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New to animation: Mixamo and Daz...

AlfawulfAlfawulf Posts: 174
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Never animated before in Daz. Mixamo seems a cool resource..

Any Vids or step by steps out there??

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  • IvyIvy Posts: 7,165

    Daz is fun to work with for animation, all it takes is a creative mind. . unfortunately  I can't give ou any opinion on Mixamo I never used it

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,333

    The 4GB of Miximo animations out there don't work with DAZ characters.

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,627
    nonesuch00 said:

    The 4GB of Miximo animations out there don't work with DAZ characters.

    well not out the box I agreee.

     

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,333

    OP can export to Unity and then retarget the Mixamo animations to the DAZ FBXes imported into Unity 

  • AlfawulfAlfawulf Posts: 174
    nonesuch00 said:

    OP can export to Unity and then retarget the Mixamo animations to the DAZ FBXes imported into Unity 

    Ummm....What's Unity??

    I know I sound stupid...

     

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    Alfawulf said:
    nonesuch00 said:

    OP can export to Unity and then retarget the Mixamo animations to the DAZ FBXes imported into Unity 

    Ummm....What's Unity??

    I know I sound stupid...

     

    It's some sort of game engine,  so really no too sure what it has to do with animation.     But of course I do neither animation nor games

  • AlfawulfAlfawulf Posts: 174
    Chohole said:
    Alfawulf said:
    nonesuch00 said:

    OP can export to Unity and then retarget the Mixamo animations to the DAZ FBXes imported into Unity 

    Ummm....What's Unity??

    I know I sound stupid...

     

    It's some sort of game engine,  so really no too sure what it has to do with animation.     But of course I do neither animation nor games

    OK. So is Unity something one can use for free to get the DAZ characters to animate vis Mixamo I guess is my next question...??

     

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,333

    Yes, Unity is free and it's a game engine, an animation engine, and when they add the Otoy Octane Renderer to Unity this year it will be a renderer on par with nVidia iRay too.

    just search for Unity 3D in the search engine of your preference...

    Objectively, if you decide to use Unity's better animation & physics engine than what DAZ animate2/keymate/graphmate or carrara 8.5 pro offer then you need to teach yourself how to export DAZ characters and models for use in Unity.

    For that you need only search on YouTube

    You are perfectly free to choose to use Mixamo Fuse characters to animate in Unity as well. They being completely free they'd be a cheap what to learn to animate in Unity. Search for Mixamo Fuse & then download & install. Learn via YouTube search & Adobe Mixamo site.

  • AlfawulfAlfawulf Posts: 174
    nonesuch00 said:

    Yes, Unity is free and it's a game engine, an animation engine, and when they add the Otoy Octane Renderer to Unity this year it will be a renderer on par with nVidia iRay too.

    just search for Unity 3D in the search engine of your preference...

    Objectively, if you decide to use Unity's better animation & physics engine than what DAZ animate2/keymate/graphmate or carrara 8.5 pro offer then you need to teach yourself how to export DAZ characters and models for use in Unity.

    For that you need only search on YouTube

    You are perfectly free to choose to use Mixamo Fuse characters to animate in Unity as well. They being completely free they'd be a cheap what to learn to animate in Unity. Search for Mixamo Fuse & then download & install. Learn via YouTube search & Adobe Mixamo site.

    Whew!! 

    Sounds like a lot of work but then these things are right??

    Thanx SO much for the info!!

     

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,627

    another way is to find something that loads FBX and exports BVH

    but

    you need to rename the bones 

    and Genesis 3 is hopeless for importing BVH so using an earlier figure then an animation conversion script in D|S the better way.

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,627

    I use iClone 3Dxchange pipeline to do this btw but there is other software including Unity.

  • AlfawulfAlfawulf Posts: 174
    edited April 2017

    Thanx for ALL the Help guys/Gals!!

    Post edited by Alfawulf on
  • TooncesToonces Posts: 919

    It's not too difficult to use Mixamo with Daz. Firewarden wrote a tutorial mentioned here:

    https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/144191/novica-forum-members-tips-product-reviews-pt-8/p68

    Direct link:

    https://www.daz3d.com/forums/uploads/FileUpload/03/0c8603c28f26404036ef24dee6c0fe.pdf

  • AlfawulfAlfawulf Posts: 174
    Toonces said:

    It's not too difficult to use Mixamo with Daz. Firewarden wrote a tutorial mentioned here:

    https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/144191/novica-forum-members-tips-product-reviews-pt-8/p68

    Direct link:

    https://www.daz3d.com/forums/uploads/FileUpload/03/0c8603c28f26404036ef24dee6c0fe.pdf

    Thanx!!

     

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