Hi! I need to create many copies of a metahuman character, about 100-200. 5-10 of them will be active. the rest should create the illusion of a multitude. With standard copying of a character, is it copied equipment, rig and other things that will not be needed.
Could you please give me any tips how make a copy of the installed character in the form of a mesh file without unnecessary settings, so that later I can copy only this copy
Hey there @naseful! Welcome to the community! Do you need custom metahumans to be the crowd as well? If not, Epic gives out the City Sample Crowds if you’re not worried about them being scrutinized and they fit your world. You’d still need to look at how it was implemented in the City Sample. Here’s a tutorial on how to prepare that:
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When it comes to swapping the clothing and hair, you should be able to write up a script to do that automatically at runtime but it might be some effort working it into the crowd system as I believe that already randomly selects from a handful of prebuilt metahumans as base.