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Hello everyone, I'm going to leave instructions here on how to get DragonBones to work with Unity 6.
The plugin currently does not create armatures within Unity 6 successfully, so we need to create them in an older version of Unity.
Step 1. Download Unity 2019, create a new project and import the latest DragonBones plugin, Step 2. Open DragonBonesPro 5.6.3 software and export your DragonBones project as JSON 5.0 (on windows), if you really need 5.5 support, you can achieve this by downloading DragonBonesPro 5.6.3 on MacOS and disable internet access, this will allow exporting to 5.5, Windows is currently bugged. Step 3. Use the DragonBones Unity plugin to create an Armature of your JSON ske character in Unity 2019. Step 4. Drag the results into your Unity 6 project asset folder, these will work.
To summarise, you must use an older version of Unity (Unity 2019 works fine) to create the prefabs from DragonBones .json files, you can them bring them over to your Unity 6 project since the creation does not work in the Unity 6 editor.
Windows can not export to 5.5 json due to DragonBones servers being officially down, however you can bypass this via a bug in the MacOS version by turning off internet access and using 5.6.3 to export to 5.5. DragonBones Unity plugin MUST be in the Assets folder, not in a sub folder of Assets. (Honestly I'm not sure why, but I noticed some bugs occur when within a sub folder).
I hope this helps someone, I spent days trying to figure this out.
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Guide for DragonBones to work in Unity 6 + (With 5.5 export included)
Guide for DragonBonesPro 5.6.3 to work in Unity 6 + (With 5.5 export included)
Jan 24, 2025
Hello everyone, I'm going to leave instructions here on how to get DragonBones to work with Unity 6.
The plugin currently does not create armatures within Unity 6 successfully, so we need to create them in an older version of Unity.
Step 1. Download Unity 2019, create a new project and import the latest DragonBones plugin,
Step 2. Open DragonBonesPro 5.6.3 software and export your DragonBones project as JSON 5.0 (on windows), if you really need 5.5 support, you can achieve this by downloading DragonBonesPro 5.6.3 on MacOS and disable internet access, this will allow exporting to 5.5, Windows is currently bugged.
Step 3. Use the DragonBones Unity plugin to create an Armature of your JSON ske character in Unity 2019.
Step 4. Drag the results into your Unity 6 project asset folder, these will work.
To summarise, you must use an older version of Unity (Unity 2019 works fine) to create the prefabs from DragonBones .json files, you can them bring them over to your Unity 6 project since the creation does not work in the Unity 6 editor.
Windows can not export to 5.5 json due to DragonBones servers being officially down, however you can bypass this via a bug in the MacOS version by turning off internet access and using 5.6.3 to export to 5.5.
DragonBones Unity plugin MUST be in the Assets folder, not in a sub folder of Assets. (Honestly I'm not sure why, but I noticed some bugs occur when within a sub folder).
I hope this helps someone, I spent days trying to figure this out.
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: