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The problem was that i had to click and enter the thread again as if I never had seen the thread before and then the PDF appeared. Before I did that some sort of caching mechanism hid the PDF, although I don't know if that was forum SW or my browser caching mechanism.
It's certainly not anything that the forum SW does, or everyone would have problems. Must be something on your own settings
Well no it couldn't be my browsers or computer upon further evaluation. I never change my browser cache settings and viweing the thread, it behaved identically using both Edge and the newest Chrome, despite the fact I had never visited the forum with Edge browser before. However, in both browser when I clicked to read the thread from the top of the thread from the forum subsection it was in versus reading the comment in the thread directly via an anchored link it showed once again the PDF file. Why the DSA file later in the thread remained visible in both viewing circumstances is somewhat odd too. I think it's the forum SW but it could be some sort of caching SW external to both the forum SW and my computer, that is doubtful but possible.
@nonesuch00 you are not the only one I had the same problem!
I have/had the same problem. I tried Firefox. Edge and Vivaldi browsers on WIndows 10. The PDF was not there. I went to the second page of this discussion and then went back to page 1 and (Guess What?) the pdf was there!
One strange thing I noticed was that the " << 1 2 >> " was visible after the first message in the discussion and also at the bottom of the page where it is normally. It also worked if I clicked on the " 2 " located right between the first and second messages. I tried this in Edge and Vivaldi. I think I saved a screen print but I will have to look for it.
At any rate, I have the latest updates of this remarkable document.
It should be there as Chohole mentioned. Chapter 8 is still a work in progress. I hope it has some useful information...
Yes, it is a glitch in the forum SW but I figured out how to get around it. Thanks everybody for your help.
Looking forward to seeing how you translate JCMs to Blender. I'm interesting in maknig a similar conversion with Maya.
Well, I'm doing it with Cinema 4D. You can easily export the JCMs via FBX, but you have to assign them to the joints rotation/translation in a similar way as in Daz Studio, so that you can pose the figure in the application. By the way, this should work similar with G8 based characters.
How are implementing the way JCMs auto-fire on joint rotation? I had some success writing expressions that scalar the value based on degree of joint rotation per axis, which is basically how it's done in DAZ, but it's very time consuming to do it all manually. Also, setting driven keys for the jcms that are key based.
FWIW you can set up per edge sharpness in DS. Its in the tool settings panel with the geometry editor tool under "details"
Although because DS' geometry selection tools are pretty basic it is rather painful to set up, so I'm not actually sure if anybodies ever actually used it.
I'm writing a script in Daz Studio that exports the dependencies to a file. This can be read by Cinema 4D and set in Xpresso afterwards. Don't know how this works in Blender though.