ASSEMBLY: Modular Character Creator

(Unreal Engine 4)

ASSEMBLY is a series of in-engine blueprints & systems for quickly creating a wide variety of characters from a modular skeletal meshes.

Documentation

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Source Files

A handful of example skeletal meshes are included. You will need to add more yourself. You can find FBX template body and heads for human males & females in the SOURCE folder.

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bp_AssemblyCharacter

• The base character that uses the ASSEMBLY features.

  • Use Assembly: Enable/Disable the Assembly features for this character.

  • Body Type: The preset Body Types and Segments/Cosmetic data tables it uses. (Human by default.)

  • Sex: Sex/gender that determines which mesh is generated from the data tables. (Can be customized in 'e_sex')

  • Appearance: Structure that determines aspects of the Assembly character.

    • Segments: The index generated from this named segment. (Derived from the Body Type.)

    • Cosmetics: The index generated from this named cosmetics. (Derived from the Body Type.)

    • Color Modifiers: Edits the values of all all the meshes' material color parameters with matching names.

    • Scalar Modifiers: Edits the values of all all the meshes' material scalar parameters with matching names.

  • Use Preset:

    • True = Generate the character appearance from a preset appearance. (Derived from dt_Preset)

    • False = Generate the character appearance from this Instances Appearance values.

  • Preset: Selected preset appearance from 'dt_preset.' (Only if 'Use Preset' = True.)

• Functions

  • Play Emote: Plays an emote animation in DefaultSlot. Emotes can be set in 'bp_GenericData'.

  • Set Looking: Turns Head tracking on/off & sets a tracking target.

  • Move to Point of Interest: Moves to a bp_PointOfInterest. Sen set movement to Run or Walk.