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After viewing these tutorials you’ll be utilizing iClone assets in the Unreal game engine for fast game development. The following tutorial provided by Reallusion demonstrates how simple it is to import scenes and characters into the Unreal Engine. In just a few steps your 3D asset is ready for action in your game engine of choice. With iClone 7.2’s addition of FBX export you no longer need 3DXchange to get other 3D assets out of iClone for use in other applications.īuilt-in menu choices allow the user to set up these characters, props, and scenes for export and use in major game engines like Unreal and Unity. The fast turnaround, easy-to-use character generator can pump out characters of many different styles, sizes and shapes by providing a basic, rigged mesh that can be imported into your favorite software package for reshaping and sculpting eliminating hours and sometimes days of character development work. IClone7 and companion Character Creator will work with most major 3D applications including Maya and 3DS Max. IClone, for me, has been my “go-to” secret weapon for many years.Īt first, it was just a tool in the toolbox but now version 7 has matured into a full-fledged animation suite capable of handling several types of motion capture along with key-framing and puppeteering.

One tool that could layout a scene, plot a shot-list (cinematic or photographic), block characters and more importantly, a tool I could count on to move the project forward. Throughout all of this, I had one tool I could rely on to speed up certain aspects of the work. Anyone that has done this type of work can attest to how grueling and physically challenging it can be. Some of these projects required long hours due to the extremely short production time allowed for the project to meet its original release date.

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