Devlog Andromeda game project

Hello dear Patrons! 😎

So it's is about time I explain what I've been doing lately! After a set back in february that prevented me from working on that project, I spent the last ten days on the final character base for the game project. As of now, the modeling of the body and its parts (horns, nails, tails) is done, I just need to create a few sets of hair (it is a different workflow so I kept it for last) and the textures are also almost ready (the only thing left is the makeup alphas; the eyes, eyelashes, horns, nails and tails are not yet textured). In game, there will be 3 kind of modifiers:

• Shape Key: morphs the mesh to a different topology (mainly for customizing the face or some other tiny details). I've created more that 90 shape keys, most of them for character customization, other will be trigger in game by events (veins popping up when at full mana for example)

• Bone translation/scale: modifies the "bones" of the character, affecting the orientation, scale or/and offset of some body parts.

• Textures: The colors of the skin, nipple, lips, freckles, basically every detail will be customizable, thanks to a very simple workflow of flat colors combined with alpha maps.

All those combined allows a highly customizable character!

The rigging and weight painting alone took me four days as I needed a complex system for the breasts that allow expansion and accurate physics as well as "fake" soft-body simulation. I will spare you the technical details but due to how unreal engine works this is the best technique I've found (see post images).

All that preparation is almost ready to bring to life in game, I will add more later but for now it is more than enough to offer lots of customization possibilities. I am very excited because it was a lot of work and it is looking good! All the test I've done during 2024 and what I've learnt led to this final customizable character. I will continue this month to build the system in the game engine and release a prototype for you to launch and test and give me your feedback and suggestions 😊

So I've been in that bubble for long enough, now i have to get back to drawing! We will skip the character idea poll and skip to the sketches poll tomorrow!

I hope you like what you see! 💖