There is no way that we could afford to commision any artists to create a variety of characters with animations.
We want the characters to share a large number of animations that should cover most eventualities in game prototyping and character, npc types.
we have found many resources on the web that provide animations and customisable characters but these are outside of our reach. What we would like to do is have one of these customising tools so we can create all of the characters ourselves so they can be provided in Skyline. This could then lead to us having our own character generator inside Skyline for anyone to customise their characters. To do this though we need access to character development tools!
We have the skills to make these characters if we have the correct tools and access to resources.
We would like to ask if anyone in the community can provide access to any character development software and animation resources.
If we have some of these tool we can all have access to characters and for now we could add variations on request, such as zombies, peasants etc.
With funding we could get animations from Mixamo or any other provider, these could be gained over time so as to spread the cost, and purchase or share a license with someone who has any of the following.
Mixamo - animations: https://www.mixamo.com/store/#/
Fuse - character design: https://www.mixamo.com/fuse
Poser Game Dev - character and animation design: http://my.smithmicro.com/poser-pro-game-dev.html
The above packages would speed up the development of characters. To use the more traditional route of modeling package would not be time effective for us.
Look forward to your suggestions, so we can make a variety of free to use Characters in Skyline a reality.
Thanks to Tatty we have we enough content to make the new FPS system a reality which will be started very soon
