Workflow for Fully Customizable Characters in Games Production?

rayle1112

Hi everyone!

I'm looking for a workflow which allows players to customize their characters from different skins. Normally I would delete all the faces that we don't see in-game to save polycount, but how about games that have a customizable character system like Dota 2, WOW, Diablo 3, GW2, and Black Desert,..? It seems like they have a base naked body with costumes as separate meshes. I find this workflow is fine with low poly game characters but how about next-gen models? That would be very expensive.

Are there any alternatives for this?

For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVhlTjK36D0

Meloncov

I'd imagine they have a system set up that automatically deletes any unseen geometry before the model is sent from character creator to the actual game.

thomasp

pretty sure there are some characters out there that have been extracted from that game (or the standalone creator they released a while ago). google should turn up the download links.