the same characters as before but with different texture (plastic)


This exemple just to show you that you can take any android body as a cloth to a CC3+ charactere. Just change the texture of the head to plastic.

If you find one on Daz as this one:
https://www.daz3d.com/da-15y-lvl-4-hd-morph-for-genesis-8-females

It will be very simple with the Transformer tools

I don't have Maya either. I used Blender to remove the eyes, tongue, etc and then exported that from Blender as an OBJ.

As for "What is technique you used to make this happen?", I was asking @mtakerkart what his technique is for combining the characters. Is it the same as Mike's or something different.

@mtakerkart .... thanks - I sort of understand. But you say *any android body*  - aren't there some design requirements? I mean what exactly constitutes an android body anyway?

@lightbearer - oh, yes - thanks ....


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@Lightbearer

The idea is to fit the human body to the futur robot cloth by deforming extremely the bones



Then you can autoweight the different robotcloth to the body



@ Sonic7

what exactly constitutes an android body anyway

Wiki definition : "a humanoid robot or synthetic organism designed to imitate a human"   ;)

OK - I'm familiar with 'deforming' human shapes using CC3 - I get that part.
So are you saying that *if* you make the 'human' have arms 3x longer than normal, that adding some 'mechanical' mesh will cause it to also grow 3x in size to fit?



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So are you saying that *if* you make the 'human' have arms 3x longer than normal, that adding some 'mechanical' mesh will cause it to also grow 3x in size to fit?

because I am a fan of the Manga Gunnm :  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Angel_Alita
which inspired James cameron with his film Alita, I wanted to try if it was possible to remake this character easily with CC. and this was the case ;)



the robot from Epic game had the same abnormal proportions (big body, small head) that I wanted to keep.
You should know that the less deformation you would do AFTER autoweight the less problems you will have with your suit,
so make sure that the body and clothes adjust BEFORE autoweight.



I have a script written for a long time With Human-robot hybrid but I am waiting for the acculyps for the French language to start.;)

Well that's really impressive mtakerkart.
The reason I'm asking so many questions is because I've not done any 'cloth weighting?' in CC3. Although I'm aware of what cloth weighting is for, I hadn't realized it could be used on things like 'android mesh'. Once I fully understand exactly what defines an 'android mesh', I may be able to source it, (or create it). I'm wondering if anyone has made a video on this subject. If you happen to know of one - it would be give a starting point. The CC3 manual only deals with actual clothing from what I can tell. I really do need to understand how an android mesh differs from normal clothes mesh.

I quite liked this one of yours mtakerkart (Particularly the robot 'arms')  :)




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Oh! i thought you knew about the skin weight

The arms come from daz :
https://www.daz3d.com/m-a-g-2-robotic-arm

And I followed this cool Mike tutorial :



For things coming from nonDaz you can follow this tutorial:



And to fix some weight issue Mike did a good Tut too:

Just a tip.
You may not want to completely rely on Auto-weight feature in CC and you should not. It works well for soft objects like a cloth. But for robotic parts, a special care should be taken with weights.
The amount of work would certainly depend on the balance of soft/rigid parts of the android.
You do not want to have metallic/rigid parts look like a jelly. On the other hand, you would also want to prevent rigid parts from going through each other when character moves.
So a good bones influence weight balance it critical and it might take a good portion of your time (if not the most) to complete the project.

Just a quick example for weighting forearm, as I was helping Woody173 in the other thread yesterday to convert an old robotic arm into CC cloth.

i was looking at robotic limbs on my character.....nothing has advanced looking as you must be needing but i was helped immensely by a guy called 4u2ges
got me thinking about robots/androids. 
i found quiet a few in the marketplace and was quiet taken with this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7VD4g5TvIQ








pretty sure its not exactly what you need but their are loads of them out there.
Has people have suggested im assuming its like a body suit so you should be able to create any character in CC3 and iClone 7 and match the suit to the character.
That means all the motions, facial expressions etc.
Im just a novice compared to these guys but they seem to know their stuff and the price is no where near as expensive as the ones you posted