Importing Custom Characters
Follow these instructions to set up your imported character with Custom Model with Convai.
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Follow these instructions to set up your imported character with Custom Model with Convai.
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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.
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. . This is the bare minimum animator setup that you need to do.
Select your character from the Hierarchy and Add 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
With your custom character selected, add a Collision shape of your choice, for this demo we are going with a Capsule Collider
We will make this Collider a trigger, for this we will enable the Is Trigger option in the inspector panel
We will adjust the Center, Radius and Height of the collider such that it fits our character
With your Custom Character Selection add ConvaiNPC component. By doing so, your Game objectgame should look like this:
Now your Custom Character is all set to work with Convai Plugin.
Copy your character's ID and name from and paste them here.
