Wuthering Waves 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 Wuthering Waves.

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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 Old Setup.

1. (Optional) Under Setup Settings, enable Hair & Clothes Physics to add dynamic physics to the hair and clothing. Enable Disable Rigging to skip rig generation and import materials + outlines only.
2. Click Run Entire Setup (or Set Up Character under Old Setup).
3. A file browser window will appear. Navigate to your character folder containing the .uemodel (UEFormat) or .fbx model and textures.
4. Click Select Character Folder.

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3. Automated Setup Pipeline

When running the setup, the add-on executes the following automated steps for Wuthering Waves:

• Set Up Character: Imports the model mesh, cleans vertex groups, and standardizes bone hierarchies.
• Set Up Materials: Replaces default Blender materials with custom Gustling Waters Toon Shader nodes, automatically connecting diffuse, normal, lightmaps, and alpha transparency maps.
• Set Up Outlines: Applies geometry-node inverted-hull outline modifiers to all character meshes for crisp line art rendering.
• Rig Character: Configures the Rigify armature, hair & clothes physics, and generates the 3D facial control board.
• Finish Setup: Configures the head driver, screen-space reflections, shadow capture, compositing nodes, and switches Color Management to Standard to preserve raw texture accuracy.

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4. Viewport Shading & Compositor Settings

To view Gustling Waters shaders and real-time head shadow compositing in the viewport:

1. Open the Viewport Shading menu (top right of the 3D Viewport).
2. Under Lighting, enable Scene Lights and Scene World.
3. Under Compositor, set the dropdown mode to Always (or Camera).