I used to be able to export just about any object or architecture from DAZ and it worked fine in Iclone. Now, everything looks dirty. Here's an example of a Gazebo and a dirty corridor. I've tried all sorts of settings and I can't make this clean like it used to be. Sure, I can use shaders, but shaders overwrite maps.  As you can see with the image of the android looking down on the bed, I had no problem doing this last year, but the only way (I think) I can use that set again is to copy it from the old project file into the custom contents. But that doesn't help me with new items. What happened?

As you can see, I can use a shader, but that wipes out the map on the floor.

Can you tell me specifically which items those are (a link to the Daz store would be ideal, but even just the exact name)?

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Mike "ex-genius" Kelley

Honestly, it's any product at all now. And it doesn't matter whether I import the object through 3DXchange or Iclone. Characters are fine. Beautiful. But Objects aren't.
The corridor was Generic Scifi Corridor  https://www.daz3d.com/generic-sci-fi-corridor

There are WAY too many Sci-Fi corridors (even those by Stonemason) for me to identify it.  Can you give me another, more specific Daz item?

I'm having no issues at all but I'm also using my Python script to correctly bring in all the textures.  If you give me an item you can't get I can test it out on that (I'll keep looking for the corridor but the only one I can find from Stonemason in my collection is from 2013 and is NOT the one you linked to).

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Mike "ex-genius" Kelley

I gave a link to the actual item. https://www.daz3d.com/generic-sci-fi-corridor

But again, it's any scene that I export from Daz as a wavefront .obj file. That's absolutely anything now. 

Okay, well that's your first problem.  Export as an FBX (the preferred format) and drag and drop into iClone.  It will bring it in with the diffuse maps correctly.  Then apply my script to get all the other maps (and that link you supplied is VERY odd -- the "corridor" is a Poser file (PP2), not a Daz file, which is why I don't have it.  But if you have a link to any Daz file I'll be glad to try it out for you).

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Mike "ex-genius" Kelley

Something has changed in DAZ. Either Daz or my settings. I just imported this chair, which I saved from Daz as a wavefront object file in 2018. It loads right into Iclone perfectly. Every object in that folder imports perfectly as an object.

But FBX does solve the problem going forward. But OBJ files did work a few years ago. I would export characters as FBX and use all sorts of object files for my props. Fortunately, I have directories from 2018 with many objects in them, but I'll save my new stuff with FBX.

I'll miss the usability of OBJs because Iclone will note any large number of meshes and offer to make them into subprops. It doesn't do that with FBX, and it's a pain in 3DXchange.

Thanks for your suggestion. That saves me a headache this weekend.

Actually, often iClone *will* note subobjects and offer to break them up from FBX files.  It has more to do with the actual set in Daz (which is to say, how they are parented and such).  You can get that effect in Daz by unparenting objects and/or changing Daz characters into props.  If you have any particular item you'd like help with again, just let me know and I can show you how to do it.

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Mike "ex-genius" Kelley