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# What is Popul8 Express?
Automate the tedious, master the creative
What if building 500 characters took less time than building one? With **Popul8 Express**, it can.
**Popul8 Express** is the fastest way to create and dress thousands of 3D characters, fully optimized and ready for your game engine.
You bring one base model, **Popul8 Express** takes care of the rest:
* Automatically generate hundreds of unique characters from a single base model
* Instantly fit clothing, hair, and accessories to any body shape
* Export game-ready assets that match your technical specifications and are compatible with Unity, Unreal, or any 3D pipeline
**No more manual tweaking. No more time lost.**
Just import your template, **Popul8 Express** does the rest.
# What can you do with Popul8 Express?
##  Generate crowds in minutes
Need 100 or 10,000 characters? **Popul8 Express** creates large, diverse populations, consistent in quality, varied in shape, and ready to use.
##  Fit clothing and accessories to any body shape
Whether itโs one new character or a thousand, **Popul8 Express** automatically adapts all your assets, garments, grooms, gear without manual work.
##  Export clean, optimized Game-Ready Assets
Unity, Unreal, whatever you use, **Popul8 Express** delivers engine-ready files that match your topology, rig, and naming conventions.
### Your specifications. Your topology. Your characters. Your assets.
# ๐ ๏ธ How it works
1. **Import your template** - Start with a base character model, your topology, your rig, your style.
2. **Create Shape Variations** - Use **Popul8 Express** [Shape Editor](https://developer.didimo.co/docs/shape-editor#/) or import shapes from external tools to define diverse body types, silhouettes, or identity-based looks.
3. **Upload your assets** - Upload your deformables (garments, hairstyles, accessories), or animations, **Popul8 Express** will make them usable across all character variations.
4. **Generate Crowds (NPC)** - Quickly build groups of NPCs, background characters, or fully styled main characters, all aligned with your template specs.
5. **Export to engine** - Bridge to Unity or Unreal and start working immediately with clean, ready-to-animate assets.
# Why it matters
| Without Popul8 Express | With Popul8 Express |
| :-----------------------------: | :--------------------------------------: |
| Manual fitting for each model | Fit hundreds of assets automatically |
| Repetitive export setup | Clean, engine-ready exports in one click |
| Limited variation in characters | Infinite diversity, consistent quality |
| Time-consuming crowd building | Populations generated in minutes |
# Your characters. Your pipeline. At scale.
* Let your artists focus on creative decisions, not file prep or cleanup.
* Let your tools scale with your ambition.
# Built for speed. Designed for scale.
* **Popul8 Express** gives you scalability without extra work.
* What once took days, now takes minutes.
* Perfect for teams working on games, simulations, cinematics or interactive experiences that require diversity, consistency and speed.
# Ready to get started?
The first step is simple:Import your template character, a 3D model with your desired topology and rig.
# Need help?
* Start with: [Installing Popul8 Express](https://developer.didimo.co/docs/installing-popul8-express#/)
* Or jump right in and [start building](https://developer.didimo.co/docs/popul8-express-walk-through#/) your first crowd.
### Let your tools scale with your ambition, and your production catch up with your vision.