InMemoriamSirocco
Banned
The Faceless game
- Thread starter SurrenderOrHAHA
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Humanity is long extinct in Elite: Dangerous. All we are, are robots acting out the will of our deceased creators. I'm basing this on the fact that there are NO pilots in ships, NO people in the station, or anything like that.
Makes me wonder why I need air as a robot
Makes me wonder why I need air as a robot
The problem with faces is that you need to have a near infinite amount. It is going to be extremely immersion-breaking to have face A used for a mission-giver and then see that exact same face hundreds of LY away. Some want faces on the inter-ship communication so imagine if face A gives you a kill mission and when you engage the pilot of the ship also uses face A when communicating with you.
Procedurally generated faces could work but anybody who has used the "randomise character" function in a game that has one knows what ridiculous combinations they can come up with.
Our own pilots need to have a helmet at least and when looking through the cockpit of other ships there needs to be a pilot too though. The ship pilots should only appear at very close distances though or it will probably have a performance hit at RES or stations where there are lots of ships.
Procedurally generated faces could work but anybody who has used the "randomise character" function in a game that has one knows what ridiculous combinations they can come up with.
Our own pilots need to have a helmet at least and when looking through the cockpit of other ships there needs to be a pilot too though. The ship pilots should only appear at very close distances though or it will probably have a performance hit at RES or stations where there are lots of ships.
Yes a figure with a helmet would be a good start, as mentioned elsewhere maybe with the option to buy various designs from the online store. I for one would love to see my pilot through the canopy when in the Dev cam. Eventually it would be great to see an almost limitless variety of creatures piloting their ships.
You can choose male/female in options.
As long as you get there from the main menu; if you do it in game that option is locked.
Exactly this! It would be so immersive to have procedurally created NPCs for passenger missions in the future!
It's like some M. Night Shyamalan movie and we're all just waiting for the twist. We are the Thargoids!
I'm with this guy. I really couldn't care less if I "see" a person in ED or not.
My feelings are the polar opposite. It actually creeps me out that there are no people anywhere. None in stations. None in control towers. None in outfitting. None in the habitation rings around stations. None in spaceship cockpits. etc. etc. etc.
Image if you went to a busy airport, planes landing and taking off all the time, and yet you saw no one. No one at all. Ok, so the queues would be nice and short... but I'd be freaking out. To be comfortable, we need to see some people walking around and doing stuff -- even if we can't yet interact.
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It is only until the walking around update comes in.
The only games that need an avatar pic are ones where there is no other representation of a player.
We are not pilots! We are Ship ai! https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=128069
Wake up sheeple!
<goes back to smoking onionhead>
Wake up sheeple!
<goes back to smoking onionhead>
Quoted for future truth!
*Seriously, I'd prefer a ton more variation in station design/ambience and things to discover while out exploring. I'd also love to hear NPC's through voice comms, since it's much easier to suspend disbelief that way. The announcers at stations we have already are great. CG humans, unless done really, really well- tend to be instant immersion breakers. Not that I wouldn't like to see people running around stations working, fixing things, and visible in the control rooms... but voice, much improved text and some kind of system for communicating back somehow, is key I think.
No we are human beings playing a game. Eject that OnionHead into space - it's rotting your brain from the outside in.
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If the customisation can all be done with some suitable shader code, then I can see it being possible to have unique-looking characters on the scale that the game will eventually need. Otherwise, I foresee that we could encounter quite a few identical station security guards who all "used to patrol in a Viper until I took a railgun to the hull"...