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Importing a primitive mesh from Blender

thomas-muenzthomas-muenz Posts: 0
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Hi

I have a problem that is so simple that there seems to be no existing answer for it.
So I create a thread in hope for a helpful answer.

I want to have triangle primitive (actually more like primitive ramp, half a cube) in Daz3D. That is actually my whole problem.
I know Daz3D is not a modelling software and that's perfectly fine. But if there are primitives like cubes and even a torus, it's something from frustrating to insane that one can't insert a simple ramp primitive.

So, my solution: create a trivial mesh in blender, export as .obj, import in Daz3D.

I made sure that it has only tri faces, no quad.
And I made sure that all normals point outwards.
So far so good.

Blender: Export -> obj.
Daz3D: Import -> obj.
Mesh appears.
BUT:
It seems to have no normals. The mesh is just a white area in the scene, not shaded like an inserted primitive cube is.

I googled and found this:
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/27454/blender-to-daz-tutorial
But all the problems discussed there are not applicable to my case, as far as I can see.

I tried taking the surface of a newly created primitive cube and apply it to the imported mesh, but with no success.
I am not really a 3D modelling guy, just fooling around, so I'm running out of ideas, now :-((.

So my question is: what do I need to do?
Do I lack an UV mapping even if I don't want to have a texture? Shouldn't the correct normals be enough for the faces to get shaded properly?

Thanks for any help!

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Comments

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,931

    The imported emsh will be using the Daz Default Shader - in the Editor tab of the Surfaces pane check that the Ambient colour and strength are not white and 100%.

  • thomas-muenzthomas-muenz Posts: 0
    Richard Haseltine said:

    The imported emsh will be using the Daz Default Shader - in the Editor tab of the Surfaces pane check that the Ambient colour and strength are not white and 100%.

    That was it. Thank you!
    I thought I covered exactely that by exporting an inserted cube's surface and applying it to the imported mesh, but I didn't check the actual values after doing so.

    Anyway, it works now.
    Thanks again.

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