EVE General Discussion

One of my old alts disagrees. True Amarr female.

boop

And so the race wars have begun

40 is old now?

Can confirm Amarrican males get procedures done to look old and hawkish because culturally it's seen as desirable.
Do you even lore, bro?

niiice wife that

Seriously, it's like their clone bays and pods double as UV tanning beds or something- these Amarr are seriously leathery.

They look permanently pissed to boot.

You should do the tutorial with an Amarr character, the voice actor for their FC Tahron is really good (sounds like an old person).

A slider that aged a human face would move at least tens of points, if not hundreds, to look convincing.
I was amazed when the new avatars came out, they seemed like Rich Corben's paintings or photos compared to the 80s style of the old ones.
Still don't like the way avatar's waists are put together. Maybe too many subtle lines and curves there to modify, since you have the core muscles then fat laid over it in different ways.
Vherokior women seem impossible to generate without them being youthful and hotter than the sun.

I think they look great for the most part too. It's easy to tell when something looks wrong but to get it right on purpose is a feat. The waist can look weird, but that tends to happen with overlapping morphs. When you want to morph a section of a model, it's a set of linear shifts applied to vertexes. You know, xyz coordinates, and multiple linear inputs are averaged out to determine a vertex's final position.

morphs can be blended with what are essentially if-then-else combinations, and an extreme age slider would be one of them. So it's possible to combine it all on one character, but there's still the color painted into the folds of the skin (textures) that need to be swapped, and then clipping considerations for the new volume of the shape, and it really does approach the work of a new model.

You can probably smooth wrinkles and lift the flesh of the face with an extended age slider. But you'd have to tighten up so much flesh it's better to make a second set of morphs. (Because if you made a morph involving saggy skin with deep valleys, those xyz shifts won't be valid on a younger face)

Body morphs use the same strategy as facial expressions (and technically it can all be referred to as 'expressions' as well as 'blend shapes'). The face shape and whole-body morphs are essentially expressions that are frozen in place.

The whole-body morphs are pretty good examples of multiple models in one. You're morphing all the vertexes from, say, a heavy set body to those of a skinny body (and both were sculpted as extremes of that range). When you start adding influences like musculature, things can start clashing.

These avatars are very high quality. Every bit industry standard. It makes me sad to think how few players will understand this.