Video: Getting Started with Sidekicks in Unreal Engine Synty Studios presents: Fantasy Villagers β Sidekick Modular Characters This Sidekick content pack puts a variety of villagers into your character creation kingdom. Fill your fantasy game world with villagers, townspeople, and NPCs utilising 80+ new parts including clothing, hair styles, accessories and 90+ human species base parts. With this pack, you can create a wide variety of customised fantasy and medieval characters designed to suit your project! Unleash your creativity or utilise our expert presets. Build and customise characters in the editor with the feature-rich Sidekick Character Creator Tool designed for Unity and Unreal Engine and included with this Sidekick content pack! Using the tool you can combine multiple Sidekick packs to create endless, unique character combinations that bridge genres. [Unity Only, UE coming soon] Create immersive character customisation experiences with the Sidekick Runtime API. Whether you're building a full in-game character creator, or just changing outfits on the fly, the Sidekick Runtime API makes it easy. Pack Content Features: 80+ modular, rigged Fantasy Villager parts (clothing, hair and more) 90+ modular, rigged human base species parts (torsos, legs, hands, feet etc.) Fully rigged to the Unity Humanoid skeleton (Mecanim compatible) Unreal Engine Mannequin compatible Dynamic joints allow you to add realistic motion to capes, hair, beards etc. Facial blend shapes for expressions and lipsync (works with ARKit) Body blend shapes to adjust body type and proportions Designed to cohesively match Synty POLYGON environments Designed to work seamlessly with Synty ANIMATION packs (Unity only) Sidekick Character Creator Tool (Editor Extension) Features: Customise material colours directly in the editor Expert presets to enable rapid character creation Save and load custom characters for future editing Bake completed characters into a single optimised prefab, combining all skinned mesh renderers into one for performance friendly deployment Runtime API for in-game character customisation (Unity only) Mix and match Sidekick themes to create endless, unique characters π¦ Pack Content 83 Fantasy Villager parts 91 Sidekick human species base parts Access to the Sidekick Character Creator Tool Modular Part Types Head and Face - head, hair, facial hair, eyebrows, eyes, ears, nose, teeth, tongue Torso and limbs - torso, upper arms, lower arms, hands, hips, legs, feet Attachments - head attachments, face attachments, back attachments, shoulder attachments, elbow attachments, knee attachments, hip attachments (front, back, left, right), wraps Body Blend Shapes Masculine/feminine, skinny/heavy, muscular Facial Blend Shapes Eyebrows (left/right) - frown, raise, inner down, inner up, outer down, outer up Eyes (left/right) - up, down, left, right, blink, squint, wide Nose - sneer left, sneer right Cheeks (left/right) - hollow, puff Jaw - close, open, left, right, backward, forward Mouth - left, right, funnel, pucker, shrug upper, shrug lower, roll upper, roll out upper, roll lower, roll out lower, close, frown (left/right), smile (left/right), press (left/right), stretch (left/right), upper up (left/right), lower down (left/right) Tongue - up, down, in, out, lower, raise, twist (left/right), curl up, curl down, curl left, curl right, side curl down, side curl up π€ Technical Info βΌ Compatibility βΌ Compatible with Unity 2021.3+- Supports URP and Built-in Compatible with Unreal 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8 βΌ File Formats βΌ Unity 2021.3 package Unreal plugin - 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8 Unreal content zip π Changelog Version 1.0.1 (Unity)- Fixed teeth blend shape issue- Fixed nose issue when using SK_HUMN_BASE_02_01HEAD_HU01 Visit the Sidekick tool changelog for more information.