Now it looks like FBX export is only for Daz Studio 4 Pro ... and the ones in other version were betas GRRRRRRRRRR..........



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yeah, I noticed that, and the price is rather high. I paid way less
for Carrara!

I'm afraid I missed out on playing around with the beta version of daz 4,
but I read that owners of daz 3 who already have the fbx plugin, will get
the fbx plugin upgrade free, without having to buy daz studio 4.
Which they should do!

So I'm going to be checking out the DS3 to Iclone pipeline for myself
in the next week, and also try it with carrara, just to see for msyelf
how it goes.

I'm going to be upgrading carrara, but I'm not so sure about Daz 4.
Sheesh!

+1 - I'd love to see 3dx become a rigging platform for iClone. As it is, it's really quite a bit of money to spend on what's essentially a file-conversion utility.

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with regards the Fbx plugin theres a lot of confusion in the DAZ forums as to whats going on so I have opened a support ticket to clear stuff up.. I'm not sure Daz even know what there doing right now stuff changes from one min to the next.

Yeah 3Dexchange is very pricey for a tool that basically supplies import export tools. Been able to rig your own meshs would cut the $1000z pipeline thats Max or Maya ....:D



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I have the fbx plugin for DS3A, which I got in on sale after playing around with the Carrara one in Unity
(have yet to install that on my new computer but the reason I haven't done terribly much in Unity was my crap graphics, not an issue now so I MUST)
the beta gave me errors on Genesis
I haven't got my DS4A serial yet, apparently paypal customers had issues so waiting but may have to contact support.
As I don't have the 3Dxchange version that does figures, just the 2.0 prop one, (or iCpro for that matter) cannot test there, but will try it in Unity when I can.
I found the Carrara one at least was very limited as to the size of the mesh that could be imported, at least in Unity, milcat out of the question, project Human lowrez worked fine and was what I concertrated on as it is redistributable with the pdf outlining it's EULA so could be used in a game
haven't tried the DS one much.
the point I am making is if you forget Genesis for now, the Carrara flavour of fbx should be fine, it does mesh that has been altered too, I displaced bits of PH and added shading domains for painted on clothes and hair and it all exported fine so you can make new characters and monsters in the vertex room with displacement amd magnets, painted on moulded clothes more suited for machinima and games.

Thanks Wendy! I may just do that, because I am just not wanting to
spend the $$ on daz studio.

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Daz say that all who already own the fbx plugin will get a free upgrade to the new DAZ 4 fbx exported but not for several weeks even though Pro users have it now...

Though DAZ content is cheap the company themselfs tend to move the goalposts to often for comfort....



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So I still have to buy daz studio 4 to use the FBX upgrade?
But I can just get the advanced version? Well at least that's
a "small favor."

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This is how I read it so far ... If you already own the fbx exporter then a free upgrade will be offered in several weeks time and that should work on daz studio free version (though get it now as soon the free version is gona cost $50).

Pro users have it now ...annoying as I have paid a few hundred dollars to daz for fbx export yet still havent got it ....



I Make My Mates Do The CanCan For The Amusement Of Killer Robots:D

Peter,

Isn't 37,000 too much for 3dxchange 4?

I just brought in a completely unchanged bare genesis drone,
and got a message saying that it was over 30,000, and
it was too much.

Tyler

PS: Or maybe Iclone 5 will just be able to handle quite a few more polygons,
and 37,000 would be fine for it?

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