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thevikingwoman · 3 years

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Character Creator Nonsense - roundup

I don’t art, and I don’t like faceclaims. But it really helps me when I know the face of my OCs. I’ve used Dragon Age Inquisition before, but it has it’s limitations, so I wanted to try a number of different ones.

My character was a new OC, a friend of my main OC. I had an idea about a round face, curly bob (I do have a hair style I found on the internet), freckles, medium-fair skin, fuller lips and liking makeup.

Pictures and comparisons under the cut. Also links to individual posts with CC attempt.

Dragon Age Inquisition (Xbox One)

Pros: lots of face sculpting options, fair amount of skintones, elf options, scar options, tatooes options (very lore bound for elves, not for dwaves/humans) Cons: Lack of hair options (no curls, but also just very few nice ones), horrible eyebrows, no freckles. No good photomode on Xbox, CC has weird lightning. Game is about $40 when not on sale.

EVE Online (PC)

(I made her hair too dark, meh)

Pros: Face scupting is done with the mouse, pulling the face around. Fair amount of skintone and hairoptions, aging work well. Nice makeup. Free to play (game play has restrictions, but not the CC). Once done with tutorial, space station has ‘photobooth’ where you can make expressions and change lightning/background. Cons: The starting faction/race defines a lot of the variety, so you have to go back and forth - it’s hard to change the lips. Eyes were strangely hard to get brown, even when selecting brown. Only some factions have certain hairstyles. No fantasy races. Lips generally look odd on everyone.

Black Desert Online (Xbox One)

Pros: Very cutesy, face sculpting should give lots of options. Free with xbox gamepass, only $10 on PC for basic version. Some hair options. Cons: Class determines race and to some extent faces. Options when sculpting are not easily understood, and don’t work will on Xbox. I spend quite a bit of time on this, and I didn’t like the outcome at all. Style is cutesy (yes both pro and con, depending). Didn’t seem like there was a lot of skintone variety.

Final Fantasy XV Comrades (Xbox One)

Pros: High quality rendering. Free with gamepass. Cons: Very limited options, from everything to facial structure to skin color to hairstyles. Could not get her to look like Raina at all.

Mass Effect Andromeda (Xbox One)

Pros: Nice presets and changes are easy to work with. Fair amount of options and sliders for changing face. Fantasy hair colors, nice makeup for the most part. Lip options nice. High quality rendering. Cons: Not too many nose changes possible. Hard to make brown eyes due to color wheel. Eyebrows and complexion goes together. Not sure what the price is; not free. Not too many hair options (no curly hair really)

Picrew! This one is DJARN’s, but there are many

Pros: You can usually find various ones with good options, many cute ways to express character, free Cons: Very bound, need to find the right one. Not really useful as a ref as it’s indicative of the style of the artist who made the picrew.

Conclusion

There are many options out there if you want to avoid face claims. I’m surprised how enjoyable EVE was to use, especially since its a game about spaceships. I was also surprised how well DAI’s CC held up - I think if I had it on PC and had access to hair mods, it might be my preferred one?

In the end, I like her best in MEA, or EVE.

Funny Picrew comes closes to her hair. Non one has curly/wavy hair?

I didn’t try Baldur’s Gate 3, which should be really nice. I’m not sure I’m going to play the game, and it’s a little too much for a CC only. Maybe.

#Character creator nonsense #Raina #long post #this was an interesting exercise

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