Im trying to make my friend into a character, but im new to unity and dont know how to go about it? Any ideas?

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I Want to make my friend in Unity from a high quality photograph i have of him, but im really new and do not know at all how to go about this… Thanks in Advance :slight_smile: Hayden

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OK, well there are a couple of easy ways, and the sense of making a actual humanoid model you will use a modeling program outside of Unity, as its not designed like that,

The two quick and easy ways is as follows and both use a photo:

  1. Take the image and save in Unity Assets under a folder you can name Pics, Friend Pics, whatever.
  2. Click on the pic and choose the option in the Inspector and set it to a 2D sprite if it has a transparent background.
  3. Create a Panel to hold the sprite or use a Cube (or combine them where the Panel holding the sprite is a child of the cube as the Head) that will serve as the head and drag the pic to that object,
  4. Attach it to the main character object/Model such as with a First Person Controller prefab.

The second way is half easier and a bit more difficult.

  1. The easy part is just take the pic as is, and apply it with its material to the cube or Panel or whatever 3D object you choose to stick it too, that will hold the image.
  2. Attach it (The Head) to something like this, making a playable character as this tutorial shows how to do as a playable character.
If you ever have a falling out with them, you an always attach the face to enemy targets you want to shoot at later so you don't get arrested in real life, or place them on something you are shooting where their face is part of the fired object. :D

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Here I take a Cube, and I attach a Quad to each of the four sides. I then more or less animate it by rotating it 360 decrees. No scripting needed for that. When I start game play it rotates automatically. Im only using Smiley faces here as an example.