Some Quick Links: Full Transcript: imperialnews.network/2016/09/10-for-the-chairman-special-edition/ Graphical links: 1:55: Head Lineup 1 2:47: Head Lineup 2 3:50: Hair Styles 1 (work in progress. They admit it's their weakest point right now, and will make it better) 4:20: Hair Styles 2 (single character, work in progress) 6:17: Head Capture Rig Time Lapse setup 7:22: Scanned Head 9:11: Face scrunch / Skin folding demonstration 1 10:06: Makeup pass: Petty Officer Webster SQ42 Chief Mechanic: She was previously seen in the Morrow Tour. 10:30: Mouth Closeup / Skin Folding 2 15:12: Two characters talking to each other. 17:06: Pupil to planet character from SQ42 17:43: Malaki Kirby: Joaquim Steiger 18:34: Liam Cunningham (Actor from Game of Thrones in SQ42) 21:33: Character animation changing when hurt 27:22: Blending Heads together QUESTIONS (Too Long, didn't watch version): [1:23] Q: Will facial customisation be static and can only choose from a preset from heads or can we manipulate certain aspects using morphology. A: You will be able to choose from a head that you like and from there you can change the skin colour, eye colour, hairstyle and some minor alterations to the physical shape. [3:38] Q: How customisable will hairstyles be? A: They will be fairly customisable, you can choose from an array of styles and change their colour, but you won’t be able to alter their shape specifically, but you can choose to have a hairstyle on any head you’d want. [5:10] Q: Can I reproduce my likeness in the character creator? A: You should be able to get pretty close. [5:51] Q: How long does it take to model someone’s face in the game? A: A long iterative process that includes up to two hours for just the basic scanning of the face plus all the post processing work dealing with the data and multiple maps and shaders. [11:27] Q: Backers faces in the game, is it possible? A: They’ve considered the idea, talked about it but to be determined. They would want all the characters to have the same level of fidelity as any of the top tier characters and any home photogrammetry might give them information/textures that might not be up to standard of the quality they need. [14:11] Q: How soon will the new heads be implemented and how editable will they be? A: Not in 2.5, but it will be iteratively implemented along the way afterwards. We’re very close now. [16:30] Q: What quality of faces will we see on our characters, NPCs, other players? A: What you saw in the Morrow tour, forget that quality existed as they’ve moved on and have improved the fidelity. They have tier 0,1,2,3 characters and the character you saw in the Pupil to Planet was a tier 2 character. A tier 2,3 character will hold up to a tier 0 character because it’s about the small details and animations in the tier 0,1 characters that makes them so detailed. The lowest tier is 10,000 polygons and the highest is 40,000, but the higher quality tier’s allow the full range of the actors emotions such as Mark Hamill, Gary Oldman, Mark Strong to be displayed in the game which is why they’re a tier 0 and others are 1,2,3. [21:07] Q: Will animations adapt to your character as they get older/recover from injuries? A: They’re planning to do animations specific to injuries, want to have the impact of an injury reflect on the character’s animation. It’s a really cool idea to have older person locomotion and they have younger ones so it may not be that difficult to move you through those sets but they don’t have the inputs yet. [22:31] Q: With character fidelity, how do you plan on keeping the resource cost down? A: They’ve made huge strides so far. For example a character used to be 300 megabytes in memory, and now it’s down to 30 megabytes and the animation joints went from 1,000 to 183. There’s still more to be done, but they’re working on other ways to bring costs down further without losing fidelity. [26:18] Q: Which character design approach is Star citizen using? Traditional where you choose from a number of presets or being able to edit vertex points within certain ranges or whole new approach? A: Mix of both, start with a preset face and you choose face/hair colour/eye colour/etc and then mix and match from a combination of heads and you can move things around but not actually bringing in another mesh or other character information.
Very interesting stuff guys. Chris, it was great to see you back in the seat to address us in the community! I understand you might not be able to do this weekly, but no matter the frequency just know that your presence is appreciated.
Really like the new format with inside-footage of the technology they're talking about. Also like that Chris isn't there alone anymore. Way better to have someone from the department the questions relates to.
I'm also loving the new format! We are starting to get those exciting little clips that actually show how the heads are doing, and it's simply just delicious eye-candy to get to see how good these characters are looking in terms of detail and fidelity. Even though it takes time to build the scene for those clips and render them out if they didn't have them already, I think it's still really worth it to show people how good it's looking so far!
I really like the idea of CR hosting 10FtC with guest developers and artists, with content from the game spliced into the segment. Not that it was boring before, but this change really holds your attention and adds a lot to the production value. Well done. Also, it's great to have one of my questions answered by CIG! I had asked about the old man animations, but was surprised to see some content related to FPS injuries in their response. Can't wait to make players limp like that in Star Marine hahaha
Now I'm imagining my character not being able to tell his team the situation because the opposition shot him in the face and blew his jaw off. 'Course, then he gets to look like Darth Malak, so not a total loss. ;)
Honestly, when the hair and eye shaders are finished and the skin shader is fine tuned this is gonna be hard to beat. Few games have ever put so much attention into character faces. Perhaps Naughty Dog have done something relevant, but that's about it. Everybody else has focused pretty much on environments and materials... And here are you guys, pushing everything forward like mad scientistis! You're all crazy, I say. And I like it!
I remember when HL2's Source engine came out from Valve. The facial quality moved the industry into a whole new level of immersion. I hope the same thing will happen again with SC.
I remember when I first got HL2 in 04 my graphic card was so bad that the models didn't have pupils in their eyes, just plain white eyeballs. Ground textures in vanilla WoW were huge deformed squares.
18:08 for reference, a level in spyro would only go up to about 5000-6000 polygons... a character/courier in Dota 2 is generally close to that amount as well...
I am so excited for this game, thank you so much Chris and everyone else at CIG for all the hard work over the years. Keep it up Ladies and Gents, for sure going to be throwing a few hundred your way soon. The more funding, the more features and detail. LOVE IT.
I like this new format! It's good you focus on a specific topic and let people only ask questions on that. This prevents repeated questions found in old 10forC episodes. Also, being able to see samples of what Chris and his guest, Josh, is talking about is great. The quality and fidelity of these character models are amazing! I hope to see more of this in the future. It would be nice if this can be a monthly or maybe bi-monthly series, with Chris being so busy. Also, it's good to see Chris back in 10 for the Chairman. Keep up the good work. :) Another notable mention, I don't think teddy 🐻 was injured much in the making of this episode. And the lighting of this video looks good. Nice video improvement!
Its very expensive to do L.A NOIR started it didn't sell enough copies to justify the cost, most games don't go this far in a video game, its more common in big budget films like the last Star Wars.
L.A. Noire did something far, far more crazy: 4D scans without face rigs (heads didn't even have eyeballs, it was all 3D scans in motion - 3D recordings played in game in real-time)
Watching Chris answering the questions and providing videos feels like a privilege. True tier 0 material :) I wish the rest of updates would pull themselves to this quality :P Whole game production and quality feels like J.J.Abrams Star Wars films. I hope that most GPU's will burn and reincarnate as Pascal generation 8-D
Wow this is AMAZING quality and again CIG is exceeding expectations in everything they do. I can't wait till we get to play with character customization. Not to mention that the girls get their character models too!
Oh how far this game has come! Doubt anyone will actually see this but it is purely awesome to see! Stoked for what more the game has to bring. Thank you all for your hard work!
Thank you SO much for making this video. I've been checking in every two weeks for the past year just to see where the character creation was going. I'm very excited to make my space babe for Star Citizen.
so, during question one, when they showed off the line of head assets, I couldn't help but feel like one was going to freak out and start screaming. that would have been freaky.
I have to say its quite impressive to see how Chris Roberts has so much in depth information about all these topics in this huge game. Definitely a big win for all to have a "nerd game programmer" lead this company.
Seeing a bunch of player clones running around in yellow caps was a little unsettling at first, but it really helps appreciate the new features when released. It's fun to see these developments enhance game play over time. Great work! I'm excited.
I'm okay with waiting longer since it's clear that CIG are making leaps with their technology. If it means getting the dream I could wait another few years. No-one wants to release a game early that falls short from expectation.
How are is star citizen planning on being able to go onboard a capital ship in port? Will they make a huge landing pad or have it docked like in the main menu?
Is it just me or do the eyes not focus differentially? ie: when looking at a close object the path from the eyes converge more quickly that if the target object is far away.
Could be cool to pick your age every time you die and start a new character. So you could be someones grandfather, die, then comeback as their aspiring grandson. Could be really cool for character story telling
dis game - trying to forget about it till it gets close to release - im assuming at least two years - but every video just refreshes the wonder and the game is back in the forefront of my mind for weeks...
can you add a table of content below the video? im not really interested in all the questions, so having the question + the video time would give me an opportunity to learn about everything that i want to know.
I love create a characters in the games , so for me this is the best 10 for the chairman , i appreciated so much . The new 10 for the chairman APPROVED!!! Congrats CIG , well done
This is excitingly ambitious, it all looks incredible! I hope there's a screenshot tool of some sort (although the UI system works to a degree) so we can screenshot all this awesome work
Yay, i have been trying to find out this kind of information for so long. I'm so glad to hear that there will be proper customisation not just " hey, just choose one of these faces".
How hard would it be to set the game up to allow players to upload pictures, and have the game automatically approximate them using the assets already in the engine? Kind of like the system police use to make composite sketches . [edited for poor wording]
FIFA 13 Had that, and it was pretty impresive to see your dumb ass face in the field along Messi and Co. ,It wasnt perfect tho, some angles simply looked crapy.
Imagine - high res optimised polished models made in studio in milion dolar scanning system with dynamic RGB lights, next to your blury ugly face made by shity webcamera. That would be beautiful.
thePavuk Yeah, they talked about that. That's why I was asking about the game looking at the shapes on your blurry ugly face, and using the polished models it already has to put together a face that is as close to yours as possible.
Yes, this is looking real good. Good to see some progress from the team. I like the more "themed" structure to the show as well. Did they discuss what "Tier" the character faces would be displayed at?
you know what would be a good business opportunity? get the facial capture thing set up and charge the backers for getting their heads captures and then selling/gifting it to CIG. There is like a million backers and a high percentage of them is okay with spending good chunks of money... given the option of a shiny new ship or your face in the game I wonder how many would go for the latter... Guess it all depends on how much it'd cost to set up the equipment and finding out what your consumer base is and adjusting the price accordingly...
I'ts funny how a guy who don't have the guts to entirely write "for fuck's sake" has the balls to say me to get my terms straight, saying something impolite without saying it for real. I don't think its me who need to get his terms straight dude. revenue stream... don't make me laugh pls
I haven't watched the whole video yet, but at 2:22 the one on the right seems more realistic imo. -and the stretch & squash is perfect. Test Squardon is best squardon.
I am soooo looking forward to playing SQ42. Allready got a new 1080 and I think I'm also getting a new monitor now to really enjoy the graphics more. This game seems to deserve that :-) Anyway... awesome info you gave us Chris and Josh. Thank you very much.
I think it'd be neat to see a scanning booth? Set up at citizencon. Backers could line up to be scanned, no guarantees you will use them, but you could get a bunch of free character art material and backers would potentially pop up as NPCs and player character head presets.
Character art materials aren't going to be an issue. Perhaps one day they could set up a service where you pay (probably quite a bit of money) to have your head scanned and converted into an in-game character model.
More home runs. That character guy seems like a cool dude. Keep working your magic. Kismet tip: After the graphics & first time through wow factor wears off, people are most interested and in the look & style of their character. I find people stop looking at stats and whats the "best" vs what personifies their character. I have seen members spend 4-6 hours time & again just organizing how their character looks. Are you going to do separate sets like "4 the stats" & "Cosmetic gear/looks?" Aka a set your using for stats and a set your using to look how you want.
Some Quick Links:
Full Transcript: imperialnews.network/2016/09/10-for-the-chairman-special-edition/
Graphical links:
1:55: Head Lineup 1
2:47: Head Lineup 2
3:50: Hair Styles 1 (work in progress. They admit it's their weakest point right now, and will make it better)
4:20: Hair Styles 2 (single character, work in progress)
6:17: Head Capture Rig Time Lapse setup
7:22: Scanned Head
9:11: Face scrunch / Skin folding demonstration 1
10:06: Makeup pass: Petty Officer Webster SQ42 Chief Mechanic: She was previously seen in the Morrow Tour.
10:30: Mouth Closeup / Skin Folding 2
15:12: Two characters talking to each other.
17:06: Pupil to planet character from SQ42
17:43: Malaki Kirby: Joaquim Steiger
18:34: Liam Cunningham (Actor from Game of Thrones in SQ42)
21:33: Character animation changing when hurt
27:22: Blending Heads together
QUESTIONS (Too Long, didn't watch version):
[1:23] Q: Will facial customisation be static and can only choose from a preset from heads or can we manipulate certain aspects using morphology.
A: You will be able to choose from a head that you like and from there you can change the skin colour, eye colour, hairstyle and some minor alterations to the physical shape.
[3:38] Q: How customisable will hairstyles be?
A: They will be fairly customisable, you can choose from an array of styles and change their colour, but you won’t be able to alter their shape specifically, but you can choose to have a hairstyle on any head you’d want.
[5:10] Q: Can I reproduce my likeness in the character creator?
A: You should be able to get pretty close.
[5:51] Q: How long does it take to model someone’s face in the game?
A: A long iterative process that includes up to two hours for just the basic scanning of the face plus all the post processing work dealing with the data and multiple maps and shaders.
[11:27] Q: Backers faces in the game, is it possible?
A: They’ve considered the idea, talked about it but to be determined. They would want all the characters to have the same level of fidelity as any of the top tier characters and any home photogrammetry might give them information/textures that might not be up to standard of the quality they need.
[14:11] Q: How soon will the new heads be implemented and how editable will they be?
A: Not in 2.5, but it will be iteratively implemented along the way afterwards. We’re very close now.
[16:30] Q: What quality of faces will we see on our characters, NPCs, other players?
A: What you saw in the Morrow tour, forget that quality existed as they’ve moved on and have improved the fidelity. They have tier 0,1,2,3 characters and the character you saw in the Pupil to Planet was a tier 2 character. A tier 2,3 character will hold up to a tier 0 character because it’s about the small details and animations in the tier 0,1 characters that makes them so detailed. The lowest tier is 10,000 polygons and the highest is 40,000, but the higher quality tier’s allow the full range of the actors emotions such as Mark Hamill, Gary Oldman, Mark Strong to be displayed in the game which is why they’re a tier 0 and others are 1,2,3.
[21:07] Q: Will animations adapt to your character as they get older/recover from injuries?
A: They’re planning to do animations specific to injuries, want to have the impact of an injury reflect on the character’s animation. It’s a really cool idea to have older person locomotion and they have younger ones so it may not be that difficult to move you through those sets but they don’t have the inputs yet.
[22:31] Q: With character fidelity, how do you plan on keeping the resource cost down?
A: They’ve made huge strides so far. For example a character used to be 300 megabytes in memory, and now it’s down to 30 megabytes and the animation joints went from 1,000 to 183. There’s still more to be done, but they’re working on other ways to bring costs down further without losing fidelity.
[26:18] Q: Which character design approach is Star citizen using? Traditional where you choose from a number of presets or being able to edit vertex points within certain ranges or whole new approach?
A: Mix of both, start with a preset face and you choose face/hair colour/eye colour/etc and then mix and match from a combination of heads and you can move things around but not actually bringing in another mesh or other character information.
Thank you, they should make this the description of their video!
Very interesting stuff guys. Chris, it was great to see you back in the seat to address us in the community! I understand you might not be able to do this weekly, but no matter the frequency just know that your presence is appreciated.
Really like the new format with inside-footage of the technology they're talking about.
Also like that Chris isn't there alone anymore. Way better to have someone from the department the questions relates to.
Xenthor!
Hey Jorunn!! :D
I'm also loving the new format! We are starting to get those exciting little clips that actually show how the heads are doing, and it's simply just delicious eye-candy to get to see how good these characters are looking in terms of detail and fidelity. Even though it takes time to build the scene for those clips and render them out if they didn't have them already, I think it's still really worth it to show people how good it's looking so far!
hey guys!
ok, everyone is here, let's get it started lol.
This game is going to bring about a renaissance of PC gaming.
Chris' point. :)
I think it has already brought about a renaissance of the space sim genre :D
Great Job, looking forward to making myself in game... tho I feel the Original Pilot is pretty close :P
Damn right xD
Yey, I'll never make myself with these faces.
I am way too special :( :(
I can't wait for a single female model to make it into the game.
WOW just imagine.
hopefully i can make myself incredibly ugly like you can in ark survival evolved. lolz
He's not far off, mate
Plot twist: This was actually a video of two characters from Star Citizen, not actual people.
Don't you mean he's just CIG?
LOL!
great work guys!
Chris Roberts = CGI ... Chris Roberts = CIG ... CIG = CGI....holy shit.. :O
notbrad is notnice a
I really like the idea of CR hosting 10FtC with guest developers and artists, with content from the game spliced into the segment. Not that it was boring before, but this change really holds your attention and adds a lot to the production value. Well done. Also, it's great to have one of my questions answered by CIG! I had asked about the old man animations, but was surprised to see some content related to FPS injuries in their response. Can't wait to make players limp like that in Star Marine hahaha
Now I'm imagining my character not being able to tell his team the situation because the opposition shot him in the face and blew his jaw off.
'Course, then he gets to look like Darth Malak, so not a total loss. ;)
Honestly, when the hair and eye shaders are finished and the skin shader is fine tuned this is gonna be hard to beat. Few games have ever put so much attention into character faces. Perhaps Naughty Dog have done something relevant, but that's about it. Everybody else has focused pretty much on environments and materials... And here are you guys, pushing everything forward like mad scientistis! You're all crazy, I say. And I like it!
I remember when HL2's Source engine came out from Valve. The facial quality moved the industry into a whole new level of immersion.
I hope the same thing will happen again with SC.
I remember when I first got HL2 in 04 my graphic card was so bad that the models didn't have pupils in their eyes, just plain white eyeballs. Ground textures in vanilla WoW were huge deformed squares.
WOW... those characters look incredible!! Best I've ever seen. This special episode was so good! Loads of new content and things to see :)
OMG, I've never been so excited for hair!
well, you obviously are missing out on all the best fetishes
Now that you mention it, neither have I. lol
They didn't mention anything about TressFX though :( I wonder if its still in the cards.
I hope they work on some hair works, not just on character, but on environment too
Like doorways with beards? Interesting....
18:08 for reference, a level in spyro would only go up to about 5000-6000 polygons... a character/courier in Dota 2 is generally close to that amount as well...
Boi
Star Citizen, now with more head!
"How to make your game harder to develop, with Chris Roberts"
Good one sir!!!
haha awesome
Watched this twice. Love everything about the new format, most especially that examples are shown rather than just verbal descriptions. Thank you!
Amazing level of details in these characters head, love it.
I am so excited for this game, thank you so much Chris and everyone else at CIG for all the hard work over the years. Keep it up Ladies and Gents, for sure going to be throwing a few hundred your way soon. The more funding, the more features and detail. LOVE IT.
Never seen anything like this in a game before. Congrats.
Amazing! I wasn't expecting to see so much!
Man I would love my face to be in the game! Great job guys loved it!
I like this new format! It's good you focus on a specific topic and let people only ask questions on that. This prevents repeated questions found in old 10forC episodes. Also, being able to see samples of what Chris and his guest, Josh, is talking about is great. The quality and fidelity of these character models are amazing!
I hope to see more of this in the future. It would be nice if this can be a monthly or maybe bi-monthly series, with Chris being so busy. Also, it's good to see Chris back in 10 for the Chairman. Keep up the good work. :)
Another notable mention, I don't think teddy 🐻 was injured much in the making of this episode. And the lighting of this video looks good. Nice video improvement!
Thoroughly enjoyed this format! Rock On CIG!
Glad to see the series back and in a great new format!
I keep clicking that thumbs up but that god dam fist just lets me do it once! Great work guys, best christmas ever incoming...
thats alot of cameras for the head scan. WOW. crazy.
Not really, this is an industry standard for many years.
Its very expensive to do L.A NOIR started it didn't sell enough copies to justify the cost, most games don't go this far in a video game, its more common in big budget films like the last Star Wars.
thats why every gaming developer uses it right? right
L.A. Noire did something far, far more crazy: 4D scans without face rigs (heads didn't even have eyeballs, it was all 3D scans in motion - 3D recordings played in game in real-time)
They need to get all the details
You guys REALLY should release all the facial demo videos in a standalone video!
Watching Chris answering the questions and providing videos feels like a privilege. True tier 0 material :)
I wish the rest of updates would pull themselves to this quality :P
Whole game production and quality feels like J.J.Abrams Star Wars films. I hope that most GPU's will burn and reincarnate as Pascal generation 8-D
In the end of Squadron 42 i want a Chris Roberts to pin the medal on me. Best Cameo ever.
If there is a ending for some kind of non-death failure I want it to be Chris who tells me what a fuck up I am.
We´re getting there, good job! +42
Please, please, please, please more of this format! This was awesome!
18:34 - Sir Davos?...
yeah .. i think they have the actor so yes.. captain noah is basicaly ser davos
Wow this is AMAZING quality and again CIG is exceeding expectations in everything they do. I can't wait till we get to play with character customization. Not to mention that the girls get their character models too!
One of the best segments I have ever seen from them. I think we can all look forward to the citizencon presentation :)
I wonder how detailed the alien heads will be and if they'll all look like clones or not.
thats an interesting point, they can't scan them like they did with humans
OR CAN THEY?
+TheUcuri I KNEW IT
I thought CIG asked some volunteers from MIB... That's odd, I got a man in black suit knocking on my door.
+TheUcuri Just get Hillary and her family to help out. Now if you'll excuse me, someone is banging heavily on my d- [Transmission end.]
An excellent insiders look! Glad to see Chris' vision of a detailed universe extends beyond ships, from pupil to planets! Great work guys!
Oh how far this game has come! Doubt anyone will actually see this but it is purely awesome to see! Stoked for what more the game has to bring. Thank you all for your hard work!
Man those heads look real life! :o Crazy stuff. Great work guys!
Thank you SO much for making this video. I've been checking in every two weeks for the past year just to see where the character creation was going. I'm very excited to make my space babe for Star Citizen.
so, during question one, when they showed off the line of head assets, I couldn't help but feel like one was going to freak out and start screaming. that would have been freaky.
Now I'm scared.
Absolutely awesome Episode. Have waited for this for at least a month and wasn't dissapointed.
SO excited for character customization now! Thanks for all the info Chris and Josh! Keep up the amazing work!
I'll probably end up dumping 3 hours into character creation alone.
Gotta get that likeness dialed in for better immersion boooiii!
After that you really wan't to avoid death.
artiew87 The self preservation instinct will be all the more "real" :)
3 hours is nothing ahahahha
It will take a liftime, because your face constantly change in tiny, tiny, tiny ways xD
That camera set up was insane!
I have to say its quite impressive to see how Chris Roberts has so much in depth information about all these topics in this huge game. Definitely a big win for all to have a "nerd game programmer" lead this company.
Thank you guys so much for this Incredible attention to details can't wait to get the campaign.
I expected the video to open with CR saying "Hello Everyone!" the way he always does.
Seeing a bunch of player clones running around in yellow caps was a little unsettling at first, but it really helps appreciate the new features when released. It's fun to see these developments enhance game play over time. Great work! I'm excited.
Very nice...... But, 3.0 or S42 by the end of the year ? Forget it. We will have to wait a lot more.....
I'm okay with waiting longer since it's clear that CIG are making leaps with their technology. If it means getting the dream I could wait another few years. No-one wants to release a game early that falls short from expectation.
Unless you're Sean Murray.
How are is star citizen planning on being able to go onboard a capital ship in port? Will they make a huge landing pad or have it docked like in the main menu?
All is Amazing!
Thanks for this 10 for the Chairman! :)
10 for
Backer facial scanning at Citizen Con would've been awesome ;P
Is it just me or do the eyes not focus differentially? ie: when looking at a close object the path from the eyes converge more quickly that if the target object is far away.
Could be cool to pick your age every time you die and start a new character. So you could be someones grandfather, die, then comeback as their aspiring grandson. Could be really cool for character story telling
that's the idea of how it's gonna work.
yeah, it will be like that
uh, source?
robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/engineering/12879-Death-Of-A-Spaceman
Jon 93 well done
30 mins of head is enough for anyone
Looks great, but there was a strange choice of studio lighting/ filters for this episode 😉
18:38 Ser Davos is in this game ?!
yep
Gladly no Joffrey :D
Im Commander.....
DIE JOFFREY PEW PEW....
you lost
oh :(
yes XD
Repair Bears no longer on strike?
dis game - trying to forget about it till it gets close to release - im assuming at least two years - but every video just refreshes the wonder and the game is back in the forefront of my mind for weeks...
just a question: will there be any fission or fusion weapons?
can you add a table of content below the video? im not really interested in all the questions, so having the question + the video time would give me an opportunity to learn about everything that i want to know.
Can't wait for the singleplayer campaign next year! :)
" next year" ™
That's a funny way of saying Never.
I'm waiting for the full release in 2288
I love create a characters in the games , so for me this is the best 10 for the chairman , i appreciated so much . The new 10 for the chairman APPROVED!!! Congrats CIG , well done
amazing!! and ty for taking your time doing this =)
Can you map the head textures onto ships, and fly around inside someone's head?
They got the black guys hairline right? What a nice surprise.
I was so happy when I saw that. Finally a game, not NBA related, that took the time to get our hair right.
Well they used real people. It helps.
Yo his edge up was fresh as hell too.
It's good to see that they don't leave any details behind.
Dat Carrack in the background.
:D
This is excitingly ambitious, it all looks incredible! I hope there's a screenshot tool of some sort (although the UI system works to a degree) so we can screenshot all this awesome work
I hope the charactercreation is as good as said. I want a individual head! :D
So interesting and the amount of work that goes into it is mind blowing, never been so hyped for a game!
They have 18 heads right now, and they need 350 up close rendered heads for Squadron 42.
Any idea how much of the campaign is finished?
I didn't had internet for a week, and this is the first video i see... It felt like a decade
10:08 bottom right. Moisturise me
is that doctor who reference
it is
lol jajajaj
My absolute favorite videos on this channel is 10 for the Chairman.
Second being around the verse.
Yay, i have been trying to find out this kind of information for so long. I'm so glad to hear that there will be proper customisation not just " hey, just choose one of these faces".
Damn, son! That's a lot of cables.
How hard would it be to set the game up to allow players to upload pictures, and have the game automatically approximate them using the assets already in the engine? Kind of like the system police use to make composite sketches .
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they've actually said they plan to do exactly this.
thekaxmax
I thought they said that we'd have to choose.
FIFA 13 Had that, and it was pretty impresive to see your dumb ass face in the field along Messi and Co. ,It wasnt perfect tho, some angles simply looked crapy.
Imagine - high res optimised polished models made in studio in milion dolar scanning system with dynamic RGB lights, next to your blury ugly face made by shity webcamera. That would be beautiful.
thePavuk
Yeah, they talked about that. That's why I was asking about the game looking at the shapes on your blurry ugly face, and using the polished models it already has to put together a face that is as close to yours as possible.
Yes, this is looking real good. Good to see some progress from the team. I like the more "themed" structure to the show as well. Did they discuss what "Tier" the character faces would be displayed at?
That was a lot more interesting about how the heads and faces are made I'm really looking forward to seeing SQ42 on my 49' SUHD screen 😎
The devs should all have their heads scanned for use on their own personal character!
In depth character creation for a character that you can relate too.Awesome i love it.Lets see how close i can get to sigourney weaver.
Will you scan Ragnar Lodbroks head from Vikings, for me??
a player creation/customization as in depth as black desert's would be phenomenal
This video's quality is superb
Character creation is the thing I can't wait to play with :D
absolutely great update and info! thank you guys!
Wow, I just finished watching the new Roots mini series a few days ago, that actor Malachi Kirby is the main character.
you know what would be a good business opportunity? get the facial capture thing set up and charge the backers for getting their heads captures and then selling/gifting it to CIG.
There is like a million backers and a high percentage of them is okay with spending good chunks of money... given the option of a shiny new ship or your face in the game I wonder how many would go for the latter...
Guess it all depends on how much it'd cost to set up the equipment and finding out what your consumer base is and adjusting the price accordingly...
Don't give them ideas, feature creep is already at full
Feature creep ended like 2 years ago
revenue stream...not feature creep, ffs get your terms straight
I'ts funny how a guy who don't have the guts to entirely write "for fuck's sake" has the balls to say me to get my terms straight, saying something impolite without saying it for real. I don't think its me who need to get his terms straight dude. revenue stream... don't make me laugh pls
No its not, everytime Chris Roberts faces an "ON" camera stock exchange goes up and so feature creep. Don't you listen to him?
Can we get an update morrow tour? I think that got mentioned at one point but never came.
When voice chat is finally implemented, will it be able to detect the most common phonemes and translate them on the players mouth?
I haven't watched the whole video yet, but at 2:22 the one on the right seems more realistic imo.
-and the stretch & squash is perfect.
Test Squardon is best squardon.
When is 2.6 coming out ?
October probably.
I am soooo looking forward to playing SQ42. Allready got a new 1080 and I think I'm also getting a new monitor now to really enjoy the graphics more. This game seems to deserve that :-) Anyway... awesome info you gave us Chris and Josh. Thank you very much.
Those faces are freaky real.
what!? that's some wonderful character stuff. I'm excited!
I think it'd be neat to see a scanning booth? Set up at citizencon. Backers could line up to be scanned, no guarantees you will use them, but you could get a bunch of free character art material and backers would potentially pop up as NPCs and player character head presets.
Obviously at a non tier 0 scanning level
Character art materials aren't going to be an issue. Perhaps one day they could set up a service where you pay (probably quite a bit of money) to have your head scanned and converted into an in-game character model.
Great show! Thank you!!!
Please make chairs usable I want to be able to sit down and see the ships taking off at Port Olisar.
Are we there yet?
Fastest click of my life.
Finally this answered my questions! have asked a few times :D in the passed took a break and just gettign updated on things.
More home runs. That character guy seems like a cool dude. Keep working your magic.
Kismet tip: After the graphics & first time through wow factor wears off, people are most interested and in the look & style of their character. I find people stop looking at stats and whats the "best" vs what personifies their character. I have seen members spend 4-6 hours time & again just organizing how their character looks. Are you going to do separate sets like "4 the stats" & "Cosmetic gear/looks?" Aka a set your using for stats and a set your using to look how you want.
There are no stats for characters in SC. It's skill based.
There are, however, going to be stats for weapons, armour, and attatchments, which will be completely modular