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How to create a custom avatar with ReadyPlayerMe and use it in Unity

Create a simple custom avatar with your own image, animate it and make it speak in the Unity environment.

ReadyPlayerMe

Ready Player Me is an avatar engine that allows you to create a personalized digital avatar that reflects your image.

By taking a photo of yourself with the webcam or uploading an existing one, Ready Player Me is able to analyze different aspects of the user’s face, such as face shape, facial features and eye and hair colors, to create a digital version sufficiently realistic.

Readyplayer.me

To create your avatar, simply register on the site https://readyplayer.me/it and create your own personalized avatar.

You can upload an image or take a photo via the web, once ready you can customize it with the assets on the site.

Custom Avatar online

ReadyPlayerMe Studio

Ready Player Me provides a dedicated environment for developers, https://studio.readyplayer.me/. This tool allows you to associate applications and use a development key for your projects.

Once the application has been created you will need to copy your Subdomain.

The subdomain should be a link similar to this https://nameofyourapplication.readyplayer.me?frameApi

Import in Unity

To use ReadyPlayerMe with Unity you need:

  1. Import the ready player me package:

Subdomain

  1. Once the package has been imported into the Unity project, it is necessary to import the previously created avatar:

  2. Import the avatar into Unity

    • From the Ready Player Me Tab of the Unity menu, select Avatar Loadear
    • Enter the avatar link that will be automatically imported into the scene. Unity - Avatar Loader

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  1. Once the package has been imported into the Unity project, it is necessary to import the previously created avatar:

  2. Import the avatar into Unity

    • From the Ready Player Me Tab of the Unity menu, select Avatar Loadear
    • Enter the avatar link that will be automatically imported into the scene.

Conclusion

Ready Player Me is an extremely simple and quick tool for creating custom avatars and manipulating them in Unity.

Through the animaton controller and the voice handler you can create real scenes, the level of realism is not very high but with a short time you can obtain decent results.

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