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5.  Diffeomorphic   [2nd & 3rd Dec 2024]


I decided to tackle the inability to pose characters imported into CLO 3D since this was one of the three stumbling blocks I’d hit.


The hair issue was an easy fix:

A female model in black underwear sporting an updo View full-size (protected)

(Victoria now has an updo!)

(‘Curly Top Updo Hair for Genesis 9’ in the Daz Store)

Making a sash in CLO 3D isn’t easy, so I’ll leave that for now. So, back to posing…

I did some reading, and it seems the Daz to Blender Bridge has its limitations, and the answer is to use an alternative Blender addon called Diffeomorphic. This is the tutorial I followed:

https://youtu.be/1Nsg0Je6vUo?feature=shared

The pace is a bit fast for my liking, but I can pause and rewind as required.

The results in Blender are far superior to those of using the bridge. A key difference, it seems, is that Diffeomorphic can natively read DAZ 3D scene files (.duf), so there’s no loss of information during the transition. Further, the add-on retains some of the DAZ 3D functionality after the import, so posing can be achieved with numerical changes, as per my preference, mentioned earlier.


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