Creating A Character

Base

Every Character starts with a Base, Be sure to choose carefully and consistently for your characters and projects. Here are the list of bases provided by default:

Antonia:

Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY)

MB-Lab:

GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL)

Reom:

Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY)

Vitruvian:

Creative Commons Zero (CC0)

Once you have chosen a character you will need to import the character to your scene to start changing it.

• Select Import Character

Morphing

This is where you will be doing most of the work in Charmorph. Every Base has dozens upon dozens of potential variation

Finalization

Finalization is a neccesary step to complete a character, After finalization, morphs will be lost and the character if chosen will be rigged.

Apply Morphs:

Change Shapekey Settings

Rig:

Selects Rig from List

Subdivision:

Applies Subdivision Surface Settings

Corrective Smooth:

Applies Corrective Smooth Modifier, this fixes deformations such as arm and knee bending

• Select Finalize

Introduction to Alt-Topo

Depending on your needs for a given project, you will be unsatisfied with a given character’s topology, either it is too high or too low, has the wrong edge flow or a multitude of other problems. Charmorph has a solution called Alternative Topology or Alt Topo for short. Alt Topo allows users to retarget a given Charmorph character onto any topology, no matter how arbitrary. It can range from a high poly voxel remesh to the default cube.

Default Topology:

Voxel Remesh Alt Topo:

Default Cube Alt Topo:

Using Alt-Topo

You might have been introduced to Alt Topology by applying Topology altering modifiers to a Charmorph generated mesh. And saw this notice

Selecting Build Alt Topo will retarget the modified topology to work with charmorph’s systems. However, it is better practice to import a character with the Custom Alt Topo option before importing the mesh, because it copies the mesh used as a reference rather than overwriting it.