Swap prototype models with production models

eraser282

Hi,

Sorry if this is a dumb question but I've been using the prototype pack to build some levels and at this point I want to swap my NPCs for the actual character models I want to use in my game. How do I do this without breaking the connection with all the speech text and logic etc?

Should I be creating new NPCs using the wizard and then moving all the logic over manually?

Thanks

ChrisIceBox

An animated character's model is set by their Animator (with the correct Avatar assigned) and Skinned Mesh Renderer components, together with their armature object chain in the Hierarchy - see the Demo game's "Tin Pot" player prefab as an example.

You shouldn't need to rely on the Character Wizard, but it will be a case of replacing these components with that of your updated models.

Place the new model in the scene besides your NPC, and start with copy/pasting the Animator component. Then drag/drop the armature and SMR object, removing the NPC's old set. So long as the NPC's root object and NPC component is kept the same, links to logic/speech etc should be retained.

Back up first before attempting anything!

eraser282

Thanks Chris. I wasn't able to get it working with what you suggested but I did end up just adding the new model under the root and disabled the old animator, SMR etc. Doing that seems to work for me.