felis said:

Is this what he is supposed to look like?

I imported as a morph for G8M.

Edit: I realised that your problem is that you imported it in wrong scale.

In morph loader pro, you has to make sure it imports as 10000%. (Blender unit 1 m, Daz Studio unit 1 cm)

HOLY CRAP!  That's it exactly.  I feel so stupid now.  That would explain why the slider only made it bigger or smaller.  I really appreciate it.

barbult said:

ainm.sloinneadh said:

I'm a sucker for characters with their own thing going on,  so I like the look of Herlinda's head shape: https://www.daz3d.com/mb-herlinda-hd-for-genesis-9

Going on my wishlist and will probably buy her sooner rather than later. For my own workflow, I've been creating a weight-mapped morph system similar to Meta Mixer, but using existing morphs rather than needing special variants of them. Characters like Herlinda work very well with weight-mapped morphing because you can mix in more of them before reaching a "won't change anything" state. At least, I suspect she'll work well - haven't bought her yet!

Is Magic Brush a new artist? I don't see many products under that name. I picked up Anda recently. I haven't tried her yet, but Herlinda and her appear encouraging.

Here's a render of Herlinda.

I don't own the product, but it almost looks like the normal map involving the button sewing was exported as Direct X rather than Open GL. If that holds, the fix would be to select the area for that and flip the green channel in a 2D Editor.

You shouldn't need to adjust the rigging for store morphs - they should do all that themselves, and the effects just get stacked. If you can figure out which shapes are causing the problem, and if they come from Daz (or another store) I would report them (to Daz Tech Suport for anything bought here, usually to the artist for other stores).

Morph proction is pretty simple-minded - it just looks at how the adjacent area of the figure has moved and moes thata rea of the fitted figure accordingly. That does mean that enlarging or shrinking the breasts can look poor, especially if the artist had made some attempt to bridge the cleavage since the actual sternum area won't move and so the bridging section will be left behind as the areas over the breasts move. dForms and Push Modifiers can help, as can applying a Smoothing Modifier in Generic mode (the default, base Shape matching, tends to flatten out the effect of the morphs) but ideally you want clothing that has a custom morph to match the morphs you are applying to the figure.

Hey, guys! So I've been wanting to transfer my DAZ character to Unreal via the DazToUnreal Bridge using the coresponding morphs for the Apple Arkit. Even though the "Genesis8.1Arkit" button doesn't add all the necessary morphs, I took my time and added them by hand. Everything transfers well, the textures, materials etc, except for the correct functioning of the morphs and the live link. The only morphs that work are the Jaw Open and Head Rotators (and even these don't work properly concerning the axis on which they rotate). 

I want to use this character for vtubing so I really need to figure out how to use live link :) 

Has anyone stumbled upon this problem ? Any tips would be highly appreciated!

Artini said:

Another creation made with Face Transfer 2 on Genesis 9 rendered in super environment of:
https://www.daz3d.com/pin-up-boxes

I love the aesthetic you've got going on with your renders. How are you achieving that?

Love the postings! This is my attempt at a screen icon. Used the attached AI generated face portrait, tuned other body parameters, exported as a single morph that can be saved, and then even transferred to G8 if desired! More of an exercise using all the tools. Still trying to get a perfectly un-shadowed face out of the AI generator to get the best skin that FT2 can manage so far. Starting to play with some children next. TD

Is this what he is supposed to look like?

I imported as a morph for G8M.

Edit: I realised that your problem is that you imported it in wrong scale.

In morph loader pro, you has to make sure it imports as 10000%. (Blender unit 1 m, Daz Studio unit 1 cm)

Maybe I have this wrong.  I don't know.  What I really want to create is a morph.  I think I must be importing something wrong or the way I exported it from blender was the issue.  I purposely used the Gen 8 character but when I create the morph it only succeeds in make the base gen 8 character bigger (scales it up) but doesn't change anything.  Here's the .obj file.  Does anyone else have any success with it?

James said:

Hemmm for what particular reason, the same pose preset

applied to 3 different figures, resulting 3 different posing variants?

https://prnt.sc/7AHZ4VHBZcrG
 

Because proper, RELIABLE animation retargeting requires complete rig characterization profiles to be established in the animation application that is doing the retargeting.
Like iclone, Daz studio is a specific character ecosystem that also has various sub sets of specific characters within it G1,2,3,8,9.
I use both Autodesk Maya and Reallusion Iclone.
To RELIABLY transfer animation data from one ecosystem to the other, there is typically a “Characterization” process via manual bone name matching or by loading an existing profile for that character rig.

This,of course excludes the various Daz studio native pose and/or animation conversion” scripts because they are stil essentially working within the Daz Character eco system and only have to account for the differences between  the Daz native figure generations.

The free Blender pipeline tool ,from Reallusion,  imports FBX figures from Reallusion Character creator into blender , converts them to Blender rigify rigs and has a dedicated retargeter for applying Reallusion ecosystem motion libraries to the rigify rig in blender via constraints & baking.

We all love and appreciate the incredible tool set that Diffeo brings to Blender/DS users.

However I am frankly having difficulty seeing how it is possible to get truly complex and accurate animation retargeted to a Daz genesis figure back over in Daz studio,  without some  manner of bone matching characterization process the way it is done in iclone,or Autodesk Maya/MOBU or even MIXAMO
Even the excellent retargeter ,in Blender’s paid Auto rig pro addon ,has built-in profiles
for most of the industry standard rigs ,including Daz Genesis
and any biped, not already in the profile list ,can be manually bone mapped and saved as new profile for that particular rig type.
(See attached pic)

And Blender and Maya both have separate dedicated Game engine character animation exporter tools to assure proper fidelity with the Character controller systems of the specific engine such as UE5 or unity.

I would be very curious to see a video sample of some really complex Character animation
(Martial Arts KATA or gymnastics)
created on an MHX or “simple IK “ Diffeo rig in blender and exported back to Daz studio
with the fidelity I get with Iclone or Mixamo to Daz studio after a proper characterization and retarget and export to bespoke BVH or FBX.

Video link ..anyone??
 

ainm.sloinneadh said:

I'm a sucker for characters with their own thing going on,  so I like the look of Herlinda's head shape: https://www.daz3d.com/mb-herlinda-hd-for-genesis-9

Going on my wishlist and will probably buy her sooner rather than later. For my own workflow, I've been creating a weight-mapped morph system similar to Meta Mixer, but using existing morphs rather than needing special variants of them. Characters like Herlinda work very well with weight-mapped morphing because you can mix in more of them before reaching a "won't change anything" state. At least, I suspect she'll work well - haven't bought her yet!

Is Magic Brush a new artist? I don't see many products under that name. I picked up Anda recently. I haven't tried her yet, but Herlinda and her appear encouraging.

Here's a render of Herlinda.

I was going to say Blender bridge, smoothing brush, send back as morph

glad you found a solution 

 I apparently own this outfit too 

Hi again, I checked out Lexi and just wanted to say that there's no separate HD body morph.( so you can't easily use that for other characters) The figure is very detailed, and very well done IMO, but it's so detailed that it's not very versatile (IMO). To retain the rib morphs, the body has to be dialed up to the point where it's very much that unique character. I did manage to change it considerably, but there were areas in the pectorals, for instance, that had creases that could not be removed. The only way to remove them was to dial back the body morph to the point where the rib morphs were no longer visable. So the "RIB QUEST" continues.         P.S. But we all have different paths, so maybe Lexi is just what you were looking for, and you can mix it nicely with some other characters. / peace

felis said:

If you are creating a character, you shouldn't use transfer rigging. For that you should morph loader pro, as you want it as a morph of the base character.

Transfer rigging is usually for clothing or similar, where you want the object to have the same rigging as the character.

If you want it as a stand alone character, you could use transfer rigging to get the same bone structure, but transfer rigging is based on a donor, and if the target is significantly different from the source your rigging will be off.

Wow!  Maybe that's what I'm doing wrong.  Thank you again.

When creating a morph for a morphed figure, in morp loader pro you must after you have loaded the file, click the arrow (triangle)  to expand, and then set Reverse Deformations to Yes.

I'm trying to apply a morph for a shirt I created so I can dial the shape it more accurately to my figure.

I modeled the original shirt based on the Default G9 figure, imported it into DS, and applied it to my character. This is what it looks like:

It's not bad, but there's a few issues IE the ribbons on the arms are distorted, and it doesn't quite fit the way I want it to on the figure. So I exported the figure from DS and loaded it into Blender, then tweaked the model to the shape I wanted. This is what things look like in Blender:

I export this to OBJ, and then use Morph Loader Pro to apply the morph to the shirt model in DS. However, when I go to actually turn the morph on, it looks like this:

So while it fixes the sleeve length, the ribbons remain distorted, it's making the waist and neck to narrow so now they're clipping into the model, and the hips are much too wide. Is there a step I'm missing, here? Is there a different setting I should be using with the Transfer Utility (I kept the second dropdowns for both the source and target as Default) or Morph Loader?

karlsfriend_f7ccaca9e2 said:

felis said:

I am using transfer rigging frequently without issues.

What are you trying to to, and what is your process?

I created a character in Blender.  I built it based on the Genesis 8 Character.  I exported it as an OBJ file from Blender.  Maybe I'm doing it wrong.  I've followed a couple of tutorials but I must be doing it wrong.

I load a base genesis 8 character.  Then I imported my obj file.  I tried to use the transfer program. but it didn't do anything.

I'm pretty sure I did it wrong, but I don't know.

When you say you're building a character based on G8, do you mean you built a 3D model and want to make it a morph for G8. I think more infomation would be very useful here.

Another creation made with Face Transfer 2 on Genesis 9 rendered in super environment of:
https://www.daz3d.com/pin-up-boxes

Finally, use your favorite Genesis 3 Hair without limitations on your Genesis 9 characters!  Automatically convert almost your entire library of Hair items using the new Hair Converter from Genesis 3 Female to Genesis 9 or the Hair Converter from Genesis 3 Male to Genesis 9!  The Hair Converter scripts provide batch execution for automatically converting your Genesis 3 Hair to Genesis 9 Hair in your library.  Easily select the hair items in your library, select an output directory, and execute the script.  Even better, icons and categories are copied from your original Genesis 3 hair to the new Genesis 9 hair items. 

Your new Genesis 9 hair is completely Smart Content aware!  They will show up when you select a Genesis 9 character.  Plus, all materials shown in Smart Content for your Genesis 3 item will show for your converted Genesis 9 item. 

• Convert Genesis 3 Hair, including multi-part hair such as wearables, for use by Genesis 9 characters.
• Adds new movement bones to converted hair, adding functionality the original products lacked (may not work with all dForce hair)
• Copies icons from Genesis 3 hair to Genesis 9 hair for a professional look
• Copies Smart Content Products! Converted hair will be organized into similar products as the original items.  The converted product mirrors the original hair items' products, organizing multiple converted items into one converted product and even using the product image from the original products.
• Converted Hair are Smart Content enabled! All materials shown in Smart Content for your Genesis 3 item will show for your converted Genesis 9 item.
• Automatically convert your entire library of hair with one operation!

Items without metadata can be converted but will not show up in Smart Content.  They may also need to be converted using a Force Convert Item(s) button. 

The script may not be able to convert all hair items without issues.  Mid and high-level ponytails that were originally moved with bones will lose that functionality during the conversion process.  In addition, though beards can be converted by the script, because of limitations in the conversion process, open mouth expressions can possibly tear on the facial hair.

The script adds rigged bones to hairs on conversion, but cannot do this with hairs where the entire hair was grown from a cap with dForce (there isn’t enough actual geometry to work with, because dForce strands can’t be seen as geometry by Transfer Utility). It WILL work with hairs like many AprilYSH hairs that have dForce but also have geometry.

If you are creating a character, you shouldn't use transfer rigging. For that you should morph loader pro, as you want it as a morph of the base character.

Transfer rigging is usually for clothing or similar, where you want the object to have the same rigging as the character.

If you want it as a stand alone character, you could use transfer rigging to get the same bone structure, but transfer rigging is based on a donor, and if the target is significantly different from the source your rigging will be off.

Screenshot your settings in the Transfer Utility dialogue.