Its coming. I'm very close to finishing abstracting out a lot of the station form and face stuff, then I can get to building comms forms that work outside of the station. Thats where we'll start to see ship-to-ship comms. I'd say we'll have something in the next couple of months.

My God... Its like a chinese Samantha Carter. 😉

Wow that's really exciting stuff! I think a simple conversation to start with would be to basically ask what a pilot is currently doing, so they would reply with something like "I am flying to -location- to trade -commodity-" or "I am transporting -no.- of passengers to -location-" It could give you a nice insight into what the ai is up to. Maybe I dreamed it but I think you could do that in another space game... freelancer?

Player- "Why are you attacking me?"

Pirate- "Dunno."

🙂

Now that gives me an idea! (uh oh, everyone groans! 😆 ) Perhaps the response you would get, would depend on your Elite, Military or Criminal status? If, at a low rank, you will get no respect at all, however the higher up the ranks you go, attackers would be more wary in their response to you once they find out who you are, even to the point of legging it if your totally bad news! 😈 I think such a feature would make the player feel special (if they worked hard at raising their rank) or more determined to prove themselves unworthy of insults (for those just starting out).

Thats a good idea 🙂

I think it would be pretty funny watching the pirates run after you declare... "Do You know who I AM!!???" or something like that.

Oh no, it's the J Miners Revenge!! Run!!! <img src="' http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//icon_lol.gi f"' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':lol:' /> <img src="' http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//icon_lol.gi f"' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':lol:' />

Hey s2odan, I've just noticed <img src="' http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//icon_redface.gi f"' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':oops:' /> What the hell happened to those crazy avatars of yours?

Me too... 😳 Well I havent made one for ages but I only just noticed too that the old shodan one is missing.

Damn it looks like my old site where I kept them has gone. (s20dan.co.cc) They were too large for dark-one's site and I didn't want to take the piss so I stuck them on a crappy free site...

Luckily I kept a copy of them all 🙂 I should make a Pioneer one....

😉

[hsimg] [/hsimg]

Here you go.

[hsimg] [/hsimg]

Also a more eyebrowish eyes for the creepy woman.

They are brilliant, I love them, 🙂

Haha nice work. I think I might completely start afresh with some of them, as they're a bit.. beyond adgusting. I will be keeping some ugly stuff though as I quite like some of the ugly buggers it churns out.

About the accessories. They were originally drawn as the top layer as you suggested. As some appear to look stuck on, I asked that they be drawn below the hair layer. It works for many of the accessories, but yep they do clip with the hair too much so I think we'll probably put it back to how it was, and I'll adjust some of them to work a bit better. It's a bit of a trial and error process.

YES!! They are HILARIOUS! 😆 They must remain with Pioneer in some form forever, you did a great job with them 🙂

Plus the teddy suits, dont forget the teddy suits!!! <img src="' http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//icon_lol.gi f"' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':lol:' /> <img src="' http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//icon_lol.gi f"' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':lol:' />

Haha oh yes, the teddy suit! 😆 Wait.. is it actually used in game??? I haven't seen it yet.. I must see it....

any new updates on facegen ?

I'm just cleaning it up at the moment, very very slowly though as I have quite a lot on my plate. I'm getting married and moving house for the third time this year 😐 It shouldn't take too long once I get down to it, then I'll start nagging s2odan and Robn to help implement some new stuff 😉

I'm really happy for both of you. My wish for you is for you to have a wonderful life together. See you after the honeymoon! 😀

P.S. Wouldn't it be cool if we all could just hop into our Eagles and fly over there and crash the ceremony? 😎

Crash into the ceremony? In reality though several Eagles in the same place would mostly just reduce the ceremony to cinders. I guess its one way to get yourself a hot wife.

@Subzeroplainzero, have a great day (and life!) 🙂

Three marriages in one year, wow your a busy lad 😉 hehe

//Congrats

what about children smaller faces

You know, I wonder why I didn't think of this before. Why not use Daz 3D to generate oodles of individual face components, using a locked camera and lighting rig? That way you can ensure the pieces will fit together more reliably?

Daz 3D is basically a free analog of Poser. It offers a lot of free content, though you can pay for additional components if you feel you need them. I bet one could go quite a ways with the free stuff.

http://www.daz3d.com/

As a distant second, perhaps MakeHuman

http://www.makehuman.org/

I'd be willing to help investigate this option.

I do want to add I kinda like the facegen stuff that's already been done. It's quirky, but reminds me of how I felt looking at the facegen that was in place for Frontier and FFE. For what it's worth, Sub.

Please do. It's a more maintainable option. Although the problem with many Poser model was, well, they were recognizably Poser models.

Thanks for your lovely words, people. It all went really well, and we had an amazing day 😀

@s2odan: You wouldn't believe how much work it took to finalise those divorses. Theres no wonder why I haven't had much time to work on facegen

@Pebblegarden: Please go ahead and investigate. I'm now quite happy with how my version is looking, and I'm sure you'll be impressed once I submit the changes, but I can't stand in the way of progress. I suppose it all comes dowsn to what is generally wanted. I really like the retro frontier-like 2d face idea, but I can certainly see the lure of 3d procedurally generated faces. Perhaps, if your system would allow for it, the current facegen system could be used to generate varied skins. I do worry that using 3d models might lose the character it currently has, and we might end up with bland Oblivion-esque looking people.

Well, at the moment no one can create the faces but you. What if sometime later we need more faces, but you have quit, are too busy, or are run over by an ice cream truck?

3D or 2D, you should provide your source files and work methods so anyone can create faceparts.