Daz to Blender Bridge Tutorial | Daz3D Tips

[@n0th-]

This guide is amazing! It would be great to have one more for the reverse process. After we imported the model to Blender and performed some modifications to the body, how do we export it back to Daz and import it there. I cant seem to do that, it always loses all the materials and information back in Daz.

[@pixeldebaucheryscribbles1540]

I'm not having any luck finding the addon in Edit/pref while in blender addon area.

[@barryjones6479]

Excellent and very thorough. Really useful. thanks for posting this.

[@teropiispala2576]

Good tutorial but there's few points I need to highlight. First of all, cycles is way more capable renderer than Iray, but it works different ways, so you can't expect direct import to get most out of it. While imported materials are decent, they must be remade to be in same level or better in blender. Daz textures are optimixed for Iray, which seems to make some fixed magic with them. Skin and other surfaces in blender material don't use all available textures and reflectivity seems to be low. If shinyness is increased, the skin looks unrealistic. Cycles calculate reflections based on the modeled surface, so for example skin needs microdetails from high resolution textures. Tiled pores textures do it fine. If the surface is overly flat and there are only few lights, like in typical indoor scene, its difficult to catch refections. It's better outside with environment background lights. Inside, complex lighting and micro details are essential and provide awesome results. It's same with boots. Not that cycles or evee are not capable on good looking reflections on leather, but it doesn't seem to do it with default imported materials and lights. Most likely DAZ uses some default false environment lights and material micropores even inside scenes to create good reflections. Biggest problem for me in daz to blender plugin is inability to transfer armature morphs. Almost all genesis figures morphs bones, causing armature to become unaligned in Blender. It's unusable that way. Characters with bone scaling can only be exported without morphs, and then for example expressions can't be used on blender. Not much of a scene or animation can be done then. This problem exists at least in daz 4.21 and blender 3.6.

[@RenderGuide]

Thanks a lot for sharing all those excellent tips!!

[@davy4842]

Hi there is a problem with the bridge. it dose not support the new bones from 8.1 patch like in the case of some bones in upper and lower face rig.... and it dose not import them to blender ......please is there a solution for this?

[@VybeX-]

i can't get the scripts tab to appear in Daz but i can use the importer in blender 3.0

[@euclois]

me neither, i dont have the scripts tab and i dont know what to do...

[@TheNSproject]

I can't get my new character...keeps importing an old one...

[@leopard3529]

Thanks for this video, it's very helpful. But I have such a problem - there is no Scripts option at the very top in DAZ Studio. There is only an option via the File -> Send To -> DAZ to Blender menu. Accordingly, the bridge does not work correctly, in particular, it does not transfer the texture of eyelashes to Blender. And I also can't transfer the morph created in Blender to DAZ. Can you tell me what the problem might be? The bridge was downloaded from the official Daz website and installed via DAZ Install Manager.

[@borobutch]

I got it to work. Install the latest Blender plug-in using the Daz 'Send to Blender' advanced settings, I think it was 3.3 when I did it. Then copy the DTB folder in your Blender 3.3 scripts/addons folder in your Roaming folder to your Blender 3.4 scripts/addons folder.

[@RenderGuide]

Thanks for sharing Steve!

[@muglermugler5590]

Wow thank you so much for this!!!

[@RenderGuide]

Thanks Mugler for your kind comment :) happy you like the video!

[@ShindlerReal]

Is it compatible with Blender 3.0? I can't find Daz to Blender bridge addon at all in Blender. I have Daz Importer addon but it doesn't work like Bridge.

[@taskmasterblaster]

I am not seeing it in blender. I am pretty sure they are missing the part where you have to download a package from blender. Always missing for even the official DAZ videos about bridge in the past

[@compscript7973]

My DAZ to Blender is slightly different. I Do not have scripts tab. I go to file > Send to > DAZ to Blender. Under Asset Type I change Skeletal Mesh to Animation. 😁By the way great video and watched your other video's. Subscribed.

[@satyaa999]

is import pose option in blender working for you?

[@compscript7973]

@@satyaa999 I seen your question and just tried it several times. The Genesis 8.1 characters work without clothes but the pose is slightly different. The more clothing the less it works.

[@e1v1a19]

This is great. There aren't enough videos on using Blender with Daz characters. Worth subscribing to! Quick question - do the blender animations work if you try to export them back to Daz for rendering?

[@MsZyraMMD]

This is not working for me the Daz to Blender thing is not showing up in Blender for me

[@compscript7973]

How to fix problem DAZtoBLENDER not showing up in Blender kzbin.info/www/bejne/bHXde3-GeJ6jnbc

[@BLZ-bp8qv]

when i import a model from daz to blender the textures dont import at all only the model itself but no textures for it how do i fix this

[@xchans3147]

Thank you, your video help me a lot.

[@RenderGuide]

Thanks for your kind comment :) happy you like the video!

[@Vertexvoyager]

script tab does not show for my daz3d latest version

[@martinli8159]

This is a very good video about DAZ Blender bridge, except one more thing: how to bring back the models to DAZ after edited in Blender? or every procedure shall be ended in Blender?

[@Aracore]

Filament's biggest plus is thazt it is great for when you want to time out animations. Means you can get a pretty good idea of what is going on in your scene without having to have the powerful graphics card in order to display it. Filament takes seconds (well ok, a couple minutes) to churn out a rudimentary .mov file. useful for previewing and eliminating clipping of objects before committing to a final render

[@woah9839]

Thanks for this!

[@RenderGuide]

Thanks for your kind comment :)

[@nashanbarrett7065]

Also I don't why this happens, but when I try to import the Daz 3d character in Blender. Sometimes the "Pose mode" doesn't show up.

[@rajandp7653]

Did you find the solution I'm getting t pose only from Daz

[@3n19m]

Hello, I have a problem, when I import my character with makeup for example, the makeup does not appear on Blender ... can you help me?

[@TheNSproject]

Hi! Your video is very nice! I just don't understand why blender doesn't import my new daz character anymore. It keeps importing an old amd same one. I've uninstall the add on and re install in both side but still the same. I've tried in 3 different Blender version... still the same... I wish I could know how to fix it...

[@martinli8159]

guess you should manually delete the old temp bridge file under your PC Document folder.

[@TheNSproject]

@@martinli8159 thank you, I could manage with the new bridge... but still need some help unfortunately

[@deepakkumar-bq5bp]

Hi my daz studio does not show scripts option please help

[@TheKevphil]

Is there any way to bring DAZ preset Expressions into Blender? I know that Blender has individual face controls brought over on Export, but sometimes a "canned" expression is enough.

[@StevenCookFX]

DOES NOT WORK WITH BLENDER 3.0!!!!!

[@nashanbarrett7065]

This is a good video so far, But I do have a question. When I added my character from Daz3d into Blender and when I clicked on edit mode. The bones didn't come up for me. Do I have to be in a specific version of Daz in order for the bones to appear? I used Daz version 4.20. Also do you think I can manually put Blender's rigature into the Daz character while I am in Blender? As always I will appreciate your response.

[@HanSolocambo]

Could you please tell me what you used for the voice over (as it sounds like a "text to speech" voice or something ?

[@bilgehansakin1847]

Can you export as glb or fbx after transferring her to blender by daztoblender addon ?

[@Preirin]

Do I have the wrong bridge? My CAZ Importer in Blender has different options: simply Import DAZ and Easy Import DAZ. Then I have to look through folders to find my figure. Also, in Blender, under the add-on, it simply lists it is 'Import-Export: DAZ (.duf, .dsf) importer. Looks completely different to 3:37....

[@martinli8159]

yes, wrong bridge, yours is another bridge, not the official one.

[@luisantoniosg]

daz3d add-on no longer available in blender, not sure if is only in the most recent versions but it doesn't appear there

[@XirlioTLLXHR]

Got the same problem, having issues installing the one from github as well.

[@karlamichelle4946]

Hi the scrip work fine in the old version of blender but when i upgraded it to blender 3.0 it wont installed the add on

[@RenderGuide]

Hi Karla, sadly, the Daz to Blender script has not been yet updated for this version of Blender. So your options would be to either wait for the script to update, or to install a previous version of Blender that should be supported by the script. You can do that on the official Blender website, the "Download" section. Hope this helps.

[@karlamichelle4946]

@@RenderGuide Hello is there any new update of the daztoblender bridge i currently using blender 3.0.1 will it work if used it?

[@borobutch]

I got it to work. Install the latest Blender plug-in using the Daz 'Send to Blender' advanced settings, I think it was 3.3 when I did it. Then copy the DTB folder in your Blender 3.3 scripts/addons folder in your Roaming folder to your Blender 3.4 scripts/addons folder.

[@meta_morph0sis]

Thank you so much for the video! For some reason, my materials do not transfer into Blender whenever I use the bridge...the skin color turns white even when I had green skin for the character in Daz...any idea why that could be? Thanks in advance!

[@spartan5760]

Did you make sure to turn on texture mode in blender’s viewport?

[@meta_morph0sis]

@@spartan5760 yes, it is turned on. Nothing changed - it's still the wrong eye and skin color. Do I have to also export the morphs in daz3d for it to work?

[@RenderGuide]

@@meta_morph0sis Sadly, Daz to Blender Bridge is not ideal yet and this is especially seen with the materials. You can see that in Daz Studio I am going to "Surfaces > Materials" to change the material. I know, that there is a lot of other ways to do this, but it seems that this way is the only one that will work when transferred in Blender. In other words, if you manually change the skin color of the character, instead of using a preset - it will probably not work in Blender. Just my guess.

[@mark290039]

Thank you for this great video. Is rendering animations in blender better than daz?

[@RenderGuide]

Thanks Mark for your comment. Hard to answer, it depends, both render engines look different and also depends on which software you prefer working with.

[@pastreloks]

Showing fbx exporting with wrong options - that's how you promote bridge.

[@youngvandrossxyoungfinesso3484]

Doesn't work for Blender 3.0 and above

[@alstor4746]

WHY THE FUCK THE ADDON DOES'NT APPEAR IN MY FUCKING ADDONS?N???¨% SHIIIIT

[@jorgenavarro2339]

3:35 I can't not see the addon

[@aerobladee]

me neither

[@TheKevphil]

Dear Computer Lady: Strange that FBX import is so bad. I am able to Import FBX into *Clip Studio* with no problems, including the rig, so the figure remains poseable. Now I haven't used a DAZ figure with clothes, as I use such figures only to "trace" over for proportions

[@maurocrosetta991]

to see spotlight in filament up the ray length parameter, it's easy. Big problem oh filament is the opacity.

[@hernantapia2180]

Before Iray, 3Delight was widely supported and all is still in use, you only need to load the textures that came in the product to be used in 3Delight, altough the new products are only Iray textured, there are products that allow us to convert Iray to 3Delight. Not every body have the required system to run properly Iray so few people still use 3Delight or are not interested in the quality that Iray can produce since they chose for some artistic reasons the look and feel that 3Delight can offer.

[@AlexandarKaravelov]

Hi! I saw many great videos here. Now let me ask you something because you are a professional: Why a genesis 8 female character created in Daz3D looks perfect and after it is imported in UE4 (with or without Daz3D to UE bridge) it looks like "аn alcoholic transvestite" - Super ugly view? I tried everything, i read and watched everything... all professionals dont speak about the topic. If you have some solution i will be happy to try it out. Thank you in advance! Including - i exported Daz to Blender and Blender to UE. The result is the same...

[@9words40]

im sacre

[@johnlemon874]

Importing enviornments doesn't work, it doesn't load them in blender