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  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,216
    edited June 2021

    populating the tavern, the preview 

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  • Senor_MonkeySenor_Monkey Posts: 126

    A little Star Wars trailer I put together. All Daz3d assets, except the MetaHuman head on the main character.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejjT6JChdJM

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,216
    edited June 2021

    full video on other channel 

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  • Senor_MonkeySenor_Monkey Posts: 126

    I love it, Wendy! One little pointer I can give you - If you're using sequencer, you can add characters to the timeline, then add an animation track directly in sequencer. You can use this to string animations, rather than having the same animation repeat. It took me ages to find that, so I'm sharing it because I think many people don't know especially if they're coming from other software.

  • superlativecgsuperlativecg Posts: 140

    UE5 Lumen

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,216
    edited June 2021

    Senor_Monkey said:

    I love it, Wendy! One little pointer I can give you - If you're using sequencer, you can add characters to the timeline, then add an animation track directly in sequencer. You can use this to string animations, rather than having the same animation repeat. It took me ages to find that, so I'm sharing it because I think many people don't know especially if they're coming from other software.

     I just drew out and looped the animations in the sequencer as had so many people and so few animations, many have the same one staggered, I need to retarget some better looped sitting ones, and yes they are all placed in the sequencer timeline,
    my biggest issue was chairs too close, I will need to reimport separate tables, stools and chairs, I did these all as combined meshes as if I had groups they split weirdly and messed up materials,

    it's a DAZ studio obj export  limitation, the options either split by surfaces which is useless or named groups which is almost as bad as across meshes too.

    they need to be reimported and edited with the geometry editor and groups removed in tool settings and new logical ones created

    or

    each object as a separate export NO groups (untick groups)

     

     

    OH I am having fun trying to animate static meshes with reset pivots, I finally got the sequencer to honour my new pivot but it does a weird bezier curve thing instead a straight rotation on the pivot at the hinge for my door like it was morphed to the new spot not rotated, graph editor did not give me an easy way to change the tweening type, it needs a straight  line not a curve and all you have is a twiddly magnet to straighten it.

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  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,216
    edited June 2021

    OK solution create an empty actor and attach the door to it and animate that in the sequencer hidden in render.

    also just discovered how to blend the animations, have to overlap them

    video

     

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  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,216
    edited August 2021

    DAZ people

     

    and over a month later I will add this,

    a DAZ hair as an Unreal groom.

    I wish I could explain how to do it to others but it's too hard for me on this forum

     

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  • Senor_MonkeySenor_Monkey Posts: 126

    Monica's apartment from friends: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq8O5-lrhak
    Pretty much all Daz assets. There will be characters too, but it's for a competition, so I'm not sharing too much yet :)

  • Senor_MonkeySenor_Monkey Posts: 126

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzFf7yXSpAM

    The set is pretty much all Daz3d assets, as are the character bodies. Rendered entirely in Unreal Engine, with a little postwork. AI voices, which is why they might sound a little off.

  • SplatterbabySplatterbaby Posts: 37
    edited August 2021

     

    here is a WIP not complete yet using 8 male and the albedo texture from Scarecrow by RawArt

    I created the normal map and multiple other assets and redid the eyes material besides the albedo and created some string for the face which are not complete yet but otherwise just testing new features of UE5:)

     

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  • IkyotoIkyoto Posts: 1,159
    edited August 2021

    Now to learn to animate

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  • IkyotoIkyoto Posts: 1,159

    Bobsssss said:

     

    here is a WIP not complete yet using 8 male and the albedo texture from Scarecrow by RawArt

    I created the normal map and multiple other assets and redid the eyes material besides the albedo and created some string for the face which are not complete yet but otherwise just testing new features of UE5:)

    nicely done for a test

  • superlativecgsuperlativecg Posts: 140

    I discovered a tool called Wav2Lip which made lip syncing much easier:

  • EllessarrEllessarr Posts: 1,395

    hey guys since we are here some of you can share some good tricks to improve the "skin" of the characters, i 'means some extra pos process or character material for skin to make it look more "natural" while most of the times my characters looks "fine" they still feel missing something like ikyoto fairy her skin look more bright and "natural" than most of my works, at last in the render, then i would love to have some tricks being shared if possible.

  • MacislavMacislav Posts: 126
    edited September 2021

    The right skin (and eye) setup seems to be some kind of "industry secret", esp. the roughness (sweating?), specular and metallic part.

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  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,131

    Ikyoto said:

    Now to learn to animate

     

    Now that looks great, like the old style fairies.

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,131

    Ellessarr said:

    hey guys since we are here some of you can share some good tricks to improve the "skin" of the characters, i 'means some extra pos process or character material for skin to make it look more "natural" while most of the times my characters looks "fine" they still feel missing something like ikyoto fairy her skin look more bright and "natural" than most of my works, at last in the render, then i would love to have some tricks being shared if possible.

    Adjust the specularity/glossiness up, the brightness for light is off to the side and behind the character, turn on and adjust bloom. Look and that's what's in Ikyoto's fairy character.

  • frankiev888_28b3c399affrankiev888_28b3c399af Posts: 51

     

  • EllessarrEllessarr Posts: 1,395

    frankiev888_28b3c399af said:

     

    this character is g8??, because when you make a g8 character "crouch" it's looks horrible even with the jcm, they still looks not good as in daz i've posted about it and looking for a way to fix it without need to use the DQ unreal version. 

  • MacislavMacislav Posts: 126
    edited September 2021

    It won't work without DQ build, unless you do your own shape keys to overcome those distortions. What would be interesting to know: Is it mathematically possible to translate DQ skinning shape keys (bulge reduction) into

    Linear Skinning Shape keys (compensation of volume loss) for achieving the same visual effects?

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  • cleberwhatsupcleberwhatsup Posts: 8

    Hello everyone! Here I leave you some videos of my favorite hobby! UE + DAZ3D! A hug to everyone (yes...is google translate...crying)

    https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7uOI7iv6fd4_5LTgt8c6o6Dno0hiXE8X

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,216

    a couple of DAZ characters in the Mold3D Slay Environment

    ... and a poetry reading by Windwalker Echo cheeky

  • EllessarrEllessarr Posts: 1,395

    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    a couple of DAZ characters in the Mold3D Slay Environment

    ... and a poetry reading by Windwalker Echo cheeky

    wow that female samurai armor is really awesome and i do know which it's come from the paragon character and it's show how awesome you can be with "low poly" armors by low i mean much less than everage above 100k vertices many artists here like to go, you can have amazing stuffs even with "less polygon" if you know how to work with textures. 

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,216
    edited September 2021

    yes other characters are Unreal ones, the DAZ ones are the girl in M4 the Immortal Ronin and the guy in Luthbel's shogun

    the one you noticed is Paragon Countess.

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  • luosluos Posts: 7

    Bit of an odd-ball, but ive been redoing a lot of the shaders in UE4, part performance, part better results than what Daz offers as-is from the bridge.
    This has been my current attempt:

    I had to create a mask for the silk and lace, its not perfect, but I cant expect the original author (or any clothing creator) to supply masks for each part of the clothing.

    todo: fuzzy-shading to give a better silk-effect on the smooth parts.



     

  • cleberwhatsupcleberwhatsup Posts: 8

  • frankiev888_28b3c399affrankiev888_28b3c399af Posts: 51

    Not work safe.

     

     

  • JoJo Posts: 17

    I think it has been a year since I last posted anything here.

    I have just been cracking on and learning in my spare time.

     

    Here is my latest effort with Daz to Unreal Engine 5

    Both the bridge plugin (latest from David) and Unreal were built from source.

    It all runs, video editing aside, in realtime on a GTX1080ti and a amd 2700x @24fps in the editor.

    Deffered rendering for the entire 10 min video, took about 3 hours on the same 1080ti (board/pcb has crack across it)

    The fur/hair for the bear was redone in Blender (particle hair) and then brought back into UE5 using Groom/abc

    because exporting Daz strand hair is really difficult and time consuming, at least for me.

    Because of the type of character (A figurine) I did not have to worry about skin, hair etc for the female.

    This was on purpose because faces and eyes in particular, are hard to get right during the transfer.

    I also did not have to worry about the clothing and simply added two bones in blender, atached to g8f thigh bones and did a very quick weight paint

    on the dress.

     

    Enjoy

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs6EyhLMq2w

     

     

     

     

  • frankiev888_28b3c399affrankiev888_28b3c399af Posts: 51

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