I’m loving Metahumans! Just experimenting now, because the clothes don’t fit my game and I’m not a good enough artist to make my own clothes. It would be good if Metahumans Creator just had all the basic types of clothes available (loose pants, tight pants, dress, skirt, etc.). I don’t need lots of variations of each type; just one or two that I can use as a starting point. Here’s my background and my thinking:
For the last two years, I have been developing a fairly large solo project. I have about three years of work left (hence the “fairly large” label).
I am not much of an artist, so when I started the project, my plan was to use 3d models from the marketplace. That has a lot of challenges and limitations.
Even though I’m not an artist, Metahumans is awesomely easy! I needed a realistic child character about 12 years old, and there was nothing on the marketplace that would work. I was able to make a perfect character in under 1/2 an hour in Metahumans!
The downside is that the character is wearing jeans and a sweater. That doesn’t work in my medieval game, which needs this character to wear a peasant-style dress. I have found good tutorials that enable a novice artist like me to replace the sweater with a sweater-like asset that I can find online (such as a jacket). But getting those tutorials to work for my needs requires (a) that I can find a medieval dress asset out there, which is easy; and (b) that the mesh have something reasonably dress-like to use as a starting point. And that latter part is the sticking point.
I’m not looking to invest the time necessary to become a 3D artist who can create stuff like this from scratch. I’ve got enough on my plate. I need the Easy Button. For the face and body, MetaHuman Creator is the Easy Button. But for clothes, I would need the basic clothing types so I have a starting point to go into Blender and easily trade out a given type of clothing for something similar that better fits my needs.
Thanks for the great tool!