Comment on I don't hate Body Type replacing Gender, I hate laziness
zurohki@aussie.zone 2 months ago
My point is that gaming could abandon “A/B” in favor of something more like an actual spectrum of Height, Weight, and Gender Presentation instead of just awkwardly renaming the binary? I wouldn’t get so up in arms about gender replacing body type.
Okay, but an in-depth character creation system that lets you pick and adjust individual features is a lot more work than just manually creating two models and asking the player to pick one. Adding that means something else gets cut.
Putting in half a dozen body types and a boob slider shouldn’t be a ton of work, but devs who only offer two player models to choose from in the first place probably aren’t putting that much thought into character creation.
barsoap@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Body types no but you also need armour and clothing for everything. You quickly get a combinatorial explosion which you can then reign in with shape keys (“sliders”) which make all assets harder to develop.
LilaOrchidee@feddit.org 2 months ago
true, but it might also open up some creative new things like character too skinny/fat for a certain armor etc.
derbis@beehaw.org 2 months ago
That would be a fun can of worms
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
skeleton race
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 months ago
In the context of Runescape this is just a hellish mess, because its ultimately a codebase from the late 90s with graphics created everywhere from the early 00s to the mid 20s. Oh and as an MMORPG anyone who was a player but stops playing is a lost sale so no pressure at all
HawlSera@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Don’t they already have scripts to re-size cosmetics based on height/weight for basically every game with a height/weight option?
barsoap@lemm.ee 2 months ago
You can’t automate generation of shape keys. An artist needs to go over every single asset and make it work for every single extreme point on every slider, then make sure that the automatically derived in between points look good and fix those if required, in all slider combinations.
And it’s probably still going to clip during some animations because going over absolutely everything is just prohibitively expensive.