Importing ambelics to MD (marvellous designer)

Sam.crick

Hi, 

Doing a 3rd year university project. I need your help. 

I have exported the ambelic and have the Tpose where it transitions into the movement. 

when importing it into MD it seems fine although maybe on the smaller side. 

If it is moved or the piece of clothing are moved it then enlarges and rotates where the front face points upwards. 

How can I stop this? 

I have two outfits made already on still avatars, is there a way I can give them movement - such as a catwalk - (fashion project) or are they stuck like that. 

Any help I would be much grateful for. 

Thanks 

 

Richard Haseltine

That sounds as if you are loading the Alembic file as a blend shape/morph target. Those move the vertices along a straight line from the start position to the end, so rotations will usually shrink (or possibly stretch) the mesh and then scale back the other way.

lilweep

when importing it into MD it seems fine although maybe on the smaller side. 

SMall how? Like 90% the size you want or 10% the size you want. You can adjust scale in several ways, either before exporting from Daz or before importing to MD.

Are you using Sagan exporter from Daz?

If it is moved or the piece of clothing are moved it then enlarges and rotates where the front face points upwards. 

No idea what you are describing.  You are moving and scaling the alembic in MD and then are acting suprised it is transformed and scaled? 

What is the alembic? The avatar with no clothing, the avatar with clothing? Is the clothing exported as alembic from Daz along with the avatar?

I have two outfits made already on still avatars, is there a way I can give them movement - such as a catwalk - (fashion project) or are they stuck like that. 

Why would they be stuck "like that"? MD is simulation, so of course they are not stuck unless you froze them.  Unfreeze them.

Process:

1. Export the unclothed daz avatar as Alembic using Sagan.

1. Before export, make the daz avatar the correct size for your garments. (How? Import your MD garment to Daz and then size your daz avatar accordingly.)
2. Create pose transition animation from (a) pose that fits the clothing to (b) your start pose. Then (c) animate over timeline for your catwalk animation
3. Export avatar animation as alembic using the Sagan exporter plugin (SubD = 1 or lower is probably fine)

2. Import alembic avatar to MD

3. Simulate the MD garments to fit the avatar at frame 0.

4. In animation pane, run and record simulation animation.

5. If issues, rerun after fixing issues, playing with animation simulation settings, animation warp speed, iterations etc, and garment properties, like Particle distance.

5. Export your animated garments as alembic.

6. Bring animated avatar and animated garment to your renderer of choice (e.g., Blender).