DAZ Studio - Animation - Export to Max, Blender, Maya, etc...

Ace-Angel

Heya peeps,

I was wondering if anyone knew any tutorials of ways one could export a set of animations for DAZ and into (example) Max in a clean and uncluttered way from where you can then 'bake' the animation to either CAT or Bip?

The reason I'm asking this, is I finally got a friend of mine to 'upgrade' to said applications, and he has a bunch of animations made in DAZ that we would like to bring into other apps (example) like Max so he can take stuff from there.

And yes, I tried Google, but most of the results seem to 'miss' out of the important steps on how to export/import animation data cleanly without having it fly all over the place.

Much appreciated for any response, cheers!

Eric Chadwick

Depends on what formats DAZ exports to. And if you can convert that into the specific formats that CAT and Biped support.

I know Biped allows you to import motion capture data into the Biped skeleton, using various mocap formats. It can be kind of messy if the proportions are off, because it tries to retarget the motion, causing foot sliding which you then have to correct with filters or (god forbid) keyframing.

Eric Chadwick

Ah, looking at the Max help file, CAT has a function to capture animation from any other rig in Max. See if DAZ exports to FBX or another Max-compatible import format, then capture from that onto your CAT rig.
http://download.autodesk.com/us/3dsmax/2012help/index.html?url=files/GUID-0F10D9F1-4143-490D-91A3-78B9F269F3A-1417.htm,topicNumber=d28e284041

Ace-Angel

FBX and CAT bake, got it, and thanks, just made a test run and it seems like it works well, cheers!

.morph3us

if it doesnt work, maybe try to get it into motionbuilder? i think one can retarget any rig onto a biped there and then export a .bip for use in max...

Ace-Angel

I'll take a look at that, I'm not the guy who's looking for the upgrade, so I need to ask if they have access to MB.

But yeah, FBX kinda solves 90% of the issues.