Thanks for your help felix. I solved the problem. I updated the metadata and it fixed everything. Again, thanks.

Sorel said:

I notice vendors don't really pay attention when they import morphs back to daz, especially after using hd of course. I actually created my own "reverse deformations" morph to fix such problems. 

Could you elaborate on how you did a reverse morph to remove the problem?

I notice vendors don't really pay attention when they import morphs back to daz, especially after using hd of course. I actually created my own "reverse deformations" morph to fix such problems. 

hello everyone, i have a problem, im trying to import an animation from Daz to blender, after spending 6 hours tryinbg to fin the addon etc, i have finally magaed to make it work, but now i have 2 issues, first the hair that i have created in Daz are completely above the character and even if i move them back onvce the head moves the hair are not follwing it, and second is that the canimation mess completely with my already existing scene (lights, Emissions etc.)

im working with Evee.

hope someone casn help me out

Anthony

I get white eyes when I import using DazToUnreal. Anyone got a fix for this? Gen 8.1

Cheers

Pete

danielbui78 said:

Torkuda said:

Anyone else having trouble with the system not finding the FBX to import for blender?

Try installing the latest plugin on the blender side.  It fixes many import bugs and when it does not fix them, it will give more details and debugging feedback about what is going wrong: https://github.com/daz3d/DazToBlender/releases

Be sure to install the Blender plugin.  Then check the Blender system console output.  I'll try to make a new video with the new features/debugging feedback in a few days.

It did something... no fbx issue. Now blender just locks up indefinitely if I try to import a genesis figure.

I'll go ahead and ask- Sagan's Alembic and Diffeo's blender exporter seems miles ahead of DAZ to blender right now. I mean, seems like your company adapts new programs all the time, so maybe work with them? I'm personally working with both and they're fast and effective so far, Sagan is just a little grumpy about having too many models at once, but one or two work just fine. Together they seem to press posing and animating in DAZ (which is by far superior) and rendering in Blender (same shot that takes fifteen minutes to render 500 samples in Studio takes four minutes to render 1000 in blender cycles, blender also having a much better denoiser making the result that much more usable). Giving those guys support might help make a better product in the long run.

I've just found out something, maybe it's of interest to some others as well: If you install things manually, like stefan.hums described, and then have them in extra libraries, you can connect and disconnect these libraries to your heart's content, without DS giving a hoot about it. I guess it's because they don't bring those IM manifests with them this way, and of course you can't copy over the metadata files if they have them. 
This is such a great help to me, finally I can install things I might use sometime without having them clutter up my library! The missing metadata doesn't bother me all that much, I can organize the files in a way that makes sense and then will probably find everything just as well.

Yes, you can use it in blender. I think with the daz to blender bridge you can export it with the animations already or if you use diffeo, save the animation as a pose preset, import your figure but leave the skeleton as is and use import action and it'll transfer. You might have to clean up some stuff with arms but you could just highlight the rotation axis that is off in the graph editor and move the entire curve up or down until it's right and you're good to go. I think all the other daz to whatever bridges export animation keys as well but I haven't tried them. 
Honestly though, if you're going to animate, just animate in blender or Maya and use a proper IK rig to save yourself headaches. I animate in daz for work daily but I waste so much time trying to get things to work how they should when I know in blender or Maya it would take seconds to accomplish, and I use those two programs for my personal projects. 

This is a sideproject I have been working on; I have been doing some trial and error importing Daz Studio characters into UE5; I import FBX files.

This is my progress so far:

If your heart is set on using that particular elm tree, you can select all parts of the tree and export it as OBJ. Then import the single OBJ into Daz Studio and apply the correct materials to each part. Save that as a new prop. Then scatter that single object tree prop instead of the group. This technique may be beyond "New User" skills, though.

juvesatriani said:

So my question, what format to exporting Hexagon Curve so I can use in Blender or any 3D software ?

Hexagon will not export curves, only line segments. (Hexagon DG is collapsed on export)

You can export the line segments via .Obj format, which Blender will import.

reflectivewanderer said:

I just started using daz a month ago and I would like to import some of my characters into unreal. I  was wondering when you import a character into unreal if it loses quality. I read somewhere that unreal doesnt support dforce hair. Does that mean it wont even show up in unreal? Sorry I'm a complete newb when it comes to both programs. I basically want to import the daz dire wolf and a woodland huntress into unreal and then build a forest scene around them. Would it be better to just do that all in daz? It seemed to me that unreal would be much better for building enviroments at least from my limited experience with quixel bridge and megascans.

ok to use daz characters into unreal it's not the same as use in daz, some stuffs work a little different, starting by the "render itself, since daz use a different way to render the characters and scenes than unreal it means which you not gonna ge exactly the same results, unless you do some extra work to configure the unreal material shaders which you do have to have some "basic to advanced knowledge about render, materials and pos processing" inside unreal in order to have the same or better results than daz but once you manage to do that it can be amazing, it's just not like daz "one click" and magically everything is awesome you need some extra works.

so far what don't work outside daz is:

1 - dforce hair or fur, because they are a  internal way to genereate hair, they don't work outside daz even if you try to export to unreal it can lead to errors or even crash unless someone create a plugin or something to add the dforce hair/fur to unreal it not gonna work.

2 - geoshell, another "daz only feature" which don't work outside daz, it sometimes can even be somehow by lucky exported to unreal but it not gonna work, because geoshell is a sort of "fake mesh" genereated inside daz, without any rig or anything which just use some daz configure to allow it follow the character mesh, then when it get "lucky exported" to unreal it is exported as a obj which not follow the character or is not rigged which means not gonna work and you would rater need some extra work, to make it work.

a work around for that is which in many cases the texture of the geoshell match the "character uv textures" then you export the texture to apply it direct into the character mesh by mixing it into the unreal material which again would you need to have some basic to advanced knowledge on unreal materials to proper blender multiple textures in a character.

3 - fibermesh - due to most of the fibermesh stuffs being tooooooooooooooo!!!, high poly normally unreal can't handle it and you can have some crashs or big perfomance issues trying to use it outside daz or into unreal, or not get exported at all, then normally "avoid it".

stuffs which partially work on unreal or outside daz

1 - gegraft elements like the centaur horse parte or horns or others "extras" sort of limbs, they can work outside daz but they can bring some weird results like when exporting to unreal you get a "extra" mesh" without texture, like instead of having a single "horse mesh" for the centaur you get 2, one which is rigged to the character and another which is exported as a static mesh, then being really painfull, this will give a better info about the issue.

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/489851/tutorial-how-to-work-around-fix-the-double-down-export-issue-of-geografity-stuffs

2 - jcms those type of morphs can be really trick and lead to some issues, while they are fine exported and supposed to work "fine" it's not really happens, due to how the daz characters are skinned/rigged by using DQ system, better info can be found here:

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/134926/adding-dual-quaternion-support-to-unrealengine4-images-inside/p1

then since unreal don't have support to DQ you can end with this type of issue when animating or using poses:

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/512186/help-to-fix-a-really-annoying-pose-bug-in-unreal-from-daz-if-anyone-know-a-good-way-to-fix-it

In general avoid using "too high poly or dense meshes, like some outfits with "millions of polygons" normally a "fine character", would be around 100k to at best 300k tris and worst case around 500k tri in polygons count, it counting "the character base mesh, outfit, hair and any other detail/acessory, characters above it normally would lead to crashes or not being exported or big perfomance issues, it also have some extra here and there but those are basically the stuffs which normally you gonna have to deal when exporting

I just started using daz a month ago and I would like to import some of my characters into unreal. I  was wondering when you import a character into unreal if it loses quality. I read somewhere that unreal doesnt support dforce hair. Does that mean it wont even show up in unreal? Sorry I'm a complete newb when it comes to both programs. I basically want to import the daz dire wolf and a woodland huntress into unreal and then build a forest scene around them. Would it be better to just do that all in daz? It seemed to me that unreal would be much better for building enviroments at least from my limited experience with quixel bridge and megascans.

Timotheus said:

Is there any way to get back to the default list of acronyms used by the script?

If you are comfortable with RegEdit, you can search for Substance Painter Maps Import.  The Channels key contains the current values.  Deleting that will reset it.

Also, and I realize this is a bit beyond the scope of this product discussion, can I get some tips on adding maps to the output template in SP that would map to some of the non-obvious channels? For example, what would be the best input maps to use on the SP side if I wanted to use them for diffuse overlay or top coat? Any guidance or pointers to guidance would be appreciated.

Tim

I will have to pass this along to Esha.  I don't know.

felis said:

If I understand right, you would like to make a model of your school.

Daz Studio is not a modeller. You can make some simple operatations, and maybe with great patience you could do something out of primitives. But in my view it would be a a tediuos job with little reward.

My suggestion would be to make your model in a modeller and then import it into Daz Studio. You could then do materials inside DS and render.

For a modeller, two comes to mind. Carrera that can be obtained within Daz store, or blender.

Carrera is to my understanding fairly easy to use, but it hasn't been updated for years, and most likely never will.

For blender many people would say it is way to complicated. Case is blender can a lot, but in my view if you just stick to one task, i.e. modelling, I would say that you in decent amount of time could learn it. The interface has since blender 2.80 got much improved and much more user friendly. And if you are in doubt of something, it is most likely that there will be a YouTube video covering it.

Well, not quite.  I have some of Collective3d's build a room packs.  I was going to take the wall pieces and use that to do the layout of the hallways and stuff.  Then use some classroom props to fill in.  With the wall pieces I can make the room as big as I want without doing any modeling.  Everything else like a gym or something like that I would take the prop and plop it into place.  Basically, kit bash it altogether.  I'll have to knock out a wall here and there to make it work.  So basically, I'll do all the hallways with the build a room stuff and then use other props to fill in the actual rooms.  Hope that makes better sense.

If I understand right, you would like to make a model of your school.

Daz Studio is not a modeller. You can make some simple operatations, and maybe with great patience you could do something out of primitives. But in my view it would be a a tediuos job with little reward.

My suggestion would be to make your model in a modeller and then import it into Daz Studio. You could then do materials inside DS and render.

For a modeller, two comes to mind. Carrera that can be obtained within Daz store, or blender.

Carrera is to my understanding fairly easy to use, but it hasn't been updated for years, and most likely never will.

For blender many people would say it is way to complicated. Case is blender can a lot, but in my view if you just stick to one task, i.e. modelling, I would say that you in decent amount of time could learn it. The interface has since blender 2.80 got much improved and much more user friendly. And if you are in doubt of something, it is most likely that there will be a YouTube video covering it.

I agree with @benniewoodell.

model your clothing in Blender to fit the base G8 male or female and import it to DS and use the transfer utilitie.

Then use Diffeo  to import fully rigged/dressed Characters back to Blender

where you will have multiple options for animation and mocap retargeting

I don't know about bringing it back into Daz, felis looks to have a good grasp on how to do that if that's the route you really want to take so definetely try that first, but you can bring the character into Blender fully rigged as well through Diffeo and life can be simplified instead of trying to get that to combine with the Daz to Blender bridge. With diffeo, I would recommend using easy import and check all the boxes that you want, and when you get to the rig part, turn it onto rigify or MHX there. I personally prefer MHX, I'm animating two projects right now with that rig and it's great. You'll have to download the MHX plug-in for Blender on the diffeo site to use it, totally worth it. 

1. Yes of course, that's what exporting to blender is for.

2. Yes.

2b. Yes. The HD addon by Xin also allows you to bake displacement maps instead of using multires, and also to bake HD morphs that are not available with multires alone. But requires much more work than using the HD export. So if you only want the HD shape then the HD export is the easy way to go.

2c. I never saved a favorite myself. But from waht I see it's pretty easy you import a "template" figure then add morphs and save it as favorite. Then you can load the favorite on other figures of the same generation. You don't save a pose preset where did you read that ?

This is what the zeroed character looks like upon import into Blender