Current News July 21, '09

[Dr. Zeppers]

Originally Posted by Sven Niscadae

You want to see chunky? I'll take screenshots of the next body type down from that one. That one actually has a rum belly!



I can agree there though I didn't make Sven look the way I actually wanted him to look. At the time, none of the body types really suited him. I chose the skinny lanky body type because I felt the bigger ones were too over the top.

If Disney really wants us to customize our avatars, then they should let us fine tune more details about them. We can already customize the faces, jaws, etc but the torsos not so much. Although I can see a reason why they wouldn't want to do that. More vertices and polygons.

Most games that I have found that involve creating full body avatars have more control over it than POTCO allows. They should simply add more models, more choices/selections, and not change what currently is in the game. If they added more models to give a larger variety of body styles then that would hopefully not be too many vertices/polygons, etc.

Are these new models to improve performance? or to improve looks? Not sold on the looks side of things at all, to be sure. At least not on the more normal and larger sized models.

Now I have seen some 'stick' figure pirates, where the models could maybe give them a bit more flesh on thar bones!