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# Customising Player Avatar

This section covers step-by-step instructions on how to assign a custom skeleton to a player. To get started all that is required is a skeletal mesh and its skeleton. To provide a practical example this [asset](https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/modular-rpg-heroes-polyart) from the marketplace will be used, the asset comes with a skeleton which resembles Epic’s skeleton but has a few differences.