I have imported a character from Daz to Iclone with facial animation. In the end I want to have the same character with the same motions as the ones used in Iclone in Maya. I have some questions:

1. Can 3DXchange Pipeline export facial blend shapes that can be used in Maya ?
2. If I export a character from Daz directly to Maya, it is possible to send motion files from Iclone to that skeleton, or it's a different rigging?
3. If I animate a character in Iclone( mooving head up and down, walking on a trajectory, having different emotes, gestures etc.-except facial animation) ...could I export the entire final animation to Maya for rendering?

I want to use Voice o Matic plugin on some of the imported blend shapes, (for lipsync) animating the others for facial expressions.

Actually, I want to have an Iclone scene rendered in Maya. Could you give me tips on how to do this please?

I have found a way. Seems that Iclone exports the model with no morphs but it exports the skeleton. On the other hand, Daz exports both the morphs and the skeleton. I oppened both Iclone FBX and Daz FBX, deleted the characters, compared the skeletons and they seem the same. If I import model without morphs( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLvE45CVtmQ ) , send Iclone animations to it ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUsrXSJ4NGE ) then import the Daz character and retarget the motions from the Iclone character ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV51sFi5aV4 ) .....will that work ? Or I can retarget the motions directly on Daz character? I want to keep the skin weights alive. What do you think?

When 5.5 pipeline is released, which will be soon I heard, you will be able to export full facial animation from iclone into maya. It works really well. :)



Cheers,

Cris



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It will soon, has been promised

this thread suggests it
https://forum.reallusion.com/Topic159392-281-1.aspx?Highlight=facial+animation
I hope I am not out of line linking it, there have been a few.