Tutorials?

DazCreator_1911_88

I've looked around, and honestly everything regarding daz to unreal is pretty scattered and a lot is left unanswered.

Sure you can send to unreal, and the main skeletal mesh works... somewhat okay....

What about eyelashes and eyebrows? They end up between my characters feet.

What about geografts? They double up, and end up between the characters feet.

What about re-targeting Mannequin animations? I've been able to get wonky versions of the basic manny animations with the IK root fix template, but what about others from the marketplace, that don't use IK Rig?

Is there any guide to any of this?

catmaster

There are very few comprehensive tutorials about how to use Daz characters and G8 skeleton based animations in UE5. Some tutorials are very basic that give ugly results in UE5, or have lots of issues like the messed local bone axes and animations, messed physics assets, IK rig not working in UE5 etc.

DazToUnreal currently has lots of bugs and not optimal for adult game development or rendering porn movies, it's usable however if the character is exported to UE5 without geografts and then use the retargeted mannequin animations. It can't export Daz poses and animations correctly because it messes the local bone axes of the exported characters.

Check the Blender forum for the best answers: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/categories/blender-discussion

Diffeomorphic is essential for correctly exporting Daz assets to Blender and UE5. There are different workflows around using Diffeomorphic, generally after exporting Daz content to Blender, it needs retargeting animations in Blender or in UE5, or make your own animations if there is no suitable animations to use. These examples use Diffeomorphic and Auto-Rig Pro, and animate the Daz character directly inside UE5 with Control Rig:


Diffeomorphic website:
http://diffeomorphic.blogspot.com/p/daz-importer-version-16.html
Documentation:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/yllqktxscidw7ha/Diffeomorphic documentation.zip
Most recent version of Diffeomorphic:
https://bitbucket.org/Diffeomorphic/import_daz/downloads/