Hi, I am working on a project and hit a wall and was wondering if you knew where to start, or anyone in the community who might be able to offer insight. I am attempting to make a character creator using procedural meshes, and i understand how those kind of meshes work for terrain, but i am stumped on how to apply that to making body parts, rigging and animating them, and how hair and clothing would work.
Hello!Wow, ok this sounds quite complex. Im going to assume you're working in Unity for this?The first stage would be to set up a series of empty transforms in Unity that represent where each body part will appear. So you'll have a point for the head, a point for the torso, a point for the arms etc. assemble these into place. The next stage is to make sure ALL your body meshes have the same pivot position per type. Ie all heads might have their pivots in the middle base of the neck. All arms will have their pivots in the shoulder, etc. That way you can tell Unity to create Arm_TypeA or B or C at the LeftArm empty transform, and no matter which arm mesh it is, if the pivot is positioned correctly it will automatically appear in position. However the animations requirement is tricky, but not impossible. I haven't done this sort of thing (yet) but here's my advice:Make a full body skeleton rig and rig all of your meshes to that one rig. Do all of your animations on that rig. Then, you will use that rig in Unity and all of its animations will be applied, and because all various meshes have been rigged to that skeleton, they should also just instantly work. "Should just work"Hahahahahahahahahahahaha this is game dev who even knowsSorry for the late reply too, I recently had to factory reset my phone and only just noticed I hadn't downloaded Tumblr!Goodluck!!PS: if anyone has more experience with this please chime in :)
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