Drip your avatar P1

Avatars are your passport to the metaverse, however, avatars can serve many other Web 3.0 utilities such as your avatar can follow your mouse or you can even use it as a Snap filter (See below)

Ready player me (RPM) avatars are on the rise, I will explain how you can dress your avatar from RPM utilizing the power of Blender and Sketchfab.

1. Downloaded an avatar from RPM
2. Installed this plugin in Blender, you don’t need this plug-in necessarily however, it is super helpful with getting assets imported directly into Blender.
3. Import your avatar into Blender.

Once you’ve imported your avatar the natural pose won’t be a T-pose which is okay, however, if you wanted to edit the armature into a T-pose this is okay.

The next step is to download an asset from Sketch fab, as I already mention I am using the plugin so all I need to do is add the URL for the item I want and import it

Once I hit the import model button the asset will be pulled into Blender, one thing to mention here is the asset will be at its original size, so repositioning and sizing will be required.

Once you’ve imported you need to remove the current item of clothing and replace it with the new imported asset

In order to attach the item to the movement of the armature, you’re going to need to set up a couple of things.

1. Add an armature modifier to the t-shirt

2. Select the T-shirt, hold shift and select the armature and hit command + p

This step is really important depending on the option you chose under Armature Deform (with envelope/automatic weights) the vertex group will be transferred into the item.

Once you’ve done this all that’s left to do is a test that the item has been matched to the movement of your armature, which you can do so by rotating the arm and seeing the results

In conclusion, this was a very quick way to add clothing onto an armature, my example can do with some tidying up on the fit of the asset itself, but as I used it for illustrative purposes it was fine.