The plugins have been tested with Blender 2.83 and Blender 3.5 under Windows 7 and Windows 10, but should work with intermediate versions as well.
The most signicant new features in this release are:
Support for Genesis 9 characters.
Support for Blender 3.5, in particular the new mixing nodes.
There are also some other improvements and many bugfixes.
The documentation has moved to the Bitbucket wiki. It is not quite up-to-date, but I didnāt want to postpone the release further. Here are links to the wikis:
great! good job.
is it still the case that armatur adjustments are not working which characters created with 1.6?
If remember right, you introduced in the dev version there a breaking change which forced me to back to an older version, after Iām currently in a bug project ad redoing the character is too much work.
Thomas, thank you for the update and your hard work in general. Itās incredible.
Iām using your plugin to make animations for Unity. It works more or less decently, I donāt have too many issues, except a couple that could be very helpful.
Is there a way to completely reset an armature? Sometimes when I import a pose and animate it, I cannot import another pose to it. It just doesnāt work anymore, until I re-import the whole model again. This is especially egregious with the IK.
Also, I would like to know if thereās a way to āforceā the Daz Importer to import poses to armatures that are renamed. If I change the Armatureās name, it stops working. Completely. Sometimes I need to animate two characters at the same time, and right now itās giving me some serious issues.
If you -or anyone for that matter- know some kind of method to make it easier for me? Iād love to hear it.
Maybe baking mhx rig into the normal Genesis 8 rig? Is that even possible?
Again? Thank you so much for this plugin. Itās a life saver.
My solution to the retargeting scheme was simple, in case anybody wants to retarget to a DAZ rig.
I duplicate the bend bones and use those for retargeting; then I drive the bend and twist bones by Copy Rotation constraints. Once the retargeting is done, bake the bend and twist bones with visual keys and turn off the constraints. Working beautifully.
This is primarily a bugfix release. A number of serious bugs were discovered right after the 1.7.0 release. Those have now been eliminated, so I recommend everybody to update to the new version. Safely Installing a New Version.
There are also a few new features. The most obvious one is that the user interface has been rearranged. The DAZ Importer now takes up two tabs in the User Interface (N-panel), DAZ Setup and DAZ Runtime. One or both of these tabs can be hidden.
Apologies for using this thread of yours - I could not find any other means of contacting you.
I would love to support your work (be it by donations, coding, idea bouncing or just emotionally) - but more importantly, hereās a little something:
When trying to āscan morph databaseā I frequently have Blender (3.6.4 and previous versions) crashing due to a well-known issue with JSON decode. The Try-Except frame you are using in loadfromstring does not catch the crash (read from 0), unfortunately, because, Python does not get to raise the issue.
The core issue is that - I havenāt figure out why - rawdecode in Pythonās json handler gets a 0-pointer string and does not sanity-check for that. Thatās in json/decoder.py (nothing you can do about it, itās Python).
However, it SHOULD be possible to catch that issue on your importerās side. I checked for an empty string, that didnāt do it, though. I am going to try to catch by checking for null as well (unfortunately TESTING takes about 5 hours on my system, I only have a few scenarios where the crash appears reliably).
What helped me was to check for 0 in json/decode.py (in Blenderās 3.10 Python). That completely avoided the check.
Hello,
Canāt seem to find any relevant thread elsewhere so iāll ask here. Basically when you convert imported daz rig to MHX or Rigify you get same issue which is that all your drivers get messed up. I guess it happens because bone rotations get changed with new rig but drivers remain set for old bone rotations.
Same thing happens if you change rest pose.
Now my work around was to create duplicate bones which are driving shapekeys (mostly bend ones) and parent them to deformation bones of changed rig and then set them as target of drivers, this way all drivers are working correctly and there is no issue with new rig.
But thats rather slow going and its hard to change driver targets if you canāt see details and iām useless in anything script related, so if anyone know for more efficient, faster solution iād be glad to know.
Or if diffeomorphic addon it self could create similar setup with additional bone layer for drivers when converting to MHX/Rigify to preserve original daz rotations for max compatibility?
I created an unofficial Diffeo Discord. I suggested it a while back and for very valid reasons the creator wasnāt down. However this addon has grown in usage and information is spread all over the place. As well something of the like was recently suggested in the issues section of the Diffeo Bitbucket. So, the Unofficial Diffeo discord. I encourage all esp those who answer questions here to come. Iāve never don this before but I will do what I can to make sure people have a place to discuss DAZ, DIffeo, and anything relatedā¦ within reason of course.
https://discord.gg/ftMk3MGKg
This invite expires after 30 days. To have a permanent invite I would have to open up the server for discord to scan everything and do what they want. Considering the nature in which Diffeo and DAZ get used sometimes I have opted to not go that route. Mind you this does not mean its a place to share pr0n.
This should be a better/closer to permanent solution since discord has to be a butt head about permanent invite links.
Iām running into a problem in blender 4 with the Simple Rig from previous blender/diffeo versions. If I open a file from blender 3.6 the bone layers arenāt all there in the ctl panel.
It seems like the simple IK rig has changed between versions. If I import a fresh character into 4.0 and add a simple rig all the bone layers are there. Itās just if I open a file made with previous versions.
Iām working around by using bone collections and I purchased RigUI but I really miss having those layer buttons there. Just sayinā.
Blender 4 breaks a lot of things, in particular bone layers are replaced with bone collections. Version 1.7.2 and later support Blender 4, earlier versions do not. Files loaded in to Blender 3.x with earlier versions of the addon will probably not work in Blender 4.
They definitely donāt work in 4. For anyone reading this, I can tell you that the RigUI addon helped for my older files. Iām not affiliated with the addon, just trying to share helpful info.
Thomas, thanks for the response and thanks for Diffeo.