3D character creator (ingame) workflow

Brainblox

Hi veterans, I sadly still struggle composing modular characters in 3D, unsure about how to implement each components. The following is my current thought process: But I struggle to plan out following points: 1. How do I switch between body types etc. ? Shapekeys in Blender? If yes, how do I switch between them in GODOT? And if I do, how do I adjust my Skeleton/Armature when the body proportions change? (For example when I would morph the shape from male to female) 2. How do I manage hairstyles/beards/appendable properties? I thought about implementing them as seperate Meshes in Blender, positioning them relative to the standard head shape and parenting it to the head, so it deforms when the head would shapeshift. Would that work? If yes, how would I manage to choose one hairstyle in GODOT? Just hide the other Meshes? Wouldn't that eat up ressources with multiple characters? 3. If I would shift between shapekeys, surely my rigged clothing would also break? Or wouldn't it?

Gowydot

Have you seen this >

https://reddit.com/r/godot/comments/ebqymu/3d_character_editor_with_morphs_and_wardrobe/

The project is there but I couldn't get it to work. Maybe you can give it a try.

Brainblox

@Gowydot said: Have you seen this >

https://reddit.com/r/godot/comments/ebqymu/3d_character_editor_with_morphs_and_wardrobe/

The project is there but I couldn't get it to work. Maybe you can give it a try.

Thanks, I will look into it. I thought this was just the demo of a game from cybereality from our forums.

Tomcat

@Brainblox said:

How do I switch between body types etc. ? Shapekeys in Blender? If yes, how do I switch between them in GODOT? And if I do, how do I adjust my Skeleton/Armature when the body proportions change? (For example when I would morph the shape from male to female)

Shapekeys are transferred from Blender to Godot. There are problems with the rig setup.

How do I manage hairstyles/beards/appendable properties?

I guess not by hiding, but by adding nodes.

Brainblox

@Tomcat said:

@Brainblox said: 1. How do I switch between body types etc. ? Shapekeys in Blender? If yes, how do I switch between them in GODOT? And if I do, how do I adjust my Skeleton/Armature when the body proportions change? (For example when I would morph the shape from male to female) Shapekeys are transferred from Blender to Godot. There are problems with the rig setup.

How do I manage hairstyles/beards/appendable properties? I guess not by hiding, but by adding nodes.

so would you advise to wait for GODOT 4 in terms of bodytype morphing?
can i make the hair deform with the head, like when I would switch from a round head to a square one? i thought about parenting the hairstyles to the vertex group of the head of my bodymesh, but I guess that wouldn't be possible if I would add them as Node in Godot?

Tomcat

@Brainblox said:

so would you advise to wait for GODOT 4 in terms of bodytype morphing?

can i make the hair deform with the head, like when I would switch from a round head to a square one? i thought about parenting the hairstyles to the vertex group of the head of my bodymesh, but I guess that wouldn't be possible if I would add them as Node in Godot?

I don't know exactly what changes in terms of morphing are planned in 4. It seems like everything you need is already there.

It can probably be done. I'm working on it right now. For now, you can use MakeHuman to create a character. I made a tutorial here: MH into Godot tutorial Import textures and ShapeKeys

There was an attempt to make a character generator for Godot based on MakeHuman. You can see that the clothes adjust to the figure, the hair can adapt in the same way: Go_MakeHuman_dot

fire7side

I've found that makehuman clothes don't fit right and have to be redone in Blender, especially if you use community clothing, etc. It's close enough that it doesn't take much work.

Tomcat

@fire7side said: I've found that makehuman clothes don't fit right and have to be redone in Blender, especially if you use community clothing, etc. It's close enough that it doesn't take much work.

There is such a problem. Unfortunately, not all authors are careful to follow the recommendations for creating clothes. In those cases where the recommendations are followed, you usually don't have to redo anything.

Brainblox

@Tomcat said:

@Brainblox said:

so would you advise to wait for GODOT 4 in terms of bodytype morphing?

can i make the hair deform with the head, like when I would switch from a round head to a square one? i thought about parenting the hairstyles to the vertex group of the head of my bodymesh, but I guess that wouldn't be possible if I would add them as Node in Godot?

I don't know exactly what changes in terms of morphing are planned in 4. It seems like everything you need is already there.

It can probably be done. I'm working on it right now. For now, you can use MakeHuman to create a character. I made a tutorial here: MH into Godot tutorial Import textures and ShapeKeys

There was an attempt to make a character generator for Godot based on MakeHuman. You can see that the clothes adjust to the figure, the hair can adapt in the same way: Go_MakeHuman_dot

Thanks, but I focus on a cartoonesque style, so my characters are going to be very low poly, so I don't know if makehuman will help in my case. But its good that it shows up in this thread for future visitors of this thread.

cybereality

If you are going for an anime look, you can use VRoid.

Tomcat

@Brainblox said:
Thanks, but I focus on a cartoonesque style, so my characters are going to be very low poly, so I don't know if makehuman will help in my case.

MakeHuman has low-polygon models with varying degrees of detail and a "out-of-the-box" toon-shader:

Brainblox

@cybereality said: If you are going for an anime look, you can use VRoid.

thanks cyberality, but I'm going for the Western look, like "Going Medieval"