UMA Character System (deprecated)

Yeah I know they could co-exist, but the point of my way was to NOT have dictionaries of instantiated objects that are not being used hanging around. i.e. if you have a scene where the user can choose ANY Shirt from all the shirts you have (and there could be 1000) then in that scene CharacterSystem loads 1000 shirts, but then in another scene where that character is just on his own, CharacterSystem only needs to load the shirt he has. Using the DynamicSlotLibrary, putting all your slots in Resources or an asset bundle, and with my 'DynamicCharacterAvatar' and DynamicCharacterSystem thats what happens...

 

Its very exciting really, because you could have dynamic races too (which I need because I have my own race- and which I think the male/Female enum should actually be) and then CharacterSystem can provide an interface for switching race AND outfits for that race. That would make UMA an AWESOME tool for any game developer because it would free them from having to use UMA stock characters...

 

I Agree, will be awesome. I'm currently working on getting CharacterFX updated on the asset store, should be able to get back to this soon.

 

I've updated the Character System to the latest version.

Includes updated "editor" scene, that lets you edit the wardrobe (including faces, brows, shirts, pants), all defined colors, and all DNA. Uses default UMA slots and overlays.

Various fixes and improvements to the code. I'll start working on moving it into the UMA code base next.

http://www.aztica.com/images/UMACharacterSystem.zip

 

Hey Jaimi, all the improvements you have made there are awesome
Just wondering what 'BoundsOffset' is for in CharacterAvatar?

 

That's for resetting the bounds on the SkinnedMeshRenderer. This gives you the ability to move the bounding box so it's correctly culled/animated.

 

Hey, Jaimi! Your asset CharacterFX looks really cool, especially the coloring during runtime.

Could this be applied to UMA clothing, allowing players to change the color of their clothing? Just curious. It sort of belongs here since it is UMA related. lol

 

Yes, actually it could - but you don't really need the character colorizer, because you can do the same thing with Shared Colors and overlays in UMA.

 

Oh, true!

 

If you haven't looked at the update I uploaded yesterday, I have a sample scene that shows how to do this - it has a pretty complete character editor in it (lets you edit the DNA, Wardrobe, Colors).

 

CharacterFX! Now that's a blast from the past.

I remember popping that into my wish list back in 2013. I didn't pick it up because I was going to use UMA and wasn't sure how to integrate a shader. Especially since UMA wasn't available till Christmas of that year. lol

Actually, now that I think about it, that story may not be technically true. I'm not sure we had wish lists yet, in 2013.

 

I will have to do that! I find myself at the moment with about a thousand things to do and not getting any one of them done. lol UMA is on hold for the moment while I work on artwork for buildings. But when I get a chance, I will take a break and check it out.

Thanks, Jaimi!

 

Jaimi, I can't see to use your Character System with the newest Github version of UMA. I get errors about WriteAllText.

Since you included UMA with the Character System, I am not sure how to update UMA with it. It is not as easy as just putting it on top of the Character System.

I am not using the Wardrobe thing, but your original Character system. Is that now obsolete?

 

Hi - it should work with the latest. Did you change Unity versions or anything? What line are you getting the error on, and what is the message?

I'm preparing a new version (David Sullivan did a lot of work to make it more configurable and work with asset bundles), but it's a big change (and a bit more complicated). I'm in the middle of trying to make it more user friendly, Definitely not obsolete - but may require a conversion when the new version is done.

 

Assets/UMA/Extensions/CharacterSystem/CharacterSystem.cs(90,28): error CS0117: `System.IO.File' does not contain a definition for `ReadAllText'

I am not sure if I updated UMA correctly. I put in the new UMA, and then imported your system. Should I have done it the other way around? Also, I am using 5.3.4. Previously, I had 5.3.2 in my old project. This is a brand new project though.

 

That is great. I really like the way recipes work. I have a self-imposed deadline for a project involving UMAs and Will's clothing so was hoping to get this done this week. I am just making prefabs, poor things.

 

Make sure that your project is set to a Desktop app and make sure it's .net 2.0 and not .net 2.0 subset.

 

Yeah, did all that. I am working it out I think.

 

You did the right order. Since it's a new project, I think the problem is likely that the player settings are probably set to ".Net 2.0 Subset" instead of ".Net 2.0" - for some reason Unity seems to strip out File I/O in the subset. If that's not it, let me know and I'll dig around.

It will probably be *at least* another week (maybe two) before I finish the update. But still you should be good to go with what you have.

 

haha, I'm kind of late it looks like!

 

I'm working on using http://api.shephertz.com/ for saving and loading my characters for my online game.
This would get rid of the File I/O issue since you wouldn't need to write to your local device.

It will be a entire system for saving loading etc your characters and players etc using the Wardrobe example here.

I'm still working on the saving the multiple characters per user and a character choose or create screen.
Once I'm done you can check it out if you want Teila

 

I would love to check it out.

 

Well, I certainly entertained Joen and Victor on the UMA Slack channel while they tried to help through something that I totally didn't understand. LOL I sometimes feel very sorry for those guys, having to deal with the "blonde" in me.

Not sure what happened but I think I will figure it out soon.

 

We have a FileUtils helper class with a ReadAllText replacement that works on all platforms, please use that one.

Let me just make clear that it's not a valid solution to require a certain platform or certain settings. UMA should work on all platforms with all unity settings.

We're only now considering dropping Unity 4.x support in the asset store!

 

Sure - I'll change that.

 

Jaimi, the problem seems to be that your original Character System is not compatible with the most recent UMA. I get an WriteAllAccess error as soon as I put in the CS. I will have to continue using the old UMA until yours is updated, if you plan to update it.

I could try your wardrobe system, but not sure I want to take the time to learn it all over again.

 

Okay, fixed, thanks to Victor and David on the UMA slack channel.
David will fill you in on the changes, Jaimi. He is much better than me at explaining.

 

Just an FYI on this - We're preparing to release a new version of UMA and it has the new CharacterSystem built in. It has grown quite a bit thanks to David's changes and is now completely dynamic. I expect the update will be ready in a short while, as soon as testing is completed.

 

David's changes are the ones bringing asset bundles to UMA?

 

Yes indeed - Support for downloading complete races (with DNA), slots, overlays and recipes on the fly.

 

Great News!!

Right now, my most worry is about a Uma Lod system, is there any possibility to implement it?

 

Hi All,

Been doing a lot of UMA 2 costume work over the past few weeks. Please check out the Elven Armour Costume set below. Can be purchased from the Arteria3d website.









$9.99
Product Page:
http://arteria3d.myshopify.com/products/elven-warrior-armour-uma2

 

We implemented an LOD system using code. You should be able to do it as well.

 

Maybe I need to learn more about Uma, I really implemented it in a basic mode and move out to other parts of my project, 2 much work to do for a single man, but if its possible then I will need to learn how to do it, some quick guides to start looking into it?

Thanks anyway to let me know its possible!

Regards.

Ruben.

 

Yeah, not much out there yet. I didn't do it, my programmers did. lol But they say it is easy....doesn't help you much, I know. There are LOD examples in the UMA asset. Check out that scene and see if it makes sense.

 

There's a simple LOD sample scene in the new release (in the Unity53 branch on Github), and there's a more robust LOD solution in Joen's power tools if you need more as well.

 

Looks good, Steve!

 

Thank you Jaimi, just released a new set today - Medieval TownsMan 'B'





View the pack here:
http://arteria3d.myshopify.com/products/medieval-townsman-b-for-uma-2

 

Looking Good!

 

Awesome work Steve!!

 

Thank you, many more to follow. Im converting all my fuse costumes

 

I imported this into my UMA test project and it gave the following error:

Assets/Standard Assets/UMA/Core/Scripts/UMASkeletonDefault.cs(9,36): error CS0246: The type or namespace name `UMASkeleton' could not be found. Are you missing an assembly reference?

[EDIT]
Tried on Unity 2017.1.3f1

 

This was merged into UMA in release 2.5, and became "DynamicCharacterAvatar". This older code only works with UMA 2. I recommend sticking with the DynamicCharacterAvatar in UMA 2.7.

 

Oh, so it's already in the UMA package? Great.

 

Hi!
I've opened UMA in Unity 2018.2.4f1 and just about all objects are pink. Now, I've had this issue before with some other imports and AFAIK it's a shader issue, so previously I'd just go through all the assets and adjust the materials and shaders individually. But how do I do this for UMA?

 

Hi, I wanna ask.. Can I use non UMA character to be modified inside UMA?? For example I'm using Reallusion iClone character and I want it to be modified inside UMA 2.. Would that be possible??

 

Yeah - but you have to convert it to a UMA (slots, etc)

 

is there anything on how to check Uma save file for right colors.

I'm guessing this is the color info but its kind of hard to understand I would like to avoid trial an Error to find out what they are.


"colors":[ ],
"fColors":[
{
"name":"-",
"colors":[ ]
},
{
"name":"-",
"colors":[ ]
},
{
"name":"-",
"colors":[ ]
},
{
"name":"-",
"colors":[ ]
},
{
"name":"-",
"colors":[ ]
},
{ },
{ },
{ },
{ },
{ },
{ }
],
"sharedColorCount":6,

 

The character system is now part of base UMA. Best to post questions on the main UMA thread here:

https://forum.unity.com/threads/uma-unity-multipurpose-avatar-on-the-asset-store.219175

Reply posted here:

UMA - Unity Multipurpose Avatar on the Asset Store!