Animation Madness: Mixamo to DAZ Studio to Marvelous Designer (and back) - oh my! 😎 (Patreon)

I did a stream this week in which I was bringing a Mixamo animation into DAZ Studio, then export it to Marvelous Designer and animate a skirt. From there I brought the skirt animation back into DAZ Studio - and it all worked with no poke through! 

There are a great many steps to the process, so I'll leave you my notes here, before I get a chance to tidy them up and expand them with screenshots on my website. My plan is to turn this into a mini series this month (before I forget how to do it again). If you have any questions, please let me know. Enjoy!

Mixamo

• export Genesis 1 as FBX (2012 Binary)
• import to Mixamo, pick animation
• adjust arm width
• export as FBX 6 WITH skin
• import into DS (select mixamo.com NOT Animation)

DAZ Studio Import

• save as Pose Preset (animation)
• load correct figure (G3 or G8)
• apply pose
• optional: use Agent Unawares Pose Converter on G8
• https://www.deviantart.com/agentunawares/art/G3M-to-G8M-World-s-Greatest-Pose-Converter-709731867
• https://www.deviantart.com/agentunawares/art/G3F-to-G8F-World-s-Greatest-Pose-Converter-709591348

DAZ Export / MD Import

• export A-Pose (OBJ)
• export first frame of animation (OBJ)
• export animation as "MDD by Animate" (full version of aniMate2 is required)
• import A-Posed character
• model/add clothing

MD Animation

• load first frame of character animation as Morph Target (OBJ)
• load animation (MDD Cache Standard)
• import the MDD as Z-Inverted
• simulate animation
• park on first frame of animation
• export as OBJ Sequence
• settings: single object, thin, welded

DAZ Import

• import skirt 1st frame OBJ
• import all OBJ Sequence files via Morph Loader
• run animMorph on clothing item
• https://github.com/versluis/animmorph
• Happiness!