Other features announced first time around include new automated conforming and weighting systems for clothing, with the option to modify the results by painting weights manually. In its original preview video, released in May, Reallusion showed off the new all-quad base topology and improved skin weighting of the characters generated by Character Creator 3.0. New in CC 3.0: all-quad base topology, automated clothing weighting, GoZ bridge to ZBrush

Instead, many of the key new features are reserved for Character Creator 3.0 Pipeline, a new commercial edition intended as a standalone character creator for games, virtual reality and augmented reality work. Although the software will still be bundled free with iClone, the bundled edition is now the one with the smaller feature set.

The software provides an alterative to commercial services like Autodesk’s Character Generator or Adobe’s Fuse CC, or free tools like MakeHuman and Manuel Bastioni Lab.Īlthough the free Lite edition enables users to export a limited number of characters for use in other tools, the original releases were really designed for use with iClone, Reallusion’s own animation software.Ĭharacter Creator 3.0 stands that relationship on its head. Originally released in 2015, Character Creator is intended to generate animation-ready 3D human characters. Reallusion has just posted the second of three planned preview videos showing the new features in CC 3.0 (above), with the software due to ship commercially in September 2018.įrom companion product to iClone to standalone character creation tool The update gives characters generated with CC all-quad geometry, introduces automated LOD generation, and adds a simplifed rig for better compatibility with game engines including UE4, Unity and CryEngine. Reallusion has unveiled Character Creator (CC) 3.0, the new version of its tool for generating rigged human characters, repositioning it from a companion product to iClone to a standalone tool aimed at games and VR. Scroll down for news of the commercial release.

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