While I’m working, and if I want to see a quick version of the animation, quality isn’t very important.

if it’s too difficult to animate, don’t show that part.

what the viewer doesn’t see, don’t worry about it.

do whatever it takes to render faster: optimise hardware, use multiple computers, use less resources.

use as little iterations as you can to get an acceptable outcome.

do not use the default render settings to final renders.

get into the habit to make quick preview renders (Animatics).

Let’ see how we can trim that down to a few hours or less instead.Ī few things to keep in mind while building your animation: If each of them would take 6 hours to render, the whole thing would take about 75 days, or nearly 3 months. We need to live with compromises, because we’re rendering quite a few images (30 frames per second, on a 10 second animation, that’s 300 images).

Importing in UE4 and playing at 10% speed gives the result above.Īlso, look at those UE4 eyes from photorealistic character sample! Has to write more about it.Aside from the setup, rendering an animation frame should be treated differently to a still image. Victoria 8 has max 8 influences almost everywhere, only couple of vertices have more influences (on the cheeks). UE4 don’t support more than 8 influences. It should be possible to export eJCM morphs too, but it looks already good like that. Resulting animation uses only face bones, no morph targets.

Then we exported the animation with all morphs baked and as usual X/Y/ZRotations disabled in morph rules (Daz sometimes thinks that rotations should be baked as morphs, therefore ignoring those “morphs” in the list or rules solves the issue) This was done using a script, key was set to linear. We made an animation in Daz3D that has exactly one eCTRL attribute enabled every frame. All animated with bones, no morph targets. Imported in Unreal Engine 4, played at 10% speed. Victoria 8 expressions (eCTRL) exported from daz3d as animation, one expression per frame.

Daz3d animation