There's one additional thing my script does which relates directly to this topic - all maps are resampled down to 1K.

Nearly all Daz maps are 4K and loaded into iClone are overkill for nearly all projects.  It's what's bloats things and makes it impossible to work with.  If you look at all my tutorials on the script you'll see the file sizes go down tremendously, so a project that needed 11GB of GPU memory (and most folks don't have more than 8GB) is now only 2 or 3.

That's another consideration for about every project you use.

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Mike "ex-genius" Kelley

It all makes a lot more sense now, thanks for all the help on this.

As a rule putting an FBX file into iClone will not bring in things like the Normals, Roughness, Metallic and Opacity maps (there are exceptions to this rule but in particular Daz files are usually missing all or most of these).

You get the diffuse and diffuse only (again, with some exceptions).  Running my script corrects this and it looks MUCH better.  But if you are satisfied with the file the way it is you don't need my script (look at the tutorial where I show the Oasis and the huge difference when running my script.  Or, actually, any of the tuts like the Terminator.  Just diffuse maps don't bring the full power of the Daz products).

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Mike "ex-genius" Kelley

I'm so confused, what does this script do? I pulled the fbx into my iclone and it worked just fine, all the colors and such, im sorry if im missing something here

Thank you! I managed to get all of this installed, the only thing I was hoping to run by you is the daz config file that I put in my documents folder. Do I change this every single line?

You're sort of close.

Get-pip.py is a Python script provided by RL to enable you to install Python libraries.  So you must navigate to that scripts folder, which you did.  But to run it you need to invoke the iClone python, which is iClonepy.  So the proper syntax is:

iClonepy get-pip.py

when you are in that scripts directory.  After that you can install various libraries with that command:

iClonepy -m install <library>

However, neither of those commands will work unless you have added the path to iClonepy.exe to your system, as Administrator.  The full instructions for doing that are in the video but also RL has provided that page as well (I think I reference it but if you need me to I'll look it up and post it here).  As long as you are pathed to iClonepy then it will operate in any directory (you can tell this by just executing iclonepy at any command prompt.  If you are pathed to it correctly it will enter Python, at which point you can press ctrl-z to exit).

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Mike "ex-genius" Kelley

I'm sorrry, I've been following this six minute video for hours, but i can't figure out what im doing wrong. I can't install the script from command prompt, no matter what i do it just says its invalid at a certain point

Thanks so much! I can't wait to try it out.

I can provide a link but you really need to see the videos, so the best thing is to go to my channel and see how to use it (the link to the script is there).

https://www.youtube.com/user/MikeDKelley

(Under my iClone tutorials you'll see all my videos for the script).

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Mike "ex-genius" Kelley

Thanks so much for doing this. The brittish one looks like my best option, and it runs fine enough? I like that it is dark, it's supposed to be an old abandoned library I'm using it for.  I too would enjoy the script for linking textures, that would be extremely helpful.