The Ovum

The ovum is second asset in microbiology series and also part of soft body series. Asset is modular and content/feature rich.

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Description

The ovum is modular and content/feature rich, fully physical, TPS or FPS controllable “soft body” character, monster, minion or a parasite for UE4 and UE5.

Assets designed for wide range of possibilites like medical or biology themed projects and also can be used with sperm cell asset.

as part of Soft Body serie assets, this asset also physically dynamic and can be used as FPS or TPS characters; can mount other characters and control them (parasiting). In other side, Soft body assets also have real time dynamics to mimic liquid-jelly like overall look. On top of all, a last beauty touch comes with gorgeous looking advanced material and bonus materials.

Assets Preview

Advanced material’s preview soft body asset series shared material. same material for all assets in this serie

Playable DEMO

Soft Bodies and Blobs Comparison: Blobs vs Soft Body series Comparison chart

important to know: 

– All previews are rendered in unreal engine 5.3 and taken screenshot on 4.26

– Physics are different in UE5 because of physics engine change. PhysX and Chaos Physics Systems  physics also changed in 5.1 and every newer version is getting own bug fixes or changes.

– Translucent materials (water-glass) needs ray tracing for better results with refractions. About refraction. (standart slime material is NOT uses transparency.)

Technical Details

Rigged: Yes

Rigged to Epic skeleton: No

Number of Bones: 28 (including Root)

Number of physical assets: 2 PA for UE4.26, 5.0 and 5.1+ (6 physical assets in total. and also there is 2 bonus PA)

Animated: Yes

Number of Animations: 48

Animation type: In-place

Number of characters: 2

Number of Morph targets: 11 (6 for ovum, 5 for shell)

Vertex counts of characters: 9279 for ovum, 5520 for shell

Number of Materials: 2 advanced material + 2 materials

Number of Textures: 3 PNG per skin and 1 protein mask for shell material. 19 in total. (rgba packed)

Number of Skins: 7 (3 for ovum 4 for shell

Texture Resolutions: 4096×4096

Tested on: Windows 11 with UE4.26, 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, and 5,3

Supported Engine Versions

4.26 – 4.27, 5.0 – 5.3