Poses and animations coming into iClone via 3DX have to be imported using the FBX file format.  Same for out-bound poses-animations.

@Draian63 - Looking good :)

Hi JC Weatherby
I was inspired by your experience... so I tried following your steps with DAZ shoes as, as well as, hair RL is not providing much choices... (maybe for now!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btoUqTI9HpY

Thank you vidi,

sjonesdc :hehe:

STILL LEARNING!!!

Links are working :) Cool.
Using an iClone character as clothes in order to reshape?  Nice! Very very clever!!

The problem with doing that is that you need an FBX version of the G6 or CC character in order to do this and you need to know how to re-rig the new mesh to the iClone bone structure. As far as I know this requires applying weight maps (or automatic weight maps) to the mesh to indicate how it will bend with the iClone bone structure. To get a FBX version of the G6 or CC character you need to have 3DXChange PIPELINE (PRO does not export FBX) or you need to use the 3DXChange PIPELINE Trial to export one.
This process should work for a G6 character but it may not work for a CC character because it looks like changing CC meshes (such as CC clothing, CC eyeballs, etc) is prevented. For example, if you Export Mesh a CCCloth mesh, 3DXchange will allow it. If you modify such as mesh and use Replace Mesh to apply the modification to the CCCloth, 3DXchange accepts it and shows it. However, when you put the results into iClone, iClone does not show it. If you move back to 3DXchange, the mod will be there...back to iClone...no mod. I am guessing this is an intentional prevention so that RL can sell their CC PIPELINE edition software. This applies to the Export/Replace Mesh function. I have not tried to do the same by replacing the mesh in an FBX character and then re-importing the FBX character.


"We often compare ourselves to the U.S. and often they come out the best, but they only have the right to bear arms while we have the right to bare breasts"
Bowser and Blue, Busting The Breast

Corrected Links: Chuck More Fit Pack and Chuck Less Fit Pack (This time I tested them and they worked at the time of this post)

The Shrink Wrap is a method that allows some of the DAZ body morphs to be applied to iClone characters (i.e. instead of creating a iClone chubby body mesh from scratch you use the existing DAZ body morph). Basically you take an iClone character, align it with a DAZ character, import the iClone character into DAZ, add a DAZ figure and then convince DAZ that the iClone character is clothing for the DAZ figure. Since DAZ clothing is conforming, when you then change the body shape of the DAZ figure it will automatically change the shape of the clothing that the DAZ figure is wearing (in this case the iClone character), So, for example, if you make the DAZ figure fat, the clothing will stretch to accommodate that and the clothing (i.e. iClone character) will also become fat. Then all you do is export the iClone character and use the Replace Mesh option in 3DXChange. The technique works but it is limited to more significant body changes. If you make very subtle body changes the conforming clothing (i.e. iClone character) is not likely to adjust much. For example, I doubt you would get any changes if you adjusted facial morphs...it works more for things like fat, chubby, muscular, athletic, etc.

The biggest trick is aligning the iClone character to the DAZ character because a DAZ character is usually taller than a iClone character and the arms (in a T-Pose) are not in the same position (iClone uses fairly straight arms while DAZ has the arms bent forward a bit). The alignment is important because when DAZ does the conforming clothing it bends meshes around the corresponding DAZ body part, so if you iClone arms are lower than the DAZ arms, any body modification to the arms will not get applied to the iClone character. Similarly the stance between an iClone character and DAZ character is a bit different. I don't recall which but one of them has the legs further apart. If you don't adjust for this then any body morphs applied to legs will not properly show up in the iClone character. The goods new is that once you figure of the adjustments that you need to apply to the iClone character to get it to align with the DAZ character, the values will always remain the same. So the next time you are making a different transformation, you can use the same adjustment values.


"We often compare ourselves to the U.S. and often they come out the best, but they only have the right to bear arms while we have the right to bare breasts"
Bowser and Blue, Busting The Breast

I wanted to know if these can be used in iClone via 3Dxchange??? 

Yes that will work . in DAZ stored  the Poses as Keys in the timeline  and export Genesis  as  FBX . Animation option must be selectetd in the exportmenue . In 3D xchange you can extract the Poses in the Performeditor and send to iclone. 

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The reason for the question is there are poses for sale and they are in a .duf file.  I wanted to know if these can be used in iClone via 3Dxchange???

sjonesdc :hehe:

STILL LEARNING!!!

Not quite sure to have understood your question correctly, but
you can  export and import as fbx . because a duf is a inhouse  DAZ Format


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