Geografting is the term used for getting this done. I've not done it, and haven't read too much on how to do it.

The products currently available do work fine, but IMO they should have only grafted the shaft and balls instead of the entire pubic area, because matching up textures is a pain in the ass unless you're a Photoshop whiz.

As well, the way Daz cut up the meshes for the Male and Female figures' genitals appears to have been done specifically to make it extremely difficult to make futas/dickgirls/hermaphrodites. And then how/why they spread out the UV map for each set is simply mind-boggling.
I have never seen a company so intent on driving away a given customer base by making it so difficult to use their products for porn. Nikon and Sony don't care if you use their cameras for it. Sealy and Serta don't care if you use their mattresses for it. Broyhill doesn't care if you use their sofas for it. Adobe doesn't care if you use Premiere to make your movies on. Apple and Microsoft certainly don't care.
But Daz don't want no part of no fuckin.

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts/mcjteleblender-for-ds1-2-3-4

Daz to Blender scripts here

IClone 6 also has an available plugin for getting Genesis 2 figures into Iclone, and according to the promo videos, you can turn any clothing and hair item into a dynamic item using greyscale weight maps, which are basically an extra texture map with a gradient fill on it. I have yet to try this as I've been extremely busy with several other things, but it definitely looks promising. As well, character movement (posing and animation) appears to work a lot like Poser, where you grab the hip and move it around and the hands and feet stay where you put them. The feet are pinned by default, but you can pin the hands - same as Poser. Daz' functionality in this is indeed poor, with the feet wanting to wobble a bit too much, even for basic motions like bending forward or even stooping.

However, you also need 3D Exchange for IClone to get Daz figures into it, which costs extra. While IClone does have a figure library, the EULA puts strict limits on what you can do with them, especially in regards to selling animations and images made with them (basically you have to purchase an export license or else the movies can only play inside Iclone). In all, they have the shittiest EULA I've run across, but then if you use Daz figures instead, most of the EULA is invalid. However, you still need the export license to generate BVH or FBX for use in other programs, so using it to make animations and then export the BVH back to Daz is still going to cost extra.

At that point, you really start to consider staying with Poser, or spending the extra for an annual Maya or Max subscription, or learning Blender, because dealing with all these other companies and their limitations is just more bullshit than you feel like dealing with.

@'~ArgonCyanide777':

Are you familiar with Blender Cycles? That's superfly's basis.

I knew Superfly was basically Blender's rendering engine of choice, but I despise Blender's interface (or lack thereof) with a flaming passion. I've seen pro-quality stuff made with it, from an animated short featuring a rabbit and a squirrel to a simple glass with wine sloshing around in it using the built-in liquid generator, but everything about the interface itself - from the DOS-style file selection menus to the lack of a functional toolbar with ready access to common functions - makes me want to punch a nun in the face.

Another potential problem I foresee is that one person comes up with all the story ideas/script and delegates the graphic work to others. The artists submit their drafts and the writer suggests changes. This goes back and forth until you have a finished, acceptable product.

The problem in that is that many artists are very sensitive about critique, and working alone for years due to the very nature of the work itself, they have no real-world experience creating art by direction rather than purely from inspiration. This manifests as "I'm not making "MY" art, I'm merely drawing Superman". This is a hard pill to swallow for a lot of people.

There are many other hurdles, but that to me is the biggest one: the concept of teamwork among people who produce art as a passion and from inspiration, rather than as a job. A lot of people don't want their passion to become "work", because then it's no fun.

What appalls me most is the Moral Majority are still out there dictating what the rest of us may see or create, because of some fictional belief that "the children!" will see it and suddenly become rabid perverts with chronic masturbation habits, like some bad horror movie where a zombie bites someone, they die in 5 seconds, then they're up on their feet as a zombie doing the same to others.

It doesn't work that way unless that was already in a box in your head and you saw it was OK to be that way and opened the box to be who you really are.

I think that's the underlying issue: people don't want to admit that there is such a large segment of the population who do not conform to the traditional "polite society" model of Ye Olden Days, or that "polite society" itself is a worn out mask that people are tired of having forced on them.

Between Poser and Daz, Poser is the better animating solution, but then you will have issues with the latest Daz generations (Genesis 1, 2 and 3) because they lack proper IK implementation as compared to Vicky 4, which was the last Daz product to be totally Poser-compliant.

Animating in Poser with pre-Genesis figures is as simple as dragging the Hip where you want it and the feet and hands stay put. From there you do whatever tweaks you need, and it's off to the races. At least in terms of traditional sex animation loops like missionary and doggy style, etc. More detailed animations like handjobs, foot jobs, etc, may take considerably more effort, but it's a bit more intuitive overall - you move the foot and the leg follows. With Daz, it's completely backwards (Forward Kinematics) where everything starts at the hip/pelvis: you bend the hip/pelvis, bend the thigh, bend the leg/shin, then pose the foot.

There is at least one IK option for Genesis 2 figures in Poser, but I don't think it works in Daz Studio. While Poser 11 has a photorealistic renderer, I'm not familiar enough with it to compare it to Daz Studio Iray. I've used Poser since version 3, and it took me quite a while to adopt Daz Studio because it was so drastically different from, and in my experience limited by comparison to, Poser.

As for animating in general, it's a ton of work, even with keyframe interpolation doing all the tweening for you, and to achieve quality results for a sellable product, you're going to have to look into motion capture devices. I'm not sure how well the Kinect for Windows can do, as I haven't been able to work with that very much. As well, you need motion capture actors - real people to do real things in front of a Kinect or while wearing something like a Perception Neuron rig.

Then of course there's the unknown variable of how those devices actually translate to the figures you want to use. Daz continues to fuck shit up by adding more bones to the torso than what most everyone else has been using for decades, so even a lot of the motion files you find online will not work with these recent generation figures because of that. The V4-to-Gen2 Animation conversion scripts I've seen for Daz Studio are a small help, but the conversion still leaves you with a ton of work to do to clean things up.

Doing 3DX is not at all like having real sex. It's tedious, it's frustrating, and it's difficult to maintain focus at times. While the idea of what you want to create offers arousal at first, the mental focus required to actually produce it means that blood flows back into your brain, and the boner goes away. It's difficult to maintain that perfect balance between being focused on the work and aroused by the concept.

Once you get to the point where you can do what you want to do with the figures in the scene (posing, lighting, camera work, etc) by reflex and muscle memory, and without a lot of experimenting and do-overs, then you can focus more on what turns you on and how to get that into your scene. This is how it was for me with Poser and the Aiko 3-based figures I used for years - once I had the program under control, I could bounce from scene to scene quickly, and get the figures posed and repositioned in under a minute. I could render a complete series of images in a day (20-30), and have the dialog boxes done. Of course the overall quality wasn't what I would consider release-worthy, at least as a sellable product, but it scratched my itch, which is the foremost concern of any artist.

The face is disproportionate. Extend the eyelids/brows upwards and make the nose not look so much like a toddler's.

You reach a point where you have to decide how far over the line between fantasy and reality you want to go, and with a cock that big, you're going to have to extend her jaw downward to compensate. There may be a morph for that, and that morph may break the mesh, leaving visible cracks in the render.

It's at the point now where her teeth should be preventing what penetration there already is, so extending the jaw wouldn't be too much of a stretch (ba-dum bump crash).

If the jaw won't extend downward, stick a magnet on it and pull it down.

No idea on network rendering. Probably an exclusive option that Daz farmed out to someone like they did with dynamic cloth, and they're not doing anything with it.

In other news, I have one scene using the Daz Reading Room that only has 3 G2F and one Genesis Female, and previously it took over an hour to render. By being able to add my Pascal Titan to the mix, it finished in about 20 minutes.

Thanks for sharing this! I've been waiting for Pascal support but haven't been checking the Daz forums. While I don't appear to be getting massive speed gains, a little goes a long way. Just doing tests right now, but it definitely starts rendering faster, with most of the image done at 50% in about 5 minutes. The rest of it's just cleanup.