I find it peculiar that it doesn't seem to have the same data children as the other materials. The only difference is that I created a new material to house those same nodes that worked before.Īnna_Body is the new body material I wanted to use so it could house my different node groups into a combined single material for the mesh body. Independent of my newly created material I will show you next.Īs you can see, the newly created material, is using the same exact nodes from the torso.004 material imported from DAZ. The above image shows my Torso.004 Material working, even though I made the material a unique copy. The bikini strap example was used with two imported materials from DAZ, the only materials that seem to work. The logic is working.īut if I copy and paste that same logic into another material, even if it was originally generated like the other materials. As long as I use the original generated material slot directly imported from DAZ, my custom node group works. The major problem seems to stem from the objects inability to deviate from the materials directly imported from DAZ, for a reason that I don't know. Effectively only allowing me to use certain materials, excluding me from the new ones I created. My thought was that there was some kind of UV or extra data that I wasn't seeing, that somehow connected to the materials, making them specific to the nodes. In this picture we can see the data pane as well. In the above picture you can see how I put both the Node group along with the parent material into a mixed shader. I have copied the nodes into the Bikini Bra material from the bikini strap material. The above image is a picture of me disconnecting the Bikini strap material, because its not necessary. When I put it into another material and use the necessary UV Input node and connect it to that materials output node, I get a black mesh error. The problem occurs when I try and take exact node groups of a material, and plug them into another material in order to effectively combine them. Im trying to simplify the materials and I'm trying to work my way to only a few materials for the model. I'm currently trying to materialize a DAZ Imported OBJ Character and the process was difficult, but I'm making good progress in the translation.

Daz models import to modo