There is a person who uses DAZ who needs help with animation. I use Poser (2014 & poser 12). Does anyone know of a good workflow for this? All of the built-in formats Ive tried do not seem to work at all and cause Poser to crash. DAZ seems to be able to import Poser files, but not sure how usable they are. I don't have experience in this and haven't had much luck doing a few searches on the forum.

Not sure how well this works https://www.daz3d.com/dson-importer-for-poser

I am told if we're able to get it working with Genesis 3 at the very least they might be able to get the animations working on Gen 8 (which is being used on the DAZ side).

If anyone know any answers on this please share. They would be very appreciated.

You have not even explained what you are trying to do. It sounds like you (perhaps) want to get some sort of unspecified Poser animation from an unspecified figure onto an unspecified Genesis 8 figure in an unspecified version of Daz Studio? Firstly, what is the exactly name and filetype extension of the animation in Poser, that you need to target for transfer to DAZ?

Dson importer is hit or miss with some people who are using poser 12. I do not have any issues with dson importer. but there are a lot of people that have reported they can not use it and if it does work for you at best you can only use dson up to genesis2 base characters . other wise you will get line1 errors trying to import genesis3 or g8 with dson importer. you can try FXB but you may loose your rigging during transfer of the characters.

So the best way I recomend that if you want to make a poser animation work for daz studio .to take these steps.

First. Load m4/v4 into poser. and make your animation using those character mesh. once your happy with the animations export it as a BHV animation and save as a BHV animation preset.

Next open daz studio and load a genesis1 character and then import the BHV animation file you created in poser into daz for the genesis1 character an make your corrections to the feet and hands that will be required when using m4/v4/ animations on genesis characters. once your done now re-save that animation in daz studio as a animated pose preset for genesis1.

Next. open a new scene in daz studio and load a gensis3 or 8 character into the daz scene and then load the genesis1 animated preset you made using the poser animation into genesis 8 .you'll need to make corrections to the arms and legs of about 30 degrees side to side for each limb and then bake and re-save the animationinto the timeline & resave as a genesis8 animated pose preset. .

After you have done all above you will be able to use the animated pose preset over and over for genesis8 or even create a aniblock with it if so desired.

I hope that helps

HartyBart posted at 4:08PM Mon, 15 March 2021 - #4414914

You have not even explained what you are trying to do. It sounds like you (perhaps) want to get some sort of unspecified Poser animation from an unspecified figure onto an unspecified Genesis 8 figure in an unspecified version of Daz Studio? Firstly, what is the exactly name and filetype extension of the animation in Poser, that you need to target for transfer to DAZ?

Honestly not even sure where to begin with this. The person uses Genesis 8 figures in DAZ. I have none of the above. I think poisinivy was able to answer the question though. Thanks anyway.

poisinivy posted at 4:10PM Mon, 15 March 2021 - #4414928

I hope that helps

That does help. Thank you for writing this up for me.