Hi everyone,

I have a few questions on Character Creator 3. I already downloaded the trial and will explore it now.
But before evaluating it, I need to know some basic facts enabling me to decide for the usage of it for our upcoming project :-)

I am a little bit confused. This list here https://www.reallusion.com/iclone/FAQ-IC-packages-comparison.html and some other remarks on different product websites seem to state, that CC3 is a plugin for iClone.
Downloading the free trial, it is startable from the hub without iClone 7 installed. So can CC3 be used as standalone software as well, without a bought copy of iClone?

I saw there is a plugin for CC3 enabling auto-assignment of shaders etc. in Unity. In general, can CC3 export the models rigged as humanoid (which we would need to use in our project)?
Also, I wonder, how fine-tuned you can adapt the body proportions of generated models to a real existing human?
We would need to generate characters to use in combination with live motion capturing, fitting the real body proportions of the user as well as possible to those of the generated character.
It really would be great to avoid adjustments and scalings on the generated model inside the unity engine, but being able to export characters with fitting proportions (e. g. length of the upper arm is the same as the length of the user's real body, in relation to the other body parts).

I hope you can help me with some answers, enabling me to evaluate the free trial version in regard to our needs :-)
Thank you very much in advance!

Hi...

There are two versions of Character Creator. One is a FREE version that comes with iClone 7 and the other is the standalone "Character Creator 3 Pipeline" which has advanced features and full export capability.

If you purchase Character Creator 3 Pipeline it comes with an Auto Setup Plug-in for Unity (and Unreal) so you can export your fully rigged characters straight to Unity without requiring any other software.


                                                                

Peter
Forum Administrator

www.reallusion.com

Hi Peter,
thanks for the answer! :-)

I already played around a bit with the standalone version. It seems you can set general things like the scale of the upper arm etc.
But is there a way to relate such properties to real measurements to have fine-grained control?
Either as input in millimeters or like settings something as "the upper arm's length should be 1,25x the length of the lower arm"? :-)
The resulting changes of the sliders you can use can only be evaluated visually, not by some "hard numbers", true?

In general, I am really impressed by the tool! Will further test it out.

I see that Peter was quicker on the keyboard, but here's my 2 cents anyway. :)

There are 2 versions of Character Creator 3, the free version included with iClone and the Pipeline version. The Pipeline version is standalone and can export created content for use in other software such as Unity. If you take a look at the Character Creator product page it lists just about everything that can be done using the included tools and also what can be achieved with the various Add-ons. Prices for several CC package deals can be found here.

You can create "life like" characters based on real persons, and just about every body part can be adjusted using the morph sliders. The amount of morphs available for adjustment depend on which add-ons have been purchased, although the base package does contain quite enough to get you started. Getting an exact length of body parts based on a fixed measurement can not be done by just adding a figure in some dimension field, but at least the character height can be viewed, either in inches or centimetres, on the screen. If you create a character to the required height then it should be possible to adjust the length of the arms and legs to suit.

I can't give you any information regarding using the characters in something like Unity as I have no knowledge, and even less interest, in such uses, but if you look here on the Forum you will find quite a few very qualified users to help you.

Gerry

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Hi Gerry,

thanks for your answers!
I will figure out the possibilities and ask the forum when having detailed questions!

Thank you both for you quick responses!