DAZ To Blender Bridge ~ Send Facial and Full Body Character Animations from Daz Studio to Blender

[@Viskovitz]

LOL I have spent the last two days trying to send animated characters from daz to blender without much success and they just release this. It's my lucky day

[@SolomonJagwe]

Changes everything!! 😁

[@cgvaqs]

@@SolomonJagwe I have tried sending G8F female animations from daz to Blender , but It keeps sending an animation merged somehow with animation being trailed by the pose

[@pruephillip1338]

Appreciated your tutorials on Blender Bridge, and as an added bonus - your Gospel tunes. Thank you sir.

[@SolomonJagwe]

Thank you so much!! :)

[@PHATTrocadopelus]

Wow, the technology is moving so fast and integrating it's incredible!!

[@SolomonJagwe]

It really is 😃

[@danielfischer4399]

Thank you! Your content is great!!!

[@SolomonJagwe]

Thank you too!

[@danielfischer4399]

@@SolomonJagwe Can I ask you: is it possible to do clothing in Blender, and put this on to the animated character from Daz? Because clothing in Daz is so limited or expensive to buy. Or is there a good way to create clothing in Daz? Thanks for your help Solomon!

[@SolomonJagwe]

@@danielfischer4399 yes it is

[@danielfischer4399]

@@SolomonJagwe and is the character still rigged after import in Blender? So is possible to make new poses of the character in blender? Can you show how to do that? That would help me a lot.

[@AvanteCGI]

hey great video, do you have tutorial on how to take animations to Daz. like the other way round. I understand Daz is faster at rendering animations than blender?

[@W3-productions]

About to try this out now. Interesting to to compare with the Diffeomorphic importer. The Diffeomorphic importer can import saved poses but right now I can't get it to import facial animation from facemotion. Interested to see if this method does.

[@bydreaminc]

Thank you for your work solomon! What GPU are you using?

[@SolomonJagwe]

thank you 🙏🏾 RTX 2070

[@bydreaminc]

@@SolomonJagwe Amazing bro thank you again! 🙏

[@MikeTaylor-uw5zy]

Very cool! Are the facial animations facial rig bone animations or shape keys? Also looks like a different rig than the one that normally came across with the last Daz to Blender bridge...

[@SolomonJagwe]

Thank you 🙏🏾 yes I noticed that too about the rig difference. A combination

[@CGRTist]

That's Fantastic!!

[@SolomonJagwe]

And timely too 🙏🏾

[@zoeschonborg1605]

Hello, I dont have the Brige on my daz studio? I have installed daz to blender but it dont appear!

[@KYLESOAMAZING]

Hello, thank you for the help! I am able to import the pose, however, my character is not animating and just jittering up and down. I converted aniblocks into keyframes on the timeline, do I need to animate it from scratch?

[@SolomonJagwe]

try updating to the new Daz to Blender bridge update: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bqK6gpl6jL9rapo

[@efereiscik]

can we make oppsite , make a animation in blender then open it in daz3d

[@tengentopka727]

Does this bridge allows user to DAZ assets on blender like pose and morphs

[@SolomonJagwe]

Yes it does.

[@W3-productions]

Yes that is a percentage.

[@SolomonJagwe]

Thanks 🙏🏾

[@markokovacevic3225]

Hi Solomon,thank you for the tutorial! I successfully use this method when animating manually(creating keyframes in the Timeline tab) . But, the animation doesn't get imported into blender when I try adding from the animation "presets" from the SmartContent tab (the preset shows up in the aniMate2 tab, as a block, but not as keyframes in the Timeline tab). Any ideas? Or workarounds? Thank you!

[@SolomonJagwe]

thank you 🙏🏾 have you tried updating your bridge to the most recent release?

[@ainsleyharriott2209]

The problem I’m having with Daz to Blender animation is that with the workflow, it takes me so long to fix the materials in Blender to look as good as in Daz iray, that it negates the faster render time of Blender completely. I’d rather just turn Daz on rendering in the background and my animation will likely be finished before I’ve re-done all the materials and rendered in Blender. I find I need to do all the steps every time, for every import and animation and it’s just too tedious so I only render in Blender if using features not available in Daz like animated glows or video textures.

[@shimmuus]

Daz's skins and materials in Blender look very ugly, especially the skins. To this day I have never seen anyone achieve a good result. If it's a character you use all the time, it would be worth doing the process and saving. But so far it seems that such a process does not exist.

[@jordantessier25]

this didn't work for me. updated everything. imported model it came in with the key frames but doesn't move when I press play.

[@SolomonJagwe]

Sorry to hear that. Are you using DS 4.15?

[@jordantessier25]

@@SolomonJagwe I believe so. I updated the bridge plug in and Daz through the Daz central software as soon as I saw this video. I was so excited to see this work. I create a character and imported exactly as seen in the video. The key frames appear to be there when I import it to blender. And everything looks just as it does in your video. But I don't get to see the magic. :( When I hit play the model just doesn't move.

[@vongidi]

I got the same problem :(

[@jordantessier25]

@@linkincnt haha woops. Don't know why I didn't think of that. This 100% solved the problem

[@jordantessier25]

@@linkincnt thanks so much. I'm working on a client project where I have to make a bunch of characters in cg for various scenes. Trying to keep overhead low as the clients budget is tight. So Daz seeks to be the way

[@giacomorizzo9982]

Hi boss. Now the bridge it s different. It s possible to export face mojo animation? How?

[@doriandowse]

I'm trying to get this working as well.

[@David_Fernandez]

I don't have the "Scripts" tab in my main menu. Tried for hours different tutorials and forum solutions, nothing helped. Working on Mac. :(

[@Nibbylol]

what about hair and clothing? my character and clothing just explodes if I try simulate, so hopeless

[@carolscardoso]

I tried to import it to blender and it came in with the key frames but it doesn't move when I press play, do you ave any idea why? thanks

[@SolomonJagwe]

there is a new update for the Daz to Blender bridge. Try updating it. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bqK6gpl6jL9rapo

[@blockschmidt]

Please help, I am going crazy lol How can I add clothes from Marvelous Designer to that workflow? I got a special hoodie and jeans I want to equip my character with. The DAZ to blender animation bridge works for me but how can I add my Marvelous Designer clothes that do the same animation like the one I sent from DAZ to blender? Thanks for the tutorial, the clothes aspect is the last puzzle piece I have to figure out All love

[@themightyflog]

Are all you cam export is canned motion? How do you get custom mocap into Daz for the body?

[@SolomonJagwe]

I use the PN suit to creat custom mocap. Check out these 2 tutorials showing how to get mocap into Daz for the body: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aWmqc4Ogd7WVe7s and kzbin.info/www/bejne/opqaiHaEhLepgck

[@shawnarms16]

@@SolomonJagwe thank you. You have the best tutorials. I don’t have 3dexchange like most. I’ll keep looking for a way to do this. Thanks.

[@ravnOne65]

Solomon you have some very nice tutorials, but I wish you got to the point faster.

[@SolomonJagwe]

Thank you :) My videos are process oriented, I do my best to include steps that most other tutorials leave out, as a result they tend to take a little longer. I will do my best to include chapters so you can jump to key points.

[@vongidi]

Hey Solomon is it possible to bring that into marvellous, greeting from Germany. ✌🏿

[@SolomonJagwe]

Yes, but I think you need to add a tpose at the beginning if you plan to create clothing for the character in MD.

[@丁一-r9i]

thank you！but in eevee，my character‘s hair cannot be displayed normally，I don't know why

[@MikeTaylor-uw5zy]

If you are seeing black chunks at the ends you need to change the alpha settings in the hair shader node options. And adding a subsurface modifier will help too. There is also an add on someone posted in the Daz forum that will change it to particle generate hair which will look better.

[@丁一-r9i]

@@MikeTaylor-uw5zy wow That's very effective，thank you！

[@Beetlebomb3D]

Hey Solomon! I'm trying out the Daz to Blender bridge right now but I have a terrible issue going on. It appears all the clothing I have on my figure is showing as white(even in cycles render). Have you experienced something similar to this before? Would love an explanation. Thank you!

[@SolomonJagwe]

Were you able to update your bridge? a number of Texture issues have been fixed in the new update.

[@seanmckee9553]

The animation portion of the import was not working for me but I found the problem. Animation clips from Daz library wont import to Blender with the figure. But if you create an animation from scratch, the animation WILL import to Blender with the figure. Library files wont work presently I guess.

[@SolomonJagwe]

The animation clip I used was from the animation library, I got the animation from Daz3D Marketplace. Which animation library were you working with?

[@seanmckee9553]

@@SolomonJagwe I was using the animation clips from the library in Daz3D. Smart Content Tab/Animation Tab. Some reason when I use those, the would not export with the model. But then I tried animating the characters limbs and facial expressions by hand, it would export with the model. Perhaps I am missing something. Maybe I have to convert the keys when I use an animation clip? I dunno!

[@kromidevisions]

@@linkincnt thx for the tip :) would it be possible to walk us through this process of baking an aniblock in daz?

[@kromidevisions]

@@linkincnt thanks so much and to solomon too. I have never been lucky getting characters out of daz to blender 100% successfully. things like beards and hair sometimes do not go across at all. i have yet to try this new version but i am hoping as solomon mentions it, the limbs won't go all over the place. thank you both and much appreciated for all the info :)

[@larykenobi]

@@kromidevisions Did it work?