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.
- Describe your character — pick the Genesis version, add ROM sections and body morphs.
- Generate — one click produces the Daz apply-script and the Houdini PoseAsset CSV.
- Apply — run the script in Daz Studio, import the CSV in Houdini.
- 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.
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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.
