Sci-Fi Soldiers - Sidekick Modular Characters

Synty Studios presents: Sci-Fi Soldiers – Sidekick Modular Characters
This Sidekick content pack puts a squad of elite Sci-Fi Soldiers into your character creation arsenal! Gear up for battle with 300+ character parts including helmets, armour, weapons, and more, designed to deliver the synthetic agents your project needs.
With this pack, you can create a wide variety of customised sci-fi soldier 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:

300+ modular, rigged Sci-Fi Soldier parts (helmets, hair, gear and more)
90+ modular, rigged human base species parts (torsos, legs, hands, feet etc.)
Fully rigged to the Unity Humanoid skeleton (Mecanim compatible)

Unreal Engine Mannequin compatible
Dynamic joints allow you to add realistic motion to capes, hair, beards etc.
Facial blend shapes for expressions and lipsync (works with ARKit)
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)

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



330 Sci-Fi Soldier parts

90+ Sidekick human species base parts

Sidekick Character Creator Tool

Modular Part Types

Head and Face - head, hair, facial hair, eyebrows, eyes, ears, nose, teeth, tongue
Torso and limbs - torso, upper arms, lower arms, hands, hips, legs, feet
Attachments - head attachments, face attachments, back attachments, shoulder attachments, elbow attachments, knee attachments, hip attachments (front, back, left, right), wraps

Body Blend Shapes

Masculine/feminine, skinny/heavy, muscular

Facial Blend Shapes

Eyebrows (left/right) - frown, raise, inner down, inner up, outer down, outer up
Eyes (left/right) - up, down, left, right, blink, squint, wide
Nose - sneer left, sneer right
Cheeks (left/right) - hollow, puff
Jaw - close, open, left, right, backward, forward
Mouth - left, right, funnel, pucker, shrug upper, shrug lower, roll upper, roll out upper, roll lower, roll out lower, close, frown (left/right), smile (left/right), press (left/right), stretch (left/right), upper up (left/right), lower down (left/right)
Tongue - up, down, in, out, lower, raise, twist (left/right), curl up, curl down, curl left, curl right, side curl down, side curl up

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 1.0.6 (Unity)- Updated teeth blend shapes
Version 1.0.5 (Unity)- Fixed issues with base human wrap

Visit the Sidekick tool changelog for more information.