Blast, that was last weeks gag?
Looking forward to my new NM head
Stig
Blast, that was last weeks gag?
Looking forward to my new NM head
Stig
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Ok - to Means: I have a brilliant suggestion.
Since at least half the heads have only slightly different skins and hairstyles, why not go with a traditional MMO style face and hair chooser, maybe along with some decals, etc.
It would save loads of work to do it that way, (if you don't take into account the amount of time it'll take to implement it lol...)
That or the more current nearly 100% customizable char creation method comes up in pretty much every FWM where they talk of the new heads. Means has said before that it's not happening. Likely the thing is that it's not as easily done as the people suggesting it think. Now when a char is shown in game the thing that specifies the head would just be a related ID number. If it is X this head is shown, if it's Y that one is and so on. With customizable options there'd be a whole collection of new variables to deal with, the client, server and databases would all need to be changed to deal with that.
Another thing about the supposed Asian look of some of the new very early head models shown is that this game is set thousands of years off in the future. In just a couple hundred years or so marriages between people with different ethnic features would surely result in many to most people in largely populated areas with features from a mix of origins. By the time we get to the point AO is set in everyone will have some degree of eyes, ears, noses and so forth from various ethnic origins, the only difference would be the degree for each.
Let's hope we see MstrBstrd's hot opifex head in there with the crazy pink mohawk.
honestly, i think everyone is suffering from a placebo effect.
the chinese have been doing this kind of stuff for decades (if not longer). not always on computers in a rendering fashion, but things like cartoons, etc. have been drawn there, for "western" markets. they know how to draw damn near anything.
I feared that a lot looking at the heads ! Please do not allow this.
I am really disappointed with the atrox one. This atrox is def asian.
One thing that I found weird : big lips on opifex ? Well it could be ok, but I never thought opis had big lips.
To me, the best one is the nanomage male 1. It looks pretty much like the old head actually
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Heh, it's not about that, and it's Koreans that are known as the outsources for American and English animation; not that the Chinese don't do their fair share.
From my experience, and this is more from a concept art (painting/draftsman) than 3d rendering p.o.v., asian art is much more asian styled (including characters). I think the same thing goes for any culture, really, as kind of a "yeah, duh" moment.
Anyway, I'm still happy about progress. :P
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Seriously mate.... how many women do you actually think are pretty when bald, have no eyes, contours that outline the lips, no nostrils and pigment?
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tbh people need to realise and accept some truths.
If you want a new engine, without any model or texture changes, the game isnt going to look much different, will just perform better and have nicer environment.
if you want a new engine and updated everything else, you going to have to accept some changes are going to take place.
when the new engine comes out (if ever) expect the game to feel slightly alien for a while. it wont take long tho for it to feel the same (when EvE re did all there ships at first i hated it, now it just looks normal to me).
anyhow, heads look decent i am looking forward to the progres tbh. really wish FC would ditch the secret world and put more resource on AO :P
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I agree to some extent, but I must remind that many original breed models weren't that much different to each other either. Yes there were some that had a very original look, but not all. For instance there were lots of slim sapiens.. ehm solitus looking opifexes who only had a grey skin. And we have seen very little at this point i believe We haven't seen the new bodies yet either!
If noone had mentioned the heads were being made in china, none of you would now be whining about them being asian looking. People are seriously groping around for things to critisize in the wrong areas. New batch of heads look great and really represent the old ones in an updated version.
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