{"id":1341,"date":"2009-09-03T12:52:18","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T18:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/?p=1341"},"modified":"2009-09-04T08:59:01","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T14:59:01","slug":"co-faces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2009\/09\/co-faces.html","title":{"rendered":"CO: Faces"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are things I like very much about how Champions Online has handled character looks vs. City of Heroes. In the former<\/del> latter<\/em>, you basically buy a mono-expression mask for your character. In the latter<\/del> former<\/em>, you design your face, then you choose one of four or five expressions — Basic (neutral), Determined, Grim, Angry, or Pleasant (if I recall correctly — Courageous might be in there instead). These add scowls, smiles, eyebrow raising, etc. to the basic expression.<\/p>\n

CO strikes me as a better way of doing things, in conjunction with the remarkable array of ways you can control how your head and face actually look. It’s not dynamic, but it’s, well, more organic.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the results are less spectacular in at least one regard — lips. Or mouths. Or mouths with pouty lips. Which they all pretty much have. Even the guys. And which really stands out when there’s an overhead light source.<\/p>\n

It may be the particular graphics tuning I have, but it’s darn annoying. They really need at least one, if not a couple of, mouth sliders in the face designer.<\/p>\n

And then they need to come up with a way of making the emotion of the face — Grim, Angry, Pleasant, whatever — be dynamic, so that your character can look Pleasant while cheering, or after a mission, or when RPing, etc.<\/p>\n

Now that would be pretty cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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