Stylized Raccoon Critter Mob

Stylized Raccoon Critter Mob is a game-ready, low-poly raccoon for Unreal Engine 5, built to fill open-world, survival, cozy/farming, fantasy-village, forest and park scenes with living background fauna. Five fur colours — natural, black, blond, red, and rusted — ship as instances of one master material, and spawns pick a colour at random, so a mob reads as a group of individuals rather than a row of clones. The raccoon uses a single material slot, and four LODs step down from 3,654 triangles (2,374 / 1,693 / 1,112 / 679 vertices), keeping large mobs cheap on screen.

The skeletal mesh rides a custom 32-bone skeleton with an IK Rig for UE's IK Retargeter, a 15-body physics asset for ragdoll, and a Control Rig for posing and animating in-engine in the 5.8 build. Nine animation sequences at 30 fps cover idle, three idle variations (sniff, smell, eat), walk, trot, sprint, death, and sprint-to-death, each with root-motion and in-place variants. All five colour variants share one 2K texture set — the normal and packed ORM maps stay put and only the albedo swaps. Everything is Blueprint with no C++ and no plugin dependencies, and the asset supports Unreal Engine 5.3 through 5.8.

CritterAI, the ambient-wildlife system it runs on, covers spawning, roaming, damage, death and respawn for every animal in the level. Raccoons roam the NavMesh with movement-matched walk, trot and sprint, sniff and eat on the move, flee from approaching players, NPCs and predators, scatter naturally as a group, and recover automatically when they lose the navmesh. The AI is tick-free with distance-based dormancy, so off-screen animals cost effectively nothing. It is not raccoon-only: species live in a Data Asset, so any custom critter can plug into the same Blueprints. A demo player is included — left-click fires a sphere trace for 25 damage with a hit burst and flash, so the kill loop is testable in the demo map from the first Play.