flowprince said:

Matew, can you please include the import options for blender 4.3 in a screenshot? I think the one you included was for an older blender. And I am confused how you made the imported obj files in blender appear smooth instead of the blocky texture it had before?

Matew, can you please include the import options for blender 4.3 in a screenshot? I think the one you included was for an older blender. And I am confused how you made the imported obj files in blender appear smooth instead of the blocky texture it had before?

crosswind said:

PNG / Vector files can be easily converted to 3D mesh in Blender, it's a quick and totally free way. Search "blender image to mesh" on youtube, you may find lots of tutorials. You can get it done in a couple of minutes. Then thicken the mesh in Blender or import OBJ into DS, thicken it by using Thickener.

yes, this is what the Carrara cutouts plugin and Zbrush Alpha to mesh does but being Blender it's free 

you want a cookie cutter not a whole sheet

I imported a gen 9 model into blender and ticked BSDF during easy import and selected cycles as render engine. But as seen in the image, the model looks far worse with material issues compared to iray render. In the shading tab more weird things are going on. Is there any manual to fix these things for a blender noob? The wiki is too vague and I have yet to see any clear steps after searching forums. Diffeo and blender is 4.3 verison. The hair is strand based from OOT btw.

do a save scene subset with just the WB ceiling. 
open a new empty scene 
load the scene subset
select it > choose geometry editor
turn off all the surfaces but the lamp
the export object with save surfaces but make sure ignore hidden nodes is checked 
export object as lamp
turn all surfaces back on then turn off the surfaces for the lamp 
and export object ceiling with surfaces
delete everything in scene 
import each one separately and save each as a scene subset
)change the names to ceiling lamp and ceiling no lamp)
into the folder with the wb ceiling 
Now you have two new props in the folder and you can change the size of the lamp as needed. 
note the bounding box on the lamp will probably retain the size of the entire ceiling but you can still drag it around

PNG / Vector files can be easily converted to 3D mesh in Blender, it's a quick and totally free way. Search "blender image to mesh" on youtube, you may find lots of tutorials. You can get it done in a couple of minutes. Then thicken the mesh in Blender or import OBJ into DS, thicken it by using Thickener.

Masterstroke said:

My thoughts to it:
-Custom characters need custom joint corrections
-I have never been happy with Meipe's anatomical elements, because no matter, what corrections you apply on those, the next time, you open the scene, those distorsions are back.
 This happens a lot with third party anatomical geografts, not just Meipe's.
 I still have no idea, how to fix this. I contacted Meipe in the rotica forum, but I never got a satisfying answer, nor has it been fixed.
-G8F.1 bends a little different in the pubic area, than G8F. Although this has been disputed, I still isist, that this is a fact.
So, that's why I returned stayed with the rather bullet prove DAZ gens for G8F with my custom altered material zones.
In order to make them work, you really need to know the UV map for correct displacement maps and add custom morphs, that really adds, what you are looking for.

As for GP from Meipe, agreed but case by case... Corrective morphs can be made on Genesis figure or on GP per se, according to the case you have. After sculpting the mesh with external applicaiton, import the corrective morphs, set up the ERC links properly ~~

In most of the cases, it should be character-oriented and corrective morphs may be triggered by more than one joint... so multi-dimentional controls are needed (1st Stage + 2nd Stage). They'll work perfectly.

However, HD morphs will be another story ~~

Hi guys, how are you?

So i'm doing a fighting game and i started to use the DazToBlender plugin to export my characters and animations to Blender and then import on my game later.

They are exporting fine and everything, but there's something i noticed, when i used the plugin and exported the animations of my characters talking, the eyelashes and eyebrows were static, they don't animate with the rest of the character's face as they talk. Then i saw that when the plugin is exporting from Daz to Blender, only the morphs of base character (Genesis 9) are going to Blender, the same morphs from the eyelashes and eyebrows are not going.

Do you guys know how to fix that? Is that a bug? I'm using Daz 4.20 and my Blender is 3.4.

Thank you so much for your time^^

Seven193 said:

You're trying to thicken a cutout?  For smooth edges, I would first vectorize the cutout using an image tracer. You can find free image trace tools that work online.  Then convert that vector into 3D. Then back to the Thickener tool.

I don't know what most of this means. Nor how to import a vectorized image from an image tracer. Nor how to convert a vector to 3D. If I can convert it to 3D why wouldn't I thicken it in that tool? Whatever that tool is. 

What is up DazPremier along Daz 4.23 Seems like I Have constant issues with programs downloaded either not working, Missing files or having to hit update Metadata. For example this BWC Skies - The Bundle skydomes show up installed on my scene in texture mode for example but the dome lights are just black no sky back ground nothing when I am in I ray preview or when rendered

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Lots of clothing cannot well support partial body morphs and/or customized/blended full body morphs. Some ways for fixing:

1) use a timeline to simulate, at starting frame , zero Breast shapes or body morphs that you use.. .then dial the expected value at interim frame or last frame;
2) smooth the underbreasts geometry in external software, import the morph as a Base Fixing.

Thomas knows very well python and a lot of the blender api, on the contrary the daz script and api seem very hard to understand and use. That's basically why the exporter is reduced to a minimum, and options are rather done on the import side.

benniewoodell said:

OrangeFalcon said:

benniewoodell said:

Has anyone who has premiere gotten the Agares character in their smart content yet? He's showing up in my product library here on the site, but you can't download from there sadly and there's no option to download it yet in smart content when I filter for premiere exclusives. Just wondering if I'm alone here. Thanks! 

You have to update your MetaData first, under the Connect menu in Daz Studio.  Then it will appear under available products to install! 

Oh! That was the step I missed, I see him as well as like six other characters I now have access to lol. Thank you so much! 

Enjoy the new characters!   And speaking of Agares, he's a pretty cool dude.  He's definitely not trying to trick you with the warm welcome either!

OrangeFalcon said:

benniewoodell said:

Has anyone who has premiere gotten the Agares character in their smart content yet? He's showing up in my product library here on the site, but you can't download from there sadly and there's no option to download it yet in smart content when I filter for premiere exclusives. Just wondering if I'm alone here. Thanks! 

You have to update your MetaData first, under the Connect menu in Daz Studio.  Then it will appear under available products to install! 

Oh! That was the step I missed, I see him as well as like six other characters I now have access to lol. Thank you so much! 

benniewoodell said:

Has anyone who has premiere gotten the Agares character in their smart content yet? He's showing up in my product library here on the site, but you can't download from there sadly and there's no option to download it yet in smart content when I filter for premiere exclusives. Just wondering if I'm alone here. Thanks! 

You have to update your MetaData first, under the Connect menu in Daz Studio.  Then it will appear under available products to install! 

Thanks Padone.
"Ignore hidden objects" doesn't seem to work with complex objects like figures.
It worked fine with 2 primitives, though. The hidden one didn't get imported.
But with two or more DAZ characters, the hidden ones were still imported into Blender (Jason Char in the image below was fully hidden in DAZ).

Do you know why Thomas designed this as a "don't import hidden into Blender" workflow, as opposed to the usual "don't bother exporting hidden objects from DAZ"?
That would seem to make more sense.

Most geografts are imported and work fine, unless there's a specific example. You can use easy import with "merge geografts". The geograft bones are in the "custom" bone collection that's hidden by default.

https://bitbucket.org/Diffeomorphic/import_daz/wiki/Import/Easy Import DAZ

In the global settings there's an option to "ignore hidden objects". Other than that everything in the scene is exported, so to export a selection you will have to temporarily save a subset. However the intended workflow is that you save figures and scenes separately to import in blender, also figures are intended to be exported in rest pose.

Though it is possible to export a scene with multiple posed figures but that will not work for animation.

Diffeomorphic should be able to import the daz HDRI and lights, including emissive objects and the old ghost lights. In your pictures the light is not the same. Then tone mapping also matters so you will get different results depending on your settings.

render > color management > view transform