Hi Roman, keyframes can be tricky to deal with if you don't know how they work. Sadly I don't have a generic answer to your problem, because it'll depend on what's happening in your project. As a rule of thumb, pose presets with animations get loaded where the playhead is, so a 100 frame animation will add its 100 keys at the position of the playhead. To reset or delete them, select the figure/object, then use the hamburger menu on the timeline and choose "clear animation - clear selected figure". Moving figures while retaining their position is best done by adding the figure to a null, then moving the null to make a positional change. For more specific support, I recommend you become a supporter so we can chat on my private Discord. That way you can share screenshots and I can make more specific recommendations on what's happening with your project. Hope this helps!

@@WPguru thank you so much for your reply. I so greatly need answers to questions regarding animation that I will gladly join the channel. Please share the link. As for my project, it is a large mishmash custom scene with several characters that I open in Daz and instantly see the timeline literally riddled with keys

We'll work it out I'm sure 😊 Join here and you get access to my Discord: patreon.com/versluis

When you open the skeletal mesh, take a look at the Morph Target preview tab (open it under Window if you don't see it). Do you see you expressions there and do they drive them? I had to select them on export in Daz Studio.

It definitely works in 5.4.3, for me it's the second entry in the menu, with a flyout menu to pick the skeleton. Another option to create a retargeter is by right-clicking in your content browser, then navigate to Animation - Retargeting. If all else fails, I'd try it with a different generation character (Genesis 9 and 8.1 both work well, 8 has issues).

Small correction: it depends on how you distribute those morphs. You can share a character preset that's made up of existing morphs, then tell users they need to have those existing morphs installed for your preset to work. That way you're sharing your creation, without sharing someone else's property (i.e. the original morphs). A great example is the G9 Starter Essentials Expansion being a required product for your product to work. If you bake them, it's more convenient for the users, but you need to have merchant resources licenses for the morphs so that things are above board.

That.... can't be done natively as far as I know. You can delete the selected keys or move a selection up/down, but that's about it. There may be a script that can do this but if so I don't know. Search for the mCasual scripts, there's a lot of small tools in there.

@@WPguru thanks a lot 🙏.

Oh yes, good challenge! You need to make a socket on the Daz skeleton, then tell the weapon to attach to that. Have a look at the Manny skeleton and see where the socket it. Also, the socket may need adjusting so that the weapon looks correct in their hand (don't rotate the weapon, just the socket). Good luck!

I suppose the because the cine camera object listens to the sequencer. Typically you use your shortcuts and convert them to a cine cameras, then refine and animate them.

No idea. It's not an exact science, so it could be loss of resolution or that a controller didn't adjust properly.

@@WPguru Well then I'll just have to keep experimenting.

I'm sure there is, but how to do that I don't know. There is a 2 hour live stream on the Unreal Channel in which they discuss this in more detail, and they show an example on how to add crouch functionality. I would image the same principle could be used to add other animation to the mix, like swimming or fighting.

Oh sure, you can use any animation with pretty much any mesh - if it'll look good is another matter. Ideally we want a female character to use female animations rather than burly male animations and vice versa. Imagine a Neanderthal male walking like a female fashion model - not a good luck 😄 Hence I thought I'd explain the MM and MF difference and that we have an easy choice with this template.

To get animated dForce drapes out of Daz Studio, the only reliable way I know of is as MDD point cache. You'll need to export the first frame of your cloth as OBJ, then MDD for the entire sequence and combine them. The full version of Animate is required to do this (doesn't work with the lite version). Blender can handle this, so I'm assuming Maya can as well - if not, you can export another format from Blender (like Alembic or OBJ sequence). Get the full version of Animate here: wpguru.tv/animate

@@WPguru Thank you so much you replied. I am greatful. Have you done any tutorial on this? I would love to check it out.

Sorry, Unity and I are not compatible ☔️ There's only so many 3D applications my brain can handle.