Easy Import Daz - Not rigging HD Mesh after merge

[Jason Weise]

If I use the Easy Import Daz to import a HD character and have the option to merge rigs selected as per:

I have noticed that when posing the rig the HD mesh doesn’t appear to be skinned to the rig, only the non-HD mesh.

In the following screenshot I have preformed the following:

1. Export HD from Daz (basic nude character no hair, no clothes)
2. Use “Easy Import Daz” and Merge Rigs and Merge Geografts - Imports ok with no errors.
3. Select the rig, go into “Pose” mode and rotate a bone (head for example).. only the non-HD mesh works

This also happens if I use the normal import process and “Merge Rigs” from the menu button

[Alessandro Padovani]

You probably received some error messages from the plugin that you are ignoring and not reporting here. To export HD with geografts you have first to enter the geometry editor in daz studio.

http://diffeomorphic.blogspot.com/2020/09/hd-meshes-and-geografts-revisited.html

[Thomas Larsson]

Also make sure that the global setting Add Multires is enabled. The HD vertex groups are not exported, because that would increase the time needed to export the dbz file many times, and it is already painfully slow. Therefore the vertex groups for a true HD mesh cannot be imported. However, if the HD info is encoded in a multires modifier, the vertex groups for the base mesh can be reused.

If you want to pose a true HD mesh, you can use Advanced Setup > Mesh > Transfer Vertex Groups and add an armature modifier manually. Make sure that the Preserve Volume option is enabled.

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[Jason Weise]

@Thomas Larsson @Alessandro Padovani Thanks for coming back to me.

I still think there is something wrong, I have tested on another machine with the very latest commit of Diffeomorphic and I still get the same results.

I have tried both with using Geometry Editor and without (I have always previously performed it with the Geometry Editor as that is what the blog says to do).

I am definitely getting no errors whatsoever with either method, below is a screengrab of my status bar immediately after import and the console log. I also include some screenshots showing the exact results I get after importing with nothing else done beside hiding the non-HD mesh and going into pose mode.

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Loading DAZ
DAZ loaded
Load settings from C:/Users/Jason/import-daz-settings-28x.json

Loading D:\_Characters\Woman_005\Woman_005.duf
Parsing data
Preprocessing...
Found UV set 'Golden Palace' in '/data/meipex/goldenpalace/goldenpalace_genitalia_v2/UV Sets\Meipex\Base\Golden Palace.dsf#Golden Palace'
Fitting objects with dbz file...
Highdef Genesis8_1Female 2 262514
Highdef Genesis8_1FemaleEyelashes 2 9390
Highdef Female 8_1 Tear 2 2808
Highdef GoldenPalace_2254 2 2254
Zero verts: GoldenPalace_Shell
Building objects...
TIFFFetchNormalTag: Warning, Incompatible type for "RichTIFFIPTC"; tag ignored.
Build HD mesh for Miley 8.1 HD: 262514 verts, 261888 faces
HD mesh Genesis81FemaleGeom_HD built
Build HD mesh for Genesis 8.1 Female Eyelashes: 9390 verts, 7008 faces
HD mesh EyelashesCollapsed_HD built
Build HD mesh for Genesis 8.1 Female Tear: 2808 verts, 2608 faces
HD mesh bs_TearProjectionShape_HD built
Build HD mesh for Golden Palace Gens: 2254 verts, 2238 faces
HD mesh GoldenPalace_HD built
HD mesh same as base mesh: Golden Palace Gens
Dependency loop: lToe lMetatarsals
Dependency loop: rToe rMetatarsals
Pruning UV maps
Scale eye moisture vertices for Genesis8-female mesh "Miley 8.1 HD Mesh"
Centers: <Vector (0.0318, -0.0667, 1.6863)> <Vector (-0.0319, -0.0667, 1.6864)>
File "D:\_Characters\Woman_005\Woman_005.duf" loaded in 17.826 seconds
Import scene only
Main character: Genesis8-female
Merge rigs
Merge infos to Miley 8.1 HD:
Mesh with no vertex groups: Genesis 8.1 Female Eyelashes_HD
Mesh with no vertex groups: Genesis 8.1 Female Tear_HD
Merge materials
Lips-1.001 = Face-1.001
Ears-1.001 = Face-1.001
Cornea-2.001 = EyeMoisture-2.001
Irises-1.001 = Pupils-1.001
Sclera-1.001 = Pupils-1.001
GP_Labia Minora = GP_Vagina.001
GP_Rectum = GP_Vagina.001
GP_Torso_Back = GP_Torso.001
Merge geografts
Merge ['Golden Palace Gens'] to Miley 8.1 HD Mesh
Info: Removed 44 vertice(s)
Make all bones poseable
  Rename bones
  Change constraints
  Restore bone drivers
  Restore sum drivers
  Update scripted drivers
  Update drivers
  Update vertex groups
  Update shapekeys
Make All Bones Poseable completed in 1.5 seconds
File D:\_Characters\Woman_005\Woman_005.duf loaded in 25.631 seconds
TIFFFetchNormalTag: Warning, Incompatible type for "RichTIFFIPTC"; tag ignored.

Loading D:\_Characters\Woman_005\Woman_005.duf
Parsing data
Preprocessing...
Found UV set 'Golden Palace' in '/data/meipex/goldenpalace/goldenpalace_genitalia_v2/UV Sets\Meipex\Base\Golden Palace.dsf#Golden Palace'
Fitting objects with dbz file...
Highdef Genesis8_1Female 2 296609
Highdef Genesis8_1FemaleEyelashes 2 9390
Highdef Female 8_1 Tear 2 2808
Highdef GoldenPalace_2254 2 35841
Zero verts: GoldenPalace_Shell
Building objects...
TIFFFetchNormalTag: Warning, Incompatible type for "RichTIFFIPTC"; tag ignored.
Build HD mesh for Miley 8.1 HD: 296609 verts, 295848 faces
HD mesh Genesis81FemaleGeom_HD built
Build HD mesh for Genesis 8.1 Female Eyelashes: 9390 verts, 7008 faces
HD mesh EyelashesCollapsed_HD built
Build HD mesh for Genesis 8.1 Female Tear: 2808 verts, 2608 faces
HD mesh bs_TearProjectionShape_HD built
Build HD mesh for Golden Palace Gens: 35841 verts, 35752 faces
HD mesh GoldenPalace_HD built
Dependency loop: lToe lMetatarsals
Dependency loop: rToe rMetatarsals
Pruning UV maps
Scale eye moisture vertices for Genesis8-female mesh "Miley 8.1 HD Mesh"
Centers: <Vector (0.0318, -0.0667, 1.6863)> <Vector (-0.0319, -0.0667, 1.6864)>
File "D:\_Characters\Woman_005\Woman_005.duf" loaded in 19.837 seconds
Import scene only
Main character: Genesis8-female
Merge rigs
Merge infos to Miley 8.1 HD:
Mesh with no vertex groups: Genesis 8.1 Female Eyelashes_HD
Mesh with no vertex groups: Genesis 8.1 Female Tear_HD
Mesh with no vertex groups: Golden Palace Gens_HD
Merge materials
Lips-1.001 = Face-1.001
Ears-1.001 = Face-1.001
Cornea-2.001 = EyeMoisture-2.001
Irises-1.001 = Pupils-1.001
Sclera-1.001 = Pupils-1.001
GP_Vagina.001 = GP_Torso.001
GP_Labia Minora = GP_Torso.001
GP_Rectum = GP_Torso.001
Merge geografts
Merge ['Golden Palace Gens'] to Miley 8.1 HD Mesh
Info: Removed 44 vertice(s)
Make all bones poseable
  Rename bones
  Change constraints
  Restore bone drivers
  Restore sum drivers
  Update scripted drivers
  Update drivers
  Update vertex groups
  Update shapekeys
Make All Bones Poseable completed in 1.6 seconds
File D:\_Characters\Woman_005\Woman_005.duf loaded in 27.709 seconds

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[Thomas Larsson]

That is the output if the global option Add Multires is disabled. No vertex groups are created for the HD meshes, because the HD vertex groups are not exported to the dbz file. If you enable multires, the output will contain lines of the form

Info: Removed: 0 vertices, 0 edges, 0 faces
Info: 1 new levels rebuilt

which are not generated by the plugin but by Blender itself.

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[Jason Weise]

@Thomas Larsson thanks for the advice, I will double check but I am nearly certain that I have defaults loaded in Global Options. This was one of the first things I checked after reading through a bunch of other Bitbucket issues for this repo.

I’ll loop back around when I check.

I appreciate the help

[Alessandro Padovani]

You can provide a test scene as simple as possible in duf format reproducing the issue. So we can test. If it is only a specific figure that doesn’t work it could be #773. Otherwise provide the test scene with Victoria or GF that’s likely to be available to anyone.