Victory is achieved on this. Though animators will hate it… I hacked my way to a renderable result.

This is what I posted on Daz:

 

Export your genesis 2 figure from Daz Studio with the settings I have attached, and she will come into carrara as an obj file that has textures intact, and will render in global illumination.

You can also get it worked with a rigged figure by exporting as collada - but it came in as a mess of files, and the genital prop was locked to something, and as a newbie user I could not sort it out. But that -might- be a clue for an animator who needs… ‘adult’ functionality for whatever.

Now I can get back to sanity on some other project, the bug in my brain has been stepped on. :)

Notice how I am NOT letting Carrara know this OBJ came from Daz… things got really weird when I tried using the daz preset, but my OBJ export was different at that time too - so I am not sure which end of this process is the important part that fixed it… :)

I am guessing the rules at renderosity also forbid me from posting a render of the results given what is being focused on here?

(Now if I ever need this in a project, it will be like back in Vue 3 when the only method of import from Poser was obj, and so I had to be very particular about having all my things set up perfectly before taking them out of Poser…)

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