really though people, chromakey (eg: bluescreen greenscreen) is a technology more conducive to video, not still images.

its fishing with dynamite, you learn a lot and its fun, but its way overkill for what you are trying to accomplish.

rototools and magic wands are a much better and less intensive route than trying to key a static image.

not saying it wont work, but do you jack up your car with a jack or a construction crane when you have a flat?

How about having the rendering server that does the hi detail portraits just generate a green screen one that can be downloaded from eve gate or account management?

So you fellows have time to do useless stuff like this but no time to fix Corporate role system, bring in treaties systems on alliances, etc...?

WTF are you devs doing in payed time? Starts to sound like agile methods are used to avoid things that really are hard and need fixing and do stuff thats useless and easy...

portrait, customization, identity and character preview will all have green backgrounds (I don't want to promise that this will be in the next release, but at least it has been checked in, so let's hope it all works so we can get it out to you)

Can't wait to play with this when you make it for sure :)

I think this is on Sisi now (I'm on vacation so I don't really know what's going on, but based on the discussion on new features in the Test section I'm guessing we have the new stuff on Sisi )

I think this is on Sisi now (I'm on vacation so I don't really know what's going on, but based on the discussion on new features in the Test section I'm guessing we have the new stuff on Sisi )

The only thing cooler than this is if CCP would one day turn its in house movie making kit over to the players. Not for me cause I'd have no clue. But for all the people like the gang at Clear Skies, so they could use EVE Avatars and more cinematic in space sequences.

I beg to differ that this is a useless feature; it was requested by players, well argued what the usage and benefit would be, and has the potential to facilitate player generated content.

CCP karkur was able to quickly implement this feature with some input from CCP t0rfifrans and testing from CCP RedDawn. The things you mention would require a larger team with game designers, server programmers and web developers, and would require more incubation time in dev blogs, forums discussions and testing on SiSi. They are on our radar for the future but why should that block us from working on these smaller items that provide value?

I beg to differ that this is a useless feature; it was requested by players, well argued what the usage and benefit would be, and has the potential to facilitate player generated content.

CCP karkur was able to quickly implement this feature with some input from CCP t0rfifrans and testing from CCP RedDawn. The things you mention would require a larger team with game designers, server programmers and web developers, and would require more incubation time in dev blogs, forums discussions and testing on SiSi. They are on our radar for the future but why should that block us from working on these smaller items that provide value?

Errm, how about expanding this to the ship renders too? perhaps an option on the image server to render with alpha or green. Would love to be able to get just the ship render without the similarly coloured and non-uniform background that makes extracting just the ship from the picture a game time stealing chore.

I feel a little bit sorry for her for wearing this at a beach

Yes me to....

So, since I could not sleep.....I figured I'de give her a bathing suit

Edit: Not perfect yet....few small in-perfections,,,,,but to tired now

I should add that this is just on my computer and has not been checked in or anything, or formally accepted "feature".
I really like the idea though (and CCP t0rfiFrans too), and I had some free time last night so I decided to try it out.

I hope we can add this, but it would never go in as a selectable background... you could never save your character with this ugly background, and it would be only available if you had some prefs flag set.