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Posted - 2012.08.20 17:38:00 -
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Isabel Midnight wrote:Dersen Lowery wrote:A constructive reply: The change you want probably won't happen soon.
The problem is that realistic collision detection is exponentially complex, with the exponent roughly corresponding to the number of different heights that the engine has to take into account. This is why, at present, all capsuleers are the exact same height, about 5'8"--men in flats, women in heels. Give women the option to drop to 5'5" or so in flats, and you've just made it harder. Making flats the default shoe for women is even more work, because all the models are designed to be 5'8" in heels. CCP would have to find some way to add a few inches of height to every female toon without making any of them look absurd. Not to mention that they'd have to have two default female poses, since heels change the way that you stand and walk.
I support the feature. Just be aware that implementing it has complications, and CCP will have to engineer around them. It's not as simple as adding flats to the character customization options. i dont think you understand collision detection or programming.
He did not really talk about collision, more about the models, but there he is right. CCP just programed one male and one female modell, which can be altered in skin colour and some propotions in specific regions. You can for example also don-Št create a reall fat character, women look either pregnant or a little bit chubby, men just look a little chubby. It is the same problem in many other 3d-Game with a lot of characters. Every person uses one of a few body, and for example female chars looks beside theire head always nearly equally hot in no respect to their age or wealth.
PS: For everyone like me who can-Št use Imperial units 5'8" is 1.72 m, and 5'5" is 1.65 m (when using modern standart values which could alter every now and then, typicall problem with Imperial units). It fits for female chars but I think it is quit small for a male body. Now I am also pissed, because the male chars are too small, but well I use the RP-excuse the clones have to be so small to fit into the pod... |