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Designing a character in-game

by Jonathon Stevens · in Artist Corner · 12/24/2005 (7:05 pm) · 9 replies

Friends,

Is it possible to have a setup like Star Wars Galaxies where upon character creation you can have several 'sliders' to change the character's appearance? Such things like fatter jaw, narrower eyes, fatter body, different hair, etc. If so, are their any resources available to do this?

Thanks!
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    Torque Owner Joe Bird
    #1
    12/25/2005 (9:02 am)
    I would be interested in knowing this as well. I guess you could use blended animation to achieve the effect. For example, if you animate a character growing from slim to fat then found a way to control this animation frame by frame using a slider in TGE with the animation freezing at the frame you leave it at this might work. I do not know how this would then blend with other animations in TGE however.

    I have come up with this idea while rigging a character in XSI. I know it is possible to do in that app using expressions or shape animation and that the animations will blend nicely, but I am not sure how it could be implemented into TGE.

    Employee David Montgomery-Blake
    David MontgomeryBlake
    #2
    12/25/2005 (12:10 pm)
    There is a resource for this.

    EDIT:
    Note that it is not as robust as a finished solution as in SW:G, but it is an excellent beginning.

    Torque 3D Owner Jonathon Stevens
    #3
    12/25/2005 (1:47 pm)
    Care to paste a link to the resource? thanks!

    Torque Owner Christian S
    Oak-Entertainment
    #4
    12/26/2005 (4:17 am)
    Was this the one David ;o)

    http://www.ultrabizz.com/dpm/dynamic_player_mod.html

    Employee David Montgomery-Blake
    David MontgomeryBlake
    #5
    12/26/2005 (6:30 am)
    This one was what I was thinking of, but it looks like the same resource!

    Torque 3D Owner Jonathon Stevens
    #6
    12/26/2005 (8:07 am)
    Thanks everyone!

    Torque Owner Joe Bird
    #7
    12/26/2005 (8:27 am)
    An amazing resource, thank you.

    Torque Owner Joe Bird
    #8
    12/26/2005 (8:32 am)
    An amazing resource, thank you.

    Torque Owner Bill Vee
    #9
    12/26/2005 (9:55 am)
    Wow don't know how I missed that resource.