How to Render a Roblox avatar the old-school way
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Keyboard shortcuts used :-
Camera Move/Gliding/Flying = Shift + `
Scale = S
Select/Deselect = A
Move = G
Rotate = R
Render image = F12
The reason I called this old-school is because some people find using rigs very difficult. So, here’s a tutorial on how to do it without a rig.
First off I’ll highly suggest you to install AlreadyPro’s Load Character Plugin.
Link :- Load Character Lite - Roblox
If you don’t already have blender, please download it.
Link :- https://blender.org
Or if you want an older version of blender, here you go.
Index of /release/
I highly suggest using anything from blender 2.8 or above
After you’ve gotten that out of the way.
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Open Roblox Studio
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Go to the plugins tab on the top bar
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Click on Load Character Lite
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You should see a window called Load Character Lite. Type in any username as long as it’s a valid username, check if ‘Spawn at origin’ is checked
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Click the Spawn R6 button
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You should see the user’s avatar in the Workspace.
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Select the Model.
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Right click, Export to selection
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Make a new folder anywhere in your pc as long as you’ll remember it.
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Export the Roblox avatar model into the Folder which you just created
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Close Roblox Studio, Open Blender
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Press A on your keyboard to select all the objects in the viewport
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Press X and click delete.
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Go to File > Import > Wavefront (OBJ)
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Click on the .OBJ file, on the right side of the Import OBJ menu you should see Geometry.
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Open the geometry drop-down menu and enable Split by group
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After you do that hit Import OBJ
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After you import the avatar, you have to change the Render engine to Cycles since I’m more familiar with it and it’s more realistic
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Select all of the parts by pressing A, and right click > set origin > origin to geometry
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You can select each limb and pose it to your liking by pressing S to scale, R to rotate and G to move
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After you finish doing all of that, you can press Shift + A and add a light OR you can add an HDRI.
Here’s a tutorial on HDRIs :- Blender 2.8 How to setup an hdri environment background - YouTube
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I also forgot to mention. You need to go to the shading tab. and delete the Image Texture which connects to Alpha
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After you setup your lighting remember to go to the Render Properties Tab & Under the Film Category. Transparent should be enabled.
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After you setup the lighting. you can press Shift + A and add a camera, press 0 on your num pad and to move around, press Shift + `
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After you finish finding the right angle you want to render your GFX. Press F12, if you have any problems. Please follow this tutorial :- Render Output Settings - Blender 2.80 Fundamentals - YouTube
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I hope this tutorial helped!
Project FIle -
https://drive.google.com/file/d/11-4scL9lwfllduM-F7H0q461M2kzsYbI/view?usp=sharing
HDRI Used -