Import the pose as bvh on another layer : we’ll call it pose armature or pose skeleton.In Edit mode, delete the ‘Genesis’ bone.(CTRL + A and select rotation and scale). Very important step: Apply rotation and apply scale on the imported mesh and armature.Import the collada to Blender : we’ll name it the character or the character’s skeleton.It should work with versions a little older but I can’t garantee it will. Please note that this works between DAZ 4.6 and blender 2.68 and has been tested with Genesis. If you’re interested, hereafter the steps I follow to do this. After some tries, I ended up finding a way to retarget my poses/animations exported as bvh to a character exported/imported as Collada between DAZ and Blender. I suppose the problem comes from the fact that the skeleton is not exported in the same way in Collada and bvh : the bones are not positionned and oriented identically, which ends up in distorsions during the retarget phase. I initially thought that with the mocap tools recently added to Blender, this step would be pretty straightforward, but unfortunately, a simple retarget between my collada import and my bvh pose doesn’t work well : the mesh ends up all messed up. The Collada format does not import (or export, I don’t know at which step the information is lost) poses or animations. The problems start when you want to import poses from DAZ to Blender.

To import a DAZ character with its rig and skinning to Blender, no problem, the Collada format works very well between the 2, especially since version 2.6 (before it used to crash on me on a regular basis…). If like me you enjoy using DAZ3D for its characters, its morphs and to pose characters, but if you like using Blender better to finish the pose and render work, you may have some trouble to find a suitable workflow between DAZ and Blender.

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