Creating a customizable prefab

Often, a developer will want to pregenerate a character, and place that pregenerated character into the scene. This is a simple procedure in DCS once you have the basics.

First step is to create a place to store your character definitions. Characters are stored as recipes. For ease of use, we will store these definitions in resources.

• Create a Resources folder if you do not already have one.
• Create a folder inside the resources folder, and give it a name. We'll name ours CharacterRecipes

Next, create and save a character.

• Start up the "UMA DCS Demo - Simple Setup", and design your character:
  • Add wardrobe items
  • Set colors
  • Change DNA
• Select the UMADynamicCharacterAvatar in the scene Hierarchy pane
• Select "UMA/Load And Save/Save DynamicCharacterAvatar(s) Text (optimized)" from the menu, and save your character to the CharacterRecipes folder we created above. I named by character "Dwarf":