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Seems like Anet has something against obesity :O
Make Fat Characters
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You'd have to redesign every single armor set in the game.
Armor doesn't just cover people's skin in this game. It replaces a persons body. GW's character models are like giant lego blocks. They just stick five pieces together to make you (well 6, the face is the only thing that is preserved when you place an armor peice on the head). You can notice this with all sorts of armors. For example, change your chest piece around and you can notice your female rt getting more busty, more skinny, or more curvy, depending on what armor you put on them.
You'd have to redesign every single armor set in the game.
Armor doesn't just cover people's skin in this game. It replaces a persons body. GW's character models are like giant lego blocks. They just stick five pieces together to make you (well 6, the face is the only thing that is preserved when you place an armor peice on the head). You can notice this with all sorts of armors. For example, change your chest piece around and you can notice your female rt getting more busty, more skinny, or more curvy, depending on what armor you put on them.
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Wont happen, at least not in GW1. 3D Models need to be modeled knowing that they would have to be capable of being stretched to appear to have different weight in advance for it to work out without some very messed up geometry. Stretching the vertexes without already having extra poly's around to accommodate the spherification would result in the skin textures looking stretched and the models looking anatomically incorrect.
Unless your asking Anet to spend mass time remodeling and re-rigging all the base character models....
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Unless your asking Anet to spend mass time remodeling and re-rigging all the base character models....
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First, I am fully in support of more customization options. Not so much fat characters for the sake of fat characters, but the option to choose your body type would be very welcome. I loved the SWG character generator when I played it years ago - sliders for all the major body parts (except the rump!), including facial features. It really allowed for you to make the character you pictured in your head. Of course, even with all the options available, the game still ended up with a population breakdown something like: 47% skinny blondes, 47% musclebound bros with spiked hair and 6% all 6 million other combinations combined.
Anyway, it's also worth remembering that any change to character body choices would require a lot of extra work from the item side of the design as well. All of the armor and weapons in the game would have to be reviewed, and possibly reworked, to ensure there aren't any clipping / scaling issues with the new character models. Given that, I'd rather see this as a feature in GW2, where all the armor and weapons can be programmed properly from the start for varying character body types.
Anyway, it's also worth remembering that any change to character body choices would require a lot of extra work from the item side of the design as well. All of the armor and weapons in the game would have to be reviewed, and possibly reworked, to ensure there aren't any clipping / scaling issues with the new character models. Given that, I'd rather see this as a feature in GW2, where all the armor and weapons can be programmed properly from the start for varying character body types.
I think 3 or so basic body types would suffice; thin, average, and large. Certain extremes shouldn't be included; this is a game about adventure & fantasy. We don't need morbidly obese characters. It may be funny, but it'd be more immersion breaking.
Other than basic body type, you could also have muscular and smooth options; so thin and muscular would get you a Bruce Lee look, while large and smooth might get you someone fatter looking...
Other than basic body type, you could also have muscular and smooth options; so thin and muscular would get you a Bruce Lee look, while large and smooth might get you someone fatter looking...