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

Actually my verbose explanation isn't actually that long of a method. It's just a single step. and that's just X coordinate mirroring. That is if a line splits you in half that is perpendicular to both the direction you are facing and the ground you stand. Your left hand would be your right hand and you right would be you left, continuing to everything. This effect also flips the orientation of these flipped part so after all the flipping only the distinct markers will have moved "visually." The marks could be birthmarks, scars, you dominate hand, etc. Basically It's the same effect you would get by looking at yourself in a single flat mirror.

Short version: single step done just before storing model to memory for use.

Originally Posted by Wilksha

Actually my verbose explanation isn't actually that long of a method. It's just a single step. and that's just X coordinate mirroring. That is if a line splits you in half that is perpendicular to both the direction you are facing and the ground you stand. Your left hand would be your right hand and you right would be you left, continuing to everything. This effect also flips the orientation of these flipped part so after all the flipping only the distinct markers will have moved "visually." The marks could be birthmarks, scars, you dominate hand, etc. Basically It's the same effect you would get by looking at yourself in a single flat mirror.

Short version: single step done just before storing model to memory for use.

Lol I meant to put a comma there

bla bla bla bla this thing needs to be here ---->, <--- as you said. lol

I'm all for it, I shoot left handed at the range IRL, you can imagine my hatred for COD games for making me a black sheep.

Oh sorry, I somehow read your first line without the the negative not on would. My apologies. I usually read everything twice before posting to make sure I didn't miss read but this time I overlooks such a crucial -1. /facepalm

Originally Posted by Wilksha

Having a little experience in the field of modeling, and using code to render that model to the screen. I see that those that are complaining about having to remake all the skins. This is simply not true if you mirror a model correctly. Hell you don't even need new assets, you can use code to flip the model into the mirrored world. A model is simply a bunch of points in 3D space with a texture map attached. To mirror the model across the horizontal plan you simple multiply by -1 therefore flipping it, as well as any textures placed on the model. the same applies to the animations. And for those skeptical about this, a model is always "placed" into existence moved to the point needed to be in, then rotated to face the desired Direction. This left handed argument about modeling issues seem mute to me.
For the argument of interactions between NPC, well, in 1.x I rarely even saw direct contact so the animations would matter too much.
I support this idea not only for the information I just gave, but also that I AM LEFTY! ~~sorry for the silly meme~~
Power to the lefties! I really hope Se can implement this without too much trouble.

Any contact in the cutscenes don't bother me as much. I can deal with either hand when interacting with others. As long as I'm standing there with sword drawn in my left hand I'm good.

And as for the mirroring goes...(memories of Twilight Princess mirrored completely just to have Link right handed in the Wii version)....well. To be honest I'd prefer dedicated animation for lefties. I'm studying Computer Animation (weeks from graduation! Yessss!) and if I've learned anything from my directors (All with dreamworks / Disney backgrounds) It'd be better to have separate animations. But with time limitations...mirroring is an option. Though they DO have until what..July? I know they have a ton of work to do until then. But I feel this would be very easy to implement in that amount of time.

I'm a lefty, and while it would be neat, I doubt we'd see it in this game. It isn't that it is hard (which has been discussed already), but moreso that it'd be a major change to the animation system, which is a beast of a system for any game these days. If it were planned from the beginning and was built into it as the system was developed, it wouldn't be an unreasonable request, but at this stage of development, you wouldn't want to make those sorts of changes to such a complex system.

Originally Posted by Rex

And as for the mirroring goes...(memories of Twilight Princess mirrored completely just to have Link right handed in the Wii version)....well. To be honest I'd prefer dedicated animation for lefties. I'm studying Computer Animation (weeks from graduation! Yessss!) and if I've learned anything from my directors (All with dreamworks / Disney backgrounds) It'd be better to have separate animations. But with time limitations...mirroring is an option. Though they DO have until what..July? I know they have a ton of work to do until then. But I feel this would be very easy to implement in that amount of time.

The problem with unique animations is that they then need to be loaded into memory. I hate to pull the PS3 limitations card, but given everything else they are trying to fit into a small budget as it is, having to deal with so many variant possibilities at once would take up precious space that could be much better spent.

Originally Posted by Alderton

I'm a lefty, and while it would be neat, I doubt we'd see it in this game. It isn't that it is hard (which has been discussed already), but moreso that it'd be a major change to the animation system, which is a beast of a system for any game these days. If it were planned from the beginning and was built into it as the system was developed, it wouldn't be an unreasonable request, but at this stage of development, you wouldn't want to make those sorts of changes to such a complex system.

I thought the same. ...But, unfortunately I can't say what I was about to say due to the Alpha rules...