0:00 Intro 0:06 Talking About The 3 Methods And Creating The Folders 1:10 METHOD 1 - Morph Targets With OBJ's - Creating Our Character In Daz 1:36 Creating The A-Pose 2:25 Creating A Secondary Pose And Saving The OBJ Files 3:37 Opening Our OBJ Files In Marvelous Designer 5:16 Loading In A Morph Target OBJ 6:18 METHOD 2 - Using FBX Animation Data 7:08 Importing The FBX File Into Marvelous Designer 10:04 METHOD 3 - Create Marvelous Designer Pose Files From The FBX 14:16 Outro
Hey Travis, there's actually another way, with the .mmd export, with the paid plugin in Daz, aniMate2. Save the obj, export an .mmd, import the obj in MD, import the mmd. Obj with animation with the correct anatomy. Very easy. I love that it maintains the bendings and the actual morphs from Daz. Can't wait for your new tutorial!
Looks great, Travis! I’ve been using Jay Versluis’ method which involves an .mdd I think it’s called and then an OBJ sequence to get it back into Daz. Which is extremely compute heavy. This looks way easier!!
@@TravisDavids oh yeah... I guess this method doesn’t actually export the animated garment back out... so guess I’ll still have to pump out OBJ sequences if I wanna render in Daz.
You'll only need that method for an animation. If you're rendering a 2-D static, you can export the draped clothing in the finished pose, and drop it into Studio. Although, I suggest texturing it first in MD. Unless you want to spend time in UV mapping elsewhere, and if you do so you may have to retopo. MD is horrible when it comes to working out the seams. And if you go through the trouble using MD-animated cloth for use in Studio, you might as well go all the way and learn how to make clothing for Studio avatars.
As far as I know there is no default method in Daz to export Alembic. Unless there is a way to do this? I know that when it comes to exporting out an animated garment from MD i always use Alembic HDF5. If i want to create an alembic from a Daz character, i export out of Daz as an FBX first, then in Cinema 4D i import the FBX and save it out of C4D as Alembic HDF5 (Legacy). Then I have a prefect working alembic version of the file.
Hey travis! great tutoria as always! one issue i found when doing the Fbx method is that when the animation is transitioning my avatar gets its fingers really deformed, any idea what can be the cause?
Dude! Arrgh, I can't find the tool bar at the top of the screen with the "Pose and Animate tab"! I'm totally stuck! I've been googling for an hour trying to fix my screen layout. What is it called? I'm DAZ Studio Pro 4.15 Windows 10. Cheers!
@@the_shizon3322 Thank you for mentioning this, I didn't even know how to respond to this. By the way this is my workspace. Go to Window - Workspace - Select Layout and the layout I'm using is called Hollywood Blvd.
@@TravisDavids Wow, thanks for the quick reply. Love your work. Yes, I was clicking around checking all the workspaces and found the Hollywood one, that one has the tabs on the right side of the window also. I'm trying this workflow, but into Houdini to see how it works. I'll reply back to inform others viewers how it works out. Cheers!
I've been using the Collada animation method from an older video of yours. Is there any reason why you're no longer using it? The only thing that I don't remember about it is if I was able to switch back and forth between the poses.
I still use the Collada method as well :) Just wanted to showcase 3 other methods as well in case one method doesn't work out for someone they can always fall back on other solutions.
By the way, exactly what I did with the FBX can be done with the collada, the anatomy between the files still looks a bit wonky and you will always need the obj to drape your clothing on for the final pose so it's draped on the correct looking anatomy.
@@TravisDavids Ah, I never noticed the issue. But that's probably because I move the clothes back in DAZ and then fix the any problems with ZBrush. I'll keep that in mind though, thanks a lot.
@@nevarran hey can u plz guide me..... I only know daz, and i want to do animations and cloth sims as animation and dforce in daz is very difficult... Wondering to learn MD and MoBu but don't know what to start with!!!
Hey Travis, I was just trying this out and when I'm importing the FBX to MD I keep getting the following error message "FbxSkin::eDualQuaternion or FbxSkin::eBlend is not supported." I'm Using Daz 3D 4.14 and MD9. Is it due to the MD version?
@@TravisDavids hello! I had the same issue, tried your suggestion and still not working, tried with blender and the same. I don't get the error when importing but the animation isn't just there( and it is working on blender and cinema4d. Thank you!
Hey Travis, thanks so much for the awesome tutorial! Can you do a tutorial on dressing/undressing animations? Something similar to what they did in the Netflix episode 'The Witness'. Just look up "The Witness Work Reel".
0:00 Intro
0:06 Talking About The 3 Methods And Creating The Folders
1:10 METHOD 1 - Morph Targets With OBJ's - Creating Our Character In Daz
1:36 Creating The A-Pose
2:25 Creating A Secondary Pose And Saving The OBJ Files
3:37 Opening Our OBJ Files In Marvelous Designer
5:16 Loading In A Morph Target OBJ
6:18 METHOD 2 - Using FBX Animation Data
7:08 Importing The FBX File Into Marvelous Designer
10:04 METHOD 3 - Create Marvelous Designer Pose Files From The FBX
14:16 Outro
Life saviour! Could not find any info to make this work properly until this.
Pose Files and Pipelines this was very helpful!
Hey Travis, there's actually another way, with the .mmd export, with the paid plugin in Daz, aniMate2. Save the obj, export an .mmd, import the obj in MD, import the mmd. Obj with animation with the correct anatomy. Very easy. I love that it maintains the bendings and the actual morphs from Daz. Can't wait for your new tutorial!
You do have to keyframe the different poses in Daz, btw. But the rest is pretty neat.
@@daviddmotion Awesome! Sounds like a super useful plugin. Thank you for sharing that.
aniMate2 = $$$ Ouch!
@@TheKevphil it's relatively cheap if on sale. I snagged it for 50% off last year.
Thank you for the tips Travis!
That’s what I was searching for, many thanks
My pleasure!
Looks great, Travis! I’ve been using Jay Versluis’ method which involves an .mdd I think it’s called and then an OBJ sequence to get it back into Daz. Which is extremely compute heavy. This looks way easier!!
Hmmm never heard of that method although I never go from MD back to Daz.
@@TravisDavids oh yeah... I guess this method doesn’t actually export the animated garment back out... so guess I’ll still have to pump out OBJ sequences if I wanna render in Daz.
You'll only need that method for an animation. If you're rendering a 2-D static, you can export the draped clothing in the finished pose, and drop it into Studio. Although, I suggest texturing it first in MD. Unless you want to spend time in UV mapping elsewhere, and if you do so you may have to retopo. MD is horrible when it comes to working out the seams.
And if you go through the trouble using MD-animated cloth for use in Studio, you might as well go all the way and learn how to make clothing for Studio avatars.
Why my fbx file doesn't have data animation inside MD 10? I can't see that red frame
Hi Travis, I hope you reply me🙏🏾
I have an issue using genesis 8 for MD animations it doesn’t move at all.
Please what can I do about it?
Woow so interesting! I'll try it the animation form
Excellent! Thank you!
Highly appreciated
Hey man! What’s the best way to contact you?
GREAT clothing mate!
Thank you Metal Head!
my pleasure!
Thanks man, I’ve been having problems with getting FBX animation from DAZ into MD. Armature always turned out all messed up.
FBX can still be a pain at times. I've also found that alembic works really well, especially with anything animated.
In MD 12 obj and pose file not work. Only fbx. In MD 10 work norm.
Thank you!
Hello there, for whatever reason whenever I try to create a garment. it clips through the mesh
thank you so much!
wtf man your face overlay scared me for a second 😁
LMAO, i'm using a SnapCamera filter.
amazing tutorials, thanks
Great information!
Thank you Brandon the 🐐
thank you for this!
when I import a pose file it just flicks to the new pose and doesn't animate. can anyone suggest why this might be? - Thanks
Very helpful
Daz is strange i installed it 3 times it reinstalls everything when i quit and i cant use models even after downloading them
i have used your collada method for years now, is there a downside to that method?
link plz 🙏🏻
What do you think about exporting Alembic from Daz for MD?
As far as I know there is no default method in Daz to export Alembic. Unless there is a way to do this? I know that when it comes to exporting out an animated garment from MD i always use Alembic HDF5. If i want to create an alembic from a Daz character, i export out of Daz as an FBX first, then in Cinema 4D i import the FBX and save it out of C4D as Alembic HDF5 (Legacy). Then I have a prefect working alembic version of the file.
Hey travis! great tutoria as always! one issue i found when doing the Fbx method is that when the animation is transitioning my avatar gets its fingers really deformed, any idea what can be the cause?
hello! i found out that enabling "only" figures,props and animations on the export option panel helps with this issue :)
Dude! Arrgh, I can't find the tool bar at the top of the screen with the "Pose and Animate tab"! I'm totally stuck! I've been googling for an hour trying to fix my screen layout. What is it called? I'm DAZ Studio Pro 4.15 Windows 10. Cheers!
NM I got it. Need to select Windows -> Workspace -> Full Service Beta. In case anyone else comes across this. Cheers!
@@the_shizon3322 Thank you for mentioning this, I didn't even know how to respond to this. By the way this is my workspace. Go to Window - Workspace - Select Layout and the layout I'm using is called Hollywood Blvd.
@@TravisDavids Wow, thanks for the quick reply. Love your work. Yes, I was clicking around checking all the workspaces and found the Hollywood one, that one has the tabs on the right side of the window also. I'm trying this workflow, but into Houdini to see how it works. I'll reply back to inform others viewers how it works out. Cheers!
Mr. Travis, when i import an obj file(saved from DAZ) into MD, the avatar always comes upside down, like inverted... Don't you know why that happens?
Hmmm that is odd, never ever encountered that so I don't even know what to say. Are you importing the OBJ into MD with Auto Scale selected?
I've been using the Collada animation method from an older video of yours. Is there any reason why you're no longer using it?
The only thing that I don't remember about it is if I was able to switch back and forth between the poses.
I still use the Collada method as well :) Just wanted to showcase 3 other methods as well in case one method doesn't work out for someone they can always fall back on other solutions.
By the way, exactly what I did with the FBX can be done with the collada, the anatomy between the files still looks a bit wonky and you will always need the obj to drape your clothing on for the final pose so it's draped on the correct looking anatomy.
@@TravisDavids Ah, I never noticed the issue. But that's probably because I move the clothes back in DAZ and then fix the any problems with ZBrush. I'll keep that in mind though, thanks a lot.
@@nevarran hey can u plz guide me..... I only know daz, and i want to do animations and cloth sims as animation and dforce in daz is very difficult... Wondering to learn MD and MoBu but don't know what to start with!!!
@@ProPython Just watch Travis' tutorials and you'll learn what I know.
Hey Travis, I was just trying this out and when I'm importing the FBX to MD I keep getting the following error message "FbxSkin::eDualQuaternion or FbxSkin::eBlend is not supported."
I'm Using Daz 3D 4.14 and MD9. Is it due to the MD version?
If you have Cinema 4D just import the FBX into that program and save it out of the program as an FBX file and it should fix that issue.
Tried the same thing with blender and it worked out!!! Thanks Travis.
@@daysoframpage Awesome, that is a common FBX error i've seen with MD, glad it worked.
@@TravisDavids hello! I had the same issue, tried your suggestion and still not working, tried with blender and the same. I don't get the error when importing but the animation isn't just there( and it is working on blender and cinema4d. Thank you!
Updates! I made it with the abc, but I would still prefer to work with the fbx, is there any suggestions? Thank you!
Hey Travis, thanks so much for the awesome tutorial! Can you do a tutorial on dressing/undressing animations? Something similar to what they did in the Netflix episode 'The Witness'. Just look up "The Witness Work Reel".
*from Love Death and Robots
good tho
Please remove that filter on your face 😅