Neverness to Everness Character Setup

1. Opening the Setup Wizard

1. Press N in the 3D Viewport to open the sidebar.
2. Navigate to the Character Setup Wizard tab.
3. In the Game drop-down menu, select Neverness to Everness.

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2. Importing Your Character

You can set up your model in one click using Run Entire Setup or step-by-step via Basic Setup.

1. Click Run Entire Setup (or Set Up Character under Basic Setup).
2. A file browser window will appear. Navigate to your character folder containing the .fbx model and textures.
3. Click Select NTE Character.

Note

The import process may take a long time to complete.

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3. Automated Basic Setup Pipeline

When running the setup, the add-on executes the following automated steps for Neverness to Everness:

• Set Up Character: Imports the .fbx mesh, cleans vertex groups, and standardizes bone hierarchies.
• Set Up Materials: Replaces default Blender materials with custom NTE Toon Shader nodes, binding diffuse, lightmap, and color ramp textures.
• Set Up Outlines: Applies geometry-node inverted-hull outline modifiers to all character meshes for crisp line art rendering.
• Fix Transformations: Resets location, rotation, and scale transformations while linking facial drivers to light vectors.
• Rig Character: Configures control shapes and facial bone drivers.
• Finish Setup: Switches Color Management to Standard to preserve raw texture color accuracy.

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4. Viewport Shading & Compositor Settings

To display NTE toon shaders and real-time head shadow compositing in the viewport:

1. Enter the Compositing workspace from the top menu bar in Blender.

2. Move the Alpha node to disconnect it from Group Output and Viewer, and connect the Mix node output directly into Group Output and Viewer.

3. Return to the Layout workspace in the top bar, open the Viewport Shading menu, and set Compositor to Always (or Camera).