What character customization features do you want?

A very important feature for any MMORPG is the character creator. It's what you will start fiddling with the moment you log in for your first time and i believe it's a very strong feature to get a person more immersed and hooked into the game. Being able to express your character in as many ways as possible be it for roleplay activities or to reflect parts of you into your character, a well kitted character creator is in need.

We all have our fair share of ideas for how our perfect fantasy character should look, so to fullfill that what would the character creator need according to you?

Ashes Wiki for Character Creator

https://ashesofcreation.wiki/Character_creator#Character_page

Personally i love to utilize tattoos/body paint for most of my characters. I haven't played a single game of which i can recall it having a very good customizeable tattoo/bodypaint section, it's usually your standard pretty generic war body paints on your face & upper body / shoulder area (they are of course good in their own way)

I'd love for an advanced section for tattoos/bodypaint where those who want can delve deeper and place them exactly where they want them, from the top of the scalp to the bottom to of your feet. Also re-scale & lengthen etc.. Your pretty standard editing tools.

Instead of the standard 1-2 tattoos total just increase that number significantly to leave room for creativity & so we can avoid having a character that looks unfinished.

Add a glow slider option for tattoos/bodypaint, perhaps a Warlock has green/purple glowing veins on his arms.

And of course let us choose between the Whole color wheel

Glow example (may it be a little crazy looking but it's just for the general idea).

Multiple combined tattoos example

A more metallic color for tattoo

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Kellid

I'd love to see height and body size on a scaler rather than preset

CROW3

Conrad wrote: »

Look at DAO's abilities, those look perfectly fitting to a less stupid looking animations

They look ok. Not substantially different from my sub sword rogue.

Fairtale

I would love to customize the type of music the bard plays

I know this is completely useless but still

CROW3

mr n0body wrote: »

I would love to customize the type of music the bard plays

I know this is completely useless but still

Agreed. I liked the FFIV composition system.

Merek

Allow multi-toned hair. A small, somewhat irrelevant detail but I dislike having to give a character singular toned hair. (I'm going to assume this was mentioned, but I wanted to give a direct example.)

Example - (BDO)

(If Ashes doesn't look close to BDO in terms of graphical quality by release... We're in trouble.)

Vhaeyne

Merek wrote: »

Allow multi-toned hair. A small, somewhat irrelevant detail but I dislike having to give a character singular toned hair. (I'm going to assume this was mentioned, but I wanted to give a direct example.)

Example - (BDO)
(If Ashes doesn't look close to BDO in terms of graphical quality by release... We're in trouble.)

If Ashes has those textures, we are in huge trouble.

You got a PlayStation 1 era shield,
PlayStation 2 era armor,
and PlayStation 3 skin... then like WII hair...

Merek

Vhaeyne wrote: »

Merek wrote: »

Allow multi-toned hair. A small, somewhat irrelevant detail but I dislike having to give a character singular toned hair. (I'm going to assume this was mentioned, but I wanted to give a direct example.)

Example - (BDO)
(If Ashes doesn't look close to BDO in terms of graphical quality by release... We're in trouble.)

If Ashes has those textures, we are in huge trouble.

You got a PlayStation 1 era shield,
PlayStation 2 era armor,
and PlayStation 3 skin... then like WII hair...

Yes, that image isn't the best for the comment, but it still stands that BDO is the best example for graphical quality in MMO's, even if the aesthetic can be a bit off.

Vhaeyne

Merek wrote: »

Yes, that image isn't the best for the comment, but it still stands that BDO is the best example for graphical quality in MMO's, even if the aesthetic can be a bit off.

IDK, that just looks like FFXIV with lifeless faces to me.

Personally, I think Mortal Online 2 is the best-looking MMO atm.

To each their own.

JustVine

As someone who has a love hate relationship with bdo's hair approach (seriously, they have a great system but hamstring it anyway,) I think bdo's approach wouldn't be within Ashes intended style. I really want people to have wild hair.

I think pre set dye patterns with the seperate hemispheres for each side of head, and a super extensive color pallet is the way to go. Less technical work, less complicated variables, more freedom to detail asymetrically, and technically more freedom to be applicable to more hair styles.

Layering the way bdo does is what I love about that system most but I think you can get the customization intended with that layering better on (hopefully due to style reasons) less complicated hair models in terms of individual hair strands with pre set dye area patterns.

Enigmatic Sage

sounds more like fashions of creation should've been the title if they go over the top with customisation and costumes.

I'm not suggesting deep customisation isn't good but if it comes out as a toy box mmo it'll be sad.

Kallysha

well once more gotta mention bg3 and dd2... their character creator, simply is at the top out there. The insane range of customization, im a person who does waste hours in there if one can tell, i do appreciate a lot of details as like the more the options and variety the better.

And the character creator from aoc as of so far still very lackluster...(i want my vek septum nose ring, earrings and scarification tho)

some examples from recent games/character creator details i would like to see:

- long hair and multi color layer pattern
-eyebrows and eyelashes able to color them individually or make them as same tone as the hair (in dd2 you can even make the tips of the eyelash lighter)
- dd2 has an immensity of eye color range to choose from as also few eyes styles, from changing the color and size of the pupil, to the iris near the pupil to then the middle of the iris to the edge of it (multi colored iris) and even then sclera
- heterochromia been being a standard of lately
- different shapes of eyebrows (unibrows!) and sizes of eyelashes
- bg3 and dragon age the veilguard have vitiligo which i find a cool feature
- face and body paintings/tattoos (metalized ones as well)
- face and body scars
- piercings/jewellery ( would like to be able to choose each piercing)
- MAKE UP matte/glossy/metalized/shimmer/glittery
- dreadlocks hairstyles
- freckles diversity/density face and body wise
- veilguard also has some options for port-wine stain/birthmark
- also some good beard options and some body hair for males much appreciated
- for the reptilian tulnars examples of dragonborn from bg3 (mainly some colors of the immense range of colors and iridescent/metalized effect over it, some patterns)
- Glowing eyes options for elves/tulnars maybe orcs too

GreatPhilisopher

lets start by having characters that arent horrendously ugly with drug addict males and REALLY drug addicted skinny males with tits aka females and then we can talk about the rest of the character customization like what you mentioned and like the terrible armors that looks bad and have 0 variety as females got the same exact male armors its like it'd honestly be better if they didnt even try.

Kallysha

welp if it is plate armor i do not mind at all (hoping intrepid doesnt go korean mode and over the top sexualize women to no end...*inserting meme please god NOOOO*)

they look stunning

TheDarkSorcerer

I'm still really nervous about Ashes' character creation. Right now, the models make every character look unappealing, malnourished and botched. I also wish the characters had longer legs—the current models feel too compact and square-shaped like New World.

Kallysha

Been playing Avatar frontiers of pandora and having a blast, such stunning game; some hairstyles and face/body paintings i really enjoy from there:

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