Hey Folks!  I saw a sale a week or so ago and one of the promo images had a character on it I would love to pick up.  Trouble is, there wasn't any info on it in the advertisement and the DAZ Support team has sent me over here to see if anyone might know which character/morph/combo thereof this character is?  Any ideas!?  Thanks!

-Chris

crosswind said:

"Legacy" way is discontinued in Blender 4.x,  and vertex order is kept as default with Wavefront (*.obj) importer / exporter. There won't be any issue as long as you DO NOT change vertex order, remesh, retopo, etc. I've been using Wavefront (*.obj) importer / exporter since 3.x... so far so good.

 

1. Clear Daz Scene
2. Load Genesis 8 Basic Female, remove lashes
3. Set Mesh Resolution to Base, SubDivision Level 0
4. Export .obj
5. Blender 4.0 import .obj (split By Object, etc. all unchecked)
6. Blender 4.0 export .obj (selected only, groups all unchecked, no modifiers)
7. Daz Morph Loader Pro, create the morph, reverse deformations
8. Apply the morph.
...

Blender bug report?  Or is it something esoteric like "you must check Object Groups on import"?

 

 

terry_duquette said:

takezo_3001 said:

Any hope for a G9 version?

G9 SWM Muscularity Morph Add-Ons, Adds Flexions, Bulk and Details - Daz 3D Forums 

Requires the SWM muscle package, unfortunately I haven't been able to figure out a way to do the Flexing veins on G9 yet, because the HD morphs available to date don't have individual left and right areas. TD

WOW, thanks for the link, it just so happens that I re-purchased SWM's muscularity morphs, so it works out magnificently., thanks again for the incredibly useful morph system!

Well, I haven't made a head morph that wasn't a look-alike in a long while, so sculpting Marianne was a real pleasure.

You may use her in noncommercial and commercial projects (in which case I ask that you give me credit).

I hope you like her! 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assets used in promos:

Beautiful Brows for G8F (Brow 1) 

Chevybabe25 dForce Feisty Feather Bun for G9

Arryn_Onnel's Elvina outfit for G9

Cherubit's Charlotte for G9 (skin texture)

 

Enjoy and please post your Marianne renders in this thread! I'd love to see them!

 

Cheers,

AOBB 

 

 

benniewoodell said:

Check out the diffeomorphic plug-in, you can import animated sequences in as a pose preset. Just have to go to poses and then import action, have your animation saved as a pose preset and it'll be brought in. And there's sliders for viseme and expressions in diffeomorphic as well. Right now facial expressions do not transfer over, but in another thread it was mentioned Thomas is working on that right now, so hopefully soon. The materials have some differences between Daz to Blender Bridge and Diffeomorphic, if you prefer the DTB Bridge, just save the character as it's own file, bring it in with diffeomorphic and then append the materials from the other file and just switch the materials out. That's still way faster than importing pose by pose. For me it's really hit or miss, some characters look fantastic in diffeo and meh in DTB and vice versa, so it's just a matter of playing around with it. 

A whole freaking day I was looking for a solution to this with no success until I found this, thank you sir.

A Character Preset will save shape and materials (and will embed any custom morph not save as an asset, but will load them only if used to load a new figure). Save any custom morphs (not containing shaping baked from other morphs) as morph assets (File>Save As>Support Assets>Morph Asset) before saving the Character preset.

You can use these products to transfer the morphs you used from G3 to G8:

• https://www.daz3d.com/character-converter-from-genesis-3-male-to-genesis-8-male
• https://www.daz3d.com/character-converter-from-genesis-3-female-to-genesis-8-female

 

You probably need to edit the weight-maps for the lashes on the eyelid bone (I can't recall its name) or add a custom close morph or both - projection, of morphs when they are applied or joint weights with Transfer tool, is fairly simple-minded adn does not cope well with mesh that is far from the skin, especially if it is angled rather than projecting straight out.

Certo che avete la fissa per dover usare per forza le pose pronte di altre figure. Posate il modello e salvate tutto così da avere un set apposito quando vi serve.

In ogni caso, ho spulciato un poco la loro licenza, non si possono usare i modelli in nessun modo al di fuori di VRoid o del circuito di appartenenza. Nemmeno come base per creare morph per G1.

Quindi, è ancora compito nostro creare dei morph degni.

Hello everybody! It's been a while, but I've been busy working on something big that came out today.

https://www.daz3d.com/seamster

ManFriday's Seamster is a plugin for Daz Studio 4.21 and higher that makes rigging clothes for Daz Studio significantly easier.

Reduce your risk of Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI)!

Making 3D clothing for Daz Studio usually involves the following phases:

• Modeling and UV-mapping the clothing with 3D modeling software (such as Marvelous Designer) and exporting it in the OBJ file format.
• Importing the OBJ onto a Genesis figure in Daz Studio and rigging it (giving it bones and making them work with weightmaps and corrective morphs).
• Texturing.

Seamster helps with step 2, which many consider the most tedious part of making clothes for Daz Studio. It greatly reduces the many clicks that are normally required, reducing the risk of forgetting something along the way, which can otherwise lead to a lot of lost time and frustration. It imports your clothing OBJ and runs Transfer Utility with just two clicks. It helps you with checking and painting the weightmaps for all the bones and with making corrective morphs for certain bone rotations. It can also help with creating rigid follow nodes (RFNs).

Seamster has been developed with the help and support of some of the most respected clothing makers who are publishing in the Daz Store. I sincerely hope that this will make the tedious process of rigging clothes for Daz Studio much easier and produce more and better clothes for our favorite platform.

Attaching the PDF user manual which has an overview of what the product does, an introduction to riggingin in general, and all the details.

@Imago Si può esportare in FBX tranquillamente (al momento ho solo un problema con i joint che mi restano tutti orizzontali ma ci sto lavorando.. già ho appena scoperto come rendere la figura compatibile con le pose dei G9). Inoltre potresti usare le figure generate da Void Studio come sola base per creare dei morph tuoi (senza dunque distribuire il file).

I made a set of fibermesh eyelashes in Blender, then used the Transfer Utility to transfer the properties of the Genesis 8.1 Female Eyelashes to mine. It works, but when G8.1F's eyes are closed, the lash fibers get deformed. How do I fix this? Is there an alternate way of fitting the eyelashes?

 

 

takezo_3001 said:

Any hope for a G9 version?

G9 SWM Muscularity Morph Add-Ons, Adds Flexions, Bulk and Details - Daz 3D Forums 

Requires the SWM muscle package, unfortunately I haven't been able to figure out a way to do the Flexing veins on G9 yet, because the HD morphs available to date don't have individual left and right areas. TD

Avoid any fancy IK feature as stretchy limbs and tweak bones since that will not transfer to save pose preset, essentially daz animations are limited to bone rotations.

 

Nor will anything involving pinning hands or feet to a stationary object while the rest of the body is moving
which effectively defeats the entire purpose of creating the animation inside blender with its  IK /Fk system in the first place.

On this page: https://www.andre-gaschler.com/rotationconverter/ ,  enter WXYZ values into Quaternion fields on the left (invert X / Y axis !), then you'll get the conversion result in Euler Degrees XYZ field on the right. (-1*X / Y / Z). The values must be different from what you get in DS while selecting Right Upper Arm joint, at last Keyframe....

Then as Padone also suggested, just try the way of "Keep Daz Rig" and "Mute Control Rig" ... Then you'll get the correct value by using the above calculation method. I got it work with no problem.

I attached the calculation results with the way of MHX (ss1 ~ 2) only and the way of "Keep Daz Rig", (ss 3 ~ 5) as….eetc etc.
 

 

 

And after drilling down to that tediously granular level intervention you are still limited to fairly simple bone rotations with your “animated pose” sent back to Daz studio 
 
Honestly it would be SOOOOOOOO much easier to just learn how to light render your Diffeo imports  in Blender Cycles or even EEVEE for some things.

If you have weird posing issues with a custom morph it might be that you need to adjust the rigging to your morph (look for "adjust rigging to shape" command).

 

Regarding pose presets in general: if you hold ctrl when clicking on a pose preset it should display a dialog where you can select which nodes it will apply the pose to, so you can apply a partial pose by selecting only some nodes.

Blender 4.0 doesn't have the "legacy" OBJ importer/exporter, which has a switch for "Keep Vert Order".  Is there a workaround?  It exports all the vertices but they're in the wrong order and you end up with a mess when you apply the morph.

Hello,

Sometimes, when I apply poses, characters fingers are stretched. And I meet the problem with the body morph I've created though I haven't changed anything on the hand. The rest pose is fine. Is there any way to prevent this behavior?

 

Thanks. That was it! Mesh Grabber was selected. I didn't expect that tool would alter the character on initial load into a blank scene like that. The previous scene I did a morph for a clothing item and must have left Mesh Grabber selected.

The simple IK rig needs revision as noted at bitbucket. For MHX and rigify you can use the "keep daz rig" option then mute/unmute for baking. Avoid any fancy IK feature as stretchy limbs and tweak bones since that will not transfer to save pose preset, essentially daz animations are limited to bone rotations.

Yes, Properties preset is what suits your workflow. It's a combination of :

- a Shaping preset, which saves the value (in range 0 to 1 or 0% to 100%) of the morph targets that have been applied. Note that if you've applied unsaved morphs, for example using MLP, they can't be saved as they only exist temporarily

- a Pose preset, which saves the transforms (location, rotation and scale) that have been applied

- a Material preset, which saves the surfaces that have been applied

You can "break" a base figure by saving any of its properties (morph, transform, material, render setting...) default value to something different than the base figure. For example, if you save a morph with a default value of 100% (or 1 if not using percent), it will be applied whenever you're loading the base figure. If you do this inadvertently, you can easily fix it by checking "Currently Used" properties in the Parameters panel to find the culprits, change their default to 0 and save them. This will permanently reset their default value to zero.