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Iclone for Movie Making - considering buying

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found something interesting on Vimeo
https://vimeo.com/211287596       I have Hitfilm so combination is interesting  [though not limited to Hitfilm of course ].
What impressed me is the picture quality  which kind of negates what I was saying about rendering.:Whistling::blush:



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Sorry I did not respond to last posts but my TRIALl ran out of time and my enthusiasm along with it although I have continued to watch various videos to get to know iclone and the forum is providing valuable info/comment but right now not convinced its for me. 
I am unsure of the rendering  quality of Iclone. Watched quite a few animations but haven't seen anything much outstanding.Few looked sharp and lighting rather flat. That maybe inexperience on part of animator and I dont criticise for that. I have seen several posts in forum that underline my impressions and some of course refer to Iray as solution but I suspect rendering animation with Iray is a "lengthy" process. In my world any thing more than 30sec/frame would be unacceptable. Comments gratefully received and if any one has links to HQ animation [ real scenes  more than 2 mins  and not solo dancing ha ha ]  would appreciate seeing them.
Thankyou again for reponses.


 
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@0oseven: The steps I showed were done with the latest version of CC3, so something must have gone wrong with generating the FBX file from DAZ. 



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Could you provide the FBX DAZ export you're using?Through support is probably better, unless it is just the embedded free DAZ content.
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My install is CC3      3.04.1422.1
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The current version of both CC3 and the CC3P extension is 3.04.

You should try downloading both directly from your account
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Thankyou - Yes I was using the Transformer but to be sure, I just repeated the exercise both withG8male Base and V4 Base with morphs ++ .
Slightly different result this time as per screen shot attached  which includes the list of profiles and as you see G8 and V4 are there and are the ones I used.
baffled !
I'm wondering if a recent  "update" to CC3 has anything to do with it. A few days ago when HUB started it said to download update which I did then CC3 stopped working altogether. Help Desk identified that as being two versions installed so I uninstalled  the oldest - "clever update installer LoL "
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To add to this: the Transformer function can be used with DAZ (Genesis), Poser, and Hivewire models. There must be a list somewhere as to which generations are supported.


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It seems you used the regular import function for the FBX file, which will not work for this.

What you need to use is the Transformer option. This is only available in the CC3 Pipeline Extension. It doesn't work with the basic CC3.

Here are the steps:

1. Click the Transformer button. At the dialog that opens, browse to the FBX file of the Genesis model, and then click Open. CC will start loading the FBX file.

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2. At some point, dialog box opens, showing texture loading options. Click Advanced. CC will continue loading the model.

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3. Another dialog box opens. Check Bake Body Texture, select a Bake Max Texture Size (or leave at 1024) , then click OK.

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CC will continue loading and baking the textures for the model. The transformed model will replace the default model (so there is no need to remove it).


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