Adding to the conversation above so there is no confusion:
Yes, this has been solved. It adds to the Asobo Character set. It does not replace.
Any aircraft that already displays an Asobo Character will work exactly the same. I personally haven’t generated a list of aircraft that don’t use Asobo Characters, but the Ant’s Tiger Moth does come to mind as I think I remember that using a custom pilot only. Almost all aircraft in the sim use Asobo’s Character System. Some aircraft like Flying Iron’s F6F have multiple pilot selections like their WW2 Pilot or Asobo’s Pilot. You would need to turn OFF their WW2 Pilot on the EFB in order to see a Valor Pilot since it is “technically” an Asobo Pilot.
Our goal is to standardize the Asobo Character System so that developers start using the tools provided in the SDK. By giving the focus of Character Design to Got Friends or by creating Avatars themselves in a proper manner, they can focus more on aircraft design and less on including a quickly done pilot in their projects that only work with their aircraft. We hope that the release of Avitars is greatly appreciated by the growing development community. This saves everyone time, allows them to explore IK Chains properly and gives them the ability to focus more on “their” project instead of pilot models if they so desire. As of usual with Got Friends, if any developer needs help in this area, they can download our freeware Avitars and dig through the coding and setup needed in order to build their own. We always leave our projects unencrypted so that they can be torn apart and inspected. Same goes with our aircraft! Some of our freeware like the Lake Skipper and even our April Fools '23 Aircraft utilize IK Chain animations that any aircraft developer can inspect to see how they are utilized. They can import that 3D Model and learn from those examples for free as well. This is how we improve the sim together and highly encourage developers to see how we’ve done something in order to save them time.
Cheers!