Pretty much what the title says… (I’m talking about customizing Clothes, Body, Species, etc.)
Anyways, the reason I created this topic is so we can talk about how there’s basically no Advanced/Basic Character Customization Tutorials. If there is, the chances are it’s probably outdated. I’ve been looking all over to find them, but it’s just not showing.
The way I see it, it is a fairly advanced concept, and by the time you need it, you know how to do it in several ways.
I mean. Basic customization means attaching stuff to skeleton and changing its color.
Advanced means joining multiple meshes together.
Then there’s uma.
Aside from maybe uma (which is supposed to have several videos, somewhere), I don’t see any “tutorial” material here → it is something that can be explained in one sentence, and if you have sufficient skill, you’ll be able to implement it.
Unity doesn’t provide such a feature out of the box, and since the 3rd party assets that support it (notably, UMA and MCS) do it in their own respective manner, it’s not easy to write such documents that cover each of them.
So, for now, I guess it’d be best to choose one of those 3rd party assets and read its documentation to learn how to use the asset, or even to implement similar features yourself.
If it’s so niche that there isn’t even a tutorial for it then it’s not really on the top of the “to implement” feature list.
On another note: hello cat people!
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Actually there was an asset-bundle-based example on asset store, developed by unity.
https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/8
I haven’t actually looked through it, but as far as I can tell, it is mostly object reparenting. One of the first projects I did in unity was an attempt to make a character customization system, but that was before I discovered that UMA existed.
:lol:
It is funny, if you think about it. There are several “cat people” developers, several “dog people” on unity support, and then we have a hippopotamus and a gorilla on moderation team.
I wonder if there’s a pattern.
:lol:
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Cats and dogs developing together…mass hysteria!
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You normally don’t build characters in Unity. Look to blender/maya/3D max. I’d eat a cat if there wasn’t a decent character building and customisation tutorial there.
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A hippo a gorilla - and Eric! 
Regarding the topic - it is a feature that can be done a dozen different ways depending upon the platform, the type of game, the type of customization. No one size fits all - and that is a good thing.
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Break apart what we’re really talking about when customizing characters, and it’s just a series of things you already know, put together.
Changing materials, replacing objects, modifying proportions … all these subjects individually are easy to learn about and solve.
Then it’s up to you how much customization or what sort.
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it’s too specific need 
and a lot of it, is not even code wise challenging, but more about how to set up materials and meshes correctly (and it’s quite fiddly and tedious work)
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Have you looked at this? I did my own character system based on it.
Edit:
Also this.
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You know, many of us who are not fortunate enough to own a rich human slave have been working hard to earn our tuna cans :
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Neither there are tutorials for advanced AI too!
Character customisation can be done in so many ways that we could get a dozen tutorials, and people would still not be satisfied.
2D or 3D? If 2D - skeletal animation with separate components, or layered components with all different animation states on each, or simple colour substitution? If 3D - mere colour changes and fixed models, or replace parts, or layered parts, or if the “character” is a vehicle - add parts, or deformable UMA-style, or a mix of all of the above?
If there were to be any official tutorials I’d vote for a simple one on body part replacement and weapon/tool attachment to hands, plus perhaps an intermediate tutorial on making shaders/substances for visual customisation on the fly. But as mentioned earlier in this thread, those are things you probably know by the time you need them
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