Material Presets for complex objects like characters and clothing are called Material Plus files in iClone and Character Creator. They can describe several surfaces across several objects in your scene. Imagine the skin shader of a character and attached accessories at the same time, like glasses or hair. They’re not exactly intuitive to do though, …
I ran into a small puzzle while importing Daz clothing into Character Creator using Transformer. The garment in question was a multi-part suit that consisted of a shirt, a vest, pants and a jacket. Although all were named correctly, Transformer displayed random names during import, and as such it was impossible for me to specify …
Very occasionally, updates destroy functionality we need to get our jobs done. Newer doesn’t always equal better. Go figure! Reallusion is no exception, and much like Daz, they don’t have an easy way to downgrade their applications. Thankfully there is a way to do it, if you’ve saved the old installer files. In this article …
Importing Daz content into other applications is tough on a good day, but trying to use Transformer with Reallusion’s Character Creator pretty much takes the cake: 9 out of 10 attempts will fail guaranteed. In addition, only the base texture comes in by default. Genesis 8 and older generations usually work, but 8.1 and 9 …
When you work with other members of your team, you may get files for designs that contain content elements you don’t own. Character Creator will still let you view them, but you won’t be able to export them into other apps or create renders with them without a watermark. Your viewport will look something like …
I like using iClone as animation front-end for Unreal Engine. Although a lot can be done directly in UE, not everything is as convenient to achieve as it is in iClone. The pipeline is designed with humanoid characters in mind and works well enough, but things get hinky when it comes to non-standard characters like …
Spring Effects in iClone are “faux physics” if you will, something that lets a skeletal mesh bounce as it moves. We can create this from scratch on custom figures, and it’s a little finnickety to setup, but very straightforward if you know how to do it. These effects are not baked to the timeline (like …
Character Creator has a similar workflow to Daz Studio when it comes to importing and rigging clothing. We export the avatar, model/fit clothing in MD, export an un-rigged OBJ and transfer the skeleton and weight maps. Pitfalls lurk at every corner of course, so I thought I’d make some notes before I forget it all …
I had never created a morph in an external app for Character Creator before, but I managed to make it work after a few false starts. Just before that fleeting knowledge escapes me again, here’s how to do it. I’m comparing it to the Morph Loader dialogue in Daz Studio and will use comparable terminology …
When we make adjustments to out custom characters’ heads, there comes the point where eye blinks might not work correctly anymore. Take this example, it’s really not a good look for my CC3+ model. Thankfully there’s an extremely helpful tool in Character Creator that makes fixing this (almost) a one-click affair. Take a look at …