Porting a costume to Engage

Required software

1. Blender
2. Unity

Blender Setup

1. Download Blender.
2. (Recommended) https://github.com/sentfromspacevr/robust-weight-transfer (Download from the releases

Resources

Base Engage male or female model

Concepts

Parts of a model

(Looking at the base model) Models are made of vertices which are used to define triangles. Together these triangles form a mesh.

Skeleton

Models also have a skeleton.

Animations

Animations move the skeletons.

Weighting

Weight attaches meshes to skeletons. Each part of the mesh can be assigned to one or more bones to move with. The color indicates how much influence a bone has a parts of a mesh.

Engage "Costume"

What we call a "costume" in Engage is a model with both the base body mesh and whatever clothing mesh attached to it.

Costume Fitting Process

Using move tool, scale tool, rotate tool, we fit the costume over the base mesh.

Then, assign that piece of the costume to the skeleton with the Armature Modifier.

Then, transfer the weight from the base body onto the costue.