Now you have your model with it’s own armature (in a t-pose), and a standalone armature imported as bvh with the pose or animation you want to use. Either delete or fix these bones (I would just delete them).

If you select the armature and go to edit mode, you’ll see that some of the child bones (fingers, eyeballs, toes, etc) will not have imported correctly.

Open Blender and import your bvh as an armature.

“./filename/texture.jpg” becomes simply “texture.jpg”)įor more help on exporting, please read this excellent article. (where filename is the name of the *.dae file e.g. Move the *.dae file into the newly created folder with your exported textures, open it in notepad and then search for references of “./filename/” and delete them. You should see a *.dae file, a *.bvh, and a folder which contains the model’s textures. In your operating system, navigate to the directory where you exported the files.

Now export the scene as a bvh file, using the default settings.Be sure to combine the alpha and diffuse maps into a png file (more on this later). Export the scene as *.dae using custom options (without daz enhancements), and tick all of the settings.Hide everything in your scene except the model you want to export.It’s a bit of a hassle to correct the rigging, but if you prefer to pose your figure in Daz Studio (or Poser), or have hundreds of stock poser poses saved over the years, this is the way to go. The figure’s pose / animation is lost in the process.įortunately you can restore this by exporting the pose separately as a BVH mocap file.This adds an unnecessary layer of complication to your workflow.

Daz Studio operates in Y-up whereas Blender works in Z-up, everything has to be rotated on the X axis by 90 degrees.

I encountered geometry errors using obj.

The model is automatically rigged to an armature (skeleton) which means you can animate and pose it in Blender.

Textures are automatically mapped and assigned to materials correctly.

One is to export the mesh as a wavefront object (*.obj), the other is to export as a COLLADA file (*.dae).Īfter experimenting with both, I found that exporting as a collada file was quicker and more reliable because: There are two reliable ways to export Daz figures to Blender (and other programs).

Information on this is a bit scattered, so here are my findings.

Import daz to blender