Any interest in quality SciFi characters? [Screenshots included]

[SE_JonF]

@franktech;310420

• Interesting discussion… The challenge here is that meshes and textures can be highly-customized and placed in scenes in such a way that they’re a vast departure from your original work. Whereas characters well, they’re just a hell of a lot harder for us to customize. There’s custom anims, custom modular-skinning and a clever way to handle face and hand details without resorting to visors and gloves [yawn]. If you can solve that by including tools to help us customize the characters you’ve designed, so that we can use them without fearing we’re all making the same-game-clone, then that would be something. Because even in FPS, the look of a game is inherently tied to the look of the characters…

• I don’t want to blow steam here, but that the kind of tool that would be worth paying a lot for. I’m talking here about at least several hundred dollars worth, because you know you’re not just getting something that’s already in hundreds of other UE4 games… You’re getting something that can be reused and be still quite unique, the kind of thing that usually you have to wait for a custom modeler to do, and only after fully-understanding the requirements… Am I asking for the world here? Probably…

• There’s also a vast need for more cars (GT-Exotics, Detroit-Prototypes, WRC) and many other vehicles including aircraft and spaceships. The marketplace is dead right-now in this regard. The Asset Store even with all its faults is a vast library of possibilities. I’d also like to see Chinese Assets along the lines of the game here and Italian / French town environments like in the film Ronin (1998)… But as always SE_JonF, good luck with whatever you decide!

Agreed, that was the issue that was raised when this thread was initially conceived. Again, nothing is set in stone - but if I were to go through with characters I would want to make sure that I can meet a high standard of modularity and customization so as to avoid the clone issue. Things like that take time, and careful planning but would be worth the quality. Vehicles are something I hope to be able to bring to the Modular SciFi series in the future. Spaceships would be another cool addition. Working in other styles is something I’m excited to do in the future as well. I appreciate your input in this matter Franktech, thanks!

@ShadowKindGames;310689

Yeah, I’d buy them as long as you don’t mind them being re-sculpted and re-skinned?

Decent base models are hard to come by, which maybe not your intention for use as such. So for me the biggest factors would be the quality of textures / .SBAR files and base mesh integrity that can be turned into whatever else.

I think that would fall within the use of the license agreement, so long as you are using it in UE4. Anyone feel free to correct me if I’m wrong though.

@;310717

I’ve got to echo franktech. I would buy this pack just to look at the tech behind the customisation. The fact that it comes with art assets would be a bonus.

I have to look into how I would do that. Character design/modeling is something I’ve been doing for a bit, but implementing them into UE4 and further setting up the customization menus is something I would have to research.

Thank you all for your feedback, I truly appreciate it! =)