Life by You

Life by You was a sandbox life-sim game with a focus on moddability and creating your own story. Unfortunately it was cancelled. I joined about half-way through production so the base models and clothing had been created already so the focus of my effort was to create all the missing textures for metal, roughness, AO and tint maps as well as to convert all clothing and items to work with both male and female figures. I also made new heads and created most of the facial options for face detail, age variants, cosmetics, etc. I also went through all hairstyles to make them more consistent and added some new ones. Overall, there was a tremendous amount of customization content to manage for our very small art team. I was also involved with the mod tool development, documentation and testing since modding was a central component of our game and everything in the game was moddable. I was really looking forward to what players came up with!

For clothing customization, there were quite a few layers and they all had to work together and support all the body updates. For layers, there was the base skin, hair, makeup, tattoos, skin details etc. Then there was an underwear and socks layer. After that shoes, gloves, jewelry and accessories, hats, glasses, tops, bottoms and full body items. Over that you could wear outerwear including coats, sweatshirts, bathrobes, aprons and so on. Some challenges were mixing and matching long sleeve tops with vests, short sleeve or half sleeve outerwear and long sleeve coats, jackets and sweatshirts.