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The Road to the Trilogy – Character Assets


 

 Hello. C J here. So it looks like every project I’m working on reduces down to either the video game trilogy or adult art including animations. The job got simple and doable all of a sudden. Eversummer is set up and making more Eversummer cards is going to be done without having to redo the work that went into the core rules. I’ve got novels for the next while to publish for the Patreon. I also have all my notes for the cookbook that I can type up. That will be free to advertise the Patreon as well.

I’m still thinking about animations. I need stories I can tell with characters I know I can draw reliably. That’ll take time. That leaves the video games as my main project. Again, so long as I get to enough Patreon money per month I will give the final three games away for free. Patreon is my preferred way of doing this. Then the question becomes, can one person actually make three open world fantasy RPGs? Yes. Yes one can.

The key here is knowing how to navigate the Unreal Engine’s online store, called the Marketplace. The Marketplace is built into both the website and desktop version of the Unreal Engine itself. Everything there is in varying styles and qualities but all of it costs money. Except for the stuff that doesn’t. There are several entire catalogues full of free content and a Free for the Month rotation that does change every month. Between them I have everything I need. In fact, strongly more than I need. A lot more.

I need a lot of characters as player characters and NPCs. There are at least two or three series of free character models with dozens of characters in each series. These are all humanoid, wearing clothing, carrying weapons and would work as either player characters or NPCs. Most of them come with animations already built into them that perfectly match their shape and structure including their weapons. These are the ones I’m using simply so I don’t have to alter any of the beautiful animations they come with.

Here’s the really fun part. Each of these comes with several skins, each one a different colour scheme and sometimes with different weapons. I know how to change the colours of their hair, clothing, armour, weapons and skin to make them match the soldiers, characters and people in my setting. I can make any one of them look like any of my fully clothed art. Any model, any art. And if I duplicate the skin first then I can keep both and build up a library of them.

This poses something of a problem actually. I get to pick the colours of everything which means I need to know what every nation’s military and civilians wear and what colour their skin, scales, or fur are. This means I can do anthro characters and humans as needed by the setting and the story. I am sure, absolutely sure, I can alter some of them to look unclothed and make an adult game as number four. I might just have to do that for fun when I’m done the main project. I have more than enough to work with here.

C J Mcpherson

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