Marvelous Designer export cloth with texture.

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• Richard Haseltine Posts: 104,235

  March 2020

  You probably need to export without the logo, then reapply it using the Layered Image Editor in DS (assuming it's an image you have)
• lilweep Posts: 2,589

  April 2020 edited April 2020

  Assigning a transparent PNG to the diffuse or base colour channel of a material zone in Daz doesnt make the background transparent.  You have to add an opacity mask image to the Cutout Opacity channel in Daz to make something transparent.  You can make an opacity mask in Photoshop/Gimp (or can sometimes just invert your image within Daz if you need to make light parts transparent and then black parts visible.)

  Anyway, you shouldnt have to do that if you export from Marvelous Designer properly.  Can you post a screenshot of your UV Editor? (See attached)

  You should be able to export a series of texture maps (diffuse, normal, etc) by arranging your UV and then clicking bake textures.  And then you can apply that texture map in Daz.  (This process will vary depending on which version of MD you are using)

   

   

  Note: There is a marvelous designer thread: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/364011/the-marvelous-designer-thread#latest

  And marvelous designer discord: https://discord.gg/MAGsje

  

  

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• wrist2slit Posts: 0

  April 2020

  Hell-o lilweep thank you for your advice I didn't even know about UV editor in MD and I tried to follow what u reccomended and i made it work:)

  Have another question if you dont mind. Is it possible to make animation with gen8 with MD clothes on? Already checked some tutorials but with gen3 it works in slightly different way than gen8 cuz skeleton si more complex and MD reads only simple moves.. Can you redirect me to another post/web or tell me if i can make it work?

  Thanks, d3athhhh

   

   

  

  

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• wrist2slit Posts: 0

  April 2020

  lilweep said:

  You should be able to export a series of texture maps (diffuse, normal, etc) by arranging your UV and then clicking bake textures.  And then you can apply that texture map in Daz.  (This process will vary depending on which version of MD you are using)

   

   

  Thanks mate i tried it in this way and it works, last question is it possible to make an animation with gen 8 with MD clothes on? i mean the g8 skeleton is more complex than g3 and it doesnt work to me and i didnt find any solution either yet. Can you redirect me somewhere as well? thankkk youu for your advice again:)

  

  

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• lilweep Posts: 2,589

  April 2020 edited April 2020

  d3athhhh said:

  Hell-o lilweep thank you for your advice I didn't even know about UV editor in MD and I tried to follow what u reccomended and i made it work:)

  Have another question if you dont mind. Is it possible to make animation with gen8 with MD clothes on? Already checked some tutorials but with gen3 it works in slightly different way than gen8 cuz skeleton si more complex and MD reads only simple moves.. Can you redirect me to another post/web or tell me if i can make it work?

  Thanks, d3athhhh

  I think you can either

  1) make your clothing item in MD, export as obj, and then use the Daz transfer utility or Dforce to fit your clothing within Daz - and then it will conform or be dforced to the animation you make.  Obviously this method isnt utilising Marvelous Designer's cloth simulation - so will be a lower quality method.

  or

  2) If you want MD simulated cloth, you can export your daz animation in either alembic or an MDD Cache animation into MD.  These are the two vertext exact methods i am aware of but both of these methods rely on purchased addons from the daz store.  I think there are more details on these methods in the Marvelous Designer thread i mentioned before. And then you can animate in MD and export back to Daz (not sure which file type you should export from MD for importing back to Daz but i assume this would become clear in the fullness of time)

  Anyways, i think there are some youtube tutorials that suggest using Collada .dae files but these are not vertex-exact, and your MD simulation will not match up exactly with your Daz model if you try to import your clothing back to Daz this way.

  Post edited by lilweep on April 2020