Character Creation Options!

[Lamhirh]

only disadentage of sliders is i can spend few hours finetunig them <_<

[Abriael]

only disadentage of sliders is i can spend few hours finetunig them <_<

Nope. Only disadvantage of sliders is that it's extremely easy to get extremely ugly/unnatural results and extremely hard to get actually good looking chars.

And that's a big one.

[Kroma]

When we are able to alter our character's appearance, will that include race/gender, name, guardian, and/or birth date?

[Soukyuu]

Also, sliders seems like a bad idea to me... I've seen a few games where they let you use sliders when making your character and it usually ends up making the gear look horrible.

Only disadvantage of sliders is that it's extremely easy to get extremely ugly/unnatural results and extremely hard to get actually good looking chars.

And that's a big one.

I don't see a problem. There is a wide range for a slider system, just limit it so that the chars don't look ugly and add enough presets for the lazy people. And let me have the freedom of designing my own char.

edit:

Cool, nice to know its on the radar.

My only concern with sliders is : will they cause problems in cutscenes and can they be developed with a reasonable amount of work? ( This depends largely if they developed facial sliders for internal development purposes, otherwise they're gonna have to do a whole deal .)

They shouldn't cause any problems, it's just a transformation (scaling) matrix multiplied with the base model (simplified example), it doesn't even take much processing power. And since they are already using character models in cutscenes and don't care much about collision detection anyway (miqo'te tails sometimes piercing through armor etc), it won't get any worse visually.

[Enthy]

I don't see a problem. There is a wide range for a slider system, just limit it so that the chars don't look ugly and add enough presets for the lazy people. And let me have the freedom of designing my own char.

Give SE a break... making sliders will make it take even longer for them to finish designing gear.

[Soukyuu]

Give SE a break... making sliders will make it take even longer for them to finish designing gear.

Tell me how a slider will take them longer than making presets. Answer: it won't. It's simply another way of representing presets just that you will create a slider with min-max parameter and fluent transition in between instead of multiple presets with set amount of difference between presets.

Not to mention the slider system is already in the game (options dialog, transparency etc) so it's not like they have to invent something completely new to do this.

[Enthy]

Tell me how a slider will take them longer than making presets. Answer: it won't. It's simply another way of representing presets just that you will create a slider with min-max parameter and fluent transition in between instead of multiple presets with set amount of difference between presets.

Not to mention the slider system is already in the game (options dialog, transparency etc) so it's not like they have to invent something completely new to do this.

ok. still don't like slider idea though.

[Nephera]

Tell me how a slider will take them longer than making presets. Answer: it won't. It's simply another way of representing presets just that you will create a slider with min-max parameter and fluent transition in between instead of multiple presets with set amount of difference between presets.

Not to mention the slider system is already in the game (options dialog, transparency etc) so it's not like they have to invent something completely new to do this.

um... making sliders for two completely different functions does not work that way.

[Soukyuu]

um... making sliders for two completely different functions does not work that way.

I don't see why not. For example, if you make 2 body presets, you set the scaling parameter of the model to say, 50 and 100 in another preset. Now you can switch between 2 values. If you make a slider that scales the same parameter from 50 to 100, you will have 50 different presets created on the fly.