DAZ Studio | Export dForce Hair as Geometry for other Programs

hello everyone today i wanted to show you on how to export deforest hair simulations or just regular deforest hair out of desk studio and use them in other 3d software without a problem quick side note i've just uploaded a new tutorial onto my patreon one that has been frequently requested for a really long time now and that is on how to export animation out of their studio to cinema 4d without any compromises you export animation with deforest hair simulation with deforest clothing simulation with subdivision surfaces out of this and you can easily just open them up inside cinema 4d thank you for the support and now continuing with the tutorial eforce is des on proprietary simulation software i guess so if i apply a deforest labeled hair to my character it'll end up looking like this now that is not the case all the time sometimes deforest hair does come pre-rendered in your viewport and you can export it just fine um i've always wondered man how do i get this out of des because deforest usually forces you to use it inside their studio but there's a way around it and to do that all you have to do is just make sure that it's also displaying in the viewport so when you click on your hair the one you just added to your scene at the top in the scene project settings you can then go below here and just make sure that your hair is selected we can stretch this out a bit so you can see what being said all the way over there and you want to scroll down until you find settings like this now preview pr hairs and viewport line tessellation sites so for the sake of this i'm gonna just color this green and color this green as well so you know those who are the important ones it's preview pr hairs and viewport line tessellation sides all d4s hair should usually have those settings when you have them selected over here and we want to tick on for our review pr hairs so it's gotten thicker now but it's still not really showing up as hair so when we increase the viewport tessellation that'll change it'll turn our hair into geometry so for now it's just splines but as we increase the viewport tessellation it'll turn into geometry now considering that the final render tessellation is set to a three we can do just the same thing so let's hit it with a three and just wait a bit it calculates and now we have actual geometry showing up in our scene and now that you have generate pr hairs and preview pr hairs on with the viewport line tessellation of three you can easily just export this out of this like you normally would so as you can see i've pre-exported this right here and i'll just override this one the first file is set to viewport line tessellation of 3 and the second one is set to a viewport line tessellation of two and this one is our regular one set to three you can see that the file difference and the file size difference i'll just override this and these are my obj settings usually and just save this now we jump into cinema and we want to see what's up so we import for now let me just pause the viewport and we just import our file that we just exported so we have our regular obj with a viewport tessellation of three it takes a while as you can see that was the biggest file of them all considering the geometry for the hair is so dense and there we go so we have imported our level three tessellation model and then i'll just show you the differences between two and one so let's import two and then we move this to the oh my bad we move this to the side this is a different hairstyle i think so don't get confused by this but it's basically the same here and then we import our one and hit it with a minus 20 and i'll just throw a camera in there with a bigger with a bigger focal length just zoom out so we have a clearer side-by-side going on so as you can see the one with the viewport tessellation set to one looks kind of wonky so what happens if we just view it in the live viewer okay so it's just it doesn't exist it seems like all right and that is because viewport tessellation 1 doesn't give you geometry options it gives you splines splines disguised as geometry that just don't really show up because there's nothing there so i just usually ignore the one tessellation and there is a difference between one and between two and three that being if we were to check our geometry for our let's get rid of the one tessellation so let's check our hair short object for the two tessellation that's 295 000 polygons for our upper hair short and that is 887 000 polygons so it's basically almost tripled um the size of the polygons which is unnecessary render power if you ask me because you could just you know you could zoom in and you can see a difference you know these are not all the way through most of the time but the ones on the left are so considering on what you're going for i just suggest going with the lower line tessellation instead of maxing it out completely you could always do another thing being at a cloth surface make them a bit thicker so instead of subdividing them which we don't want to do we can just make them thicker that is way too thick so we make them 0.01 like this maybe like this you can make the hair thicker without increasing the subdivisions so it can look more dense but as you can see when you zoomed out it's not really that necessary and this is basically how you export deforest hair out of the studio it works with most hairstyles most deforest hairstyles should have those preview pr hairs and line tessellation settings in their studio itself in the respective settings to each object and yeah i hope you are now not as confused as to why your deforest objects aren't showing up in a third-party 3d software because you really want to get that good-looking hair but you're not sure what the heck is going on this is how you fix it super easy and quick and i'll see you guys next time thank you for checking by and i'll always check the comments for suggestions and i'll try to answer as many questions as i can if i do know the answer thank you for supporting me thank you for supporting my patreon more content to come soon and yeah have a good one

Channel: karlifetz

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Keywords: design, editing, cinema4d, 3d design, gfx, vfx, visual effects, octane, speed art, art, digital art

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Length: 8min 47sec (527 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 26 2022