Now I managed to import the mesh hair correctly. You need to update the HD export script with the last commit. Here is what I did.

1. Export from DS with the updated HD exporter in the last commit.
2. Make sure that the global setting Add Armature To HD Meshes is enabled.
3. Import the scene.
4. Advanced Setup > Mesh > Transfer Vertex Groups from the body to the hair meshes.

I haven't tried to convert the hair to particles yet.

Edit: Hair conversion seems to work too, with the strand type set to Tube.

Imago said:

The RED Crown said:

I want disable PostgreSQL CMS Win64bit feature in DS 5 .

I don't use smart content .

PostgreSQL is the base of the normal Content pane too, if you remove that you can't see anything on your library.

Daz Studio Formats, Poser Formats, and Other Import Formats do not require PostgreSQL for content installed manually or through Daz Centra/Install Manager. There are, however, other features which do use the CMS so I would certainly advise against disabling it.

Again, if you don't use the Smart Content just don't open the pane. If you like you can even disable it from the Plugin manager under Help->About Installed pugins, in there look for the Smart Content Pane and uncheck it. At next DAZ Studio session you will not have any trace of the Smart Content.

The important in next DAZ Studio isn't remove features but fix the ones we already have and doesn't work properly.

Hi guys im on a macbookpro m1pro 16 Montrey. Since Scripts menu is not showing after installing daz to blender bridge (don't know why) I'm manually running Daz to Blender.dsa level 2 sub  import texture on and indlude anim data on checked and importing it to blender with addon and I'm always having these vertex errors I'd triıed almost everyway for the last 20 hours could anyone point me to the right direction.

The Smart Content tabs "know" about your Products because you have logged in from Studio, even if you log off now. It also knows if they've been installed from DIM. Smart Content won't know about any new products that you purchase unless you log in again (which you shouldn't), until you install them from DIM. The Smart Content itself is compiled from the metadata of installed products, no matter where it comes from.

You can configure DIM (Advanced Settings) where to download and where to install (any folder(s) of your choice, but not the same one). You also need to let Studio know where you have installed it (Content Directory Manager). Disc space limitations might make you consider additional storage if you plan to acquire a large library.

Yeah, but they usually turn into puddles of goo on the floor because they have no skeleton holding anything in place.They are actually just hollow shells.

A lot like the hollow chocolate Easter bunnies. 

Interesting effect, but not very useful for most things.

The most success for soft body effects currently comes from the Smoothing modifier.

Most of the solutions apply a geoshell, or most of one, to a characters hands/arms or whatever is going to do the impacting, and then a smoothing modifier is added to the character/object that is going to be getting squished/squeezed and setting the target for the smoother as the geoshell "glove" mentioned before.

Results vary, and it's not perfect.

edit: I should say this is for generic soft body effects.One can always import the mesh into a modeler(hexagon,blender,etc,etc) and make custom morphs for the soft body impact points.Several store products do this for "micro compression" for things like stockings and bras.

Maybe import two copies of the base mesh into Blender and anly sculpt on one of them.  Use a combination of the Elastic Deform and Smooth Brushes to sculpt until it's the same shape as the original mesh.

As long as you don't check the Dynotopo Box you should have no problems.

Hi all,

I've successfully created face feature and body morphs in the past, but am now attempting some new ones that I think will present more of a challenge. 

I need to create a morph for a smooth foot, with no toe shape or toenails - just smooth like a mannequin foot (as attached). I would prefer to do this as a morph, rather a "Fit to" prop or making a fleshy shoe cap. The issue I can foresee coming up is that morphs, to my understanding, need to have exactly the same number of mesh vertices for morphs as the G8 Bases. Basically, I would need to remove a lot of detail from the look by smoothing out the toenails and toe shapes. I see that some other users have sucessfully created amputee morphs, and I assume they may have faced similar challenges.

My thought is to expand out the toes and toenails mesh into one large blob in Blender, Maya, or Zbrush, then sculpt it down into a smooth foot shape. Does anyone have any suggestions on this for this or different directions to take (Fit to or Geografting?), or how the amputee morphs were created? One mistake and I know the morph will not import back in correctly from Blender. lol

Thanks!!

I managed to save my custom layout but now loading it makes the main toolbar disappear. I tried window>workspace>customize and the toobar tab is empty. How can I create a new or add one or anything ?

Edit : I customized a toolbar under a default workspace, then exported it. Now I can import the toolbar in my custom layout, but it still won't show up. I hope they know about this bug too.

@Padone

For clarification ,I am very impressed with the Character motion dev capabilities of the Cascaduer software .

And I am sure it has alot of utility as  a general purpose motion dev & retargeter

However when a Character motion application makes a point of claiming to now offer ”Support” of the latest Daz genesis rigs, I tend to hold them to the same Standard as other programs that make that claim in 2022.

For me, that means I import a FBX of a G8 Figure and its skeletal rig is auto recognized, twist bones and all,.. ready for retargeting

This is exactly what happens with RL 3DX

This is exactly what happens with the free Rokoko Add-on for Blender , as I demonstrate clearly in my tutorials.

And both of these options at least export the Data to a format, official supported by Daz studio (BVH, Duf)

Now yes ,technically cascaduer can import a G8 skeleton and apply motion to it
( after much manual grunt work), which could count as ’Support” of the G8 figures.

However IMHO , there does not seem to be any Daz Genesis specific features that would make this
a particularly attractive option for external motion dev for Daz studio.

Conversion things normally target clothing on the body, not the head. Anyhow, for a faceless mannequin as shown in your image, morphing won't cut it precisely. Quite frankly you need a new mesh either for the head/face or as a geograft perhaps.

At any rate, maybe wander over to 3DCoat - there's a mannequin free with the program. Go to the Paint Tab and export out Textures to get the .obj. Import in at Daz Studio settings, and match it to the head's location:

If you want the morph for G8M you can have it.

Put some shades on it ;-)

If you want this mannequin for commercial use, need to buy the license. I do not have a commercial license for this program.

LINK to download free trial [n.b. location is in the Ukraine]

NorthOf45 said:

DAZ Connect is accessed from the Smart Content Pane, but the Smart Content is constructed from metadata, no matter where it comes from, Connect, DIM, or DAZ Central. Manual installs don't trigger the metadata import, so it won't show up there.

In DIM, uninstall those SubDragon files. If you copied them in manually, they might still be left behind, so go in and delete any remaining traces from the file system. I tried installing the SubDragon after uninstalling both the full and LE versions. Installing the full SubDragon did not generate any errors, but it would not load (could not find the control directory, Power Loader empty). I installed the Poser LE version and the Power Loader came up with everything available.

Uninstalled all of it, did some sweeps to make double sure... But the SubDragon and SubDragon LE won't install.   The files download, and then it'll start installing but then stop at 97% and say "Install failed!" and aborts the process :/ 

NorthOf45 said:

DAZ Connect is accessed from the Smart Content Pane, but the Smart Content is constructed from metadata, no matter where it comes from, Connect, DIM, or DAZ Central. Manual installs don't trigger the metadata import, so it won't show up there.

In DIM, uninstall those SubDragon files. If you copied them in manually, they might still be left behind, so go in and delete any remaining traces from the file system. I tried installing the SubDragon after uninstalling both the full and LE versions. Installing the full SubDragon did not generate any errors, but it would not load (could not find the control directory, Power Loader empty). I installed the Poser LE version and the Power Loader came up with everything available.

I'll give that a try when I get back to my computer with my 3D stuff on it, thanks!

DAZ Connect is accessed from the Smart Content Pane, but the Smart Content is constructed from metadata, no matter where it comes from, Connect, DIM, or DAZ Central. Manual installs don't trigger the metadata import, so it won't show up there.

In DIM, uninstall those SubDragon files. If you copied them in manually, they might still be left behind, so go in and delete any remaining traces from the file system. I tried installing the SubDragon after uninstalling both the full and LE versions. Installing the full SubDragon did not generate any errors, but it would not load (could not find the control directory, Power Loader empty). I installed the Poser LE version and the Power Loader came up with everything available.

DryreL said:

I have same problem. Morphs are visible on Maya but Unreal Engine does not show any of them. Any idea?

Daz3D 4.20

Unreal Engine 4.26.2

I'm not a Maya user, but I do use Blender, and there are some things you can't do in Blender in order for morphs to work properly. Namely, you cannot apply any modifiers during export, otherwise the morphs will not work. Maybe it's a similar case for Maya. Make sure ALL modifiers on your mesh(es) are either applied or removed before export. And of course double check you have "import morph targets" checked in the import dialogue.

As a side note, before I learned how to use morphs properly, I used to get weird flickering when adjusting morphs in Unreal, as if the morph was switching rapidly from 0-1 every frame. This was either due to improper scaling, or incorrect vertex normals. In any case, I learned the proper way to scale models in Blender for use in Unreal and set the vertex normals to "Compute" in the import options and the problem hasn't occured since.

Anarkia333 said:

AnEye4Art said:

I was finally able to export heightmap, colormap and normal map from worldcreator, create a USXT terrain in daz and apply them all.

Can you explain Material in DAZ for Import World creator?

If I understand Shader for UltraScenery is special... 

It's rather simple to do: I just clear the shaders from the USXT terrain and apply the WC exported texture to it. Then simply use USXT to apply the others like normal, splat and height. Before, I had to use L.I.E to flip the texture vertically to apply correctly.

Bejaymac said:

The DS WaveFront Importer has always been touchy when dealing with OBJ/MTL from other programs.

It's never been "Plug & Play", as a result you need to have a pretty good idea what sort of mess the exporting program has made of the OBJ/MTL, before you'll ever get it into DS.
You also need to know all of the issues DS has as well.

Lets look at the issues DS has
A very,very old issue is that DS hates spaces in names, so spaces in file names, surface name and pathways, can all cause major issues during import, DS sees spaces as the end of the line, so surfaces called Material 01, Material 02, Material 03 are all seen as Material by DS.

This is formally correct, as far as I am aware - it's just that other applciations don't always respect it.

Using File > Import to load an OBJ means that the texture pathways in the MTL need to be the full pathway including drive letter, otherwise DS will never find them.

Not entirely true, as I recall

Creating an "Other Formats" content directory is usually the best way to import, as you can do it from inside the Content Library tab, but this also has "pathway" issues. Where ever the MTL is located is where DS starts looking for the textures, so an MTL that doesn't have pathways in it means you want the textures in the same folder as the MTL.

Now for the issues from other programs.

Main one is that DS uses the computer world 2D system to calculate where the mesh goes on screen, yes I said 2D, the dimensions of the pixels on your monitor, side to side is X axis, top to bottom is Y axis, there is no Z axis on a pixel. Many of the modeling programs are designed to make stuff for the real world, so they change things so that top to bottom on your monitor is now Z axis in the program.

There are two 3D axis systems - left-handed and right handed (Z up and Z forward). A lot of applications, like DS, use Z forward (Zbrush, 3D Coat, Lightwave, hexagon, Modo) but others (Blender, 3D Studio Max) use Z up.

This causes issues during import, the import presets can load it face down, face up, back to front, upside down or mirrored, those last three also usually means the mesh is inside out and you got a mesh full of flipped normals.
A simple example of this is a car model, steering wheel is on the left in all of the promo images, but in DS it's on the right and the license plate is backwards, in this case the mesh and UVs have been mirrored.

Lets take this Oshkosh M-ATV that Michael is having issues with, a space in both file names, and if you open the OBJ in a text editor you will find the mtllib line also has a space in the name of the MTL, replace those spaces with underscores "_" to fix that issue. Next is the pathways in the MTL, or rather lack of pathways, this means File > Import is never going to find them. Most of the Import presets load it in with the headlights pointing straight down, Max, C4D and Blender all load it with the headlights pointing out the back of the scene. But they also load in jet black for me as I have backface lighting turned off, which means the mesh is inside out/mirrored, which in this case just required setting Z scale (parameters tab) to -100%.

Wouldn't use it like that though, best to Export it with the DS preset to lock the changes.

Oh and BTW, it only has a couple of textures, light clusters and the instrument panel, the rest is flat diffuse colors, it is UV mapped so shaders should help.

AnEye4Art said:

I was finally able to export heightmap, colormap and normal map from worldcreator, create a USXT terrain in daz and apply them all.

Can you explain Material in DAZ for Import World creator?

If I understand Shader for UltraScenery is special... 

The DS WaveFront Importer has always been touchy when dealing with OBJ/MTL from other programs.

It's never been "Plug & Play", as a result you need to have a pretty good idea what sort of mess the exporting program has made of the OBJ/MTL, before you'll ever get it into DS.
You also need to know all of the issues DS has as well.

Lets look at the issues DS has
A very,very old issue is that DS hates spaces in names, so spaces in file names, surface name and pathways, can all cause major issues during import, DS sees spaces as the end of the line, so surfaces called Material 01, Material 02, Material 03 are all seen as Material by DS.

Using File > Import to load an OBJ means that the texture pathways in the MTL need to be the full pathway including drive letter, otherwise DS will never find them.

Creating an "Other Formats" content directory is usually the best way to import, as you can do it from inside the Content Library tab, but this also has "pathway" issues. Where ever the MTL is located is where DS starts looking for the textures, so an MTL that doesn't have pathways in it means you want the textures in the same folder as the MTL.

Now for the issues from other programs.

Main one is that DS uses the computer world 2D system to calculate where the mesh goes on screen, yes I said 2D, the dimensions of the pixels on your monitor, side to side is X axis, top to bottom is Y axis, there is no Z axis on a pixel. Many of the modeling programs are designed to make stuff for the real world, so they change things so that top to bottom on your monitor is now Z axis in the program.

This causes issues during import, the import presets can load it face down, face up, back to front, upside down or mirrored, those last three also usually means the mesh is inside out and you got a mesh full of flipped normals.
A simple example of this is a car model, steering wheel is on the left in all of the promo images, but in DS it's on the right and the license plate is backwards, in this case the mesh and UVs have been mirrored.

Lets take this Oshkosh M-ATV that Michael is having issues with, a space in both file names, and if you open the OBJ in a text editor you will find the mtllib line also has a space in the name of the MTL, replace those spaces with underscores "_" to fix that issue. Next is the pathways in the MTL, or rather lack of pathways, this means File > Import is never going to find them. Most of the Import presets load it in with the headlights pointing straight down, Max, C4D and Blender all load it with the headlights pointing out the back of the scene. But they also load in jet black for me as I have backface lighting turned off, which means the mesh is inside out/mirrored, which in this case just required setting Z scale (parameters tab) to -100%.

Wouldn't use it like that though, best to Export it with the DS preset to lock the changes.

Oh and BTW, it only has a couple of textures, light clusters and the instrument panel, the rest is flat diffuse colors, it is UV mapped so shaders should help.

Spacious said:

When I download random stuff from random 3D sites I usually try to download as many different file types (obj, fbx, dae, etc...) as I can.  The reason for this is because I've found that usually one of them will have all the maps I need, one of them will import geometry into Daz correctly,  one of them might even have rigging that works in Daz, one of them will be a waste of time and space, etc...  It seems there's no way to know which one will work best for what, other than OBJ will import well with limited maps and have no rigging.  Often I import them into Blender first and then export from there as Obj.  Sometimes you just need to edit the MTL file that's attached to an OBJ to reflect where the textures are actually located, and if there's a lot of surface zones then this is totally worth it.  Also depending on what it's a model of, and where it came from, it may not even have UV mapping.  Sometimes you can just texture stuff with the shaders built into Daz or whatever other shaders you have installed.

My experience also. the other day, I downloaded an Oshkosh M-ATV from this car site http://www.dmi-3d.net/ It looked detailed and had 3 format options, OBJ, 3DS, ad LWO. So I tried the OBJ option first and found no textures for the body and the readme said they were in the LWO zip, so tried the other options and still no textures for the body. So I loaded it up in ultimate unwrap 3D and found only the OBJ and 3DS formats had UV mapping. It's an amazingly detailed model at almost 300K of polys, but without maps, it's useless for me.

364888487 said:

This bridge already feels like it doesn't exist anymore. After importing the model from DAZ TO C4D, the bone name is wrong. R23 can't recognize the capture, the face doesn't move, and there are too many problems, especially the hair. Looking forward to the update

Starting to feel there won't be any updates. A new team came in, made some changes, and then disappeared again. :(

It's pretty infuriating, since the promo pages and the compatible software listing, the fact they suggest the Bridges when you checkout of the store... All claim they work wonderfully and then you go to use them and it's a whole different story. 

At this point I'm pretty used to having to fix a staggering amount of weighting issues on anything I import and realizing that no clothing period is going to work as advertised - most of which have imported without weighting at all!

I know they're free and open source,  but it doesn't seem like anyone who can work on these is actually willing to work on them :/