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Not a coder so no idea what this means other than none of the bridges work anymore.

A modernized fork of the Daz3D DazToUnity Bridge, updated for Unity 6 and all three render pipelines — HDRP, URP, and Built-in.

Based on the original work by Daz 3D. This fork focuses on Unity 6 compatibility, runtime render pipeline detection, UPM packaging, and a unified uDTU shader family for all pipelines.

1. What's Different in This Fork

This fork modernizes the original DazToUnity Bridge with a focus on clean, forward-compatible code:

Unity 6 compatibility

• Replaced deprecated FindObjectsOfType with FindObjectsByType
• Switched to EditorSceneManager for scene operations
• Removed Unity 2019 dead code paths
• Added safety around AvatarSetupTool

Runtime render pipeline detection

• New RenderPipelineHelper replaces all #if USING_HDRP / URP / BUILTIN preprocessor directives
• Pipeline detection is cached at runtime via GraphicsSettings.currentRenderPipeline
• Shader names are runtime properties, not compile-time constants

UPM package structure

• Installable via Unity Package Manager from a git URL — no file copying needed
• Proper Runtime and Editor assembly definitions
• SimpleJSON vendor dependency isolated with autoReferenced: false

Unified uDTU shader family for all pipelines

• HDRP and URP: existing Shader Graph shaders (Hair, Metallic, Specular, SSS, Transparent)
• Built-in RP: new ShaderLab surface shaders matching the same property interface
• All three pipelines use the same material conversion path — no legacy fallback

2. How to Install

Daz Studio Plugin

1. Go to the Releases page
2. Download dzunitybridge.dll
3. Copy the DLL into your Daz Studio plugins folder:
   C:\Daz 3D\Applications\64-bit\DAZ 3D\DAZStudio4\plugins\
4. Restart Daz Studio
5. Verify: File → Send To → Daz To Unity appears in the menu

Unity Plugin — Option A: UPM / Unity Package Manager (Recommended, Unity 2022.3+)

The cleanest install. No files are copied into your Assets folder.

From Unity:

1. Open your project
2. Go to Window → Package Manager
3. Click + → Add package from git URL...
4. Paste: https://github.com/Knuffelpanda/DazToUnity.git?path=UnityPlugin
5. Click Add

Or edit Packages/manifest.json directly:

"com.daz3d.daz-to-unity": "https://github.com/Knuffelpanda/DazToUnity.git?path=UnityPlugin"

From Daz Studio (automatic):

1. Open File → Send To → Daz To Unity
2. Enable Advanced Settings
3. Select UPM Package (Unity 2022.3+) from the dropdown
4. Click Install Plugin and select your Unity project root
5. Switch to Unity — the Package Manager resolves the package automatically

Unity Plugin — Option B: .unitypackage (Classic, Unity 2019–2021)

1. Open your Unity project and leave it running
2. In Daz Studio: File → Send To → Daz To Unity
3. Enable Advanced Settings
4. Select your Unity version and render pipeline from the dropdown
5. Click Install Plugin and select your Unity project root
6. A Unity Import Package dialog should appear — click Import
7. If it doesn't appear automatically, go to Assets/Daz3D/Support/ and double-click the matching package:
   • DazToUnity HDRP.unitypackage
   • DazToUnity URP.unitypackage
   • DazToUnity Standard Shader.unitypackage
8. For HDRP: add the Daz diffusion profile to your HDRP asset's diffusion profile list (Project Settings → HDRP Default Settings)

3. How to Use

1. Open Daz Studio and add a Figure or Prop to your scene
2. Select the top node of your Figure or Prop in the Scene pane
3. Go to File → Send To → Daz To Unity
4. Select the Asset Folder for your Unity project
5. Choose the Asset Type:
   • Skeletal Mesh — for rigged figures
   • Animation — for animation clips
   • Static Mesh — for props and environments
6. Optionally enable Morphs or Subdivision levels via the checkboxes
7. Click Accept and wait for the confirmation dialog before switching to Unity

Unity will automatically import the FBX and .dtu file, apply materials, and set up the prefab.

4. How to Build

Requirements: Daz Studio 4.5+ SDK · Qt 4.8.1 · Autodesk FBX SDK 2020+ · Pixar OpenSubdiv · CMake 3.4+ · Visual Studio 2017+

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/Knuffelpanda/DazToUnity.git
cmake -B build \
  -DDAZ_SDK_DIR=<path> \
  -DFBX_SDK_DIR=<path> \
  -DOPENSUBDIV_DIR=<path>
cmake --build build --config Release

The build output is dzunitybridge.dll (Windows) or dzunitybridge.dylib (macOS).
Set -DDAZ_STUDIO_EXE_DIR=<path> to auto-deploy the plugin to your Daz Studio plugins folder after build.

5. How to Test

Unit tests (Windows, C++):

• Build in Debug mode with /EHa (C++ exceptions with SEH) enabled
• In Daz Studio, load Test/UnitTests/RunUnitTests.dsa
• Set sIncludePath and sOutputPath on lines 4–5, then run
• Click through any dialog prompts that appear — they are part of the tests

Automated test cases (Daz Script):

• In Daz Studio, load Test/TestCases/test_runner.dsa
• Set sIncludePath on line 4, then run
• Results are written to Test/Reports/ as JSON and TXT

Manual QA:

• See Test/QA Manual Test Cases.md for 16 test scenarios

6. How to Develop

C++ plugin (DazStudioPlugin/):

• DzUnityAction — triggers the export workflow via File → Send To → Daz To Unity
• DzUnityDialog — export configuration UI
• The DzUnityNS namespace prevents collisions when multiple bridge plugins are loaded simultaneously
• Uses CPP_PLUGIN_DEFINITION() instead of DZ_PLUGIN_DEFINITION to enable C++ class export across the bridge library boundary

C# Unity plugin (UnityPlugin/):

• Daz3DDTUImporter — ScriptedImporter for .dtu files, drives the entire import pipeline
• DTUConverter — material and shader assignment
• RenderPipelineHelper — cached runtime pipeline detection, single source of truth for all pipeline branching
• DetectRenderPipeline — manages scripting defines for backwards compatibility

Modifying shaders:

• HDRP/URP shaders are Shader Graph assets in UnityPlugin/Shaders/uDTU/
• Built-in shaders are ShaderLab files in the same folder (uDTU BuiltIn.*.shader)
• All shaders share the same _-prefixed property names so DTUConverter works identically across pipelines

Updating the .unitypackage files:

• Make changes inside Unity
• Export a new .unitypackage from Unity
• Replace the matching file in DazStudioPlugin/Resources/

However, the exported model does not reflect any polygon reduction and remains high-poly.

Is my workflow incorrect?
If so, what would be the correct method?

The store page for "Decimator for DAZ Studio" states:
*"Game Developers - will love being able to create lower poly versions of customized DAZ 3D figures which can be exported directly into popular game engines."*

So I believe there should be a way to properly export a decimated model for use in Unity.

Does anyone know the correct workflow or solution?

After talkign with about 10 people, no one knows how to accomplish regular eyes being imported.

The next best effort is to unlock the materials within the inspector so you can adjust the transparency yourself.

Does anyone know how to unlock these materials in the inspector? Inspector itself is unlocked, all materials imported into unity from DAZ are locked - Character was imported as skeletal mesh. Unity 2022.3.55, DAZ 4.24.

Thanks

Here is the model I’m using:

https://www.daz3d.com/shizuka-hd-character-and-hair-for-genesis-8-female

I have a problem with the models with the fingers when use the unity bridge i created a video for explain mouch better the situation.

Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy4d9eZ5Dc0

A more then 3 months are passed and no solution for errors in this bridge, no answers in support (Request #444249), no answers in github (https://github.com/daz3d/DazToUnity/issues/7).

Regards.-

Real question.  I've bridged a character from Daz to Unity.  Character shows up great, everything attached, and after several days of pulling my hair out, the materials are making the trip as well.  But one thing that I can't find are all the visemes and other morphs I checked to go as well.  I've tried to follow along in some tutorials but they always use keyboard shortcuts in Unity or something and don't explain how to get the the spot to see the blendshapes.  Could someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks

Does anyone know how to fix this please? I've tried different avatars and all have more or less rig problems.

Shader to do Multlayered Shader Geoshell / Skin Layers Paints/Tatooes/Blood other, 3 layers here shown as two layers of body paint over 3rd layer skin, can change to do as many layers as required, each layer has Map/Strength for Diffuse, Normal, Height, Opacity, Roughness with overall Subsurface which could also be layered others like Metalic could be added this way to each layer.

This is really useful for Geoshells which are used to add tatoo, blood, dirt, paint and also for other Geoshells I would say.

Geoshell overlays as shader layering with this shader and very good performance as the Geoshells are just done as shader layering not as geometry, i.e. only the Genesis 8.1 geometry pictured here in Unity with the 2 Geoshell layers converted to shader layer combination in Unity with no Geoshell geometry. This also means the Geoshell layers can animate in Unity with the Genesis character, Geoshells at the moment only export as static Mesh geometry from Daz.

other times something like this:

Is there some documentation somewhere on how to interpret these values?

Just for start - Holt 8 riding over the terrain in Unity

https://www.daz3d.com/holt-8

How do I send this to Unity?

I have tried several times but don't get anything.

Thanks.

I am using the Donnie (Trump) character, gen 9. Export using bridge to Unity. It looks OK but not the same detail as looking at it in Daz, by far.

I have the Jaw oddly open fixed , via other posts. This is strange in its self. but ok, there is a bit of a workaround. Annoying. but ok.

But trying to get the same look from Daz to Unity, I just can't get it after several days of trying many ways, I am finally frustrated enough to post.

I am guessing it is in some kind of mesh detail setting? I thought this would be sorted in the Bridge.

What am I missing please?

Really hoping to do small animations, to use as memes, on X. Anything I learn I will post back on here, to help other people.

 Sorry if I am missing info, but I have never had to ask a question before. I am stumped. Haven't used Daz or Unity in a year or 2, and I may be missing something obvious

Cheers

I'm experiencing some issues with Mixamo animations on Genesis 8 characters exported through DAZ to Unity Bridge. While static animations (like idles) work fine, locomotion animations show problems - particularly with foot placement and exaggerated leg spreading (characters walk like ducks).

Has anyone found a reliable workflow to make this combination work properly? Any tips on settings or steps I might be missing?

Thanks in advance!

        {

            "id" : "Base Female",

            "name" : "Base Female",

            "label" : "Base Female",

            "vertex_count" : 21556,

            "uvs" : {

                "count" : 23223,

                "values" : [

                    [ 0.569236, 0.550367 ],

                    [ 0.567632, 0.552205 ],
....

            "polygon_vertex_indices" : [

                [ 454, 24, 21569 ],

                [ 18739, 24, 21569 ],

                [ 14679, 70, 22667 ],
....
How to use the data in "polygonurtex_indice", where the UV points on the edges are always misaligned

Using the bridge I get everything in fine except have white eyes, solid eye lashes and hair looks like crap. Ive seen mention there is tutorials to fix these issues but for the life of me I can not find them. Could somone please link me to a step by step guide to fix these please.

I'm trying to port a Daz genesis 8 female figure with advanced p*ssy to unity with its morphs. However no matter what I try, there are issues. Firstly, when exporting to Unity, the geograph is parented to the base figure and moves along with it when the base figure is moved. This is good. When in unity however, the blenshapes that control the geograph are being ported with the figure and not with the geograph. So, when inspecting the base figure, the morph is there as a blendshape and does impact the geometry of the base figure, but does not impact the geometry of the geograph. When inspecting the geograph in unity, there are no blendshapes despite them being selected in the moprh export. Any ideas on what settings I may be missing or is this a known issue?

I have a female-morphed G9 figure with GoldenPalace graft on it. When I put her in a pose where legs are wide apart, the graft looks fine inside Daz: the vertices of the graft spread slightly to reach for the contour of the graft for the spread legs. However, after I export the figure to Unity engine and apply the pose (using an animation that I also exported from Daz for this pose or just by rotating the GameObject joints), the legs are spread but the part of the mesh that corresponds to the graft is left unchanged. 

Only the outer ring of polygons stretches to fill the gap between the default graft's shape and the space that the graft needs to fill. But the inner vertices of the graft ignore the pose entirely. It looks as if (aside from the outer ring of polygons) the graft is some rigid accessory (like a ring, or a horn would be), not something from flesh that should stretch with the rest of the body.

This looks poorly because of the wide flat "bands". The stretched polygons lose skin detail both in the diffuse/sss textures and the normal map. Moreover, issues with normals crop up later on. When I export morphs that change the shape of the graft (e.g. "GPL_Majora_Contour Fix 3"), some polygons of the graft (while looking fine in Daz) get behind the outer polygons in Unity, and for those polygons the normals seem to flip. They become dark or invisible and often turn into big rectangular holes. 

Here is my (very long) post of how I tried to solve the issue, without much success so far. Can't post it here because of the screenshots.
https://f95zone.to/threads/golden-palace-g9-graft-bone-weights-are-lost-after-export-from-daz-to-unity.229326/

Conceptually, I think there must be different use cases with grafts: in some cases (like horns) the graft actually has to stay rigid and only have non-zero bone weights to the bones of the graft itself. But in other cases (like GP) it's a part of the skin and needs to have similar bone weights as the vertices around the graft. How is this differentiated?

http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/userguide/creating_content/rigging/tutorials/weight_mapping_a_figure/start seems to only cover weight painting on figure, not grafts.