This project is used to power the Avatar system known as MCS.

Copyright 2015-2019 by the MCS authors and Daz 3D released under LGPLv3.

This library, MCS, and all of it's original supporting code and tools are licensed under the LGPLv3 as viewed here: https://opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.html

MCS is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

MCS is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with MCS. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

There is one allowed exemption to the classic LGPL which is we give full permission to statically link, including through tools such as IL2CPP, the MCS library.

For ease of use there is a Visual Studio solution file MCS.sln provided which has projects inside.

1. Copy or reference your UnityEngine.dll and UnityEditor.dll (these are inside your unity install directory)
2. Build MCS_Utilities
3. Build MCS_Importer
4. Build_MCS_Core

Or you can build the individual folders with the Mono or Microsoft compiler (mcs.exe or csc.exe). You will need to build the folders in the order above and include references to them as you build the next one.

This library is designed to be built as a series of managed dlls and then copied into your project. You can also copy the source files directly into your project. For ease of use please see the releases section on github for a .unitypackage which will take care of installing the dlls, shaders, and supporting editor scripts automatically for you.

You can also look at the BuildTools program which will copy the appropriate files into a structure suitable for your Unity project.

Managed plugins will exist at Assets/MCS/Code/Plugins including the 3rd party vendor plugin ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.dll

Loose scripts will exist at Assets/MCS/Code/Scripts in their respective folders

Shaders will exist at Assets/MCS/Resources/Shaders

Content, including the base figures, will exist at Assets/MCS/Content/[PRODUCTNAME] and /Assets/StreamingAssets/[VENDORNAME]

This project is only minimially supported now, however, we are accepting pull requests and would consider having someone externally help contribute or maintain this project. If you are interested in assiting please email jjanzer at make taffi dot com.

Please note that your existing assets will not work unless you move them into the Assets/MCS and update their .mon files to point to these new paths. If you would like to use this latest code version with legacy assets you will need to find and replace any M3D references with MCS. These references will be found in the following file types: .mon, .fbx, .json, and .mr. Be careful if you replace those strings as fbx and mr are binary files, so you should ensure you use a binary safe tool and not a string based tool. We have converted most of these assest to the new name which you can access via one of the links below.

If you've purchased existing assets on the non-unity store in the past you may be able to download them via: mcsdownload.com with your legacy username and paasword.

Note: this download site will expire July 2019, so if you'd like to download your assets and haven't done so yet, please do so before then.

If you wanted to buy an asset but never purchased it you can find a assets for purchase at daz3d.

The current maintainer of MCS is Jesse Janzer. In the past the following people have contributed development towards this project: Jesse Janzer, Ben Hesson, Bruce Stagbrook de Claimont, Abhishek Tripathi, Jesse Gomez, and Ian King.