The problem is that these guys have been living in space with no gravity for a while, and have the bones fragile, the skin pale, and the faces enlarged!
Mission board avatars
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The problem is that these guys have been living in space with no gravity for a while, and have the bones fragile, the skin pale, and the faces enlarged!
The powerplay characters don't look like alien zombies and neither do the cmdr generator pics. I can only assume that the avatars are supposed to look normal. They just look poor because of some limitation, probably the proceedural generation of the render and the short time it has to do it, I don't know. The point is they look very bad. As I said they don't even have to move so why the hell so bad?
Bandwidth.
I think that the avatars,such as they currently are, are stored server side, which is why it can take so long for them to load.
Once the character rendering gubbins are installed on every player's machine, I imagine they will be generated from a seed and rendered locally, which will dramatically improve their appearance.
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Is that true or assupmtion. I assumed that they were generated at our end via an RNG seed. The generation and render time being the wait while it loads up.
Thanks for the reply.
Again, I have no issue with content that I am not interested in. I was thinking in more broad perspective of game development - spreading your efforts too wide, potentially making a game that is a jack-of-all trades and master of none thing(X:Rebirth come to my mind). It would be interesting to know what Frontier perspective is.
It is a ten year project for a reason.
Agree, looks like they were created in the server side, and are downloaded to the client in the first entry to the mission board while in station.
Why does it? I'm not saying you're wrong but want to know what makes you think that?
Assumption, of course. Indicated by the phrase "I think"