DIM Converter: turn your downloaded zips into Daz Install Manager packages (free Windows app).
Turn the content zips you downloaded into packages Daz Install Manager can install, update and uninstall, just like the products you buy from Daz. Free.
Content you get outside the Daz store usually comes as zip files you unzip into your library by hand. Daz Install Manager (DIM) never knows about it: you can't uninstall it cleanly, updates are a chore, and after a while it's hard to tell which file belongs to which product.
DIM Converter turns those zips into packages DIM can install, update and uninstall, just like the products you buy from Daz.
How it works:
1. Add the folders where your downloads are.
2. Press Scan downloads and plan, then Build packages.
3. Open DIM and install them from Ready to Install.
What it does for you:
— Every product gets its own entry in DIM: install it into any library and uninstall it cleanly whenever you want.
— Smart Content entries with a picture, so your products show up in Daz Studio like the ones you bought.
— A newer download of a product shows up in DIM as an update.
— Messy downloads are sorted out for you (zips inside zips, unusual folder layouts, versions for several figures), and anything unusual is pointed out before anything is built.
— Daz Studio plugins are packaged too (one of the things I struggled with the most with other free tools that didn't handle plugins).
Already unzipped everything into your library by hand? The Library check shows which files your new packages will cover and packs the rest into a package of its own, so nothing gets lost when you let DIM take over.
DIM Converter only reads your downloads and libraries; it never changes or deletes them.
What you get DIM Converter.exe and a README. Nothing to install: unzip it anywhere and run it. Windows may warn that the app is new and not signed: click More info, then Run anyway.
Compatibility Windows 10 or 11, with Daz Install Manager. DIM Converter is an independent tool, not made by or affiliated with Daz 3D as this is my way of integrating stuff gotten out of Daz into their ecosystem as easily and fast as possible.
Free tool. Share it freely. It may not be sold, resold, bundled into a paid product or put behind a paywall‥
Please leave a review, and please check out my other free content:
• Animation Bridge: put Mixamo and ActionForge animations on your Genesis 8, 8.1 and 9 figures.
https://www.renderhub.com/bloodybooger/mixamo-bridge-use-mixamo-animatio...
• Generation Bridge: use poses, expressions and animations made for one Genesis generation on another (Genesis 3, 8, 8.1 and 9).
https://www.renderhub.com/bloodybooger/expression-bridge
• Idle Life 2.0: your figures breathe, blink, look around and shift their weight, and your cameras get real handheld motion.
https://www.renderhub.com/bloodybooger/idle-life-natural-idle-animation-...
• Jiggle Wiggle: soft body jiggle that makes the chest, glutes, thighs, belly and more bounce with the motion.
https://www.renderhub.com/bloodybooger/jiggle-wiggle-a-tool-for-daz
• Load Here: load figures and props right where you want them, not in the middle of the world.
https://www.renderhub.com/bloodybooger/load-here-a-tool-for-daz
• Pose Hold: apply any pose and your figure stays where you put it.
https://www.renderhub.com/bloodybooger/pose-hold-a-tool-for-daz
