Actor Creation

This section covers the RPG Power Forge feature : Actor Creation !

Summary

• Feature definition
• Feature location
  • From the Tool Bar
• Feature details
  • Overview
  • Create a new Actor
  • Discover Actor Behaviors
  • Edit an existing Actor

Feature definition

Feature location

From the Tool Bar

Feature details

Overview

The Action Creation feature window is splitted in 2 panels :

• left panel : small explorer to navigate between Actors types.
• right panel : all of the available Actors for the current selected type.

Create a new Actor

Let's say we want to creat a new playable character. Select Top Down > Playables > Hero Joystick :

A second window (embedded Asset Picker) will ask you to choose an Animation Collection for your Actor. This step is used to automatically assign animations to your Actor.

Here we can use the Hero Animation Collection which contains Idle, Walk and Run animations. Select the Hero Animation Collection :

Discover Actor Behaviors

Congratulations ! Your new Actor is now ready to be used. This particular one only have a Move behavior, but hey, it's something !

The previously selected Animation Collection has been automatically assign to the Idle, Walk and Run animation slots of the Move Behavior :

Edit an existing Actor

You can find all of your Actors in the Asset Picker, in the Actor tab :

If necesary, you can always edit Behaviors of any Actor directly from the Asset Picker. Just hover it and select the Edit icon to open the Unity Prefab view :

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