Easiest Way To Set Up Diffeomorphic! (Daz to Blender)
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- This is a beginner video for Diffeomorphic, a free plugin used to bring your Daz 3D characters into Blender. This video is just for the set up process of diffeomorphic and showing how to export once it's set up.
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Diffeomorphic Plug-in: diffeomorphic....
I just got done spending 4 hours trying to install the Blender to Daz Bridge. After almost gouging out my own eyes in frustration I found this.
You saved me.
Glad I could help!
The donut of diffeomorphic tutorials on TH-cam
This is the best diffeomorphic tutorial on TH-cam. Couldnt get this set up for weeks untill I found your video
I'm glad you found it :)
Brother this video is really helpful. I spent the whole day try to install Daz to Blender Plugin and your video came to my rescue.
Thank you thank you thank you! I've struggled for days to get diffeomorphic to work. Wish I had found this video sooner!.
Fantastic method of explaining. More tutorials could learn a thing or two from you. Well done!
Firstly I am happy you are recovering from Covid. Secondly...You hit one out of the park with your first video. I am a noob and tried bridge to daz with no luck. Mahalo for making this easier than a manual install. Take care.
You have a great skill in explaining complicated things. Thank you!
Happy to help! 🙂
Dang i love you man, the old tutorial said you had to put the scripts folder in the script folder in daz, so i couldnt see it THANK you so much its been a pain to get this working!
mate you're a legend thank you so much for the easy & in depth explanation
thank you so so much you saved my life!!
Good job, dude. Very useful technique, thanks for sharing, hope to see more tutorial about Daz and Blender.
finally!!! someone who shows the best way, Thanks!!
Glad I could help!
Thanks so much for the easy and updated tutorial. Looking forwards to exploring blender :D
Way better than the manual installation. Thanks!
Worked perfectly. You did a good job explaining the process.
Thank you, glad I could help.
You saved my life dude!
Can't wait for your next video.
Thank you, glad I could help!
Thank You! You made the installation way easier. Great job on the explanation :)
O m g thank you SO much
I have been trying to export a model with geoshell from DAZ to Blender since... weeks, does'nt really work with the official add on
And you made the installation of this one so soothing and easy
Thank you thank you thank you
Lifesaver! post more content,we will support you
Bro thank you very much!!!!! You saved me too! my paths got messed and I didn´t know what to do! Thank youuuuuuuuu
You are a HERO!! SUBSCRIBED
The only tutorial that worked
Thank you. Very much. Just made ANOTHER failed attempt to get DTB Bridge to work, was about to give the F up, and found this.
Happy to help! Yeah DTB is as inconsistent as it convenient. It's a nice tool that just unfortunately Isn't there yet.
I love u bro! Thanks very much!
Thank you so much for this easy and on-point tutorial. Instant sub
Thank you so so so much I've been at this for weeks trying to get this to work thank you very much I'm going to sub now. Keep up the great content
Very happy to help, I've got some stuff in the works now, thanks for the sub!
Great tut~ thanks.
Dude thankyou so much!!
thank you bro. you helped me sm
Awesome, happy to help!
May try this one,
I have no issues installing the Daz to blender bridge, but..Poses do not work if I use for instance the content kneeling pose for daz 9 figures.
the poses are totally screwed up.
Some come in right if I pose myself.
The version to be used is a messup, the blender bridge has one product, that isn´t described to what version it is, and that´s the only one that is there ( v.1)
But some says its now version 2.4.0?? but no such to be found, and daz installer already says it´s installed ..even if I download it again.
you're a lifesaver!! i spent alot of time trying to figure this out but no luck until now. thank you so much for the guide!
+1 like&sub. 💖💖
Thank you, glad it helped!
yess! very helpful. if you got any more tips plz post guides if you have free time :D. also, just wondering if you post 3D guides on other platforms? i'm new trying to learn it
I plan on posting a lot more vids, I've just gotten into a financial rut this past year due to sudden surgeries and layoffs (and taking in a baby suddenly, which I'm not complaining about that one 😅). I'll be back at it soon though now that I've got most of my equipment back and set up now.
fantastic tutorila, has helped me out very well.
Good job... thanks.
And can you make a full long tutorial about all the intricate and advanced features on diffeomorphic I've looked and looked and nobody seems to have a full treatise of all the different options I'd like to master it
Can you make a tutorial after you've brought a character in via diffeo morphic to blender how to animate it and then send it back to daz without hurt anything making it look just the exact same?
thanks for tutorial
how do you export animal hair from daz to blender I cant seem to find a way or doesn't work
I've honestly never tried it so I'm unsure
thank you so much this worked well and it was easy to follow, however I've been having one issue with the textures whenever I'm in the viewport shader blender crashes any way to fix it ?
Sounds like it's probably capping on your ram, it did that to me as well when I first started on blender until I went from 8gb of ram to 32gb, there are a lot of materiels that get ported into Blender from Daz.
One thing you could try for now is to not use materiel preview mode at all and just switch your render engine from Eevee to Cycles then use Render Preview, it might work better for you but it's not going to be real time like eevee would be, it'll be similar to Nvidia Iray in Daz.
Thank you man. You saved me from a situation. I have a suggestion . Pease make a video on how to fully rig every thing including clothes and how to simulate the deforce clothes in blender.
Hey man, sorry for the delay in response, I've been sick with covid and I'm finally recovering, forgot to check the video comments. I'll definitely think about making a video like that.
Thank you a ton it wasn't working i had tried everything! Huge props to you,hopefully you do one tutorial where we can add morphs like abs, muscular body and all (but only if you want) thank you again 🙏
This helped get me started... thanks ;O)
No problem, I'm happy to help!
Thank You Man! Helps me a lot!
love your videos helped me so much but im missing eye textures their all white any sugestion?
200th sub. Bro please make more videos. You are in line with what I am trying to do. This video was perfect g. The one thing idk how to do is bake the textures in blender after importing using diffemorphic. I have been trying to get my Daz studio character from blender to accurig to UE5. But the textures are always funky and it only exports the base textures. I read that baking the textures onto the character will help a lot with the consistency but I have been scrambling for days on so many tutorials looking for something diffeomorphic related and I haven’t found anything. Please make a video or please respond. This is so crazy lol
Thanks for the tutorial!!! but i wanna ask how to use the expression? My model have a set of expression but i cant transfer it to blender...
Congratulations for the video. i hope you can help more and more peaple.
Thank you! And thanks for the sub, I definitely plan on making a lot more vids.
should I go with the diffeomorphic add on or should I go with daztoblender bridge which one gives the best results
They are both useful for different scenarios, I prefer Diffeomorphic but it won't bring in entire scenes / props like DTB can , however DTB has got a lot of downsides, it's inconsistencies are my biggest issue. The people who make Diffeomorphic put a lot more care and focus into it than Daz does for DTB and it shows. I'd still learn DTB if only to bring in props from Daz to Blender, you can get similar results exporting and importing yourself, just takes more work. DTB just adds ease of use to the equation.
Thank you 💞
I might have to try this. I just can't get bridge to work.
Yeah, diffeomorphic is a surprising powerful tool, the bridge is very convenient, but it's hit or miss every update, and the constant bugs make me reluctant to use it consistently. I still try it every now and then when a new update comes out to test out what it can do.
Thanks for this! Wondering if diffeomorphic works on genesis 8.1, doesn't seem to work on my end, only my genesis 8 models seem to work?
How to remove the small squares in the background in render mode like at 12:17 ?
I honestly don't know what it is, I never paid attention to it before. It doesn't impact the render or anything.
Great tutorial!! Really helpmed get over a steep curve. What about morphs how do we import morphs with the character?
Thank you, I'm not home for a few days so I can't really walk through how, but you can include morphs with the model, and have dials to control them as well!
Hi, do you have any indept knowledge of the addon for me, because I ran into a problem? I loaded a Custom Morph, but it only applies to the body. Do you know how to apply it on the clothing too?
Hey, sorry for the late reply. This is actually going to be part of my next video, but all you have to do is select the clothing, then shift click the mesh so that it's the main selection. After that just select "Transfer Shape Keys" (should be under Morphs if memory serves right) in the diffeomorphic menu that you press N to open. The morphs should apply to the clothing now.
@@3DFanatics I somehow managed to figure it out on my own, but thanks 😁
But still, is there a one click solution to pass shapekeys between multiple objects at ones?
Very good tutorial, thank you. Just one question: In DAZ I edited the shapes for the body of my figure. For example with "Pear Figure". How can I use it in Blender with the DAZ Importer? I want to animate this shape in Blender.
merci pour le tuto.je voudrais savoir si le rig de daz peu etre anime sur blender
No problem, animating is possible, my next video is going to be about animation from diffeomorphic but I'm having a hard time finding the time to get to it. Hopefully, soon I can get it finished.
Thank you ! I have a problem that I just don’t know how to solve. When I add strand based hair in Daz studio and then I import to blender the same way you did it’s not connected to the character rig. Everything works good only the hair not connected🤷🏻♂️ How can I fix it?
Hey, thanks for watching and sorry for the late reply. Strand based hair by default isn't compatible with blender, but a workaround that has seemed to work for me is to while in Daz select the strand based hair and under parameters go to "Line Tesselation" turn on "preview PR Hairs" and set "render line tesselation sides" to 2, then export it like normal and it should work. I haven't don't this in a while but it's how I have gotten it done, hope it helps!
thank you 🎉
I can't enable the plugin after install in Blender, I got many errors. Can anyone help please? I have 3.6 and latest diffeomorphic 1.7.2. Thank you.
Awesome
great job keep up the good work
Do you have any idea why the hair doesnt follow the head?
(for anyone having trouble)-make sure you drop it in the (my 3d library with the contents not the empty one) in my version there are 2 folders called my 3d content or wtvr and one is empty.
(another issue)diffeomorphic plugin: pardon me but im having trouble installing the add on from daz the diffeo-HD the other two installers that come long with this diffeo-hd folder did install easy o problem but for some freaking reason this file refuses to work on blender 3.4.1 it will flat on do nothing when i click on it and i cant find it when i search for it in the plugin search bar so that means no install, please help im i have tried 10 different tutorials and none worked,.
I honestly don't know, I just checked it on 3.4.1 and it's working fine for me. 3.4.1 is the most buggy version of blender I think I've ever used though, I'd try reinstalling blender, or even downgrading to an older version and going through the tutorial again and see if it works.
i cant' impoert unit, expression and visemis for male and for female is imported , i don't know if i miss files please tell me
Are you getting an error, or is it grayed out? Also, make sure you have the mesh selected when you try to import and not the rig.
@@3DFanatics i can add custom morph ,but the standard ,body expression and visemis not showing at all on male mesh g8 but on female it show all body morph list and other
Diffeomorphic 1.7 is out. Same install method. Updated to work wit Blender 3.5!
That's good to hear!
Thank you so much for this comment, i was about to ask if this works with blender 3.5 and you saved me!
You are my god .thank you
Haha, no problem, I'm happy to help.
Can you do this with Gen9? so far I keep getting error
The short answer is no, but they are working on it.
Gen 9 is a lot more complicated than 8 and 3 so they will have it compatible hopefully soon, but as of right now it's not.
Okay, I'm doing this over again on a new Windows 11 machine, and Blender (3.3) flatly refuses to install the plugin. I double-click on the zipped file, and nothing happens. Any ideas?
I'm using it on Blender 3.4.1 and it works fine, the one thing I would say to double check is that you're downloading the most recent version of diffeomorphic, older versions won't support past 2.9.
Also, I'm using Windows 10 still, I'm not sure if there's any issues with it on windows 11, but I would imagine it'd be fine. Have you tried installing any other plug in to blender to see if that works?
Oh also (I'm not home right now so I can't look for it myself to see what its called) but I do know that if you can't get the zip files to install then you can unzip the file and look for the actual plug in and just install that specifically, it's very rare that you ever have to do that though, I'm not sure what causes it, hope one of these helps you out
I’m using 3.5. All diffeo add-ons work on that one. Try going into the folder where Blender installs it’s add-ons. It should be under the users / app roaming folder or something like that. Find it and delete it. Then boot blender and install it again. If it doesn’t work than it’s gotta be something with that version of blender.
Solid video.
Can you use this plugin to make a morph and send it back to Daz or is this just one way?
And if it is, is there anyway to make a morph and send it back to Daz on SubD 1 or does it always have to be SubD 0?
hey, great instructions but how to go around not having permission to save path in dazstudio4 folder? thank you in advance
Hey thank you! What do you mean by "not having permission" though, Can you be more specific?
Start daz in admin-mode and you good to go
Thanks amazing! but is there a way to export animation from daz with this method??
There is, but you don't import the animation with it, you use the "import action" option to import animations after the model has already been imported
Thanks
Encore! 😀😎
Actually I was since months trying to set Daz to Blender, I gave up several times... I wanted to give it another last try, desperate... and then I found this and ... Voila!! One thousand thanks!!! But what about the animation?? Doesn¡t it export the animation too??
I got it following your instructions in the posts below. Inside of Blender, in the addon "import action" and choosing the file, but then the figure that I have imported, must be in neutral pose. So the animation cannot be applied directly into the figure imported from my Daz project. Thanks again!
I'm glad you got it figured out! But yeah you just want to make sure you have the models pose zeroed out when you send them to Blender, easiest way to do that is (and you can save your pose first) select your model and go to edit>figure>zero>zero figure pose and it will automatically zero out the pose of your figure, then once you bring them into blender you can use diffeomorphic to import the saved pose and animations!
what version of blender do u use??
I was using 3.0.1 in this video
YOU SAVED ME
I kept getting an error trying to load paths into blender global settings. then I decided to reinstall the add-on, I preseed remove - reopened blender and now it wont install again, nothing happens when I instal the plugin. pulling my hair out.
I manually removed it and reinstalled but the save load error persists .......
Hey sorry I just noticed this, it's possible that the process may have changed a bit with the new version, I'll look into it tomorrow.
PLEASE make a video on soft bodies using Diffeomorphic my brain is beyond confused LMAO i can't get it to work
I worked fiddling with another addon and it didn't work, this does! But we need tutorials.
anyone know why i have wierd outline around my model when i import it into blender?
I'm not sure about this, are the textures showing fine?
@@3DFanatics textures are fine but there is a wierd outline around my model (square shape) and it only happens with third party downloaded models
Does it affect the final render as well? I've never seen this issue so I'm not sure how to help.
You could try asking about it on the forums, I'll post a link for you, it's the best way as far as I know to report bugs, they may be able to help you out there, and figure out what's happening.
www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/517001/diffeomorphic-daz-importer-version-1-6-0-released/p17
@@3DFanatics it only affects eeve, in cycles its fine
Hey man ! I got a question about importing the characters to blender. So I installed the diffeomorphic add on and choose like the genesis 8 male model, so then when I imported it to blender and zoomed in, there are a lot of black pixels all over the body and around it, that stay on my screen after zooming out and in. It’s not laggy or anything but I can’t see the model with all that black thing there. Do you know what’s the problem maybe ?
Hm, I'm not sure, I haven't had that issue before. Does your character have any modifications with skin, or geoshells? Or is just the base Gen 8 model? If it is just the base model then it seems like a bug, may have to try reinstalling, something probably went wrong, also make sure you're using the most recent version.
My character is not appearing in blender.. Did I do something wrong? Someone help!
Are you getting an error in Blender when you try to import?
Incredible tutorial thank you and I'm looking forward to others. I imported successfully but encountered two issues:
1. My character's hair did not come through and I received the warning 'Some assets were not found. Check that all Daz paths have been set up correctly'
2. I made a simple animation (just moving a character arm to test) and that did not come through at all. No error displayed for that.
Do you know if there are other actions I need to take to enable animation import/exporting or for specific assets?
Are you trying to make an animation in Blender, or import an animation from daz? As far as making an animation it should be fairly simply, just make sure you're in pose mode with the rig selected and move the bones and set key frames on the timeline. If you're looking to import animations from Daz you would select the "import action" button under "posing" choose the animation and set the frame rate and first/last frames to match the animation in Daz, hit "Import Action" and it should add it to your timeline in Blender.
How do you re-rig the character in blender like how the native daz to blender exporter rigs the character? posing the character in blender after using diffeomorphic is a nightmare with those awful bone controls...
@Kk thanks! i have to try that workaround
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Thank you, I'll be making more videos soon for sure, be on the lookout.
Thanks! I wonder if this is still relevant, since there’s a Daz to Blender bridge. Which… kinda works. And yeah, what happened to “a lot more videos?” Hope you’re well and just too busy.
The Daz to Blender Bridge has been around for a while, but honestly, I prefer diffeomorphic cause it's more consistent, updated and added onto regularly.
On the note of more videos, a lot has happened in my life since then from covid - multiple surgeries - suddenly taking in a new baby and my priorities had shifted for a while.
The next video I planned on making was on animation to and from blender and soft body simulations, hopefully soon I'll have enough free time to get back into this.
@@3DFanatics sorry to hear about the surgeries! Happy to hear about a new human being arriving! And even happier to hear that there will be more content like this. I dug Daz back out because I have a project coming up that might benefit from me being up to date. Sure, the rendering looks nice in Daz, for sure, but I’d prefer to get to Blender for this, as painless as possible.
great tutorial my man. I have it working, but when the import comes in, the textures are all black and some of the clothing doesn't come in. Any clue what I'm doin wrong? Thanks again
Is that a base Genesis 8 male? If so something isn't right, so I would just try reinstalling the plug in and starting the setup process from scratch. I haven't had that issue, so I'm not really sure.
I think this is because of the daz paths not being set up correctly, happened to me as well a while back and I corrected it by putting the folders where they belong (at least I think that's what fixed it), data inside data folder, textures in the texture folder etc.
thank you very much for this tutorial. however after everything it could not open and it said the daz library path "C:/DProgramFiles/DAZ 3D/DAZStudio4/shaders/iray"does not exist
Is that happening with everything you load? If so your root path probably isn't loaded correctly. I would try doing it over again, it should work fine if you've done every step.
Great job on this! It was very easy to follow. I was expecting that I would need to spend quite a bit of time trying to get my first transfer done, but this only took an hour. Looking forward to more!
One thing I noticed was that in the import-daz-paths.json file, there were a few paths that actually don't exist on my system. I didn't see them in the Global Settings in Blender after the import, so it may just be something to ignore.
In the following section, the first one exists, but the other two do not.
"builtin_mdl": [
"C:/Daz3D/DAZ 3D/DAZStudio4/shaders/iray",
"C:/Users/xxxxx/AppData/Roaming/DAZ 3D/Studio4/shaders/iray",
"C:/Users/xxxxx/AppData/Roaming/DAZ 3D/Studio4/temp/shaders/iray"
],
Also, I don't have the "DAZ Built-in Content" folder:
"builtin_content" : "C:/ProgramData/DAZ 3D/Studio4/DAZ Built-in Content",
Yo dawg, can you do another tutorial on how to use the bones, I tend to riggify it but I don’t get IKS for the fingers, and but I do have an rigged mouth. So when i switch to MHX I get rigged fingers but no rigged mouth. Shits giving me mad cringe vibes
Great tutorial! However, whenever I import the character to Blender, the clothes and hair disappear. I bought them off of the Day store. Any ideas on how I can get those imported as well?
Im not sure why this happens sometimes, but what I've done to fix this in the past is to just move the items you're transferring into your content library where non daz store items would go.
Just find the item in your "Products" folder and right click then select "browse to folder location" and drag the files into your "my library" folder and they should place automatically where they need to go. Right click your "my library folder" and hit refresh and that should fix the issue.
my character has weird lines on there body when i import to blender
What do you mean? Is it the bones like at 11:53? (they're orange but turn black if you click off of them) If so just hit the eye that I hit in the video there and it should go away.
@@3DFanatics not the bones, it somwthing else, it looks like checkered pattern all over the body and the eyes are completely red, even in rendered mode.
Did you get an error when you imported about textures not being compatible or anything like that? Some textures simply won't work and will throw off everything, especially if you're importing HD, also make sure you saved the root paths correctly, otherwise, I'm not really sure. You could try heading to the daz forums and ask about it there, I'll drop a link.
www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/517001/diffeomorphic-daz-importer-version-1-6-0-released/p23
bruh why did you stopped this was more helpful
Life. I still want to make more vids, but my life derailed after covid, but now I have a baby and had to shift my priorities a lot and sold all of my equipment. I'm slowly buying things back now. I just ordered an RTX 4080, next purchase will be a mic, and I can make vids again.
8:11. When I go to copy my path location and save, it gives me the error stating I don't have permission to save n this location. Yet when I try to run as administrator, DazCentral tells me it can't run with elevated permissions. Not sure what to do here. DazStudio 4.20
EDIT: FRAK!! I think I see what happened. For some reason it saved to the documents folder on my OneDrive, not my C drive. Now how to move them correctly...
Interesting, I'm not sure about that, I haven't had that issue. Someone else in the comments had the same issue though, if you figure it out, let me know.
Alternatively, you can go over to the forums and ask there if you can't figure it out, here's a link.
www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/517001/diffeomorphic-daz-importer-version-1-6-0-released/p13
@@3DFanatics Thanks. I managed to figure it out - it DID have to do with the location being on the OneDrive.... now I have another issue. When I export my character from DAZ to Blender, it doesn't carry over textures and colors for the clothing and, for some reason, it only brings in the clothing and the hair - no figure. ??? Not sure what's going on.
@@Preirin Try loading root paths again, it probably isn't finding everything since it's been moved.
Edit: I honestly would just re-install if it was me, just make a copy of your content then move it over into the new version so you don't lose anything.
@@Preirin also, what version of blender are you on?
@@3DFanatics 3.1.2
Does diffeomorphic work on Macbook
It does work on Mac, I don't own one so I can't tell you the process, but It should definitely work fine once it's set up.
"merge materials" button not working
Might be a bug, to my knowledge the best place to report a bug would be the forums, just make sure you're using the latest version of Diffeomorphic, here's a link.
www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/517001/diffeomorphic-daz-importer-version-1-6-0-released
u said u were gonna make more videos on daz to blender 😕😕
I 100% plan on it, very soon. I've had a lot going on these last months, caught covid, took care of my dad with covid, took in a new baby (not my son, his mother abandoned him and I'm adopting him), and had a surprise surgery I'm still recovering from.
When I recorded this video I had plans and a schedule ready for future uploads but then life hit me. Things are starting to level out now and be less hectic so trust me, you'll see more videos very soon.
@@3DFanatics ohno so sorry but come back stronger and best of lucky friend and cant wait to see more of ur stuff🥳🥳 and know that this video has helped thousands of poeple 🤩🤩
Thank you. Nice try. but does not work in Blender. Can only import obj"s. The Blender bridge does not work in Blender, and the Diffeomorphic only works in Daz studio. Not Blender. Can't find the shaders. But both the bridge and the Differmorphic work great in Daz. But thank you for the info.
What do you mean it doesn't work in blender? Diffeomorphic works perfectly fine in both daz and blender for me.
me too.. Can you tell us exactly what it's doing doing in blender by looking at the console and get the error messages
You sound like you was crying for your whole life. Are you alright my dude?
Haha, I might of been a bit nervous, this was my first time doing a video like this. I'll try to do better next time.
@@3DFanatics Thats aight, you did great. Now I can import big booby gals into Blender. Thanks!
Can't blame him. I'd also start crying if I had to use Daz