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Hello and welcome to our new video update.
Every RPG has hundreds of characters in it but the difference between RPG and
any other video game is that characters can dress and undress in RPG
and it's a big problem for developers to solve it.
So let's have a look at how we solved it. We will definitely need hundreds maybe thousands
of characters in the game.
So we needed to develop our own tools to make their development as easy as possible.
We built our tool on top of CryEngine. We would like to share it with the modding
community later.
And I would say it's the ultimate character customization tool ever developed.
Lets start with character bodies. We can change
almost every aspect of their appearance.
We can select their size, body mass, skin, color, hair, facial hair.
Of course the face and also paleness or tone of their skin.
Of course we can display different injuries on the bodies as well.
So there is really no limit of
the appearance of any character in the game. The system we are most proud of is our
clothing system.
We have 16 equipable slots on every single character in the game.
And what is most important
and most special about it is that as in a real world
you can lay clothing in layers on each character.
So for example if you are an armored knight
you can have a gambeson on your torso
then chain mail over the gambeson then plate armor
over the chainmail and on top of that you can have some expensive cloth to show
social status to people.
Every layer has a different purpose.
Every armor is good against different types of weapons.
So if you use only chainmail you will be well protected against swords
but not as good against arrows for example.
Plate mail is very good against most of the weapons
but hammers and axes and such weapons.
Thanks to the system we can create almost unlimited amount of characters.
You can combine them (the parts) as you wish. Every character can combine them.
You can steal from other characters...
...clothes from dead bodies of course.
On top of that, every layer, every slot can have different color and different size
as you can see the fat knight here. And the clothing can get dirty or
damaged or covered in blood
during the game so you will need to wash your clothes
when you are too dirty for example.
No two characters in the game will look alike.
We can create thousand-man army and every soldier will be different.
Most importantly it will... The work will be much easier for us.
We won't need as many artists because
every character is built from little pieces we just need to create
those pieces and then combine them together.
Which is much easier to develop a lot of characters for the game.
While the bodies are created by combining small parts
we create each characters head individually. We are using the latest 3d scanner for that
and then our artists will hand polish every head. So that was our character customization system,
I hope you liked it, and next time in the next update we are going to show you our horse riding.
So stay tuned.