Export Animation from Daz to Iclone

Export Animation from Daz to Iclone

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By pka4916 - 7 Years Ago

I've been trying this now for the longest time, but the animation ends up that only the hands are turning around lol
I watched this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7LPnllB4Rg

and create the file, and import it in iClone 3DXchange v7.4 Pipeline
but when I play the animation, it's just messed up.

What am I doing wrong, or did something change?

By AutoDidact - 7 Years Ago

I did not watch that person's 33 minute video

However the process is best explained by the official Reallusion Videos on the matter

By pka4916 - 7 Years Ago

Thank you.
I skipped most of the annoying talk from that guy.
But the normal stuff all works. it's the Animation that doesn't seem to transfer properly. (Ani Blocks baked to the timeline, and export the animation)

By animagic - 7 Years Ago

What version of DAZ are you using? I know in the past there were FBX export problems, but the latest version should work. I don't use DAZ that often, but someone must be able to assist you.

By pka4916 - 7 Years Ago

I am using 4.10

The version in the video os V4.11 public. (beta)
so I'm wondering if that's the problem then.

By AutoDidact - 7 Years Ago

Hi If indeed you want to use baked aniblocks exported from Daz studio,

IMHO is best to export the BVH files from Daz studio alone and import them into 3DX.

The DAZ skeletal structure will be auto recognized for retargeting

and you can add them to perform as save as proper Imotion files.

Those Imotion files can be used on the imported Daz figure ,or any other avatar, In Iclone

with much better reliability than the animation Data in an FBX exported from Daz studio.

Here is a really Old Reallusion tutorial that details this method of converting Daz studio

Aniblock /animation to Imotion Via BVH export from Daz studio

It is still relevant as I recently used the exact method to convert BVH from Endorphin to Imotion

By ruscular - 7 Years Ago

Thanks for the tip on exporting aniblock. I am now halfway there. I was able to use the breastjig in Daz3d and export to FBX to Lightwave and all the animation was succesfully transfer, but that same FBX file was not able to bring the breastjig animation be imported to Iclone. Only the aniblock made it there. I have the Iclone 7 and 3dexchange pipeline. I used FBX2011 format. I was able to bring everything to Lightwave, but it would be nice to bring everything to Iclone to take advantage of their renderer, and FX, and hair and cloth simulation.

By AutoDidact - 7 Years Ago

ruscular (12/14/2019)

Hi,

It is not surprising that you are getting a better result

with Daz FBX exports to Lightwave as Lightwave has a much better native FBX importer than the Iclone 32 bit 3DXchange tool,

Lightwave's FBX importer supports the Daz animated facial and bodymorphs so even talking figure from Daz transfers with no manual face setup as required with 3DX

I am currently migrating from Maxon C4D to Lightwave, as my final render environment, (for alot of reasons ),

But primarily because of Lightwave's superior Veiwport display (VPR) for accurate look dev in scene building, feature film quality particle effects/volumetrics and better native support for .obj/MDD driven animation than C4D as C4D only supports MDD via a third party plugin no longer in development.

If you plan to render in Iclone your best method to get usable Daz figures imported is the CC3 Transformer tool that projects the shape of the daz figure into a proper Iclone Avatar.

However unlike Lightwave's FBX, you will not retain any Daz Studio generated animated mesh morphs such as lipsynch or "body jiggles".