Sidekicks Changelog

This changelog covers what's changed or new in Synty's Sidekick Character Creator tool including art content, tool updates and fixes.

Drop 06: 8 July, 2025
Elven Warriors + Preset Filtering, Shader and Tool Updates

Sidekick_Character_Creator_Unity_2021_3_v1_0_6

Tool Updates:

  • Updated loading methods to improve speed and reliability
  • Updated Part filters functionality and UI
  • Added Preset filters for the Preset Part sections
  • Fixed Unity 6 bug with Color picker display

Shader Updates:

  • Replaced the previous shader to use Shader Graph (compatible with both URP and BIRP)

Art Content Updates:

  • +119 new Elven Warrior parts

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Drop 05: 11 June, 2025
Fantasy Skeletons + QoL Improvements

Sidekick_Character_Creator_Unity_2021_3_v1_0_5

Tool Updates:

  • Better error handling

Art Content Updates:

  • +106 new Fantasy Skeleton parts

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Drop 04: 14 May, 2025
Samurai Warriors + Minor Tool Updates

Sidekick_Character_Creator_Unity_2021_3_v1_0_4

Tool Updates:

  • Updated part filters behaviour
  • Added Randomize buttons per part group (e.g. head, upper body and lower body)
  • Minor bug fixes

New Art Content:

  • +97 new Samurai Warrior parts

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Drop 03: 9 Apr, 2025
Sci-Fi Civilians + Basic Part Filtering

Sidekick_Character_Creator_Unity_2021_3_v1_0_3

Tool Updates:

  • Added part filters to the tool to allow for basic filtering of parts via theme

New Art Content:

  • +103 new Sci-Fi Civilians parts

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Drop 02: Mar 12 2025
Fantasy Knights + Minor Tool Updates

Sidekick_Character_Creator_Unity_2021_3_v1_0_2

Tool Updates:

  • Add preprocessors to Editor scripts to stop build errors in Unity 6
  • Updated SQLite build targets to allow Web build targets

New Art Content:

  • +119 new Fantasy Knights parts

Note: We have relocated the character meshes to the Resources folder, you will be required to delete the previous install of the Sidekick product before installation of this version (please ensure to backup your project before you do this!).

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Drop 01: Feb 13 2025
Viking Warriors + Tool Runtime Functionality

Sidekick_Character_Creator_Unity_2021_3_v1_0_1 

Tool Updates:

  • Animation field added into options, allowing you to automatically play animation on preview
  • Added stability to Sidekick part discovery to help stop picking up non-Sidekick FBX file
  • Added runtime “API-like class” to allow the full toolset to be available at runtime
  • Added runtime demos to explain how to interact with the API
  • Documentation on runtime functionality is included within the Sidekicks Character Creator file on download

New Art Content:

  • +177 new Viking Warrior parts