New character creator

[Andrien]

there is some really nice grass texture there.

[Zantetsuken]

I wonder if the new water shader will be ready for the Alpha....

[Gokulo]

I wonder if the new water shader will be ready for the Alpha....

They might not even bother adding it to the alpha version.

[Starlord]

there is some really nice grass texture there.

You had to mention grass... XD

[Niqote]

snip snip

Guess I should have explained that I was referring to the edges of his body, clothing and hair... course since the skin texture is not pixelated I thought it would have been obvious ^^;;;;

[Shougun]

You had to mention grass... XD

Could be higher resolution, i see the pixels.

[ZakarnRosewood]

Lookin great! Can't wait till we get the Chr creator for ARR. I seem to remember it was said that we would get a creator as well as a benchmark tester Pre ARR release and any Chr we make can be used in ARR when it goes live. If I remember correctly this was how they were giving us the client.

I wonder if they will have the ability to save template Chr's like we do now or if that feature will be removed.

Either way it is looking much better than the trailer people complained so much about. I couldn't believe there was so much controversy over it knowing it wasn't even close to a finished project they were looking at. As with any developing project things improve as they are built. You don't start with everything looking polished and perfect, has anyone seen the deleted scenes that were only half done in a Pixar or Dreamworks animated film?

Even now it's still not finished. It is not beyond the realm of comprehension for them to add more features to the chr creation, increase the bust size, more facial options, etc.

[Hulan]

Notice the little white dots on Vaan's nose and cheeks? Those little highlights (though faked via textures) helped to give some life and dimension to the character's skin.

It's clearly in there. The left collarbone displays a little specular highlighting, unless that's her bone sticking out of her skin. That being said, as a personal preference, I have always felt most games use too strong of a hand with specular lighting, especially with human skin. It's a poor-man's subsurface scattering (well okay, some specular highlighting exists naturally as well) and now that we're seeing real-time techniques for subsurface scattering, I hope people will start backing off of using specular highlights for skin.

[Shougun]

Lookin great! Can't wait till we get the Chr creator for ARR. I seem to remember it was said that we would get a creator as well as a benchmark tester Pre ARR release and any Chr we make can be used in ARR when it goes live. If I remember correctly this was how they were giving us the client.

I wonder if they will have the ability to save template Chr's like we do now or if that feature will be removed.

Either way it is looking much better than the trailer people complained so much about. I couldn't believe there was so much controversy over it knowing it wasn't even close to a finished project they were looking at. As with any developing project things improve as they are built. You don't start with everything looking polished and perfect, has anyone seen the deleted scenes that were only half done in a Pixar or Dreamworks animated film?

Even now it's still not finished. It is not beyond the realm of comprehension for them to add more features to the chr creation, increase the bust size, more facial options, etc.

We will be able to save the characters created so we can share them / use them in ARR.

I'm pretty sure they said it would be a string - not a file, so copy ah paste ah

[bobbygunz]

Wha- they're the same goddamn textures we have now. Just without the awful lighting.

I don't know why I still take you seriously. Oh wait, I don't.

they do actually look very different. It was just an observation, by the way. Im not trying to make anyone cry again. Everything just looks more three-dimensional in the current version. Maybe that's what yoshi meant when he said they were embarrassed about the interiors of buildings in ARR which is why they never released any images so far, and the lighting wasn't finished, however, lighting can only do so much.

Anyways, it was just an observation. Deny if you must.