Question about Character Models

I have been coming up with ideas for an RPG game, but there is one question I have always had that I can't find an answer to.

If I wanted the player to be able to change features on their character, such as: Height, weight, eye color, nose, and stuff like that, is that done in Blender (The modeling software I am going to use) or in Unity? Or is this even possible with the given tools of the free versions?

 

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That is done in Blender, not Unity (unless you create lots of body parts and then script a system that allows to customize characters)

 

For height you can scale your character on the Y axis, and slightly on the X axis (for a bit of width).
For weight you can scale on the relevant axis to make each body part thicker.

Eye colour is a simple material color change.

For a different type of nose, you could have the modeller model several noses, then as the player chooses their nose you just change the gameobjects mesh.

There are several ways to do it but this would be the most logical for me.

 

A better way imo would be to use a premade or make your own blend shape script for blendshapes. That way you can make morphs in blender or whatever and then just apply it to the base mesh if needed.

 

Thanks for all the answers!

My best example I could give would be like Mass Effect, where they give you several sliders and you can stretch, lengthen/shorten, move each feature. This includes cheeks, neck, nose, eyes, lips, the whole Works. So would it be easiest to create different shaped heads, then layer the other objects on top so they can simply edit each different feature?