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@EdWaters

Secret Anorak did a newer video on the Advanced Mesh Hiding feature, that other video was from way early in it's development.

 

I can see that the team that put this system has really thought things through. Many thanks! - Ed

 

First i want to thank everyone who has helped in this forum. You All make it easier to learn for those of us who are new at this. Now I have been working on my color sliders for a while now and just about have it where i want it but having just a couple of issues that im hoping someone can pinpoint for me.

Here is my code

Code (CSharp):

1. public class UMANewBuild : MonoBehaviour
2. {
3.  
4.     #region Public Vars
5.  
6.     public Slider sldSkinColor;
7.     public Slider sldEyeColor;
8.     public Slider sldHairColor;
9.     public Slider _heightSlider;
10.  
11.     public int _skincolornumber = 0;
12.     public int _eyecolornumber = 0;
13.     public int _haircolornumber = 0;
14.  
15.     public PlayerColorList SkinColor;
16.     public PlayerColorList HairColor;
17.     public PlayerColorList EyeColor;
18.  
19.     public DynamicCharacterAvatar avatar;
20.     #endregion Public Vars
21.  
22.     private void Awake()
23.     {
24.         sldSkinColor = GameObject.Find("SldSkinColor").GetComponent<Slider>();
25.         sldEyeColor = GameObject.Find("SldEyeColor").GetComponent<Slider>();
26.         sldHairColor = GameObject.Find("SldHairColor").GetComponent<Slider>();
27.     }
28.  
29.     private void Start()
30.     {
31.         avatar = GetComponent<DynamicCharacterAvatar>();
32.         InitSlider();
33.     }
34.  
35.  
36.     private void Update()
37. **************************for testing only*********************
38.     {
39.         if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Alpha1))
40.         {
41.             avatar.SetColor("Hair", Color.green);
42.             avatar.BuildCharacter();
43.         }
44. ******************************************************************
45.         if (sldSkinColor.value != _skincolornumber)
46.         {
47.             _skincolornumber = (int)sldSkinColor.value;
48.          
49.             avatar.SetColor("Skin", (SkinColor.list[_skincolornumber].Color)) ;
50.          
51.             avatar.BuildCharacter();
52.  
53.         }  **************Is working Perfect***************
54.  
55.         if (sldEyeColor.value != _eyecolornumber)
56.         {
57.             _eyecolornumber = (int)sldEyeColor.value;
58.  
59.             avatar.SetColor("Eyes", (EyeColor.list[_eyecolornumber].Color));
60.             avatar.BuildCharacter();
61.  
62.         } ***********doesnt change
63.  
64.         if (sldHairColor.value != _haircolornumber)
65.         {
66.             _haircolornumber = (int)sldHairColor.value;
67.             avatar.SetColor("Hair", (HairColor.list[_haircolornumber].Color));
68.             avatar.BuildCharacter();
69.  
70.  
71.         }**********removes Hair************
72.     }
73.  
74.  
75.     private void InitSlider()
76.     {
77.      
78.  
79.         #region RaceSliders
80.  
81.         sldSkinColor.wholeNumbers = true;
82.         sldSkinColor.value = 0;
83.         sldSkinColor.minValue = 0;
84.         sldSkinColor.maxValue = SkinColor.list.Count - 1;
85.         _skincolornumber = (int)sldSkinColor.value;
86.  
87.         sldEyeColor.wholeNumbers = true;
88.         sldEyeColor.value = 0;
89.         sldEyeColor.minValue = 0;
90.         sldEyeColor.maxValue = EyeColor.list.Count - 1;
91.         _eyecolornumber = (int)sldEyeColor.value;
92.  
93.         sldHairColor.wholeNumbers = true;
94.         sldHairColor.value = 0;
95.         sldHairColor.minValue = 0;
96.         sldHairColor.maxValue = HairColor.list.Count - 1;
97.         _haircolornumber = (int)sldHairColor.value;
98.  
99.         #endregion RaceSliders
100.  
101.     }
102.  
103. }

While the Skin color changes the way it is intended i have two different methods for the hair color....
First when i use the keycode it works perfectly and turns to the color i set it two but i want this as a slider and when i try to use the slider it removes the hair all together. when i check my inspector the color values are changing appropriately...Im getting no errors


Thanks in Advance

 

My first guess would be that the alpha component of your defined colors is 0. This won't matter for the skin, since it uses a non-transparent shader. But the hair uses a cutout shader, and a zero alpha would make it disappear.

 

Sounds reasonable but if that is the case why does it work on keypress using same format...Just curious

 

Because you're using a unity predefined color there. It's your HairColorList that is suspect, not the code.

 

I just tested that and you are absolutely correct the Alpha is switching to zero how would i stop that from happening or change it to where i want it

 

Figured it out thanks IM AN IDIOT that has been my hold up on three different rewrites just never figured out what the issue was thanks so much

 

No problem, glad you got it going.

 

OK One more thing left on my Script that is needed.

If we have a Button Male and Button female

what is the best way to have the UMA switch on the UI button press.

Not sure what the code is to have it build new gender, Please explain and thanks in advance

 

There's a "Change Sex" button in the Simple Setup scene that shows how to switch races on the fly if you want to see it in action. Here's the code from SampleCode.cs:

Code (CSharp):

1.         public void ChangeSex()
2.         {
3.             if (Avatar.activeRace.name == "HumanMale")
4.             {
5.                 Avatar.ChangeRace("HumanFemale");
6.             }
7.             else
8.             {
9.                 Avatar.ChangeRace("HumanMale");
10.             }
11.         }
12.  

 

yes sir ive seen that but it only switches gender i want two buttons one to select male and one to select female. But let me try some of those you mentioned see if i can get something like that to work

 

Thanks Jaimi you gave me the tools needed again

this works here may be something better but this works

Code (CSharp):

1. public void ChangeMale()
2.     {
3.         if (avatar.activeRace.name != "HumanMale")
4.         {
5.             avatar.ChangeRace("HumanMale");
6.            
7.         }
8.    
9.     }
10.     public void ChangeFemale()
11.     {
12.         if (avatar.activeRace.name != "HumanFemale")
13.         {
14.            
15.             avatar.ChangeRace("HumanFemale");
16.         }
17.  

 

Latest Episode,.......... (@Jschilz1 I'm a day too late lol)

 

Never too late to learn a new way of doing something.....THe only thing i have left on mine is to save the Uma And drop him into a new scene where he can run and play on my new terrain lol....If you can point me in right direction there id appreciate it...otherwise i am simplifying some of my code cause you showed me a few things that i could have done better


Thanks

 

The simplest way is to use theString = Avatar.GetCurrentRecipe(false); to save a string, and then load that string using LoadFromRecipeString(theString);

You can also save that string to a file, and then have your prefab automatically load it. This is illustrated in the wiki here:

http://umawiki.secretanorak.com/Creating_a_customizable_prefab

 

As Always Cant thank you guys enough

 

Jaimi THanks again,

As i read through what you linked me it doesnt really explain how you code that. What i would like to do and not entirely sure how is Have a UI Input where Someone can Type the name of their Character. And a Create Button , Once the input is placed and Character is created pressed, I want to load into my new scene and have the UMA drop on my starting waypoint so it is now part of the game that is live. is there some place that explains how this is done? eventually what im going to want is the name of the player(placed on the Input UI and saved by that name) hovering over the UMA in the new scene, so that when i run into a player in game i can see who that players name is. because this is done by the player it has to be scripted ..


Thanks In Advance

 

How in-depth for help are you needing? Jaimi explained the basics needed. Once you hit the create button it should call a script function to save your character recipe. If you want to switch scenes or keep the recipe permanently, you can save it to an asset/file. One way you can do that by setting a filename in the "Load/Save Options" and then in code using avatar.SaveRecipe() and avatar.LoadRecipe()

 

Those all sound like things you can look up and find examples of how to do, and which don't relate specifically to UMA.

I suggest you research it and make a scene using a capsule for a character, or maybe Ethan, and then once you have it working replace that dummy character with your UMA.

 

Hi there Jaimi or any wonderful people out there, how could I add an adjustable component on the face using the existing bones, or anyway I could extend the amount of customizable parts of the face? I've also tried to make a realistic looking face with using overlays, but the details just couldn't be done as asian faces have quite a different frame compared to other races... Thanks!
PS: I've tried secret anorak's race creation videos, but for some reasons the converter scene isnt working for me....

 

I think in principle you can take a copy of your basic male and female head and alter its appearance toward your desired look in your modeling program. Just keep the neckline the same, so the head can be accurately sewn onto the standard body (assuming you want that).

Then you should have an Asian head slot to go along with the default head slot.

If there's anything more to than that, I'm sure someone here will let you know. But you should be able to do a quick experiment and test it out on your own. Like ... make a head with a big nose and add that head slot to your library.

In theory, it should just be making another slot, a slot like any other.

 

Yeah - I agree, for this, I would suggest altering the existing head in Blender, from the sources here:

https://github.com/umasteeringgroup/content-pack

 

Thanks guys! I'll be looking into this

 

How do you save the UMA asset from script using the UMA DCS?

 

You can either do it manually by serializing it to a string, and saving that (See GetCurrentRecipe())

Or you can do it with DoSave().

There is code in UMA to do this. See SaveSelectedAvatarsDCSTxt(), it shows how to save using the save function.

 

Hello!
I'm just testing around with this amazing plugin and I cannot be more surprised about how well implemented and functional is all this characters engine. I'm thinking about using it on a PS4 project, does anyone here has already tested thisin on some game release for this platform or devkit ps4?

Thanks the implied devs for creating such an amazing tool for gamedev!

 

There was a post just a few days ago where someone had successfully tested it on the PS4 and the XBox One, But had issues with the Switch version (probably related to the combine shaders, but maybe texture memory related). I'm not aware of what game they are working on though.

 

Do you guys have a rough idea when UMA 2.7 will drop officially?

 

Thanks for the reminder.

 

UMA 2.7 Released!

1) New Bone Builder Feature
2) New Advanced Mesh Hiding Feature
3) New icons for common UMA assets
4) Extra bones in slot example; PonyTail
5) More premade UMA Materials for common shader setups
6) Moved required files out of Examples folder
7) Lots of minor fixes...

 

Awesome! Funny that you responded @UnLogick as the next question was related to you. I'll post over on the power tools forums

 

I just got version 2.7, but trying to look at the example recipes, I get this error:



I searched within assets, but the High Poly heads don't seem to be there.

 

The filename is mid_poly but the overlay is high_poly, it was moved because it was in examples, I believe. Try rebuilding your global library.

 

That should make it find the moved file. But something seems to have gone wrong with the update. I just pulled down the latest version, and opened the "shelly" recipe, and it looked fine. It doesn't seem to even use that slot:

 

This was a fresh install in a fresh project. Right off Asset store.

I tried "Rebuild From Project (Adds Everything)" on the Global Library window, but the error persists. I should probably mention this is Unity 2017.3.1p1

 

That scene uses the old libraries. Try opening the slot library and I think (working from memory at the moment) there is a button to remove null or not found recipes, or better yet, switch the whole context prefab to the new one "uma_dcs" to use the global library.

 

OK - thanks, I'll investigate further. Something is not right somewhere, but the scene works, and you can edit it with the newer lib in the project.

 

Ok - this issue has actually been around since 2.5, but only showed up now because the base race recipe changed. It's because the scene-based libraries weren't updated to include the slots for the new base races. If you're not in one of the scenes that use the scene-based libraries, it will work as expected. The workaround is to replace the "UMA_DEMO_CONTEXT" in the scene with the UMA_DCS prefab (which knows how to find things in the global library if they're not in the scene libraries).
We'll get this fixed up in the next round of updates.

 

Ok, thanks

 

I just started using uma today, amazing asset.

I have a problem though, using existing animations from Mixamo (pictures below). The neck and other body parts look pretty weird. It's probably a problem in their animation's rig, but any idea how to fix this?

I have 2 other questions. If I want to add a collider on the head for example, do I have to add the collider as a child in run-time after everything is loaded? Or is there an easier way?
Also, if I want to add a weapon, is it done using wardrobe?

 

Thanks, we've all been working hard on it. For the animation, try changing the tpose to the mecanim version on the race. Mixamo animations can be tough to get the best quality from. If the tpose doesn't help, might try recreating the avatar in the mecanim editor, and adjusting it there.

For the collider, you can add the bones at design time using the Bone Builder tool on the UMA menu. Then you can put whatever you want on a bone - collider, weapon, etc.

Your weapon doesn't have to be a wardrobe item. You can just add it to a bone also. But there are some UMA weapons in some of wills packages that are uma specific. There are advantages both ways.

 

Using Bone Builder worked great, thanks.

About the animations, do you mind clarifying what you meant by "changing the tpose to the mecanim version on the race."?

 

I'm not at my computer, but somewhere on the racedata asset, there is a tpose field (this defines the skeleton). By default it uses the original tpose, to keep compatibility with older versions. But there is a more mecanim friendly tpose as well that you can can set it to. I don't have the name handy, but I think it's evident when you pull up the list of t poses.

 

After adding the weapons and collides to the skeleton, I keep getting "AddBonesRecursive: " + transform.name + " already exists in the dictionary!" in UMA skeleton.cs of some of them when I run the game.

Also, for some reason the placeholder is not showing, even though it's enabled. It worked the first few times, but now no longer working even on new objects.

 

What's the actual error output? not the code. Usually, that happens when you have two bones with the same name.

 

It's only a LogError, something like "AddBonesRecursive: Collider already exists in the dictionary!"

 

Hi can anyone tell me if the human base model from the asset store works with UMA DCS 2.7 and the expression set? Like moving eyes and mouth?

This is the asset I am talking about:

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/characters/uma-male-base-2-0-99379

 

Yes, that works with 2.7. It has the same DNA set and everything, so the expressions should work also.

 

it doesn't seem to work with the Dynamic Character avatar script? It just says not available when I click on active race:

It works with the old UMA dynamic avatar though....any idea how to get it to work with the DynamicCharacterAvatar script?

I just recently purchased the asset a moment ago, so would appreciate the help.

Thanks