Tried to import to Blender, can't find shape keys (Diffeo).

Pickle Renderer

Maybe my not understanding something important but I took a vanilla G8, removed eyebrows, nothing else there, exported via. diffeo (base, not HD).  Imported with Easy Import DAZ option, selected to include Expressions, Visemes, etc.  After import the only shape keys I have are the driven ones.  I don't see any expressions, visemes, or anything I can manipulate in the list.

Am I looking in the wrong place in Blender?  I feel there's something important I'm missing...

 

Pickle Renderer

Am I supposed to use them in the Diffeo panel only, i.e. they don't exist in Shape Keys on the mesh?

hardwire666

Pickle Renderer said:

Am I supposed to use them in the Diffeo panel only, i.e. they don't exist in Shape Keys on the mesh?

As far as I know yes. 

Padone

You don't miss anything it is all working fine. What daz calls "morphs" is not just shapekeys, but drivers for bones plus optionally shapekeys plus optionally drivers driving other drivers in a chain. This is correctly imported with blender drivers as far as possible.

If you import G1 G2 figures you will see shapekeys for expressions since G1 G2 use simple geometry morphs, this is not so in G3 G8 G9.

 

p.s. You can bake drivers to shapekeys with "convert morphs to shapekeys" in advanced setup > morphs.

Pickle Renderer

Padone said:

p.s. You can bake drivers to shapekeys with "convert morphs to shapekeys" in advanced setup > morphs.

interesting. Thanks.

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I followed Krys Kryngle's videos and by using Shapekeys+ addon (free afaik) the morphs were already available there after diffeo import. Not sure about the custom ones I've added after the original import though, but the "database" scan part was all there.