Create Custom Outfits
Create outfits that meet Ready Player Me specifications.
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Create outfits that meet Ready Player Me specifications.
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This document explains how to create a full-body avatar outfit that meets Ready Player Me technical specifications and functions properly in your application.
All outfits must comply with the guidelines in this document and pass validation when uploaded. See .
All outfits must be in format.
We recommend that you use with the to verify your model during the creation process and before uploading. This validation tool ensures that your custom outfit meets all requirements.
Using Blender is not mandatory. You can use any 3D asset creation tool as long as it can output GLB files. And, if your asset was created in a 3D tool that doesn't support the GLB format, you can use to from different file types to format.
A full-body outfit consists of a top, bottom, footwear, and body.
Name: Wolf3D_Outfit_Top
Mesh Name: Wolf3D_Outfit_Top
Material Name: Wolf3D_Outfit_Top
Triangle Count: max 6000
Basecolor Map: required
Normal Map: required
Vertex Colors: No
Name: Wolf3D_Outfit_Bottom
Mesh Name: Wolf3D_Outfit_Bottom
Material Name: Wolf3D_Outfit_Bottom
Triangle Count: max 5000
Basecolor Map: Yes
Normal Map: Yes
Vertex Colors: No
Name: Wolf3D_Outfit_Footwear
Mesh Name: Wolf3D_Outfit_Footwear
Material Name: Wolf3D_Outfit_Footwear
Triangle Count: max 2000
Basecolor Map: required
Normal Map: required
Vertex Colors: No
Name: Wolf3D_Body
Mesh Name: Wolf3D_Body
Material Name: Wolf3D_Body
Triangle Count: max 2000
File Type: GLB
File Size: max 8 MB
Total Tri Count: max 15000
Basecolor Map: required
Normal Map: required
Roughness Map: optional
Metallic Map: optional
Vertex Colors: No
The materials use the metalness PBR workflow.
Keep the shading network of the material as simple as possible.
Enable Backface Culling (single-sided materials). Only use double-sided materials when absolutely necessary.
The texture file format is JPG. It's preferable for web applications like Ready Player Me due to the smaller file size. If transparency is needed, use PNG.
Create your outfit.
Modify the selected template.
Remove any body parts hidden by clothing, for optimization.
Retain the same UV layout for body parts.
Keep the armature.
Observe the hard limits on triangle counts.
Wolf3D_Outfit_Top: max 6000
Wolf3D_Outfit_Bottom: max 5000
Wolf3D_Outfit_Footwear: max 2000
Wolf3D_Body: max 2000
Make sure your designs work when the model moves by using Mixamo or Blender.
When you upload an outfit in Studio, it is checked against requirements. In order to successfully complete upload, an asset has to pass the validation.
To ensure that your assets function correctly with our avatar models, Ready Player Me provides and recommends you use the plugin for Blender to validate your assets before you upload.
When you have completed modeling and passed validation, export your outfit as a GLB file.
Include
the initial unmodified skeletal mesh (Armature),
the remaining parts of the body,
and the outfit skinned to the skeletal mesh.
Once the export is complete, open Ready Player Me Studio and upload your creation.
Make every triangle count! A polygon should either be contributing to the silhouette and/or helping deformations.
Geometry has a gradient with the lowest number of polygons used around the feet and lower torso, and the highest density around the head and upper torso.
Avoid creating long triangles as they tend to cause shading errors.
Avoid creating very small triangles or triangles that have 0 area (with all 3 vertices at the same location), as this can generate errors.
The more details you bake into normal, basecolor, and other maps, the better!
For example, a pant pocket could be extruded from the low poly mesh, and details from the high poly mesh baked into the textures.
Use hard edges on angles of 90 degrees or sharper. If using a hard edge, also split the UV and leave some space between the 2 split off UV islands.
To create the basecolor textures in a desirable style, we recommend:
Use a smart material for Substance Painter 2021 as a base: Wolf3D.spsm
Or: Use Color and World Space Normal maps to create a similar effect in Photoshop.
Benefits of using baked textures
Includes AO layers, so they can be adjusted separately.
Adds a cavity map, so you can control the amount of brightness and the color of edges you want to see.
Bakes lights, so you can generate simulated top illumination.
Examples of baked base color textures
Do not use symmetrical UVs. They are not yet officially supported.
Minimize texture seams. (Do use seams when there are hard edges.)
Do not change the UVs of the provided body mesh.
If possible, use fewer and bigger UV shells/islands instead of many small UV shells. Every UV split creates extra data.
Straighten UV islands, where possible, to reduce artifacts on the down-scaled textures, e.g. belts, upper & bottom of pants, ends of sleeves.
Download the male and female full-body .
Peform .
Validate the outfit in using the .
Export the outfit as a file including the body and the skeleton (Armature).
Upload the GLB file in .
Go to and download the template for the body type you intend to use.
Inspect the templates and familiarize yourself with the details. Your design must match the . Your modeling must be within these constraints.
See the for details,
See .
See .
See .
The checks for common issues with meshes and triangle counts.
