RPG Character Customization Using MetaHumans! - DevLog #4

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In this Unreal DevLog I create a character customization system using metahumans!
If you're interested in accessing the unreal project files for this prototype that I made in this video, it is now available on my patreon! Make sure to read the patreon tier carefully before subscribing!
/ drhippo
I am a solo veteran developer creating my take on the ARPG genre in Unreal Engine 5!
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0:00 Intro
0:17 Sorry Unity ❤
0:51 Diving into metahumans
2:32 Creating my own blendshapes in maya
4:13 Designing how sculpting will work
6:39 Facial expressions and posture
7:24 Showcase
8:04 Secret ending
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15 июн 2024

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@borkor458 2 года назад

Huge improvement on MetaHumans as a base. I love the random characters at the end! Awesome job.

@DrHippo 2 года назад

Thank you for the support as always 🙏

@ollewedenmark6554 2 года назад

DUDE. Your video content is off the charts man :D This is seems like the best character creator ive seen //OLLE

@DrHippo 2 года назад

Thank you!

@DonBurgess286 2 года назад

I agree... That was really amazing. This would be fire on marketplace

@DrHippo 10 месяцев назад

Maybe one day if I ever find the time 😅

@thorburnjschwegler Год назад

Bro this is some fire stuff like this is very impressive makes me more and more want to get into video game creation definitely saving this video 😁👍

@PandemoniumGameDev 2 года назад

Long time Unity user here (7+ years). Discovered your channel today and I can say that you made me realize all the limitation that Unity has and all the possibilities that Unreal offers. I'll start learning Unreal today :D PS: Your character creator looks off the charts, I'm really interested to see how the game progresses, subbed.

@DrHippo 2 года назад

Same here (8 years I believe). Only been using UE4 for a year but used UE3 for years before Unity, so that helped a bit. Good luck on your Unreal journey! And thanks! I'll try not to disappoint 😅

@MattKander 2 года назад

Amazing work! Your channels going to be huge :-)

@DrHippo 2 года назад

Thank you! I would not complain if that happened :D

@HadesMrDark 2 года назад

I loooove this channel, keep it up, this looks insane.

@DrHippo 2 года назад

Thank you! I'm trying my best :)

@elOmegart Год назад

Amazing, those characters at the end really gave me the vibes of Oled vdovenko art lol, amazing job, i'm subscribing

@DrHippo Год назад

I'll take that as a compliment! Thank you for the sub :)

@truegamer2819 5 месяцев назад

this was the best video notes ive ever tooken and will help me learn the fundamental of learning how to create my own metal human character customization

@DrHippo 3 месяца назад

Thank you! Glad you found it useful and good luck! It's quite the mountain to climb 😅

@zudma Год назад

Amazing. Good job! Hopefully you'll release on marketpalce in the future, but regardless, good job!

@1nitalien Год назад

It’s a really great job bud !!! I’m a big fan of your channel. I don’t understand a lot blender /maya … I’m an digital artist and my full job haha ! So, I don’t have a lot of time for learn correctly ! I’m waiting patiently for your app ! I stay in alert for buying it when it’s out 👀✨ thank you for all you do for us !!!!!

@DrHippo Год назад

Thank you for the kind words! Trouble finding time to do things is something I know all too well 😅

@aidancarter9393 2 года назад

Why do you have so few subs? Your content is quality man!

@Kaboomnz 2 года назад

Wow, you straight up earned my sub.

@Vondora 2 года назад

I hate to be that guy, but I think this really deserve a tutorial either free or paid. Still, this is great work, I was brainstorming a similar idea the other day, but your current result is much more polished than anything I could achieve right now, subscribed!

@DrHippo 2 года назад

I might be working on a tutorial, but I'm taking things slowly so I don't burn out again 😅

@xeniacollins9514 Год назад

Good job man. Thinking about getting a system for our project too. It's quite the task though

@DrHippo 2 года назад

If you're interested in accessing the Unreal 5 Project files for this prototype that I made in this video, it is now available on my patreon! Make sure to read the patreon tier carefully before subscribing! www.patreon.com/DrHippo

@zeynepgamzetopay1172 11 месяцев назад

Does Master Hippo package contain the tutorial videos for Unreal Engine 5.2?

@christiantoft 2 года назад

Holy fuckknuckles!!! You upped that video production game big time!!! Awesome Maximus.

@DrHippo 2 года назад

Thank you! I'm trying my best! :D

@xenamaianielsen1653 2 года назад

Cool char. creator! like the random side-story :P

@mrseanwheeler Год назад

I laughed at your characters.. but they look AWESOME. amazing job!

@DrHippo Год назад

Thank you 🙏

@notduke3976 2 года назад

Thats actually amazing

@DrHippo 2 года назад

Glad you like it! :)

@KatVolts Год назад

Simply Incredible!

@DrHippo Год назад

Thank you! :D

@ondudengrund 2 года назад

Very cool !

@DrHippo Год назад

Thanks!

@asicveg 2 года назад

Amazing!

@DrHippo Год назад

Glad you liked it!

@everettengineers4603 2 года назад

Great editing!

@DrHippo 2 года назад

Thank you! Spending way too much time on it though 😅

@tomatoprincess4315 2 года назад

Brilliant! And why do I have to laugh so hard on 3:08 😂

@DrHippo 2 года назад

Maybe you just have really good taste in "funny" animations........ 😉

@aliakdogan9426 11 месяцев назад

7:20 my favourite part ....including the music and edit

@DrHippo 10 месяцев назад

Thank you :D

@GOTLANDSKORV 2 года назад

This is super impressive! Did you get all of those randomly generated characters from just doing blendshapes for a single base face or were there a couple of other base faces you had to do blendshapes for too off screen? Either way, extremely cool! And as you say, the different expressions really add a lot too! Oh and new channel logo, nice!

@DrHippo 2 года назад

It is indeed just one base mesh! Thanks, logo is a bit of a work in progress :D

@nothingspeaks Год назад

if you dont like the blending mode (thats supposed to kinda mimic DNA mixing ) you can use the sculpting tools

@DrHippo Год назад

I did, and those are still using real data to "sculpt" the face which still feels very restrictive imo

@andreas4959 10 месяцев назад

6:58 - Me at the rave

@LumberingTroll 2 года назад

This is what MetaHumans should have been. Was and am very disappointed that its just a web tool to bake out static characters.

@DrHippo 2 года назад

I was also a little disappointed but you can still get incredible value out of it and it's still in early access so let's see how it evolves :)

@fancydeer2868 2 года назад

I have a quick suggestion for possible combat system. You could have different fighting styles that you can discover around the world and with time, you can learn them. The more you learn about a single one, the more proficient you can get in it. You could have the player discover scrolls of combat, or if you have npcs they could know a certain style of fighting which they could teach you. Edit: love your content.

@DrHippo 2 года назад

Without going into too much detail, something similar is already planned! :) Feel free to drop by the discord and share your ideas in #suggestions, I love to hear these :D Edit: Thank you!

@the601today5 Год назад

you should make " the wrong turn the game " with these

@gargoyled_drake 2 года назад

ngl the randomized characters at the end was way more characteristic and realistic than any characters ever seen in any video game ever.

@DrHippo 2 года назад

That is mostly thanks to metahumans, but thanks nonetheless :D

@spencil9941 2 года назад

@@DrHippo Question, how did you use metahuman as a base?

@DrHippo 2 года назад

@@spencil9941 Can you be a little more specific 😅

@Drakmour666 10 месяцев назад

I wish there was such character creator tool but as a plugin for Unreal Engine 5 itself, to easily make characters that you need with sliders and not with Zbrush, it's so intuitive and feeling right to be done. And tool for all types of characters from ultrarealistic like Metahuman to anime and simpsons like with enormous eyes and face \ body features. It would be massive! I guess so many creators would buy this tool or subscribe to it. Damn. :-)

@DrHippo 10 месяцев назад

That does sound awesome! There's a standalone tool called Character Creator 4 that is quite popular, but would be awesome to have one directly in UE5 😄

@NovaaGrind Год назад

Nice

@itsjxomusic 2 года назад

I wish there was a tutorial for this! Exactly what I've been looking for to give players a complete control. Just have no idea where to start as I'm new to game design (Bhons)

@DrHippo 2 года назад

There already is a tutorial, I made one ( and still working on it ), but looks like you found that already ;)

@stevens3d Год назад

Hi ! Amazing content ! How did you do for the hair to follow morph target. I have morph targets, alembic hair. How Can i do to adapt hair ?

@DrHippo Год назад

part 6 of my tutorial series covers this and its up within the next hour 😁

@darkgenix Год назад

someone needs to make the ultimate character creator. make characters based on mathematical equations where once you make your character, no one else can ever create the exact same person within the program. your character will be locked on a blockchain and never duplicated. you can have similar characters that look like your work, but mathematically based on geo, it would never be the same char.

@mordicai4296 Год назад

I want this in my game!

@DrHippo Год назад

I have a tutorial series covering a more basic version of this :)

@sophiacody 2 года назад

you should put the finished system on the unreal marketplace, or create a step by step tutorial. please

@DrHippo 2 года назад

It's not on the marketplace but I have a tutorial, and you can get the tutorial files on my patreon - it's not as complex as I show in this video but should give a base to build upon.

@jack-spade5647 4 месяца назад

Time is REALLY FLY FAST... I wonder where we are today with implementing custom character creation into our games.

@DrHippo 3 месяца назад

Time really does fly fast! :D ..... :) ........ :| .... :( My character creator is on ice, I have many other things in the works that's higher prio sadly :(

@jack-spade5647 3 месяца назад

...esp if you have focused your mind on things, time is tricky like that.@@DrHippo

@RiotGearGaming 2 года назад

any chance you will sell this on the ue marketplace? :D that would be a huge thing for every indie developer.

@DrHippo 2 года назад

For the moment, it only exists in my project, but I have a tutorial that covers the groundwork for this kind of system. You can also get the tutorial files from my patreon if you don't feel like making it from scratch :)

@MaskedIG 2 года назад

I would love to see more of those facial expressions. How difficult was making the blend shapes for those characters?

@DrHippo 2 года назад

Hopefully you'll get to see more, It's not the last time I will showcase the character creator :) Pretty easy for this video. I was rushing through all of these blendshapes just to get a proof of concept up and running, you can definitely create some weird looking stuff if you pull a bunch of things to their extremes. So the final blendshapes will be more work. I will have to carefully study the human face.

@kanoeyes Год назад

Are you going to continue to do this type of devlog???

@DrHippo Год назад

Yes I am! Sorry about things taking forever. Just had to finish the tutorial series I was working on, and now that it's done I can focus again on devlogs but things take time especially with a full time job I have to take of 😅

@astralstormgamestudios1259 4 месяца назад

Nice! I would like to integrate this in my game! Im currently working on a finish viking multiplayer game , where I need a character customize system, Im using a metahuman. I imagine that before you hop into the server you will be prompted to create your viking, first I was thinking I will download some hair styles , faces from metahuman creator app , to be able to switch them out in runtime. Then I thought about morphtargets to be able to customize even further but then I read that it's quite har to make it work in multiplayer. What is your thoughts about this.?

@DrHippo 3 месяца назад

Sounds cool! Maybe just swapping heads is good enough? It really depends on the scope of your game. I would probably expect a game I would spend many hours in when I am able to change the face using morph targets where swapping heads is maybe a bit more suitable for smaller games.

@supremebeme 2 года назад

Found you on reddit

@Gurem 2 года назад

Btw do u plan on publishing this on the unreal marketplace?

@DrHippo 2 года назад

For the time being I don't plan on putting anything on the marketplace unfortunately, I am hoping to work on tutorials that cover things I've made in the devlogs though.

@aaronmunoz3423 2 года назад

Um hello does this still on develop or it’s on marketplace dude and awesome work

@DrHippo 2 года назад

Thank you! It's still in development but I am completely swamped with work so I haven't had time to do a lot of progress lately :( It's not on the marketplace but you can follow my tutorial on this topic or get the tutorial files directly from my patreon.

@alexandrepv 10 месяцев назад

They all look like... weirdly shaped carrots :D

@DrHippo 10 месяцев назад

😂 This is mostly because of my personal taste, I'm not a big fan of the typical perfect looking faces in games and prefer the more "ugly" faces. They're just more interesting to me personally 🙂 So you could just tweak the system I made to make prettier more 'normal' faces. It's also a bit cause it's a work in progress and still has some jankyness that needs to be ironed out eventually. More importanlty, I'm worried about the carrots you eat! :P

@alexandrepv 10 месяцев назад

@@DrHippo Hahaha, fair enough mate :) Yeah, I guess you did make the base-meshes with a certain style in mind. Perhaps it is hard to give character a trully distinct look without exacerbating a few features. Metahuman does a great job, but they all look like cousins. Btw, I've been considering creating something similar for an editor I'm making, but for anime faces instead. I was wondering if you would suggest the same approach of creating more extreme basemeshes or just using local distortion. Given that anime faces are way simples, I don't know which approach would be best. And yeah, the last carrot I bit into screamed at me :D haha

@aaronmunoz3423 2 года назад

I have another question what computer desktop you use cause I wanna buy a computer but I really don’t now which one could you tell me a computer can I use for the program

@DrHippo 2 года назад

I'm really not a hardware expert what so ever. If you want to play around with all the latest tech in unreal you'll need a semi beefy pc. I am sure you can find more detail on the epic forums from people who know way more than I do about this :)

@timsonss 2 года назад

I wish you dived into how you actually scripted this system. Like at least 30 seconds or smth

@DrHippo 2 года назад

I understand, I would feel the same way. I try to keep the devlogs to be a bit less technical to hit a broader audience, that's where I'm hoping to pair the devlogs with tutorials that are closely related to my devlogs for people who are interested in the details. So a tutorial might be on its way related to this video ;)

@fabricaderender5923 2 года назад

amazing good job is this on UE Market ? have link ? [

@DrHippo 2 года назад

Unfortunately not no, but I have a tutorial on this subject, and you can get the tutorial files on my patreon if you don't feel like making it yourself :)

@Relentlessdiver Год назад

Any chance of seeing this character creator in the market place? 😊

@DrHippo Год назад

In the distant future yes, but it requires a ton of rework for it to be marketplace worthy. In the meantime I have made the unreal project of this prototype available on my patreon if this is still of interest to you :) www.patreon.com/DrHippo

@xnicktendox7501 9 месяцев назад

Do you have a UE5 plugin for this character creator? If not you definitely should. I would pay good money for this.

@DrHippo 8 месяцев назад

The full unreal project for this character creator *prototype* is available on my patreon : www.patreon.com/DrHippo Although note that it is just a proof of concept/prototype, I am very slowly working on a more robust and flexible product version that will hopefully sell on the Unreal Marketplace one day but work on it is sporadic and even if I do complete it, it could take a while before it's ready.

@kameenavery9616 2 года назад

As someone who is HORRIBLE as an Artist in any fashion, I would GLADLY pay for something like this to be on the Marketplace. Or Pay you directly for the finished system.

@DrHippo 2 года назад

Unfortunately I don't plan to put anything on the marketplace, but a tutorial might be in the works :P

@Xashe_ 2 года назад

wait. can you actually use Metahumans in games? I thought it was just for pre-rendered stuff.

@DrHippo 2 года назад

Metahumans is pretty flexible and has different levels of detail. You could probably even use it for mobile games if you really wanted.

@ktograph1138 2 года назад

Interesting why MetaHuman developers didn't give more controls in sculpting.

@DrHippo 2 года назад

I'm guessing that they want to ensure that the user doesn't make something that is ugly. So it's to ensure high quality assets. I guess it's not good marketing for them if there's a bunch of messed up faces out there with the metahuman brand attached to it. But it could also just be because it's still new and they're working on it.

@98999j Год назад

I would love a tutorial on how to make this kind of system in unity - LOL preferably for a sloped brain noob like myself

@DrHippo Год назад

Probably unlikely that I will start doing Unity tutorials sorry :( I don't know if my unreal tutorial could give you clues, otherwise I'm sure a Unity equivilant of the tutorial probably exists already :D

@Gurem 2 года назад

Kinks. Nah fam that's a feature. Take it from me. That should be a standalone character creator so u can use that if you're going for a casual game. Would make a survival game like valhiem so fun to play on top of how fun it already is.

@DrHippo 2 года назад

I will remember to mention it as a feature in the marketing :P

@guilloisvincent2286 2 года назад

How did you get metahuman blendshapes? can't get them in blender :/

@DrHippo 2 года назад

I made them myself from scratch, you can't export blendshapes out of metahuman.

@guilloisvincent2286 2 года назад

@@DrHippo alright thanks !

@DrHippo 10 месяцев назад

np!

@gifeight 11 месяцев назад

Hi bro, please, I am desprate looking for a solution. How have handled changing facial's part color. I want to make a makeup add to my customization system and I don t know how to do it. I have just one color map for the whole head. What if I wanted to make lips a colour, cheeks another one. I am limited to changing the whole face colour at once and not individual prts. Any idea?

@DrHippo 8 месяцев назад

I would make a new mask texture for each part that can be colored, then you tint that black and white mask by the color selected by the player, and you overlay that mask on top of the albedo texture. Hope that makes sense, otherwise you can head over to the discord channel where It's a bit easier to share a more in depth explanation.

@RugiadianL 2 года назад

@DrHippo 2 года назад

🎄

@sargassospace1662 Год назад

Hey! I would like to use such plugin to create characters in my project, how to do it?

@DrHippo Год назад

My character creater is not available as a plugin unfortunately. You can either follow my tutorials that goes over some of these features or get access to the tutorial files on my patreon if you don't feel like building it from scratch. Note that the tutorial only covers a basic version of my own character creator, it's worth watching the beginning of the first part of the tutorial to get an idea of what you get out of the tutorial files. Hope that helps!

@guilloisvincent2286 2 года назад

What's the music at the end please ? :)

@DrHippo 2 года назад

I bought it from www.storyblocks.com/ I renamed all the files so I don't actually know what the original song is called =/

@guilloisvincent2286 2 года назад

@@DrHippo allright no problem :)

@DrHippo 10 месяцев назад

🙃

@sleepdeprived6565 Год назад

We need a full tutorial for this

@DrHippo Год назад

I'm already making one :) You can watch the first 4 parts on my channel ;) Part 5 and 6 coming soon :D

@sleepdeprived6565 Год назад

@@DrHippo oh, thank you

@zeynepgamzetopay1172 11 месяцев назад

Is there a full tutorial for 5.2 version of Unreal Engine

@DrHippo 10 месяцев назад

To my knowledge there is no difference for 5.2. But let me know if you encounter issues

@thatonefoxxy Год назад

I want this :(

@DrHippo Год назад

I am slowly working on re-creating this system in a proper package for unreal marketplace so hopefully you'll still be interested by the time I'm done with that 😅

@thatonefoxxy 9 месяцев назад

@@DrHippo just checking back rn, how's it going so far?

@judanetwork 9 месяцев назад

I can open this character editor in game?

@DrHippo 8 месяцев назад

Yes it's made for players to make their characters in the game.

@dellfire8826 Год назад

Can you do a tutorial on this?

@DrHippo Год назад

I can! And I did! :) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YcJdf59aRKA.html&ab_channel=DrHippo

@nyzadayz99 2 года назад

Weird request but could you create me as a metahuman character please? I'd love to play myself in a game

@DrHippo 2 года назад

If you just want to play around with metahumans, you can already do that by applying for early access here : www.unrealengine.com/en-US/metahuman-creator

@EstebanHC 2 года назад

Hi, I don't know English but I understand something, but this is a tutorial or how? If not, could you make one, plss I need it for my game, that you create your own character :D?

@DrHippo 2 года назад

Hi there! It appears to be your lucky day :D I JUST released part 1 of a tutorial series that will cover this :)

@EstebanHC 2 года назад

@@DrHippo thanks!! :DDDD

@DrHippo 10 месяцев назад

You're welcome! :)

@kennethhoffmann400 Год назад

bruv can you just make a character creation system and put it on the market place? Id pay mad money to not have to touch maya

@DrHippo Год назад

I'm working on a proper fleshed out version of it for marketplace but it's gonna be a while before that's ready, in the meantime I have made the unreal project available for this prototype on my patreon : www.patreon.com/DrHippo

@kennethhoffmann400 8 месяцев назад

Your a god. Cant wait to buy it. You could charge whatever you wanted, its like one of the highest demanded items I imagine.@@DrHippo

@IM4HF1R1N6M4HL4Z0R 2 года назад

bro plz make a tutorial

@DrHippo 2 года назад

Who says I'm not working on one 😉

@IM4HF1R1N6M4HL4Z0R 2 года назад

@@DrHippo that would be huge!!!

@DrHippo 10 месяцев назад

And I actually finished that tutorial yaaay :D

@IM4HF1R1N6M4HL4Z0R 10 месяцев назад

@@DrHippo you are great! keep up the good work!!

@ashanarchy7255 2 года назад

Shut up and take my money!

@DrHippo 2 года назад

Gladly 😂 But seriously, thank you :)

@markecgazda3880 2 года назад

Its to bad and sad that this video has no more views

@DrHippo 2 года назад

It takes time to grow a youtube channel and I'm relatively new and I only have a few videos =( Hopefully within the next year this will look different 🙏 Thank you for the motivational comment though!

@markecgazda3880 2 года назад

@@DrHippo well said, your video made me to make good comment and to give like keep doing it 🙂

@DrHippo 10 месяцев назад

I'm trying! Hard to find time though :(

@Madd_Jack 4 месяца назад

Metahumans by Balenciaga

@badger_bub 9 месяцев назад

Explained how nothing works

@DrHippo 9 месяцев назад

I understand if that's a turn off, a lot of other devlog creators get more into the technical details but that's just not the kind of content I wanna make, sorry :(

@badger_bub 9 месяцев назад

@@DrHippo well, I'm not motivated enough to make tutorials either. So I guess we're both guilty of the same sins.