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export animation into c4D

p.dahl-collinsp.dahl-collins Posts: 0
edited June 2013 in Daz Studio Discussion

Hi.

I will save explaining the project. Here is the principle and the thing that wont work.

I have a single genesis animation, no clothes, naked, basics, with keyframes in Daz4.03 (not 4.5) over 175 frames.

I export as FBXincluding animation. Daz dutifully records each frame and we're done.

I open tit (or merge it) in Cinema 4D r12 and even though I have "import animations" checked it it just a still model with bones (that are not connected to each other anyway). I just need the damn Daz animation to work. And yes I have aniMate 2 and I baked the keyframes to the timeline.

I imagine this is a newbie question but we are all newbies at something. I'm more of a typographer artist of 20 years so this is fairly new. I cannot find a way to preserve the Daz keyframes. Am I missing something obvious? And yes I have checked the boxes Daz and C4D(12) respectively to include animations.

I'm on a mac.

Any help much appreciated.

Post edited by p.dahl-collins on

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  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,495
    edited December 1969

    I do not have C4D but users do get Daz content in successfully
    does the FBX play in Autodesk FBX viewer? (free)
    if so it is an issue with how you are importing it into C4D not the studio export.

  • p.dahl-collinsp.dahl-collins Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    I don't know. I will try to find Autodesk FBX viewer.

    Thanks for a stepping stone.

  • p.dahl-collinsp.dahl-collins Posts: 0
    edited June 2013

    Autodesk FBX viewer - need autodesk, I think.

    Very few options on FBX import to C4D. "animation" is one and it is ticked.

    The Daz genesis model imports fine, complete with bones but they are not connected. ie I can pull a shin off to one side and the 'skin' will stretch.

    Perhaps I need to tell C4D what this object is. ie a rigged model.

    I say that but when I looked in the timeline there were NO imported keyframes.

    Now, I would expect that if it was a self contained animation, so what have I imported?

    I am very confused and seriously fed up with searching the net.

    Post edited by p.dahl-collins on
  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,495
    edited June 2013

    http://images.autodesk.com/adsk/files/fbx20133_converter_mac.pkg.tgz
    http://images.autodesk.com/adsk/files/fbx20133_quicktime_mac.pkg.tgz
    install the convertor and the quicktime viewer and open the convertor and in it select viewer, drag and drop your file in
    FBX is a rigged animated figure it would need to be imported into your app of choice maybe using a plugin
    you can also use the convertor to convert it to .dae (collada format)

    Post edited by WendyLuvsCatz on
  • p.dahl-collinsp.dahl-collins Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    so far I might be asking you to marry me. I'll see if this gets me anywhere first.

  • p.dahl-collinsp.dahl-collins Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    Wow thanks. I am not mad. In the FBX converter I am seeing the correct animation as exported from stupid Daz.

    So how do I get C4D r12 to recognize that as a self-contained animation? Or just an animation.

    We have confirmed Daz is exporting it correctly.

  • p.dahl-collinsp.dahl-collins Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    Okay you said you don't have C4D I will move on from here. Thank you for your help. It is properly apprecciated from an old man.

  • carlo_585ac2cdaccarlo_585ac2cdac Posts: 1
    edited December 1969

    me too i want to export FBX structure from daz, but... i cant have success export.

    if i work with naked figure, all Ok, but when i dress my character FBX exported not merge all items in one figure with one sketon, but one skeleton for each item...

    i opened same fbx in c4d, blender, lightwave3d (no more be cause i could buy and mantain these license).
    same result.
    then i think i do some error in daz BEFORE to export, then i ask to more skilled guys...

    how can i merge a figure with his wardrobe before to export?

  • juve_satrianijuve_satriani Posts: 138
    edited December 1969

    hi.. Im succesfull to export genesis+cloth+animation using daz Studio 4.6.1.33 to cinema 4d release 14 PC version . I dont know if your cinema 4d or DazStudio version maybe cause trouble .

    1. Do you make animation with AniMate ? If so ... you should baked to standart DS timeline first to making work
    2. Before exporting are you`d selected all figures+cloth+Obj via scene tab ?
    3 .Check export setting like immage attachment
    4.When opening in Cinema4d .make sure you`d check/import animation

    step4.gif
    1366 x 546 - 101K
    step3.gif
    712 x 596 - 26K
    step02.gif
    1366 x 684 - 53K
    bake.gif
    293 x 110 - 4K
  • drose108drose108 Posts: 1
    edited December 1969

    Satria,
    I followed your instructions, and everything imported into C4D except the animation. Can you please explain what you mean by "you should baked to standard DS timeline first to making work"? For testing I created this simple file with a naked Genesis figure, using the built-in animation named "Spin":

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/xo58k2zhpflb88g/DAZGalSpinning.zip?dl=0

    Thanks,
    D

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