Any NPC - Character Customization Tool for UE4 - Featuring shareable Lipsync

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@Chosker;216211

isn’t this a little too overkill for most games though? it’d certainly look good but a top-down RPG would be unplayable on a lower spec PC. heck, even in a first person shooter using LODs for characters in the distance would be too restrictive (i.e. useless) if you make everything Apex-cloth dependant.

Nicolas: I also wonder what your plans are for cloth. using morph targets is nice and all, but requiring to make all morph targets for every piece of clothing and armor means the amount of work you have to do will grow exponentially.
and the same will happen with hairstyles and facial hair once you add those

@Chosker. In retrospect, Apex is a process hog, perhaps it would not be used real-time, but at design-time to generate mesh shape/contour and deformation information for animation playback. The use of optimizations such as Level Of Detail, PBR Materials, etc would be applicable. What I visualize is a in-game Marvelous Designer-ish Editing System and with latest processing power, I believe its totally feasible.

@Nicolas, looking good. I’m also learning/designing a GUI with the UMG Tutorial. The Tutorial doesn’t mention Sliders:( I desire to use them for modular morphing meshes to assemble melee weapons, furniture, doors, and props. I’ll most likely simulate a slider with mouse scroll wheel. BTW, I have no idea how to get a morph-able skeletal mesh into UE4 and control the morph. Do you have any Tutorials on this?