Thread: Request: 2.0 Character Creation option, Left Handed.

It's not that easy, take Zelda the twilight princess for example. in order to make Link right handed they had to literally mirror the whole game so that Link would be right handed rather then left handed for the wii version. That's just one character model to lol.

Originally Posted by Airget

It's not that easy, take Zelda the twilight princess for example. in order to make Link right handed they had to literally mirror the whole game so that Link would be right handed rather then left handed for the wii version. That's just one character model to lol.

Different system and different engine. Usually the programming platform will make things either easier or more difficult.

Originally Posted by Airget

It's not that easy, take Zelda the twilight princess for example. in order to make Link right handed they had to literally mirror the whole game so that Link would be right handed rather then left handed for the wii version. That's just one character model to lol.

Again, the reason for this is that they couldn't mirror Link and nothing else, because it would have broken almost every animation in the game. For instance, opening a door. Link reaches out, grabs the doorknob, twits, and the door opens. If they were to have simply mirrored him, when he would reach out to open a door, he would have reached for the wrong side, twisted a nonexistent dorrknob, and the door would have swung open the wrong way. The reason they mirrored the whole game was so they wouldn't have to rig an entirely new set of animations. That's why I don't think adjusting for left handed characters would be as easy as everyone seems to think