Can it be done so that the player can customize his/her character to look like themselves, while still using Unity Free? Or is that only possible with Unity Pro?
That functionality is not shipped with Unity free or pro. You would have to model or in some way use 3rd party software to create your character. There may be something on the asset store, but Im not quite sure.
There’s a character customization tutorial in the Asset Store but it says it requires Pro because it uses Asset Bundles.
Does anyone know if the same end can be accomplished without the asset bundles?
Yes, you can do it without asset bundles. You can do all the mesh swapping in unity free. No it’s not super simple, but it is possible.
That plugin Mega-fiers or something says that it should be possible to morph models in Unity. That is code for, it’s probably possible if you code the functionality yourself. But I don’t think there’s any inbuilt functionality for it.
That said, I don’t know if that Mega-fier plugin is possible to use with Unity Free, so don’t take my word for it.
well its either character customization or modeling from a blank model form blender