Game Development
Character Studio
Discipline
Game Development
A working prototype of the character-customisation feature for a High Fashion game: body-shape sliders with a real-time soft-body response, running in a mobile browser.
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The brief
What it is and how it was built.
Character Studio is a test build of one feature in a High Fashion game: the step where players shape the body before choosing clothes. It runs on a phone from a link, so the team can pick it up and judge how the feature feels before spending time putting it into an engine.
The two characters are fictional models created with AI. The raw versions had about 800,000 triangles, far too heavy for a phone. The Golden Sea team cut them to 160,000 while keeping full detail on the chest, added a skeleton in Blender, and repainted the texture where skin colour had bled into the hair or hair colour onto the skin.
The main piece is the soft body, which the team wrote for this build. The chest and hips are separated out and reshaped every frame: move a slider and they grow or shrink, move the character and they bounce, touch them and they dent and then fill back out. One softness slider controls all of it, from firm to very soft. Hair lying over a region moves with it, so a larger body never pokes through the strands.
Before every release, an automated test opens the build on a phone-sized screen and taps, drags and moves every slider.
Scope delivered
What we delivered.
- 01Chest and hip sliders, and the body responds softly in real time
- 02Touch the body: it dents, squashes and springs back
- 03One softness slider, from firm to very soft
- 04Preset camera angles plus orbit, zoom and pan, laid out for phones
- 05Two characters at 160k triangles, about 7 MB each
- 0660 fps on a mid-range phone
Category
Game Development
Technology
Three.js (WebGL) · JavaScript · AI-sculpted character models · Blender (rigging, texture clean-up) · meshoptimizer · Custom soft-body solver
Studio
Golden Sea Studios
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
This project proves
Game DevelopmentA character-customisation prototype for a High Fashion game: an in-house real-time soft-body system that runs in a mobile browser.
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Character Studio is an 18+ prototype by Golden Sea Studios. The characters are fictional models sculpted with AI; every feature was developed by the Golden Sea team. It exists only to show a character-customisation feature for a High Fashion game.
