EVE General Discussion

Seriously.

If there is a single feature that puts EVE ahead of everything else in the videogame industry, it's the character creator.

Just look at what 20 minutes and some experimentation can achieve:

Before and after

Same character, same pose, only changed make up, hairdo and put a coat on her. And yet she looks a different person, expressing a different emotion.

i just love this stuff. I wish it to be developed further, more options, more power, to achieve greater goals. I am not an artist in no way (neither education nor hobby nor talent), and yet being able to create this sort of stuff just makes me feel proud in a personal, amateur way.

I just wish the avatars were somehing else than portraits...

Have you seen the Oakley website animated "Character" modelling the sunglasses? The Eve character creator has nothing on that lol. It is so realistic it is scary.

http://uk.oakley.com/products/6099/21820 and click "MALE" at the bottom.

Video games use the same tools as artists. Wacom's, modellers etc. Video game, movie, arnimation etc,, all the same big cost tools.

Not at all.

Something like that video would have the render time on a normal desktop into the 10's of hours - there's no chance of getting 60fps on that.

Next you'll tell me FMV sequences from Tekken 2 were in-game footage

There's a reason advertisers were slapped with the requirement to show whether something is "ingame" or not; because when render time per frame isn't an issue you can do a lot more.

That's primitive pre-made 3D animation which could be done by mid-school enthusiast - not real-time high-quality 3D render like it's done in EVE.

EVE characters are really good compared to Skyrim, MassEffect3 for example. It's shame they are locked in jail cells and Incarna development frozen after failed stillborn NeX idea "pay while you pay".

Yay, that's the point. When i first saw Skyrim's character creator, i felt like my eyes were about to bleed. CCP has really gone over the top with the creator, an yet is unused and almost abandoned -May 29th devblog pending.

I like the dark look. But with long hair

I agree. I have two male characters already and wanted to have a female to avoid too much of a look-a-like with my other Caldari. I sat for 1h*2 trying to make my female character both relatively sexy, yet not disgustingly pornographic. I think I made it. I now have a futuristic female Caldari whom both looks good - and looks bad. It's not easy creating a soldier look of a woman and make her look good (I tried out a more realistic approach to what an ugly military general of a woman would look), but I made it.

I'm really excited about the future of CARBON; I have yet to see its equal.

In a game where you do no game play using character avatars I feel it was a great use of limited resources and time to make such a superb character generator. I mean who wants new missions, ships, game play, bug fixes and better balance between existing ships when you can have such a great character generator.

Well, the second part of the OP is about how awful it is that the avatars aren't being used. As much praise as deserve for doing them, it's a shame they're not puting them to use, and how the plans to use them are fuzzy to say the least.

Sooner or later EVE will have to begin to offer new stuff as the ongoing cannibalization of features from hisec to feed them to the nullsec whiners can only take CCP so far before killing 75% of their income.