Sci-Fi Robots - Sidekick Modular Characters

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Synty Studios presents: Sci-Fi Robots – Sidekick Modular Characters
This Sidekick content pack puts a variety of mechanoid characters into your character creation vault. Fill your sci-fi game world with a range of robots from brutal battle bots to household helpers utilising 140 new parts! 
With this pack, you can create a wide variety of customised droid characters designed to suit your project! Unleash your creativity or utilise our expert presets. 





Build and customise characters in the editor with the feature-rich Sidekick Character Creator Tool designed for Unity and Unreal Engine and included with this Sidekick content pack! Using the tool you can combine multiple Sidekick packs to create endless, unique character combinations that bridge genres.


[Unity Only, UE coming soon] Create immersive character customisation experiences with the Sidekick Runtime API. Whether you're building a full in-game character creator, or just changing outfits on the fly, the Sidekick Runtime API makes it easy. 




Pack Content Features:

140 modular, rigged Sci-Fi Robot parts (heads, torsos, arms etc)

Fully rigged to the Unity Humanoid skeleton (Mecanim compatible)
Unreal Engine Mannequin compatible
Body blend shapes to adjust body type and proportions
Designed to cohesively match Synty POLYGON environments
Designed to work seamlessly with Synty ANIMATION packs (Unity only)

Please note that Robots are a new base species in the Sidekicks range, but they do not have "base parts" like Sidekick humans do.
Sidekick Character Creator Tool (Editor Extension) Features:

Customise material colours directly in the editor
Expert presets to enable rapid character creation
Save and load custom characters for future editing
Bake completed characters into a single optimised prefab, combining all skinned mesh renderers into one for performance friendly deployment
Runtime API for in-game character customisation (Unity only)
Mix and match Sidekick themes to create endless, unique characters


📦 Pack Content



140 Sci-Fi Robot parts


Access to the Sidekick Character Creator Tool

Modular Part Types

Heads
Torso and limbs - torso, upper arms, lower arms, hands, hips, legs, feet
Attachments - back attachments, shoulder attachments, elbow attachments, knee attachments, back hip attachments

Body Blend Shapes

Masculine/feminine, skinny/heavy, muscular

🤖 Technical Info

◼ Compatibility ◼


Compatible with Unity 2021.3+- Supports URP and Built-in


Compatible with Unreal 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8


◼ File Formats ◼

Unity 2021.3 package

Unreal plugin - 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8
Unreal content zip

📋 Changelog
Version 1.0.0 (Unity)- Initial release