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FaceGen Artist Pro only seems to export to Daz Studio. There is a FaceGen Modeller program tat exports as DAE, FBX, 3DS, Maya, LWO, OBJ, XSI, WRL, or STL. I haven't used that program before and it's more expensive than Artist Pro. facegen.com/modeller.htm

Yes, I use them all the time with keyframes. Are you using a Genesis 8 or 9 character. I believe FACs are not compatible with Genesis 1-3.

@@W3-productions Okay, thanks for the clarification. It works for my g8.1 in blender 4.2. I imported the facs and expressions but I would like to save them in pose library but it doesn't work for both, their keyframes only work when I'm in object mode. once you enter pose mode, the expressions are displayed but the keys do not enter

I believe this came from SDeB Store. They have their own website, but also can be found in the Daz Store along with RenderHub. www.sdebstore.com/collections/hair

The only way I have reproduced this issue is if these other items are not parented to the main character in Daz Studio before exporting. They may appear to be part of the character but they are not. If this is the issue, make sure you have the character selected when you add each item to it. It should then be nested under the character in the Scene outliner. Alternatively, you can right click each item after the fact and select Fit "" to and select the Genesis character. If already in Blender, you can select each rig with the main rig being last (making it the active selection) then selecting "Merge Rigs" in the Corrections section of the Daz Setup menu.

Thanks

Amen

Do you mean that the clothes don't follow at all or they don't have dforce like effects? Are all the clothes parented to the character in Daz Studio? Are the paths to those assets listed in the global settings for the Blender plugin?

I've found it best to remove the old version first, quit Blender, then install the new version. You might be fine to just remove the addon from the preferences menu within Blender. But be sure to quit and open Blender again.

Do you get the JSON error for loading the character into Blender or when using it with Auto Rig Pro?

@user-PayWorld glad it worked out. A lot of my path settings carried over from previous versions of Blender.

Thanks. I'm glad it was useful and pleasant.

In the Daz Runtime tab in Blender, under Posing, you should be able to Import Pose or Import Action. Those buttons will have you browse to the file for the pose/action you want to use from Daz Studio. Actions would be more for animations.

It takes a different type of person to keep up development on something like this for free.

It would depend. Does the generic Genesis 1/2/3/9 character transfer okay? Are there special morphs or geografts attached to the face? In that case, the location of that morph or geograft may be in a file location that is not listed in the importer's Daz library paths. What happens with the face: is the face mesh missing or just the textures for it?

Thanks. I was especially excited about the Retargeter. I didn't realize they added FBX to it.

its pretty ahhhmazing and slap on some MustardUI and it really completes the package.

Good point. I did the regular export for the sake of speed and performance, especially with some of the other things I would have running in the background.

Yeah, same here. I was waiting -impatiently- patiently when I heard that the new version was coming soon.

Well, hopefully he got the chance to do all the "small" films he wanted to do without having to worry about a big studio to feed.

Thanks. I'm glad it was helpful. I hope to do an update soon. It looks like a new version is out for Blender 4.1 and they will start naming the Diffeomorphic versions to match Blender versions.

Thanks. I probably will need to revise this one at some point. I also wondered if the attachments exist for an iPad 🤔 (I don't have another capable iPhone on hand) I know it would be a lot more weight on the neck though.

For the image texture node, is the color space sRGB? And what do you have that image texture connected to? Is it a mix or multiply node?

Glad it was helpful. I believe this video touches on a newer version of the software: ruclips.net/video/7E0pzIKFZ8I/видео.html

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Marty Mars

See the full tutorial for more information: ruclips.net/video/T8x2sFd6WxI/видео.html

My go to would be Auto Rig Pro since I already have that for transferring body motion capture. Once you set up the facial rig, you'll be able to import the FaceCap file via Auto Rig Pro. I can't recall if AutoRig Pro supports Unreal LiveLink. At least that one doesn't require a purchased license at the moment.

Yes it does.

Thanks. I haven't looked at this in a while. However, I recently started using Blenderkit which has a library of many assets including rigged vehicles. Basically, if you move/translate the major bone in the rig, everything else will move. I will have to study how those are set up and see if I can relate it to what I have here.

@@W3-productions I think you have a great tutorial here. It just feels like Blender's local axis system is broken. I haven't found a way to keep the wheel from stopping or changing direction if the targeted obj changes direction. thank you again for this solve.

If you go to the Community tab of my channel, you'll see a post of a Rigged Car I downloaded from BlenderKit. It shows some of the bone constraints of the front wheel. I haven't studied how steering plays into this but I'll take a look at that later.

I haven't run across that specific issue. What version of Genesis are you using? Since I have other issues with eyes (like not knowing where to focus during motion capture), I have started to use Object Constraints > Track To on the eye bones to keep them looking in the direction I want them to.

Thanks. I have some others explaining the plugin, including: ruclips.net/video/UqD7NOgKXUo/видео.html

Using the FBX method may not be the best way if you want to send it back to Daz. May be better to use the Diffeomorphic importer or Daz to Blender Bridge.

Good to know. Thanks for sharing. At least Gen 9 comes with a few different skin textures in the starter kit now.

@@W3-productions Gen 9 is better for a few reasons. Eye's work better and the expansion to G9 has a range of good quality eye shaders for all basic colours. You do need a bunch of morphs to get the right shapes for bodies and heads but with g9 you can increase the Sub-D levels 8 or 9 on eyes, mouths and other parts of the face where you couldn't with g8. G9 has more body morph shapes for new areas of the body where gen 8 never covered, like the torso for example now has 3 sliders top middle and bottom along with waist and hip morph areas. Muscle and Fat morphs look 100% better in G9 with 4 and 8k quality textures for the big renders. Outfits look way better and fit body shapes more snugly with g9, Fit Control makes using older gen's equipment easier, it has the range of morphs for clothing to fix most issues if they arise.

I've played around with the idea. I was able to do so by sending the Daz character to Unreal Engine and using a number of plugins. The video below was one of the results. ruclips.net/user/liveEO0Gsg5RWjA

I have 1.7.3 right now. A while ago, it was split into two tabs, Daz Setup and Daz Runtime. In Daz Runtime, there should be a Posing Section where Import Action can be found.

@@W3-productions thanks for your answer, I'll look into it!

I've looked into the whole issue with normals and it seems straightforward (if not tedious) for some models, but when you get a complex model from somewhere else (like Daz Genesis characters), it can be overwhelming. I'll look more into it.

@@W3-productions Thank you for your response. and you are right, it is straight forward. however, I would just appreciate any take you have with regards to DAZ and Goo Engine. You are literally the only person in the world to make this tutorial. And the best part is that you also do dark skin characters. So thank you for all your work.

Let's Go To Work

One thing I've found with hair, especially third party hair products, is that they sometimes have a very high vertex count. Sometimes they have more vertices than the rest of the body and clothing combined. In Daz Studio, you can go to WIndow > Panes (Tabs) > Scene Info to see the vertex count for everything and the selected object. With a i9 9900 and Nvidia 2080 Super, my computer can start to suffer if I have two figures with 1.2 million vertices a piece. If you aren't doing anything specific with the hair, does it help to turn it off in preview and just render it in the final animation?

All from Unreal Engine 5

Unfortunately, I don't know if they have a roadmap for releasing other versions.

Amen

I "think" you need the full version. That is what I got and is mostly all I use it for. I may be able to post the file to my website one day, but in the mean time, maybe you can paste the following in to a file and make sure the extension is a .bmap head%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% Head False False hip%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% Hips True False lShldrBend%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% LeftArm False False lFoot%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% LeftFoot False False lForearmBend%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% LeftForeArm False False lHand%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% LeftHand False False lIndex1%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% LeftHandIndex1 False False lIndex2%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% LeftHandIndex2 False False lIndex3%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% LeftHandIndex3 False False lMid1%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% LeftHandMiddle1 False False lMid2%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% LeftHandMiddle2 False False lMid3%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% LeftHandMiddle3 False False lPinky1%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% LeftHandPinky1 False False lPinky2%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% LeftHandPinky2 False False lPinky3%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% LeftHandPinky3 False False lRing1%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% LeftHandRing1 False False lRing2%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% LeftHandRing2 False False lRing3%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% LeftHandRing3 False False lThumb1%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% LeftHandThumb1 False False lThumb2%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% LeftHandThumb2 False False lThumb3%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% LeftHandThumb3 False False lCarpal1%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% LeftInHandIndex False False lCarpal2%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% LeftInHandMiddle False False lCarpal4%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% LeftInHandPinky False False lCarpal3%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% LeftInHandRing False False lShin%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% LeftLeg False False lCollar%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% LeftShoulder False False lThighBend%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% LeftUpLeg False False neckLower%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% Neck False False neckUpper%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% Neck1 False False rShldrBend%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% RightArm False False rFoot%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% RightFoot False False rForearmBend%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% RightForeArm False False rHand%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% RightHand False False rIndex1%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% RightHandIndex1 False False rIndex2%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% RightHandIndex2 False False rIndex3%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% RightHandIndex3 False False rMid1%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% RightHandMiddle1 False False rMid2%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% RightHandMiddle2 False False rMid3%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% RightHandMiddle3 False False rPinky1%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% RightHandPinky1 False False rPinky2%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% RightHandPinky2 False False rPinky3%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% RightHandPinky3 False False rRing1%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% RightHandRing1 False False rRing2%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% RightHandRing2 False False rRing3%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% RightHandRing3 False False rThumb1%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% RightHandThumb1 False False rThumb2%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% RightHandThumb2 False False rThumb3%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% RightHandThumb3 False False rCarpal1%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% RightInHandIndex False False rCarpal2%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% RightInHandMiddle False False rCarpal4%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% RightInHandPinky False False rCarpal3%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% RightInHandRing False False rShin%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% RightLeg False False rCollar%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% RightShoulder False False rThighBend%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% RightUpLeg False False abdomenUpper%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% Spine False False chestLower%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% Spine1 False False chestUpper%False%ABSOLUTE%0.0,0.0,0.0%0.0,0.0,0.0%1.0%False%False% Spine2 False False

Okay

Amen

Hopefully it's not the game that playing them....

I might have come across this but I can't remember. Does the Daz Character have any special morphs to it? Does the error actually stop the import from working? Is it the same thing with multiple Genesis types?

Thank you.