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Are you installing with Daz Connect? If not - do not go on line; that is ONLY required for installing with connect. And there is NO way to stop Studio from immediately downloading the metadata when you connect to Daz.

I have had to fix numerous products from Daz3D. A few products required update before being usable. As soon as the metadata update was through, all of the fixes of unrelated products were lost.

How do you disable the "update metadata when going online" in daz studio? This is beyond annoying. Bad category assignment, bad or missing icons, bad metadata pathing in dsx files. All undone because of forced metatdata updating.

It's either that or refund all the products with bad content. Having to constantly repair products is not something outlined in the product readme's shown on the product pages.

Hello, is it possible to import and apply Custom Morphs to the body and clothing or do I have to use a workaround?

If I have to use a workaround, is there something better than just using the shrink wrap modifier?

@Halcon Bluesky, I unfortunately had the same issues that you did with the models from that site. No matter what I tried they all seemed to have the same issues and I could not import them properly :(  They did look nice tho so perhaps I will try another time when I have learned a bit more.

However, in the meantime I have managed to put together a scene that finally has a story to it. I don't know why it was so hard to come up with a concept using cars but I have finally got there in the end. It's only just come together so it will have to wait till tomorrow for me to render it since it's bedtime for me now. Managed to find 3 suitable cars from sketchfab.com which are perfect for the scene and look good in the iray preview atleast. Fingers crossed that the proper render will turn out good tomorrow!

painterly said:

Thank you for the quick reply Richard. Unfortuantely it is already set at base resolution (in fact it is the only option available anyway).

That is what I would expect, and that means the exported geometry matches the imported geometry. I suspect what you are seeing is the loss of the adjustment to Smooth Shading - whatever the destiantion application calls it and however it adjusts it - just as when you import the model into Daz Studio.

WendyLuvsCatz said:

UnifiedBrain said:

Wendy, thanks for the response.  Since I have never used Zbrush, I don't know what I don't know.  It would be "logical" to assume that the plugin has features which allow a more complete transfer of infermation between the two programs - more than a simple OBJ import/export.

Is that incorrect?

For sure, it is a challenge to find someone who actually uses the plugin.

well the DAZ studio one is worse than an obj as it loses the UV mapping especially UDIM

No, but it does lose all grouping which makes it harder to work with (you essentially need to regroup in Zbrush - there is a one-click tool but that will give each UV island its own surface group, so each nail and tooth for example, which can be undesirable)

I don't have the Carrara one so cannot speak for that

it might have more funtionality but since the D|S one doesn't that did not encourage me to spend money finding out

UnifiedBrain said:

Wendy, thanks for the response.  Since I have never used Zbrush, I don't know what I don't know.  It would be "logical" to assume that the plugin has features which allow a more complete transfer of infermation between the two programs - more than a simple OBJ import/export.

Is that incorrect?

For sure, it is a challenge to find someone who actually uses the plugin.

well the DAZ studio one is worse than an obj as it loses the UV mapping especially UDIM

I don't have the Carrara one so cannot speak for that

it might have more funtionality but since the D|S one doesn't that did not encourage me to spend money finding out

Wendy, thanks for the response.  Since I have never used Zbrush, I don't know what I don't know.  It would be "logical" to assume that the plugin has features which allow a more complete transfer of infermation between the two programs - more than a simple OBJ import/export.

Is that incorrect?

For sure, it is a challenge to find someone who actually uses the plugin.

NorthOf45 said:

Reinstalling the Genesis 8 Male Essentials will redefine the alias for Genesis 8 Male CompatibilityBase, but the danger still lurks that if you reinstall or re-import the metadata for Copper Twinklefoot, you will get the same problem again. To permanently correct the problem, there are 4 lines to remove from the metadata support file in the Runtime/Support folder (DAZ_3D_79941_Copper_Twinklefoot_for_Genesis_8_Male_and_Drutherson_8.dsx). It's just text, so any edtor will do.

The first Asset is "People/Genesis 8 Male/Characters/Copper Twinklefoot with Drutherson 8.duf". A few lines down is  
<CompatibilityBase VALUE="/Copper Twinklefoot for Genesis 8 Male and Drutherson 8/Copper Twinklefoot"/>

Delete that line. The second Asset is "People/Genesis 8 Male/Characters/Copper Twinklefoot.duf". A few lines down from that is (same string)
<CompatibilityBase VALUE="/Copper Twinklefoot for Genesis 8 Male and Drutherson 8/Copper Twinklefoot"/>

Delete that line, too. Now, down at the very end of the file, there are two identical lines:
<ObjectCompatibility VALUE="/data/DAZ%203D/Genesis%208/Male/Genesis8Male.dsf#Genesis8Male" REF="/Copper Twinklefoot for Genesis 8 Male and Drutherson 8/Copper Twinklefoot"/>

Delete them both. Save and copy the file either to a safe place and replace the one in the product package so that you can reinstall without any fuss later. Leaving the metadata file in the support folder is perfectly fine, but it could get overwritten by the one in the .zip file if you re-install the original and make a mess of things again. If and when an update arrives, it will replace the package and the modified metadata. If it is done properly, end of story. If not, you've got a backup.

Thank you for this. The file has not been corrected, so this post helped me fix it. Very obnoxious problem that should have been caught by QA pretty easily.

I don't even use the free DAZ Studio GoZ

obj import works

so why spend money

Padone,

Yes, I confirm that on my end, the cone comes out well after the Rigify deployment using my usual Easy Import settings. Importing a DUF pose has the cone repositioned accordingly; so the parenting works. (As an aside, is there a way in Blender -- even via Python -- to show what an object is parented to? There are tons of tutorials about the process of rig parenting, but none I've found about revealing the parenting info after the fact. )

I'll see if I can provide a simple use case DUF that recreates the problem I ran into.

Cheers!

Padone said:

Just tested with a basic figure and everything seems to work fine here. If I easy import with rigify the cone is paranted to the hand same as daz studio. Test scene attached.

If you didn't, please get the dev version with the latest fixes.

Let us know if this works or please provide a test scene yourself, as simple as possible, so Thomas can fix this.

 

No I don't think it is possible. I did some tests and diffeomorphic recognizes the genesis figure so we can't import the daz studio animations on a custom figure, even if the custom figure is "compatible" with genesis. What you can do is to use a retargeting tool from the daz figure to your custom figure but this doesn't work for morphs.

We could ask Thomas to let diffeomorphic import the daz animations on a custom figure too, if compatible names are found for bones and morphs. But honestly don't know how much this makes sense. I mean if you change the rig and morphs from the standard daz figure then importing the daz animations may mostly fail.

That said, I was able to do something that may help. We could ask Thomas to automate step 3, if it isn't already done in some other way that I don't know of. Let me know.

steps:

1. load the daz animation on the genesis figure
2. convert morphs to shape keys
3. cut and paste the timeline from the morphs to the shapekeys
4. delete or disable the original rig

edit. I opened a issue at diffeomorphic of course feel free to participate.

https://bitbucket.org/Diffeomorphic/import_daz/issues/1176/

Just tested with a basic figure and everything seems to work fine here. If I easy import with rigify the cone is paranted to the hand same as daz studio. Test scene attached.

If you didn't, please get the dev version with the latest fixes.

Let us know if this works or please provide a test scene yourself, as simple as possible, so Thomas can fix this.

Senor_Monkey said:

s they work completely differently to how they do in Daz
 

Yes everything works differently in Unreal, that's why we have a bridge, if it can support materials, it can support emmsive materials by recognizing it at impprt as emmisive and routing it to a base material that is emmssive, picking up the color and translating the intensity.
Same is needed for glass materials
But currently  the Unreal import side of things only has 3 base materials none for such cases.
I  think it's a matter of recognizing and routing these to new base materials I mentioned above
Please David fix this, it renders environment export useless for night city scenes etc..
Also, please flip the normal maps green channel, everything is inverted in unreal and would take days to go thru 1000's of normal maps
thanks you

The papagayo animations rely on morph names and should work both on G1 G2 with facial shapekeys and G3 G8 with facial bones. So if you convert the bones to shapekeys I guess you should be able to import papagayo on shapekeys, if you use the same names.

I am not using papgayo which only exports. “MOHO” .dat files( like lipsyncontizer)

I am talking about effecively importing animated pose files base soley based on morphs as was done with G1,G2 and the ,millenials of the past

before  face bone rigs came with G3

Here is an example of a G8 male re-rigged with Auto rig pro

Except his face mesh contains ALL of the Daz phonemes and expressions as blend shapes.

I have even assigned Drivers to them.

They could be manually hand keyed

However I as hoping for a way to just import a pre animated.duf file, exported from Daz studio ,that was created with mimic basic or Anilip 2.

As I understand it there are two ways. The FACS animations rely on a facs rig so if you change the rig it's not possible to transfer the animation. The papagayo animations rely on morph names and should work both on G1 G2 with facial shapekeys and G3 G8 with facial bones. So if you convert the bones to shapekeys I guess you should be able to import papagayo on shapekeys, if you use the same names.

Didn't try let me know if this works. Then we can ask to Thomas if something is needed.

If you export the base character, you can sculp it in a 3D modelling program, and then import it as a morph.

Hi

I found the option to bake the face rig morphs to shape keys.

works great!!

I know it is possible to create a facial/lipsync animation via the “ import action” using one of the daz options( mimic,Anilip-2 etc)

I really prefer to dump the entire Daz/rigify Rig and bind my Character meshes to an Auto rig pro rig due to superior retargeting& viewport control options.

I can manually animate the face with these transfered shape keys.

Is there any way to have Diffeo apply new actions to drive only the shapekey facial and lipysinc morphs after the original Daz body rig is removed/replaced?

WendyLuvsCatz said:

if DAZ gets USD import we could render game scenes with iray

(or export them from Blender)

I don't think Nvidia have really thought this through, asset rippers gonna rip

I mean they do anyway but this is like handing a thief with a crowbar a powertool

What Sevrin said.  Modding has been going on for a long time.  Also this is done with older games.

And I'd bet that modding is beneficial to the IP owner.  It keeps their games alive A LOT longer.  Many games get played their 10-20 hours then tossed into the Recycle Bin.  Dedicated modders can add lots of content actually adding to the user base (more sales) and keep the game selling for years.