Video: Getting Started with Sidekicks in Unreal Engine

Video: Getting Started with Sidekicks in Unreal Engine

Synty Studios presents: Modern Civilians – Sidekick Modular Characters

This Sidekick content pack puts a variety of vibrant, everyday people into your character creation locker. Fill your modern game world with people utilising 160+ new parts including clothing, hair styles, backpacks, accessories and 90+ human species base parts.

With this pack, you can create a wide variety of customised modern world characters designed to suit your project! Unleash your creativity or utilise our expert presets. 

Pack Content Features:

• 160+ modular, rigged Modern Civilian 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

📦 Pack Content

• 165 Modern Civilian 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

🤖 Technical Info

◼ Compatibility ◼

• 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

◼ File Formats ◼

• Unity 2021.3 package
  
• Unreal plugin - 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8
• Unreal content zip

📋 Changelog

Version 1.0.2 (Unity)
- Fixed teeth blend shape issue
- Fixed nose issue when using SK_HUMN_BASE_02_01HEAD_HU01

Version 1.0.1 (Unity)
- Fixed issues with base human wrap

• Visit the Sidekick tool changelog for more information.