can you send us the pack for free?

i agree with this!

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@@CodeMonkeyUnity I need part 2

Thanks for the kind words!

Yup that's definitely a topic I have on my list. Right now I'm super busy trying to finish my next complete course but after that I want to take 2 months to do nothing but tutorials, got tons of awesome ideas!

@@CodeMonkeyUnity I believe in you

Except all the blendshapes across the character and equipment are all named differently making it a nightmare to sync them all. Definitely not one line of code.

It sounds like you understand the general idea to me. I have an arpg type project where I have an Equip(Item) function. So when loading the character, it looks at the saved list of currently equipped items, and calls the Equip function on all of them. Then yep, do the opposite when you UnEquip, while updating and saving the list of which items are equipped or in your inventory. I also have a few other rules in there, like a full body armor item will remove the currently equipped chest/legs or the 'nude' models get equipped when there is no item equipped. Just however you wanna do it. Personally, I don't actually Destroy() all of my other pieces either, I am just enabling\disabling mine. If there was a noticeable hit to my performance then I might've investigated more and reached the point that I found it necessary, but I didn't do that. But I also haven't published this project and it's only low poly models that I'm dealing with.. Doing it that way is only a small extra step though- you would just need to maintain some reference to all of the parts so that you could Instantiate them again when needed. Maybe even grab them from an Object Pool instead of repeatedly calls to Instantiate, since the reason for doing it this way I assume would be for performance. But I'm honestly unsure which of those ways would be more performant on a super high quality and complex project where it could actually make a difference, so I'd say try it for yourself. xD

@@rawrrrz Low-poly is cool though. I plan on sticking to low-poly for both aesthetics and ease of performance (and modeling...) since I am soloing it. Hope yours turns out awesome. Posted any content yet?

​@@kazekageno7711 Same. I'm horrible at modeling, but I can somewhat manage to make things myself in low poly, but I'm def not an artist. Haha. I've just been learning on my own for several years now.. But nope, haven't completely finished a single project. In my arpg project you can run around, use several special attacks and different types of spells, there's RNG looting and crafting.. But I'm not much of a writer or anything either. So, what's my world called, what's the story, who are the NPCs, how to design city layouts, etc.. all that stuff is missing.. Creative decisions break me, basically. So I've only managed to make several functional prototype projects, and no complete games. I'll probably eventually have to find a friend willing to make the creative decisions for me, rather than publishing entirely solo. Thanks though, and good luck to you as well! I'd say feel free to message me with any programming\unity questions, but I don't guess that's a feature of KZfaq.. lol

Yup exactly, you would have some kind of inventory equip logic and each item would have its own linked 3D mesh (possibly with scriptable objects) unitycodemonkey.com/video.php?v=7jxS8HIny3Q Then you would destroy the part in that slot that is currently placed, if any, and instantiate the part related to that item I've been wanting to make more Inventory related tutorial videos, my last inventory video was quite a long time ago unitycodemonkey.com/video.php?v=isAmoM3RPEI I'm working hard on completing my next course and then I'll be doing tons of tutorials that I've wanted to do for a long time.

@@CodeMonkeyUnity Alright, I look forward to them. I bought your Unity course for Bolt and like 50 tips on Udemy and look forward to what else you can cook up :)

You're right, I'll add some chapters, thanks!

@@CodeMonkeyUnity Thank you and thank you for listening to feedback!

Yup Blend Shapes is another method for further customizing the shape of the mesh, it's actually something I haven't used myself so I'd love to research it in the future

@@CodeMonkeyUnity I have some experience with it, you can even use multiple armor or weapons in the shape key where you just collapse the verities into the body but the poly count ends up being deceptively large, so usually best to keep them to body shapes, and having items deactivated or reactivated to the bones.

Sounds like you're looking for a modelling tutorial, for that you should be looking at Blender Tutorials not Unity Tutorials, you don't model inside Unity, you model in Blender then apply logic inside Unity

@@CodeMonkeyUnity Woosh

Look at blend shapes or shape keys.

Those would be Blend Shapes which is a topic I'm not too familiar with so it's something I'd love to research

@@CodeMonkeyUnity would love to see one about blend shapes and character customization with them.

I've upgraded to 2021 LTS which has the toolbar as a separate object, you can put it on the side or on top just like it was in 2020 LTS I mostly use the keys as well so I didn't even notice the new toolbar.

@@CodeMonkeyUnity "tell me you don't use anything above 2020 without telling me you" haha Thanks for the info!

There's no reason to do this with DOTS, especially since there's no DOTS Animation. DOTS isn't a cure-all, it's a tool for specific use cases.

Yeah I haven't made it yet, it's still on my list of many many topics I'd love to cover!

First you have to identify exactly what don't you understand. Game Objects? Transforms? Learn the basics of Unity unitycodemonkey.com/video.php?v=E6A4WvsDeLE C# Functions? Variables? Learn the C# Basics unitycodemonkey.com/video.php?v=IFayQioG71A

Hmm I haven't made a video on that specific topic. I normally add a bit of Bloom, Saturation, Contrast, Tonemapping: Neutral

@@CodeMonkeyUnity thank you sooo much!

Hmm not really, I have a playlist with videos related to a third person shooter, then I also did some Animation Rigging unitycodemonkey.com/video.php?v=UL2EbxqwozM How to get free animations unitycodemonkey.com/video.php?v=c4jtyDA7vcs And there's some referenced videos in the description

@@CodeMonkeyUnity Yeah, thanks. But what I meant is just simply create here in KZfaq a simple playlist, grouping them all related videos (for example this and other videos you listed in the description and whatnots). Very simple idea, would be helpful for people I think. Would be best if sorted oldest to newest etc. Just for an example: kzfaq.info/sun/PLllNmP7eq6TSkwDN8OO0E8S6CWybSE_xC -> Super helpful, anyone interested just need to save this single playlist.

I don't think there's any way to do that inside Unity since the objects are entire meshes. For that you'd have to load the model into blender and cut it up but I'm not familiar with the process for making Skinned meshes in blender so not exactly sure how.

@@CodeMonkeyUnity I was afraid it might be something like that. Though with what you've covered, there are plenty of other customization options that are available. Thanks for the reply, and thanks for your awesome content!

@@CodeMonkeyUnity The mesh data can be programmatically edited even in runtime, and this is usually has to be done with big GaaS mobile games using mtx cosmetics. It's not some much about cutting up anything, just all the individual mesh pieces are combined into 1 mesh to save drawcalls. Combining mesh data is not too complicated but probably well outside the beginner scope you cover.

For mixing the visual textures it's pretty simple, you can draw some textures with code unitycodemonkey.com/video.php?v=ZRRc7J-OwGo unitycodemonkey.com/video.php?v=Xss4__kgYiY However for mixing 2 meshes, that is a lot more complex, you would probably need to manually define some kind of attach points or something

@@CodeMonkeyUnity I figured it be quite complex. Also thank you for the links. ;3; hopefully I figure it out.

The method is going to depend on how the assets are set up, not based on who made them It sounds like you want to use one of the last two methods, depending on if your body part prefabs are skinnedmeshrenderers or not

@@CodeMonkeyUnity Thank you mr code monkey for replying and I'm sorry for being a bit disparaging I really do love all your stuff. I think I'm just a bit frustrated because I haven't found much guidance in what to do when the assets themselves aren't already pre-set up with stuff. In anycase I shall re-watch a few times and focus on the last two parts thank you. xxxx

Actually....I just tried this and it totally worked fine! Set a new Mesh + set Material. *Issue, when I disabled/destroyed my originalSkinnedMesh, animation would stop and I'd get a static object.

I covered Editor tools in 2 videos kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mLOlh9Zy0seYpJ8.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qLZyfLaB39PMn5s.html And I also covered the Odin inspector which is an excellent asset for helping you make tools kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oOCPqc5ps7eqimg.html And then beyond that, in the latest Unity version the UI Toolkit is now out of preview and that is meant to be a new easier way to build tools however I haven't looked into it yet myself.

Sticking to cover? That could be an interesting topic, I'd have to find a good animation pack for that

@@CodeMonkeyUnity I think my reply got deleted for posting a link. I have Cover Rifle Animset Pro by Kubold

It's Alt + Shift + A, super useful!

@@CodeMonkeyUnity hey thx!!

I tried iterating through the synty character prefab and created SkinnedMeshRendererData class instances to hold all the data. So far so good. But then I don't know what to do with it. I created an editor script that creates scriptableobjects, but SOs can't hold scene references. How can we save off all this data and fetch it when needed? Or is the only solution to have a scene object like an "item manager" holding these hundreds, perhaps thousands of SkinnedMeshRendererData instances? And would we need one for each character we want to be customizable?

@@ludwig9601 You can load mesh data through Resources if you want to avoid long array of references. And you don't need per-character lists as long as your bone order is consistent in your assets.

You mean Blend Shapes? That's a different topic and something I plan to cover in another video, I've never used them myself so need to research.

You can save it like you save any other data, but instead of saving to a file you just store it in a static field which will persist through scene changes unitycodemonkey.com/video.php?v=6uMFEM-napE

@@CodeMonkeyUnity thank you!!!

Every mesh can have a different skeleton so there's no standard way to do that. Technically maybe you could query the Avatar object to get the bone you want regardless of the skeleton of that mesh but no idea if that's doable. There doesn't seem to be a function to explore the Avatar docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Avatar.html

You can swap a mesh, I covered some methods to do that here unitycodemonkey.com/video.php?v=AO1vw-b8Qzw

I'm actually working on it right now, will be out next week

You would need to define some data structure to reference the parts. Give them some index/enum/name, then just hold that in a class/struct. Maybe make a List in a prefab and drag all the possible parts onto that list, then store the int index

@@CodeMonkeyUnity Thank you for the quick reply! Unfortunately I am very new to Unity and have no idea what any of that means... Looks like I have some googling to do today

Why is that? Are you thinking about desync issues? You would synchronize the customization data, not the individual game objects. So all clients would run the same logic. I did make a more in-depth tutorial on specifically the char customization I used in my own multiplayer game kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ed-hadChvpOtfHU.html

The only thing you need is to load them dynamically, so you could use both methods, just not starting off with the character with all the parts. Dynamically loading either SkinnedMeshRenderers or regular MeshRenderers would work

Here is a nice guide for how to start learning unitycodemonkey.com/question.php?q=how-to-learn-unity Don't focus on the specific game you want to make just yet, learn the general basics first to get a good foundation.

@@CodeMonkeyUnity 😭😭oh my god thank you so much dude,, that's so helpful!!! thank you! Yea lol I admit I have no ideas for games atm, outside of what I think I want to make. Time to learn some basics! Stupid question, but does unity work on windows 10? is it free/do I have to pay monthly? I have a windows 10 but unsure if the latest version of unity will run^^" Thanks for all your amazing videos! they're so engaging and helpful!

​@@mayettaxtriger436 Yup Unity works on Win10, it's what I'm using. Yup the Unity personal edition is free and has all the features as any Unity version. You only need to upgrade to a paid Unity version after you make $100k