Issue with Hamleon's Easy Jean/Panties/Shorts/Capris not importing properly (Geoshell issue?)

[Paul]

I’m trying to use Hamleon’s Easy Jeans but I’m having issues when importing into Blender. No matter what options I try, the geoshell imports without and texture displayed. I’ve tried easy and standard imports with and without ‘merge geoshells’ selected in both the easy import options and the global options but get the same results every time.

This is how the jeans look when imported into Blender:

And how they look in Daz:

I’ve also tried Hamleon’s Easy Panties with the same results:

And have also tested with ‘Sexy Skinz Hot Pants' by vyktohria which work properly:

Daz Studio Version 4.20.03

Blender Version: 3.0.0

Diffeo version: 1.6.1 Development version (as of 28 Feb 22). (Also tested with stable with same results).

I’m not a Blender guru or D|S expert, so it’s entirely possible I’m doing something wrong.

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[Alessandro Padovani]

Here the easy jeans works fine both in preview and rendering, tried both bsdf and principled. I just imported the daz scene doing nothing else. It’s the latest development version 1.6.1.0893 with blender 3.0.1.

Test scene included easy.duf

https://www.renderosity.com/rr/mod/bcs/easy-jeans-for-genesis-8/147806/

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[Alessandro Padovani]

test scene for the easy jeans

[Paul]

I just tried the easy.duf test scene and get the same results as before; torso and leg mats are showing as dark brown with no jeans texture applied.

I also manually checked and removed any old diffeo plugin folders from Blender’s plugin folder and then redownloaded and reinstalled the plugin with the same results. If you’ve got any suggestions as to what I might have done to mess things up, I’m all ears.

[Alessandro Padovani]

Did you get any error message from the plugin ?

window > toggle system console

documents > daz_importer_errors.txt

[Paul]

No popup error messages apart from Render settings.

Output from system console: https://pastebin.com/Ebk44XQU

I suspect this might be the problem (lines 80-81)?

Missing UV for 'Torso-2', 'Easy Pants' not in ['Base Female']
Missing UV for 'Legs-2', 'Easy Pants' not in ['Base Female']

Output from daz_importer_errrors.txt: https://pastebin.com/8YKXLKRC

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[Alessandro Padovani]

Yes it means the plugin can’t find the uv maps. If you installed some content outside the standard daz studio content folder then you need to add your custom folders in the global settings for the plugin to find them.

https://diffeomorphic.blogspot.com/p/setting-things-up-version-16.html

Below it’s my system console, with the default verbosity 2 I don’t get errors in the log.

Loading C:\Users\Alessandro\Documents\DAZ 3D\Studio\My Library\Scenes\easy.duf
Parsing data
Preprocessing...
Found UV set 'Easy Pants' in '/data/daz 3d/genesis 8/female/UV Sets\hameleon\Easy Pants\Easy Pants.dsf#Easy Pants'
Fitting objects with dbz file...
Zero verts: Genesis8Female_Shell
Building objects...

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[Paul]

I think I’ve fixed it. On a hunch, I moved the ‘My Library’ runtime from first to last place in my global settings as I had a memory of either DIM or whatever Daz is calling the new updater installing the base meshes to ‘My Library' after a system rebuild, rather than my preferred runtime location.

So, I think I’ve got multiple versions of the base characters installed in two different places; an old version in ‘My Library’ which I’m assuming the plugin was reading first, and the latest version in my custom runtime which was being ignored.

[Alessandro Padovani]

Ok then if this is fixed please mark as resolved.

[Paul]

User error, see above.