I've been using UMA across a variety of projects now and can say that it's really in its own league when it comes to a system like this. Genuinely, nothing comes even close to the possibilities that open up to you if you end up using UMA as your character framework. Performance, runtime generation, optimization, it excels in every field. Frankly, with the latest revision, this should be a paid asset. The fact its given to us for free is a miracle. Integrations with most major Unity frameworks and toolkits as well. The lead dev (Jaimi on Discord) takes time out of his busy day to be around and help for free practically every day and while the documentation and onboarding process could be a bit simpler, the old tutorial videos made a few years back are good enough to get started. Once you got the gist down of how it all works together, how slots, overlays and recipes connect with one another, you realize just how intricately beautiful UMA is. My projects wouldn't be possible without UMA, and any other character creator or customizer on the market simply cannot get close. There's some alternatives outside of the unity ecosystem, but those carry some heavy licensing costs and are not as performance friendly. There's people migrating models from those to UMA - which is a testament to how good it is. Barring some minor bugs occasionally (like with every big framework) it does a flawless job for me. If I had to nitpick something, I wish it had a more modern UI framework/preset for DNA manipulation, but that's something everyone can just build on their own if they need it - for most needs, what's there is more than enough - especially for free. If you're able to, support the project on Patreon or Github at least once, please do - the cash will go toward making UMA even better.

I downloaded this asset over a year ago IIRC and it was unusable. But this recent update (a complete rewrite?) is perfect & a life saver! Thanks.

Missing loads of files, despite numerous downloads and re-importing. No UMA Context asset, no race library nothing. Absolutely shocking

I have to say this asset is so amazing! I tried its old version years before. The doc wasn't detailed enough, which was the only problem to me. I dig into the system myself, and then successfully made my custom VRoid anime-style models compatible to it without any fatal bug. Very happy to see this asset still being upgraded. For development cost reason, I moved to 2D games with another character customization system, but I'm looking forward to making 3D games using UMA of latest version in the future. Hopefully there will be better-explained docs for users like me.

UMA has quite a big learning curve, but it's hard to match this level of features, modularity and customizability. The community on Discord is great too. Answers are usually just a question away.

It's amazing to have a piece of software like this as open source, love to the developers <3

Very powerful plugin, but it is also very complicated to learn. I am a Chinese and not good at English, so I spent more than 20 hours searching all the documents I could find, and finally found a way to store roles in the comments. I think the newly generated stand alone DNA can finally be modified at will. I hope the author can explain in detail how to save and change the role content, thank you

Avatars look realistic and animate well.

in every prefabs i have nothing. where is the character prefabs?

it could be a really good product, but unfortunately it is really unstable and extremely complicated, I was looking for a solution to have customizable characters, I chose another solution.