¶ Extracting assets from characters
There are assets that other people have made in which they then added to a character.
This could be:
- models (Such as parts)
- Textures (Alpha masks, PBR or normal maps)
- Garments (Clothing or body pieces, usually specifically tailored to a character)
- Custom offsets (Characters specifically shaped/sculpted uniquely) (Not recommended to extract, explained at the bottom of this page.)
So only Models and Textures, is what is most recommended to extract.
¶ How to extract
- On the upper left menu bar, click on View > Local Assets
a new window will open.
- This new window has 5 symbols catagorizing into models, cloth, custom offsets, texture maps, texture masks.
This viewing only hosts imported assets. - (You can right click for a Delete option if you wish)
- Select an asset, and all the way to the right in the properties section you can view its information.
- There you have an Extract button that lets you save the asset to your computer.
- There is also the option to check/uncheck a box named Reload which updates the asset when fvne detects it having been changed.
It is checked by Default. So anytime you make changes to a model that you have already imported, Fvne will automatically update it within the app.
Note: Areola & Nipples are considered "Clothing".
So if you find any custom nipples that are uploaded and used in Areola & Nipples, those are technically cloth and must be imported into Fvne as such to function.
¶ Not recommended to extract Clothes, but especially Custom Offsets
For Cloth:
you can totally extract garment features for your own use, however. The clothing will be set up for its original character.
You will have to go into a third-party application (such as blender) and make adjustments for the cloth to fit the new character.
The result of succeeding on applying cloth from one character to another is up to you.
For Custom Offset:
It is simply not recommended because you will require each limb model to be the same as the original owner.
It is likely that the selected limb, body and heads will be different from your character. However, if it is all the same, then you may go ahead and use the custom offset.
Otherwise the custom offset will make glitches and undesired artefacts.
If the custom offset fits within the pre-requisites of your character model, limb scaling will still function appropriately.
In other words, you can make scaling adjustments and edits if everything fits.
Tip: if there are any significant parts taken from another character, be sure to credit the author or the character where that asset is extracted from in order to follow a good etiquette.
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