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
Comment on I don't hate Body Type replacing Gender, I hate laziness
barsoap@lemm.ee 4 weeks agoPutting in half a dozen body types and a boob slider shouldn’t be a ton of work
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.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
HawlSera@lemm.ee 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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.
LilaOrchidee@feddit.org 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
That would be a fun can of worms
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
skeleton race