Andromeda game dev update

Hello dear Patrons and Followers! 😎

Here's a new update about the game development. The character creator system I'm building is entering a new phase: All the missing parts I needed to create are finished, here are a few facts:

• Optimized main body mesh with more that 90 topological deformers

• 7 horns with 3 topological deformers for more customization (available for all races except Desaen)

• 3 tail types with 1 topological deformer each

• 4 ears type (Human, Sarin/Lunian, Desaen, Niitas) with 1 topological deformer each

• 410 textures and maps generated (including a lot of combined maps (maps are grayscale textures which are use to give various information in the game, in this case they are combined in RGB channel (one for each channel) for memory optimization)

• 2 hair styles adapted to ears/horns variations

The hair is what took me the longest to master because it took some trial and error, then each set of hair has to come in six variations because of the ears and horns placement on the skull. But at last, it is working and it should work real time in game, and its color can be fully customizable, and the fur on the Desaen ears and tail should be taking its colors from a customizable textures and colors (allowing pattern like zebras and all). The ears and tails are fully rigged and will be animated! Of course I will build more hair styles later, two is the amount I wanted to populate the character creator and be able to switch between models. There is also a good bunch of makeup variations, skin imperfections, customizable skin patterns and colors on the horns and tails. Each hairstyles will be customizable in game but I don't know yet how far.

The next task is to make the "master material" within the game engine, with all the customizable parameters that creates the final textures on the body and parts. This will require a bit of learning hours with the material functions in unreal engine. Then create the interface for the character creator. Once this is done, I will release a demo of that module for you to test 😊 I can't wait!

I'm sorry it is all taking so long, thank you for your patience!

Hope you like 💖