Quote - Hopefully someone will say I'm wrong. but as far as I know getting the rigging from blender to Daz wont work!! at the moment, am sure someone is working on plugins etc but at the mo' its a nono

Carrara dosn't need a bridge lol it opens a runtime ok makes landscapes an can model but not very well lol never did like its modeler but thats just me , ps you can rig in carrara but that wont transfer to Daz or poser

Now I get a problem with what your saying?, when you say soft body do you mean soft body or organic ?? then you say you dont need weight mapping so that sugests things like doors/drawers or machines (hard body? lol) thats easy to do in poser(never tried in Daz) but imagine it should be a similar process, but no point me trying to help if we are thinking dif things

I actually do not have Carrara, firstly because it cost money I don't have at this time, secondly because there are hardly any tutorials for it, and thirdly because it is not promoted as well as the other DAZ applications. If you say it is not that great, I believe you.

I kind of figured that the rigging might not be able to be moved from Blender to DAZ Studio. I have seen models that were created in Blender that are rigged, but I think they may have been rigged using the rigging feature of DAZ Studio after being imported as a Wavefront .obj file. I believe the textures may have been applied in Blender, including UV image surfacing maps.

Soft body is in reference to any mesh that deforms during posing, such as animals, humans, clothing, etc. A rigged soft body model must be weight mapped to smooth the deformed vertices so the pose looks more natural. Indeed a model that does not need weight mapping when it is rigged would be hard body, since the parts would work as though they are on hinges, sliders, axles, or what have you. Machines, doors, and drawers are good examples, as robots, automobiles, and other types of vehicles would be also. So we are definitely thinking along the same lines.

Anyway, I guess what I need to do is look for tutorials I can follow easily on rigging in DAZ Studio. I have 4.5 Pro now and nearly all of the plugins are green so I know that the feature is available to me. I'll hop on over to the DAZ Studio forum and see what I can scare up.

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