Player Features and Ideas Discussion

+1, and a few more hairstyles in the near future would be cool too

My apologies for not knowing about this thread.

This seems like a switch is missing at the portrait server.. not that the technology isn't there. I wonder what is the reason for not rendering physically simulated hair (or just honoring the switch in the game client).



Supported.

Okay, Vin Diesel. Btw, the Riddick set is over there. (Points to the door). Don't forget to bring that one wicked looking knife of your so you can keep that bald head of yours smoother than a baby's rump, you strange, hyper light sensitive, weirdo!

In all seriousness, can't really disagree with a request to make Eve look even more beautiful...it's inhabitants included. +1

I think the real reason for not applying physics simulation on portraits is to ensure a uniform look. With the "pre-rendered" states you at least know what you get whereas the portrait server might get a crazy hiccup while rendering physics and you end up with a braided beard and moustache and hairstrands poking through your eyes. I don't think the server strain regarding the simulation would be a problem anymore, certainly would have been during incarna release when everyone was redoing their characters. But that was years ago...

But seriously though whats up with the pre-determined colors, this would be, one would think, the simplest ways of adding extraordinary amount of flavor to the character creator - to have freely pickable colour roulette for hair, eye, makeup colours. Why can't I have neon green hair? Or navy blue? Or whatever. And it would be awesome if we could choose several scars instead of just one. Or several different piercing instead of preset ones. When it was released I thought the character creation revolutionary in sculpting options but today it seems very restricted and limited for no apparent reason. Like in Fallout 4 I could choose several scars if I so wanted, not just one going across my face but one through my lips and one more on my cheek.

That makes no sense whatsoever ...
And I sincerely doubt they run the hair simulation on the CPU.

We'd notice that locally.

How does it not make sense? It ensures a certain look. I'm not privy to the details but the portrait service does render the picture somehow separately, that's why it takes so long to change your portrait, and I remember it having rendering problems previously - mainly by missing stuff like hair, clothes or eh, entire face.

dang, it doesn't show up here, but does in game. I was going to ask for a slow motion transition between saved poses so that you can get a better hair fling effect. it takes some doing, but if you have one extreme pose, and transition to another final pose, you can fling longer hair for a slightly more windblown look.

I'd really like pose-able hair as well, because a full blown little mermaid fling would be my thing, or ass-length hair in a swimming pool look, cause dammit, we're in space and null grav is sexy. Just cause internet spaceships are serious business doesn't mean we want to look all business.

More haircolors and styles, and take the damn character portrait creator out of the game for just the pictures. have cookie cutter stuff for WICQ( walking in captains quarters) but for pictures it should be incredibly customizable.

I would add more stuff but it would make it seem like i'm not serious, and I am. Also the limited selection of makeup styles and colors is kind of disapointing.

As with the original UI,I really liked the RGB sliders. It really allowed players to create a look that they felt comfortable looking at all the time. Though we do have some good UI and character presets, being able to choose your own colours would be great.

+1 to the original post. And seeing as we are loosing the captain quarters with the new citadels, character portraits will be the only way of engaging and connecting with the characters we control.

I know there are die-hard vets that couldn't careless about the character portraits or cq, but they are not the only ones that play the game. I always thought it would be cool to have animated portraits that follow the animations in the cq/creator. Or, I can just picture my portrait snarling when someone starts to shoot at me, and laughing when they go pop :D

whoops, must have slipped and ended up here