More Character Customization

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More Character Customization

Postby bumfrog » Sun Jul 31, 2022 8:31 pm

Especially with clothes on, all Hearthlings start to look the same. What better time than a reset to add real variety to player characters? Here's a few ideas that I think wouldn't be too hard to implement, and would go a very long way.

  • Skin tones. Doesn't have to include skin tones that you believe don't fit the setting, but even medieval NW europeans had all kinds of white, pink, red, tan and brown complexions.
  • More Hair/Beard colors and styles. The same five or six have started to get a little old. Particularly jet black and white/light gray hair, and a few more female hairstyles (eg more types of ponytail, pigtails, free-flowing straight/curly with bangs, etc) since female hearthlings lack the variety beards provide.
  • More face expressions. This is a big one, sure Miss Blank Stare and Mister No-Eyebrows Frown are iconic, but being able to choose between a few would mean a lot since the player's face most prominently features in most clothing arrangements. User "Nightdawg" has been tooling with alternate face textures lately, see here.
  • Slight variations in Height, which could be as simple as stretching the character model/mesh below the head slightly up/down. Width/thickness/build would probably have to be done more carefully on a per-limb basis but would not be impossible. For now, being able to have diverse character heights would go a long way in them not feeling samey

Might be nice to touch up the character models and existing hairstyles a little bit too (top of head clips thru 'short skew'). Their calves are simply too wide.
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Re: More Character Customization

Postby DonVelD » Sun Jul 31, 2022 10:17 pm

Hell yeah! +1
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Re: More Character Customization

Postby Zentetsuken » Sun Jul 31, 2022 10:28 pm

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Re: More Character Customization

Postby The_Lich_King » Sun Jul 31, 2022 10:50 pm

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Re: More Character Customization

Postby pawnchito » Mon Aug 01, 2022 1:19 am

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Re: More Character Customization

Postby Matexo » Mon Aug 01, 2022 2:26 am

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Re: More Character Customization

Postby Nightdawg » Thu Aug 04, 2022 2:36 pm

bumfrog wrote:User "Nightdawg"


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Re: More Character Customization

Postby Blueberry » Thu Aug 04, 2022 5:30 pm

oh please do, especially the darker skin tones
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Re: More Character Customization

Postby TonyRigatoni » Mon Oct 02, 2023 11:42 pm

+1 it's 2023 and I wanna be abl eto make my hearthling black please and thanks consider
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Re: More Character Customization

Postby Luno » Tue Oct 22, 2024 1:10 am

I would like to bump this, specially now that this game is getting a steam release, this should at least be planned to be added.
It's a game that usually attracts people for it's larpy and sandbox elements, having dogshit, cringe, limited character customization goes against that idea.
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