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Anyone have issues exporting mdd files of certain dynamic cloth sims?

short223_cda7b0323ashort223_cda7b0323a Posts: 29
in Daz Studio Discussion

The reason I asked here is that I have already contacted support and they can't seem to replicate my issue but I get it on 3 different computers with two different Daz versions. Here is the situation I am running into:

Daz ver 4.9.2.70 and 4.9.0.63
Running Dynamic Cloth, Animate2 and Animate MDD exporter
Using old Victoria 4.2 
Problem Dynamic Clothings so far: Urban Cargo Pants & Top, Classy Flounce Skirt and Top, Women's Jeans, Mock Turtle Neck, Ultimate Tee (I have a feeling that anything I purchased from the Dynamic Cloth Bundle may have the same issue but haven't tested it yet)

I setup V4.2 with some morphs and textures.
Using Animate2 I set up a simple chain of Skamotion's Catwalk.
I then Bake the keys to the Timeline.
I select one Dynamic Cloth and drape on the first frame.
Then I select animation and drape on all the frames.
When the sim is complete, I select the Dynamic Clothing and export using Animate MDD exporter with the preset set to Modo and checked Ignore Invisibles (V4.2 is set to invisible).
Daz Promplty Crashes.

Ones that actually worked : Evening Gown, Strapless Dress, Cargo Pants, Twiggy Dress, Flared Dress (I think many of these were free from the OptiTex Website but not sure)

Support suggested I contact the AniMate people at Gofigure.com which I attempted but have so far got no response and theire website and social media forums are 2 years old so I'm not expecting a response from them anytime soon.

If anyone has run into this or can test this to see if they can replicate the problem to find out what I'm doing wrong or if there is a legitimate bug here.

Thanks for any help!

Chris

Comments

  • short223_cda7b0323ashort223_cda7b0323a Posts: 29

    To add to this testing, I loaded the Century Gown, did not simulate and was able to export an MDD file of the gown. I then created the Simulation and attempted an MDD and it crashed. So it looks like the simulation along with some of these Dynamic Objects are having issues exporting out MDD files. I hope someone can confirm this ... Thanks!

  • JimbowJimbow Posts: 557

    Have you tried freezing the simulation (which creates a morph per frame) so that you're bypassing the dynamic aspect?

  • short223_cda7b0323ashort223_cda7b0323a Posts: 29

    I have not. Wasn't aware of this feature. Could you quickly walk me through it?

    Thanks!

     

  • short223_cda7b0323ashort223_cda7b0323a Posts: 29

    Jimbow! You Da Man! That did the trick! Saved me tons of sweating over this!

     

  • JimbowJimbow Posts: 557

    Top banana.

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