CC-0 Universal Character Gem

[GaianHelmers]

• Masc and Femme Mannequin models.
• Over 250 compatible animations.
• Asset created by Quaternius - https://www.patreon.com/quaternius
• Purchased and donated to O3DE to serve as a default blank. Consider passing on some support to Quaternius if you can!

No anim graph, yet.

What does this PR do?

There has been a long time need for a "mannequin" style character with a basic rig, neutral details, masc, and femme body figures, and a rich library of animations.

Joe and Gaian both bought the Quaternius Universal Character animation set, and Gaian the Universal Animation 2. It's CC-0 license, and therefore we donated the assets to O3DE to serve as that formal mannequin.

Using a mass animation exporter for Blender, I was able to put out all 270~ animations into their own standalone fbx files, one animation each.

How was this PR tested?

• Pulled the branch, added the "Universal Character" gem to my project.
• Loaded a blank level, added Masc and Femme models to the level.
• Added "Simple Motion" component to both.
• Configured the component with a few animations, using show in editor to display them operating with the actor models.

UniversalCharacter.-.Test.mp4

[amzn-changml]

I confirm the validity of these files. These have been checked via ClamAV and are ready for review. Feel free to pull this branch to validate this Gem

[jhanca-robotecai]

It would be beneficial if you added a short readme and possibly a sample prefab

[GaianHelmers]

There's also desire to include a "You can get human characters and a modular medieval clothing pack" kind of promo blurb at the bottom of the gem description.

[GaianHelmers]

Got a response from the Author:

He says it's okay to use the asset, but requests we only include the Free Tier assets, as to not conflict with his sales of the premium goods. Totally fair.

And the links to his work should point to: https://quaternius.com/

This means we need to scrub quite a lot of animations out.
This would be a whole lot easier if I could edit the commit.

We need to remove:

The visible animations are the ones to remove.

[GaianHelmers]

New assets look good. Just need the gem description and source link changed, and I say this is what I set off to include.

[amzn-changml]

New assets look good. Just need the gem description and source link changed, and I say this is what I set off to include.

What would you like this to be changed to?

[GaianHelmers]

@amzn-changml
Origin URL: https://quaternius.com/index.html

Description:
A masculine and feminine mannequin model with over 80~ compatible animations. All broken into individual files for proper O3DE importation.

Visit Quaternius.com to get the full animation set totalling over 270 animations, character models, and modular equipment sets.

[GaianHelmers]

I'd say that's as complete as it can get for the time being!

[GaianHelmers]

Is there anything left to get this merged in?

[nick-l-o3de]

I'm okay with adding this if we can ensure the licensing is all good

However, last time we tried to put data in here, we had all sorts of LFS issues. Instead of submitting this, you might want to wait until a maintainer (as in, myself or someone else with maintainer/LFS write tags) can get involved, and write it ourselves. E.g. I'd clone your repo, with the data (? not sure how to get it, since it wont be in lfs?) and then push it myself. Since I have actual write access to LFS, it should go ok.

[GaianHelmers]

@nick-l-o3de Yes, I had already been coordinating with @amzn-changml to actually do the functional addition. My hands are completely tied for this stage.