DAZ 3D sink

Exporting

Basic config

to export a rigged char with rigged clothes

Merge Followers
Important! This merges the wardrobe and props skeletons with the main Figure skeleton.
Make Followers Static
Allow Degraded Skinning
Required for FBX export
Allow Degraded Scaling
No effect found by now
Base Pose Only

Objects

Props checkmark when enabled exports the props (wardrobe, etc) as separate rigged geometry. Other wise it's capture together with the character.

Figures

Merge followers
When off, the props will not be rigged.
Merge followers static
When on the props will not be rigged. Guess it's suitable for simulations.
Allow Degraded Scaling
Does not seem to affect anything, am not aware yet what it does
Allow Degraded Scaling
FBX doesn't support full DAZ scaling, thus requires this on.

Properties

Installing downloaded pack

Place zip into DAZ\InstallManager\Downloads
Name manifest file after the zip name and place it to DAZ\InstallManager\ManifestFiles
If there's no xml title in the manifest files add the first line <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
Run DAZ manager, go to Downloaded and hit Install

Exporting tools

JS script

To export materials and textures
Open the tab Script IDE (if I remember well) , copy the script in the window, change line 8 to where you want the texture to be saved, then execute the script and you'll see in the log all copied textures

const aNodes = Scene.getNodeList();
var allImgs = [];
var uniqueImgs;
var imgMgr = App.getImageMgr();
var oSettings = new DzFileIOSettings();

// Path to copy images to
var saveImgPath = 'C:/Users/You/Pictures/Dump';
function processNode(node) {
	var obj = node.getObject();
	if (obj) {
		//print("Node", node.name, "Object", obj.name);
		var shape = obj.getCurrentShape();
		if (shape) {
			var aMaterials = shape.getAllMaterials();
			print("Shape ", shape.name);
			print("Num materials ", shape.getNumMaterials());
			aMaterials.forEach(
				function(mat) {
					//print(mat.name)
					// Collect images for this 'material'
					var aMaps = mat.getAllMaps();
					var aMatImgs = aMaps.map(function(m) {return m.getFilename()});
					// Add images for this material to all images array
					var aTmpImgs = allImgs;
					allImgs = aTmpImgs.concat(aMatImgs); 
				}
			);
			// Strip out dupes
			var uniqueImgs = allImgs.filter(function(v, i, self) {return self.indexOf(v) === i;});
			// Copy each unique image file to the save path
			uniqueImgs.forEach(
				function(i) {
					 print("Image filename: ", i);
					 var img = imgMgr.findImage(i);
					 var imgFile = new DzFile(i);
					 rtn = imgFile.copy([saveImgPath, '/', i.split('/').pop()].join(''));
					 if (rtn) {
						print("File copied");
					 } else {
						 print("File copy failed!");
					 }
				}
			);
		}
	}
}
aNodes.forEach(processNode);

Sagan plugin

Alembic exporter

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/428856/sagan-a-daz-studio-to-blender-alembic-exporter/p20

Diffeomorphic

Great 3rd party exporter for Blender

https://bitbucket.org/Diffeomorphic/import_daz/wiki/Home

Problems

Grafting

Stupid function that makes parts of the Figure's mesh invisible when an outfit is fitted to is.
Even more stupid is that you cannot simply unhide it in the DAZ Studio 🤦‍♀️.
The best way is to remove this grafting feature completely from the outfit file itself. To do that:

Search the DAZ library for the asset with the dsf extension (not the duf)
Open it in text editor. It's a json file.
Search for the "graft" section: "graft"; { ... },
Remove it, save the file and reload the asset.