DTH Character Studio

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How it works

From one declarative character definition, the studio generates both sides of a Range of Motion — the Daz Studio apply-script and the Houdini PoseAsset CSV — frame-aligned by construction, so they cannot drift out of sync.

1. Describe your character — pick the Genesis version, add ROM sections and body morphs.
2. Generate — one click produces the Daz apply-script and the Houdini PoseAsset CSV.
3. Apply — run the script in Daz Studio, import the CSV in Houdini.
4. Export to Unreal Engine — with every frame already matching, by design.

Get it

🌐 Get it from the website — it detects your OS and offers the right installer. Or grab the latest release directly (Windows installer / macOS build). The app self-updates from there.

📖 Getting started guide — from install to your first generated ROM. (Also readable in the repo.)

DTH Character Studio is Windows-first — the installer, updater and code signing are all Windows-built — and releases also ship a macOS build of the app. Note that the Daz-side DTH Exporter Plugin is Windows-only, so the export step into the DTH pipeline still needs a Windows machine.

Share definitions, not assets

Character definitions and the files the studio generates are recipes — they reference Daz assets by morph name, frame number and bone, and contain no licensed content. That makes them freely shareable; bring your own licensed assets.

Don't share full Houdini projects or export folders. Those contain baked licensed content (Alembic/FBX geometry, copied textures) and redistributing them violates the Daz / Renderotica asset licenses. Share the definition, not the assets.

Built for the DazToHue workflow

• DazToHue by mrpdean — the Houdini/UE toolset this studio targets (the PoseAsset node, ROMs and pose presets).
• Guide To Creating Custom ROMs — DTH's extended learning resource: the manual, step-by-step way to build a custom ROM, with the theory behind categories, generation methods and reference skeletons. Everything it walks through by hand is what this studio automates.
• DazToHue-Scripts by Soltude and contributors — the Daz Studio scripting framework the studio's bundled runtime descends from. Everything the workflow needs now ships with the studio.

Contribute

• Development guide — run, build, and architecture
• DevOps — release pipeline, signing, branch policy
• Contributing

License

The libraries and web app — @dth/rom, @dth/ui, @dth/web — are MIT © Polynaut, so the reusable generation core and UI kit stay freely reusable.

The distributed desktop application (apps/desktop) is GPL-3.0 © Polynaut. It links xbrz-rs (GPL-3.0) to upscale low-resolution Daz avatar thumbnails, and GPL-3.0 is copyleft, so the combined binary is GPL-3.0. The MIT libraries above compile into it unchanged (MIT is GPL-compatible) while remaining MIT wherever else they're used.