# Importing Custom Characters To import your custom characters into your Convai-powered Unity project, you will first need to bring your model into your project. The model needs at least two animations: one for talking and one for Idle. ## Prerequisites When you want to set up your custom character with Convai, you will need your character model and two animations: Idle and Talking. Create an animator controller with the two animations that looks like this. You should also add a 'Talk' Boolean to ensure that you can trigger the animation. [Here is a YouTube tutorial on how to set up an animator controller](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeZkctmoBPw\&t=53s). This is the bare minimum animator setup that you need to do.

The animator controller should look like this. This is the in-box NPC Animator.

### Step 1: Add Animator to your custom character Select your character from the Hierarchy and Add Animator Component

Screenshot showing newly added Animator Component

Convai Plugin ships with two pre-made animation controller, you can choose these controllers or can assign your custom controller, whatever fits your need. For this demo we are going with `Feminine NPC Animator`

Screenshot showing selection of Animation Controller

### Step 2: Adding a Trigger Volume With your custom character selected, add a Collision shape of your choice, for this demo we are going with a `Capsule Collider`

Screenshot showing newly added Capsule Collider

We will make this Collider a trigger, for this we will enable the `Is Trigger` option in the inspector panel

Screenshot showing enable of Is Trigger option

We will adjust the Center, Radius and Height of the collider such that it fits our character

### Step 3: Add ConvaiNPC Component With your Custom Character Selection add ConvaiNPC component. By doing so, your Game objectgame should look like this: {% hint style="info" %} We assume that nothing other than pre-instructed components were added by you; your Game Object component list may be different {% endhint %}

Screenshot showing newly added ConvaiNPC Component

Copy your character's ID and name from [Convai Playground](https://docs.convai.com/api-docs/convai-playground) and paste them here.

Screenshot showing filled-in character information.

Now your Custom Character is all set to work with Convai Plugin.