@mlindborg I got the package today from gumroad and it is really awesome. I customized a very nice character in minutes. I will check the hair issue you spoke before.
@kalakus I will check if there is any animation (common ones) into the Paragon assets that might be useful, and in any case I will check also the animations from Mixano and even if I am able to change them to be compatible, they need to be probably distributed outside the package from the Marketplace as a googledrive link for example. If they work properly we will discuss a way to have it working;
I just bought this and I tried adding more animations to the Anim BP you have set up and none of the third person animations are working, how do I make the character walk?
Please don’t use the Mesh inside the level, use the female or male character blueprint inside the level, also you need to retarget the third person animation or the whole animbp to the female or male skeleton and assign the animbp to the female or male blueprint .
ps: why you moved the mesh apart? That doesn’t work.
create a third person blueprint project and inside your computer documents, open unreal projects, your project folder name, contents folder and drag what is inside the character customizer content folder inside your content folder.
yes i can but now I need to go to work, when I will come back I will show you how to apply the third person template animation on top of the female character.
Open the character customizer and move the content of character customizer folder to your project content folder like showed in this image:
Result:
Open female_animbp or male_animbp, in my case i choose the female one
Set the animgraph like this: (we’re getting the speed for making the character moving)
(the Speed variable is just the vector lenght result promoted as a new variable, you can also create a new float variable and set it)
Now open the mannequin skeleton and set from none to Humanoid
Retarget the mannequin animbp
Create a new state machine and connect to the final result as showed:
Drag the ThirdPerson_IdleRun_2D inside the graph and connect it
Set the speed variable
and you need to fix the input inside the project settings or copy the input from the character customizer project, i just fixed the movement, you need to fix the mouse rotation.
At this point you have all the third person project animation usable and working, if something is not clear let me know, remember to fix the max walk speed on the character blueprint, this value need to match with the idle_2d speed value.
If you prefer after retargeting you can just change the default animblueprint to the new one inside the character, you need in anycase to fix the project input or the character will not moving.
So I got it working, thank you so much, but now I have another problem, how do I put clothes on her?
Do I need to attach the jeans to a socket or what?
Thanks, i just prefer custom animation, as i said before i don’t really like the third person default animation at all, is just good for basic testing but nothing more, but is easy to change the 2d animation blueprint with custom animation transition (idle -> walking -> run).
it will be cool to see something about the hair shader, thanks.
You can setup inside the input a key for open the widget that mlindborg created… so this is what you can do:
A) you can use the widget to create a cloth, morph and hair, save it and inside the character blueprint load the clothes and the morph (you can do a save with the same name for the morph and for the clothes, this create a single save file that store morph, hair and clothes)
B) you can do exactly what you’re doing now, but you need to set the custom texture mask for the clothes.
as you can see if you create a new skeletal mesh under your character mesh the clothes fits, there is no need to socket it, you need to apply the animation blueprint and the texture mask. I’ve done this on character_bp, but this is actually wrong, is just for example, you need to do it on female / male blueprint or on your own blueprint character.
https://preview.ibb.co/ngc7Pn/13.png
This is for create a character with pre-builded clothes on it.
An example with a new character blueprint:
https://preview.ibb.co/hBWsPn/14.png
I don’t actually know how to change the morph of the character, probably must done inside the blueprint, i will check it later.
@kalakus
I am trying to use this on a 4.18 project and everything is working fine except the clothes fitting, the shoes do not fit on the male for some reason, is there something I am doing wrong?
Yes, you’re using the Female shoes on a male character, try with m_sneaker please also you don’t need to change position and rotation of the clothes (it fits automatically so set all to 0 except for the scale that must be 1 | 1 | 1) and remember always to rotate your character mesh of -90 degrees on Z axis.
(you can’t fit female clothes on male and vice-versa)
Your Location and rotation settings for the shoes and for the character mesh are wrong.
There is no need to change any settings if you follow this rules:
When you select a Mesh set the Z axis rotation to -90 degrees (minus 90) (only for the character mesh, not for the clothes) you setted it at 90 and that is wrong
You can adjust the Z location (not rotation) of the character mesh as your need
When you import the clothes mesh you don’t need to touch anything else, you only need to set the animbp, you can customize the materials if you want but you don’t need to change the location, rotation or scale in any way. you setted it wrongly here.
