Even something with millions of faces can work just fine.
With textures resampled you'll almost never have a problem with too big a prop in iClone. I usually resample down to 1K and this looks and works fine. In those cases you will need to resample all the textures BEFORE you load the prop into Daz (I use Photoshop for this as it has an automated script - probably other ways of doing it but I have no idea). Oh, did I mention that iClone is very sensitive when it comes to texture sizes? Daz props are often at 4K texture size, which will quickly bring iClone to its knees and are really unnecessary anyway for anything other than a face. When you re-import it you'll need to delete the existing prop (it's too bad that it just won't substitute the existing one, but it don't work that way). That is another thing - when you export from XCHange (either direct to iClone or as a prop you load in) you can always re-edit it back in XChange if you find you didn't make something a sub-prop and should have (or forgot to adjust a pivot). That was the first time I've ever encountered that, but it won't be the last. I had to bring it back into XChange and make it a sub-prop, at which point things started working correctly.
I just spent an hour trying to fix the tiling in a prop I imported, on a wall, only to find the roof (which had a completely different texture) was somehow linked so the tiling also affected it. Good indicator a normal/bump map is too hot is when it looks very odd in the lighting - it might turn completely black (or at least very dark). They will nearly always be too "hot", at 100%, so you'll have to dial them down to around 15% or less. You will almost surely have to adjust the bump/normal maps IF they got loaded correctly (sometimes they do, sometimes they don't - if they don't you'll have to manually locate and load them).
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Come back here sometime and we might help (oh, and you can also try exporting as FBX but this seldom works, IMHO, UNLESS it's specifically a figure and not a prop you want).Īlienware Aurora R12, Win 10, i9-119000KF, 3.5GHz CPU, 128GB RAM, RTX 3090 (24GB), Samsung 960 Pro 4TB M-2 SSD, TB+ Disk space Mike " ex-genius" Kelley Yep, even a building can be a "figure", which is a PITA If it's a figure and you need to have separate parts of it (like doors) you will have to go through a process I'm too tired to explain. And sometimes it will be a figure, not a prop. Sometimes you'll need to export only selected items from XChange, so you can break up the prop into needed sub-items. Sometimes you'll need to use Surface Names instead of node names, sometimes Existing groups. Adjust your lighting as needed, and voila! Except it will seldom work that way. This can take hours, or days (hopefully Python scripting will automate this process when available). If you are VERY lucky most of the textures will come over, but not adjusted for PBR, so you'll have to go into each one (sigh) and do it. If you create a sub-prop, make sure you adjust the pivot for it. Look at the various nodes - you may see some you'd like to make sub-props (good candidates are doors and chairs, for example - this will allow you to move them in the scene separately from the main prop). Bring this into XChange and make sure you have the "man" in XChange enabled so you can adjust the size if necessary (sometimes it is, sometimes not). To begin with, try exporting from Daz as an obj, with the objects in "Node Names", and make sure you have Write Surfaces checkmarked. I can give you some *very* general rules but you will find that there is no specific workflow, just a whole lot of them you will need to try if one doesn't work.
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It's a bit of a trial and error process, because "props" in Daz can be a lot of different things, in a lot of different ways, depending on how they are constructed.
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