PerttiA said:

crosswind said:

PerttiA said:

crosswind said:

How to copy a Head to DS...? Parent? Geo-graft?

Export the base Genesis figure into Blender, bring the original figure there, line them up and use the basic tools to make the Genesis mesh to match the original figure, then import the Genesis figure into DS as a morph 

FaceBuilder makes a Head (portraite) only geometry with unique shape as per the given photo, how could you "match" a Genesis Base figure to that Head geometry in Blender?

What has this to do with FaceBuilder?

The Genesis base figures are meshes that can be modified
One can import/open whatever source figure from where-ever to Blender, scale it and align it with the Genesis base mesh, and then scale/move the vertices of the Genesis mesh where needed (utilizing mirror and falloff)
Nothing fancy or difficult

OP clearly asked if one can make head shape and textures from the head geometry created from keentools aka Facebuilder (based on a photo)... https://keentools.io/

crosswind said:

PerttiA said:

crosswind said:

How to copy a Head to DS...? Parent? Geo-graft?

Export the base Genesis figure into Blender, bring the original figure there, line them up and use the basic tools to make the Genesis mesh to match the original figure, then import the Genesis figure into DS as a morph 

FaceBuilder makes a Head (portraite) only geometry with unique shape as per the given photo, how could you "match" a Genesis Base figure to that Head geometry in Blender?

What has this to do with FaceBuilder?

The Genesis base figures are meshes that can be modified
One can import/open whatever source figure from where-ever to Blender, scale it and align it with the Genesis base mesh, and then scale/move the vertices of the Genesis mesh where needed (utilizing mirror and falloff)
Nothing fancy or difficult

I would love to see a actual baseball uniform in the shop. I looked in the shop, but can find anything. I want to make some Aaron judge fan art. But really need a good uniform. I hope this is the right place to request this. I'm just starting to dabble with making clothing, and no where near good enough to make anything like that. I also need to learn how to import what I did make. But yeah.... There is nothing in the shop for what I want to do.

PerttiA said:

crosswind said:

How to copy a Head to DS...? Parent? Geo-graft?

Export the base Genesis figure into Blender, bring the original figure there, line them up and use the basic tools to make the Genesis mesh to match the original figure, then import the Genesis figure into DS as a morph 

FaceBuilder makes a Head (portraite) only geometry with unique shape as per the given photo, how could you "match" a Genesis Base figure to that Head geometry in Blender?

crosswind said:

How to copy a Head to DS...? Parent? Geo-graft?

Export the base Genesis figure into Blender, bring the original figure there, line them up and use the basic tools to make the Genesis mesh to match the original figure, then import the Genesis figure into DS as a morph 

Also: You could import the geometry to DAZ and then you could fit Genesis 9 to the shape of the Blender created geometry using DAZ Studio by treating the DAZ Genesis 9 model as if it were a full body piece of clothing and doing autofit. You want to scale and align them to be close in size and location. It will get you most of the way but all the bones and weight maps won't be properly aligned.

hello I made a model on Zbrush and blender, I wish to import it on daz to apli textur and rigging and then render, but wen I import my model with 5 tiles idum I dont have the udim displayed on surface panel, wen I aply the first textur I dont have all the other textur loaded, they are option to activate or anything to have my udim tiles please??

As I said above, this is a dForce Coat, and auto-fit transfers almost 90% correct weight to its Joints, so as long as you well tweak the dForce weight, as well as optimize settings on the dynamic surface (already show you the settings), the coat will drape pretty well for various pose. For tiny distortion fixing, bring it to Blender or fix it with Mesh Grabber as needed,

If there's still "freeze issue" when simulating, still, first of all tweak the settings on dynamic surfaces (shown in 4th screenshot I attached above)

As for fixing corrective morphs in Blender, never touch Pose in blender. Export posed figure + clothing to Blender, fix on clothing only, then export to OBJ from which you import in to DS with Morph Loader Pro to update corrective morph.

I ever recorded full workflow for it but I couldn't find it by now, check this one from Jay: https://youtu.be/w2zngVlncec?si=s76ieYH8v86OU5Si

crosswind said:

Actually you don't need to follow that tutorial from Jay because what you need is just to tweak the weight on dForce Modifier rather than the weight on Joints for rigging & fitting. Well, in case there's very ugly / awful result after auto-fitting, you DO need to tweak Joints weight, you should do it with Figure in A-Pose. Besides, what Jay mainly showed in the tut, was fixing corrective morphs by re-painting / smoothing weight... however that way is cumbersome. 

Oh, okay. I really don't understand why it's all about a Dforce modifier when I am not even using Dforce. I think I might missunderstand what was going on with that tool:

I thought you coud unpaint the red zone (here for the Right Tigh of the coat), and then when you move the Right Tigh of the G9, this part of the coat does not move with the figure anymore. But anyway, for this specific part, the Right Tigh Twist, I could not erase the red zone for some reason. I could totally erase it for many other bones, but not that one.

But I guess there must be a tool, or something, that link the bones of my character to the bones of the cloth. And if I can undo that link (for the bottom of the coat), perhaps it might solve my issue...?

 

If you know a sculpting software like Blender, I stongly suggest you direcly fix corrective morph in external software.
 

Yeah, I have some really basic Blender knowlegde. So what you tell me is to :

1 - move the top of my character as I want to, at least, the torso and arm parts of the coat fit the torso / arm of my G9,

2 - import Coat + G9 into Blender

3 - move the G9 legs in Blender so that the coat does not move with the legs?

 

You mean when you simulate the coat, you DS crahsed ?!

The Dforce windows opens up, it loads a bit, and then it freezes forever (at 0, 10, 20%, depends on the position of the G9 and how far I move away the cloth fabric from the G9).

Hoping, as you mention, that the issue comes from the G8 to G9 auto fit.
Or using a G8 character and redo the whole pose (I have a script that takes a pose from a G8 and applies it to a G9 but I am not sure it works the other way around).

Agreed... to a certain extent, haha ~~

... I am actually not even sure about that anymore since I just tried that with a G8 and, well, when I move the G8 legs, the bottom of the coat moves as well!!! I am screwed. G8 or G9, it does not matter at the end. Daz still does not provide a simple way of freezing a cloth (without reseting it), not matter if you use a G8 or a G9... :/

DollyGirl said:

5 pc drum set 3ds - 3D Model - ShareCG  Can use PoseRay (google.com) to convert to obj format and import into DAZ Studio.

SM_Drum Kit (renderosity.com)

Ludwig Drum Set - Poser - ShareCG

Thank You very much. 

Oso3D said:

Note it says it uses Generative AI.

ugh no thanks

The only generative AI I've seen in the demo was as an option if you want to create a custom texture for clothing. You can also import your own custom texture created in whatever app you wish. It's just there for players who want something other than the supplied options but don't want to take the time to create something in Gimp etc.

After adding a custom texture one way or another, you've got pretty good control over the UV mapping with scaling/tiling and offsets to tweak in realtime to get the appearance you want. As a simple example I tried adding text to a T-shirt:

Again, as I said last time in your another thread, DO NOT easily reset DB !!! unless you're very familiar with cms / metadata techniques ~~  In most of the cases I've ever helped with, one may find "old issues" are gone but "new issues" come. Especially, in fact, those "old issues" could've been easily fixed in other way rather than resetting content DB.

And again, there's a script which can import DSX file (metadta) individually into cms database rather than cumbersomely using Content DB Maintenance... but there's no script that can fix a missing thumbnail.

Normally there're 2 main culprits that may result in "missing thumbnail with a ! sign" in SC

1) There's no thumbnail image at all in installation package (IM package). This issue happens very frequently recently.. How to confirm: right-click on the problematic product, Edit Metadata, copy Token value, go to your runtime\support, search by Token, if you see no PNG/JPG, that's it.

2) Wrong metadata in DSX file. How to confirm: Following by step, 1)... After searching, you should find a DSX file (if not, that's another issue...). Open DSX file with Notepad++, search by /Runtime/Support/DAZ_ you should find a code line, check if DSX file name is 100% as same as the one locates in runtime\support folder.

So better name a problematic product, we chase down to the cause of issue... You confirm the reason first, then we proceed ~~

 

How do I find/add the correct image for smart content assets with no thumbnail?

I don't want to mess up my default runtime. It would be nice if simply refreshing metadata fixed this but it does not.

It would be nice if I could simply add an image there. 

Wasn't there a script product that made this process easier?

I probably own it but I have forgotten what it is.

Thanks in advance for any help on this.

Other than a few missing thumbnails, my smart content folder is working great!

*Looks like around three years ?

Anyway, I've recently dusted the cobwebs off this book stuff and started playing around again and I now have a simple bookstack figure for creating wobbly stacks... 

Test version uploaded to post #101 of my book stuff topic over at the HiveWire3D forum if anybody wants to give it a try -My rather infrequent, and possibly apocryphal, 'books project'. | Page 6 | HiveWire 3D Community (N.B. Poser only - *unfortunately DAZ Studio doesn't like it)

The basic figure is a four book stack which can be nested to make taller stacks.

The whole stack can be randomized with a simple Python script - from simple rotations and positional nudges...

...to a mix of hardbacks and paperbacks with various morphs

*I created it in Poser using alternate geometries and valueParm maths and it works rather nicely. But unfortunately DAZ Studio doesn't seem to like it. I can import the basic four book aligned stack but some of the adjustments do weird things to the books

 

You can categorize content without metadata (manually or using content wizard) so it appears in Smart Content.

Gordig said:

Not a PA, but you'll want to make sure it has metadata and is properly categorized and rigged. Know that any rigging you do in your modeling program probably won't survive the transfer to DS, so expect to do your rigging inside DS. Content Package Assist creates DIM-compatible zip files.

 The metadata gets added by Daz when they package it up for the store, same for categories (Smart-Content-wise). You will need to set up the folder structure the way they like (currently something like: content\environments\sci-fi (or whatever)\Artist-Name\product name etc. The rest is correct though. You can reach out to Daz with a support ticket if you're interested in becoming a PA and they can give you the main points to adhere to.

I use Blender and Substance Painter for the most part, but also GIMP for 2D editing of texture maps. There's no one programme that you have to use. I find Blender easy (and there are loads of tutorials), but some people find it hard (it has way more options that I use, so maybe that confuses some people).

Best bet is to make a few smaller sets (e.g. useful props) as freebies and get feedback before making a set to submit to Daz.

 

I am not a PA, but I make assets, primarily for my own purpose, and for fun.

I use blender for modelling. Sickleyield is also a blender user (or at least was). There are many free tutorials. Blender have many aspects, and you shouldn't try to learn all at once.

For export/import I use obj. In the newest beta fbx has become better, and I have considered using that, but am not using that yet.

For texturing I primarily use Filterforge, as it is cheap and serve my purpose. I think many PAs use Marvelous Designer for texturing.

For products sold in Daz, a well functioning product with some good promos. I would think that you should prepare more than one product, in order to try to get it sold.

You could start by making some freebies, and see how they are making, and get some feedback on those.

plarff said:

What or which apps do you use to make create an asset for instance a house/room/bed/car? Blender is probably something I'll use or is this difficult to learn?

Blender, 3DS Max, Maya, ZBrush, Hexagon...any program with modeling capabilities will work, it's just a matter of which you prefer working in. Blender, Hexagon and Houdini Apprentice are free, and ZBrush, Maya Indie and Houdini Indie are pretty affordable.

What is the process for exporting the once completed asset for DAZ usage?

That's going to depend on what kind of asset. If it's a room, house or bed, you'll want to export each component separately, but something like a car you'll probably want to export as a single piece, unless there are certain parts that you want to remain separate so they can be added/removed.

What is needed to get one's product ready to be sold on DAZ store or other online stores?

Not a PA, but you'll want to make sure it has metadata and is properly categorized and rigged. Know that any rigging you do in your modeling program probably won't survive the transfer to DS, so expect to do your rigging inside DS. Content Package Assist creates DIM-compatible zip files.

Just tested and seems to work fine here. Again be sure to update. I used diffeomorphic 4.2.1.2286 and blender 4.2.1, with the new spline drivers in the global settings.

steps:

1. easy import G8F with jcms
2. import custom morphs for all the ASE morphs, it's the "D.Master" folder, select all and import
3. activate the ASE morph, it is correctly applied

Hi people! I have a problem, I get a dialogue box in DIM that I haven't seen before. I'm unable to do a new install of Daz. It has worked flawless before and I wonder if there is a solution to this predicament of mine. I have always installed Daz on my C-drive (startup disc). This is very curious. It may have to do with something I did in Daz Central. I changed the base location, in settings. I did it because my newly bought content didn't show in my smart tab, it didn't show in the content tab either (and yes, I have tried to re-import my database in Daz). I'm very thankful for some guidance, perhaps you are willing to guide me to a thread about this. I have attached a screen dump of the dialogue pop-up in DIM. Thank you!