark where I've done most of my testing in the past.

So, with the temps up there, it's a good time to sit and do just about nothing, lol. So, looks like I've missed a lot of goings on over at daz3d, time to look around and see what I've missed while looking into the new computer stuff coming out. It looks like there is some updates to a morph set that I've used a lot, so I should probably look to see if it effects anything I've worked on so far (I suspect not in a bad way, zev0 is kind of good with that stuff).

At the very least I need not worry about my computer keeping it's cool on a day like this, I don't have a wat-hog graphics card, lol.

It may differ about each user ,,   I  prefer to keep default export  option, about axis," -Z foward Y up" . scale 1.00  (if you set blender 1unit = 1m, I usualy use this unit)

then  import it with scale 10000% ,(because daz 1unit = 1cm  ,  without axis conversion.   (keep X, Y,Z in daz studio) , this setting is same as Cinema4D , LightWave,when you choose those preset.

other option change, what I hope to.  (make morph, or export as triangle, or need  to keep group name,for mesh gorup etc)

 you can google serch, with "sickleYield" (sorry miss spel,,) "daz" "blender" ,  She  have offered  many tutoriall about blender and daz studio  for DS user as ds product vendor. .    then you can get more presise correct way I think. (I do not know, which option she use or not when export,  because best recommend option setting is often different by each  user

And when you export obj from blender, there  is option, export "selection only", it work about each obj, though I seldom play with Archimesh add on, if it can keep each part as each obj, "selection only" option should work. but if you generate it as one mesh, this option not work for each vertex group with your selection. you may need separate mesh, then divide as each object..

Hi, everyone.  I'm new here, so please bear with me as I try to get my bearings.

I come here from the Trainz Railroad Simulator world, where I am the author of several software tools that community members have found useful over the past several years.  One of these is a plugin for SketchUp that allows models to be easily ported into the Trainz environment with just a few mouse clicks.  This tool works by creating an XML file that is then passed to a Trainz import utility, which in turn creates the necessary Trainz-format geometry files.  My plugin also creates all the other files needed by Trainz (configuration and so on).  After exporting from SketchUp, the user switches to Trainz Content Manager and imports the generated files directly, where they become immediately usable in the Trainz world-building application.  The models that transfer into Trainz are very high-fidelity and carry all the original textures, transparencies, and so on.

I am interested in doing something similar for Daz.  To that end I am considering writing a script in Daz that will read the XML files produced by my SketchUp Ruby plugin, and render the geometry and materials directly in Daz, after which they could be saved in a native Daz format and become useful in that environment.  I found the geometry pipeline example, which seems to show most of the functionality needed to do this, but I am having a hard time with what seems to be a lack of comprehensive documentation for Daz scripting.  I have consulted the Scripting API web pages, but have also found that many of the functions used in the pipeline example do not appear to be documented at all.

I am a professsional software engineer by trade, 33 years in the business, so writing the code is not the issue.  What I would kindly request is some pointers to places where I can find more information related to what I am trying to accomplish, and/or some script examples that might send me in the right direction.

Any help would be appreciated, and of course comments on the idea of a SketchUp-to-Daz pipeline are welcome.

Thanks for your attention.  If anyone would like to see what I've been able to accomplish for Trainz, please feel free to visit the relevant page of my web site at http://www.dhobh.net/trainz/GoogleSketchUp/RubyTMIX.htm.

Regards,
Mike