UMA - Unity Multipurpose Avatar on the Asset Store!

Can anyone help? I've just followed the Youtube video tutorials for adding a Tshirt it's not appearing on the character. I've added the scripts and everything is fine what I can tell. I get no errors so I don't know what's wrong.

Is there anything obvious I might of missed?

Thanks

Edit: I found out the issue, it was the random pool in the UMA crowd component that was overriding my changes in the script.

 

Yep! The random pool didn´t existed back when I recorded those videos, Joen included it to simplify the process for artists, as it require no programming skills.
Cheers

 

I was starting to to think I was losing it, I was commenting out code and then running Unity it wasn't making any difference! lol

 

Very nice art btw

 

I was wondering, does UMA support switchable clothing?

 

Once you make an avatar you can alter the recipe to make changes to clothes and custom slots/overlays.

 

Oh excellent. Still getting to grips with it. Also, is it a mechanim only solution?

 

Yeah. I really can't think of any reason you would actually want to use Legacy.

 

one and only reason really.

I use the old locomotion system, mainly for the foot IK and other IK solutions. I don't have UnityPRO so IK is not really much of an option if I use that entirly

 

Hi there =)
This is free and really a good IK solution: https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/#/content/1829
You might need to do some adjusts for UMA, since bones might not have same axis.

Writing your own IK solver is also not that hard.
Cheers

 

ah excellent thanks Fernando. UMA is awesome by the way. I looked at this a long time ago but I don't think it was even for unity back then though I could be wrong. When I saw it I knew id seen it before. absolutely amazing

 

Thanks
It was initially just a personal project I was developing for my own games =D
This is the old thread: http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/153689-procedural-character-generation it´s fun reading the old posts hehehe

 

Yeah I found this ages ago looking for cisrom

 

Hi Fernando,

I've modified your demo scene and now have an editable avatar that I can save to playerprefs.

I'm in the process of setting up the loading of the players avatar in the game scene wondered if it's pretty much the same components as in the editor scene?

Thanks, great job btw

 

Hey =)
This might help:

 

Yay! UMA High poly meshes are ready for AssetStore =) As soon they are available I´ll update you guys =D

 

Quick question: In the 3dScan help document you state that the overlay name should be as short as possible. Is there a technical reason for that or is it a matter of preference? Also, does the same thing hold true for the Slot Name?

Thanks!

 

This is especially important for multiplayer games, so that serialized avatar file can be as small as possible, requiring less bandwidth.
The standard UMA serialized formats can also be further compressed for reducing the file size.
This applies for both Slots and Overlays. For the High poly meshes, we decided keeping the same naming convention from the Mid poly, including the standard prefixes.

Ps: And thanks for buying the overlay =)

 

Thanks, I already used that for saving and loading my character.

What I was asking is that I already have a game scene with a character controller set up. I'd like to load my created avatar to the scene, what components, gameobjects prefabs do i need in the scene to make it work? I'm assuming I dont need all the editing functionality to load a character?

Thanks

 

soon my precious

 

Dumb question, but I can't look it up myself at the moment:
Do the skins and clothes share a material or is it possible to use different shaders for them (would be nice to be able to use a skin shader for the skin material)

Thanks in advance!

 

Actually, assigning different materials would be great. For example on metal armour I would ideally like a reflection shader to be used, but not on everything else

 

Ahh, ok! Take a look on "Scene02 - serialized" it shows how the UMADynamicAvatar is setup for this.

 

Take a look here, at ~6:00
Each slot can only have one sample material that defines shader, so you need to separate cloths and skin in this case.

Cheers

 

Same answer above.

 

If you use the binary formats in the UMA Recipe Tools only the hash of the slot and overlay names are used and such length of the string doesn't matter. In the unlikely case of a hash clash it's trivial to rename one of the assets.

 

Hey guys! Happy to announce two new UMA assets on Asset store.

The High poly slots I´ve been working on:
https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/#/content/14659


And this amazing armor set, done by Stronghearted Studios
https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/#/content/15645

 

Not sure if this has been answered yet. Say you want a dynamic slots library, via asset bundles. How much work would be involved in getting that to work?

 

Are their resource downloads for the high poly? Or can clothes we make for the low poly be used for the high poly?

 

Had some free time this night =D

 

I'm an utter noob, but would something like this help?

Multi Material Mask Shader
https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/#/content/8439

 

I´m aware of a dev that has integrated AssetBundles into Libraries, I´ll confirm with him the amount of time he spent on this.

 

The cloths made for Low poly work on High poly as well (Hand, feet and neck are the areas where volume is slight different, and it might be necessary to swap them entirely). I´ve worked hard to keep as much of Lowpoly volume cage, but I´ll be providing in following days a tutorial on how to handle the overlap areas between body and cloth. =)

 

UMA already handle generating a final model using multi material, so this is actually not necessary.

 

@Fernando,

Very nice work. UMA's gaining traction on quality characters.

 

HAHA Awesome

 

If I tweak the topology of your female model will it make it uncompatible? Not to knock your work but I would like to make a few adjustments (mainly to the butt and legs).

If it remains compatible would I be able to release the tweaks for free

 

These high poly models look great! Can't wait to try them out.

 

The only risky of compromising compatibility would be the composition with cloth and gear, so it´s important to match the avatar volume as much as possible. The important part is keeping vertices inside the Mid poly cage, so they are not visible over clothes.
I´ll work on a tutorial that will cover how to handle that when it happens, using modified versions of body parts.

 

=D
Please let me know if volume don´t match your assets. I´ve already noticed some adjusts I need to do on High poly.
Cheers

Btw, posted about skype group at your thread, send me a pm if you want to join =)

 

Hi there

I'm struggling with adding a new garment to UMA. I hope this is the right thread to ask for help. Here's what I have prepared:

1. Import the garment as FBX (it includes the skinned mesh as well as the UMA rig; animation deactivated in import settings)
2. Create a new UMA slot asset for the garment (I copied and modified an existing UMA slot asset, the male torso)
3. In the new UMA slot asset I have linked the correct skinned mesh renderer and material sample from the new garment
4. Add this new UMA slot asset to the SlotLibrary (drag drop; incl. "Order by Name" and "Update List")
5. Create a new UMA overlay asset for the garment (I used the UMA Material Builder to create it)
6. Add this new UMA overlay asset to the OverlayLibrary (drag drop; incl. "Order by Name" and "Update List")
7. In UMACrowd.cs I have added a new item to the SlotData list, using the correct name from the SlotLibrary
8. Still in UMACrowd.cs I have added an overlay to this item, using the correct name from the OverlayLibrary

However, when I play the scene, the UMA guys pop up nicely, but none is wearing the new garment /-:

I have noticed some differences between the most recent UMA package and the UMA tutorial videos here and here. Maybe somewhere here is the source of my issue:

• The source code of UMACrowd.cs looks different. In the video "new UMAData.SlotData(" is used, in the package "slotLibrary.InstantiateSlot(" is used. I used the latter.
• I noticed a difference between the HumanMale and the HumanFemale sequence in UMACrowd.cs. I have added the new garment (slot) in the respective manner (fixed referencing in the HumanMale part, dynamic list in the HumanFemale part)
• The "SlotElement" script shown in the videos got replaced by assets with the script "SlotData"? I used "SlotData" for the slot asset (copied it over from the Torso and modified it).
  
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• While the SlotElement in the video held an attribute "OverlayList", this one is missing in the SlotData asset. Might this be an issue and the reason for my problem?
  
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Any hint on why the garment is not showing up on the UMA crowd is highly appreciated. Maybe it's because my garment is too ugly and the UMA crowd refuses to wear it (-;

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I've been looking through the rig for the female UMA avatar and have noticed a number of extra joints such as RightForeArmAdjust, RightForeArmTwistAdjust, etc. I'm trying to create a new race (Mermaid) and wonder how these are used so I can incorporate the equivalent ones in my race.

 

The crowd scene in the newest Asset Store version of UMA uses a data set for generating the characters, so if you don't add your slot into that you won't see it. They are located in UMA/Example/RandomSets. I don't know if it's documented anywhere yet, but if you want to hack your dress in there for testing you should be able to replace one of the entries with only a single possible slot.

The xyzAdjust bones are used for the actually skinning of the UMA character. The meshes aren't skinned directly to the regular bones because scaling and moving those will do "bad things" to animations. If you want your character to adjust to DNA changes in the same way as the base UMA characters you need to use this same skinning. In your example there's nothing skinned to the RightForeArm bone, which is the "normal" bone, everything is attached to the child RightForeArmAdjust bone instead, because that bone can be safely manipulated.

 

just a thought, if I was to animate the UMA character models in say, 3dsmax, could those animations be imported and used as legacy animations at all? I'd like to avoid Mechanim if I can. If I can't then fair enough but I just thought I would ask..

 

We're having some issues where parts of mesh slots are missing when added to a UMA character. Viewing the mesh in a scene normally its fine and all there. It also looks fine in blender, but attached to a character part of it is just missing. Any ideas? It isn't being clipped by another slot as I've tried removing all the surrounding. It's supposed to be a knee high boot but it only imports the bottom part of the shoe. I wouldn't see any reason for UMA to enforce that the "shoe" slot is contained on the foot right?

 

The animations will work, but you'll lose one of the big advantages in UMA because they won't retarget if the character's limbs change from the animated version. You'll also have a few pieces of leftover Mecanim junk on the created characters you may want to delete or slightly modify the generation of.

 

You may have to wait for Fernando, but some things to check out - Is it possible the boot model has multiple materials and only the sole part is material 0? Is the geometry definitely missing or is it just scaled flat in one axis? Is the part that is there hooked up correctly, e.g. does it scale with the foot size?

 

My thought was to only animate the skeletal bones that don't control the scale. But maybe its a dead issue. It was just a thought

 

Anyone work on UMA content in 3ds max? I'm just curious on tips to set up the scene.

For example importing male seperated fbx messes up the viewport camera for me a good deal (object just disappears zooming in on perspective mode) and things are fussy with the camera in general. I think because UMA models might just be too small for Max?

Is there a way to adjust max camera clipping properties or would it work to size the model way up and size it down later? I do find it's a little bit manageable using orthographic camera mode but it still feels off from working normally.

 

Hi there, this might help: