Going from DAZ to Unreal is certainly possible but will create issues later down the line (No root notion, weird bending etc.), so again a detour through Blender with the Diffeomorphic addon will save you from a lot of headaches later. Theįor Blender is a power-house for everything related to 'From DAZ to Blender'. This is one of the reasons why i preach to go from DAZ to Blender and then to Unreal. But you certainly have to create all necessary maps yourself first. The free examples provided by Epic have everything you need to get you started on how to build one yourself. The render pipelines are different after all so you're often times better off with building your own skin shader inside unreal.

Usually i discourage people from using the texture maps that ship with DAZ characters since they often times lack essential maps like normal or roughness maps. Straight and unprocessed imports of DAZ characters are insane when it comes to drawcalls, so if you want to keep your performance in check this step is vital.

Fingernails to Arms, Toenails to Legs, Ears - EyeSocket - Lips to Face and Gens can be merged most of the time into the Body group. The regular DAZ character comes with something of around 16 material 'layers' (Surface Groups (SG) called in DAZ) and even tho it's not uncommon for game characters to have that many material layers in case of DAZ there are a lot who are unnecessary. The very first thing i suggest to anyone is reducing the material setup of DAZ characters, this will not only help with the general house-keeping later but also with performance. You are asking for a lot here, especially if you don't have a lot of experience with the UE since both are complex systems in their own way.īut it's not impossible to get a system set-up where you can skip the heavy lifting once you have the base done.

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