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| 9s | hey |
| 19s | hmm |
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| 36s | [Applause] |
| 37s | [Music] |
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| 46s | welcome everyone to our first look at |
| 49s | the ashes of creation character |
| 52s | customization |
| 53s | and creator character customization |
| 55s | creator ccc yeah |
| 59s | i know we get to see the vec look at him |
| 62s | in the model forum |
| 65s | super excited well we're happy that |
| 67s | you're joining us and taking a look at |
| 68s | this uh first look at our character |
| 70s | creator we have an awesome crew with us |
| 73s | actually here today um some |
| 75s | representation from the character team |
| 77s | with our lead character artist mr chris |
| 79s | atkins how you doing buddy i'm doing |
| 81s | great good to see the vec in there i |
| 83s | know it's your your creations are coming |
| 86s | to life your team's creations are coming |
| 88s | to life it's so cool to see |
| 90s | and then we also have some of the brains |
| 92s | behind uh creating all the cool |
| 95s | customization options that we have |
| 97s | available to us in this creator uh two |
| 99s | of our engineers mr clayton stamper and |
| 101s | mr zachary malott how you doing buddy |
| 104s | hello hello |
| 105s | hey uh clayton here |
| 107s | very excited to have you guys and then |
| 109s | of course this wouldn't be a stream |
| 110s | without our amazing and glorious uh |
| 114s | community marketing lead |
| 116s | mrs or miss margaret crone |
| 119s | not misses yet i know not yet soon |
| 122s | exciting |
| 123s | i'm very excited yeah and i know of |
| 126s | course um for those of you who are |
| 127s | tuning in on the stream and who are |
| 129s | seeing this for the first time on the |
| 130s | stream we just uh we just cut to this |
| 132s | video but for those of you who are |
| 133s | tuning in on youtube um you know as |
| 136s | you're watching these customization |
| 138s | options please feel free to leave |
| 139s | comments let us know your thoughts join |
| 140s | in on our discussions on our forums on |
| 144s | twitter on all the places so that we can |
| 145s | get your guys's feedback because that's |
| 147s | why we showcase this stuff in |
| 149s | development is to get everyone's |
| 151s | feedback |
| 152s | so |
| 152s | i'm excited to take a look at this |
| 156s | character creator with our glorious |
| 158s | community |
| 159s | this guy is looking pretty cool i'm |
| 161s | loving the model and it really stayed |
| 163s | true to the concept |
| 166s | yeah i mean manny's such a great artist |
| 168s | and you know i think that's why we |
| 169s | picked him up is because he had such a |
| 171s | strong sense of like overall silhouette |
| 173s | and style and so yeah you can see his |
| 175s | work right here and then |
| 177s | you know a little more realistic |
| 179s | direction for textures and yeah yeah i |
| 182s | think he's i think he's looking pretty |
| 183s | good into what you envisioned i i hope |
| 186s | anyway oh yeah no he's he's looking |
| 188s | great i mean this is one of my favorite |
| 190s | races actually in our in our |
| 193s | with our different cultures right |
| 194s | because |
| 195s | it's so different than what i'm |
| 197s | accustomed to seeing from a character |
| 199s | race standpoint like most player |
| 200s | character races don't look like these |
| 202s | guys and this isn't even in their actual |
| 204s | like animated stance that they're |
| 206s | intending to have that more crouched |
| 208s | look right that hasn't been implemented |
| 210s | yet but just the model itself is is |
| 212s | really cool |
| 213s | yeah it's just them sharing right now |
| 215s | kind of with the klar and and same from |
| 217s | a technical standpoint they shared sort |
| 219s | of the same geometry and uvs so we're |
| 222s | trying to make things you know pretty |
| 224s | efficient and intelligently as we go |
| 225s | along i like the tusks the tusks were |
| 228s | such a great touch |
| 231s | oh yeah no they're great and again |
| 232s | manny's concepts are awesome he does |
| 234s | stick right to him you know once we get |
| 236s | something approved he nails it have you |
| 238s | guys ever played oh go ahead go ahead i |
| 241s | was gonna say the community definitely |
| 242s | has |
| 243s | opinions on the tusks and you know being |
| 245s | able to customize them or |
| 247s | oh yeah i know some people have asked |
| 248s | about removing them completely |
| 250s | uh things like that right or yeah |
| 252s | drilling them down like significantly to |
| 254s | the point where they're barely |
| 256s | noticeable right |
| 257s | of course some people want the massive |
| 259s | yes you know exactly |
| 262s | okay so one of the cool things about um |
| 264s | this demonstration today again wanna |
| 266s | preface this is a first pass on our |
| 269s | actual character creator |
| 271s | clayton and zach have done a |
| 273s | an incredible amount of work along with |
| 275s | a lot of other people who have |
| 277s | participated in making our character |
| 278s | creator |
| 279s | but from a functionality standpoint um |
| 281s | what we're going to do is we're going to |
| 283s | take a look at all the different |
| 284s | customization options that are presently |
| 286s | available then we're going to talk a |
| 288s | little bit about the customization |
| 289s | options that have yet to be implemented |
| 291s | but are still on um on our course on our |
| 295s | on our feature road map right um and to |
| 298s | do that we're actually gonna i'd also |
| 300s | like to preface that the ui is not final |
| 303s | this is |
| 304s | still very very early so keep that in |
| 306s | mind all the prefaces all the preface |
| 308s | all the work in progress prefaces you |
| 310s | guys our core audience who have been |
| 312s | following development of ashes creation |
| 314s | you know this um you see our monthly |
| 316s | updates as we show you you know ongoing |
| 318s | progress um but that's really part of |
| 320s | the fun right you're seeing a a massive |
| 323s | massive mmorpg being made in real time |
| 327s | with regular updates on the monthly um |
| 329s | showing you guys our movement from where |
| 331s | we were to where we're going and every |
| 333s | step in between and that's part of the |
| 335s | fun |
| 336s | but in order to show off some of these |
| 338s | customization options the vec aren't |
| 339s | quite there yet with uh being able to be |
| 341s | customized yet in the character creator |
| 343s | we can randomize it but actually let's |
| 345s | go over to the klar |
| 348s | oh i love that effects |
| 352s | did such a great job with those effects |
| 354s | um so when you switch over obviously you |
| 356s | see the kind of you burn away that's uh |
| 359s | part of the lore and ashes uh it also is |
| 361s | something that you see in death |
| 363s | you know if you played the game you kind |
| 365s | of |
| 366s | have seen as your character dies you |
| 367s | turn into these pile of ash but this |
| 369s | guy's looking pretty cool what is he |
| 370s | he's like almost looks like a viking |
| 372s | yeah like a viking cleric or something |
| 376s | i love the detail on his face |
| 379s | yeah |
| 381s | it's been really fun to make these guys |
| 382s | and |
| 383s | yeah i mean you can start to see kind of |
| 385s | you know some of the imperfections that |
| 387s | you're able to add and everything else i |
| 388s | mean i'll let you keep getting into it |
| 390s | but yeah no it's it's looking to be |
| 392s | working yeah clayton i know uh and zach |
| 394s | i know you guys have put a lot of work |
| 395s | into |
| 396s | showcasing some of this scarring here |
| 398s | and being able to like manipulate that |
| 399s | scarring we're going to talk a little |
| 401s | bit about that |
| 402s | yeah so i i i tend to focus on |
| 406s | the art side of it um i work with the |
| 409s | artists pretty closely and i do some |
| 411s | shader programming so i did a lot of the |
| 413s | behind the scenes that's driving the |
| 415s | appearance of the scars |
| 417s | um |
| 419s | and uh atkins uh chris atkins did a |
| 421s | really good job uh getting us the assets |
| 424s | that bring it all to life the loincloth |
| 426s | the loincloth yes |
| 431s | yeah we had a little underwear thing |
| 432s | going on oh yeah get us some loincloth |
| 435s | chris where's the or uh |
| 438s | maybe this should be better for uh |
| 440s | yeah for chris where's the physics on |
| 442s | this i would like when i twirl that the |
| 443s | loincloth flares up you know |
| 445s | it does have it i'm not sure if it's |
| 448s | enabled right now it does it will flap i |
| 451s | promise |
| 453s | accidental uh flashing of people wait i |
| 456s | need to check something is for that |
| 458s | particular loin cloth is their |
| 462s | customization |
| 464s | options |
| 465s | let me see |
| 468s | where would that be |
| 469s | oh |
| 470s | what is this |
| 473s | [Music] |
| 473s | [Laughter] |
| 475s | what is this is that you wanted full |
| 477s | customization that is that's been a |
| 479s | question that the community has asked |
| 481s | for some time actually whether or not |
| 482s | we're going to have certain sliders uh i |
| 485s | guess this is a little showcase of |
| 486s | what's to come in the future with being |
| 488s | able to manipulate aspects of the of the |
| 490s | character including chest crest crotch i |
| 494s | don't know about the name crotch |
| 496s | that could be grant selection oh yeah |
| 498s | that's true grat and kobe and tim uh |
| 502s | worked on the ui side of this for our |
| 504s | character creator and that was it's that |
| 506s | definitely sounds to me like a grand |
| 508s | selection |
| 509s | and the wording there |
| 511s | um but yeah i like that he went nice |
| 514s | nice and casual with the booty though he |
| 516s | was like bottom bottom bottom yeah |
| 518s | that's that's a fair that's i'm okay |
| 520s | with that one i just don't know about |
| 521s | the crotch one i know i know but i just |
| 523s | i think it's funny that he went crotch |
| 524s | but then for butt he went butt up bottom |
| 527s | so now some of these um |
| 530s | options so we're talking like body |
| 532s | type in here we can adjust height and |
| 536s | weight |
| 537s | um you can make them a little bit you |
| 540s | know thicker looking right |
| 543s | and of course there's going to be sizes |
| 545s | here that we're going to kind of adhere |
| 547s | to based on the race right we obviously |
| 550s | we incorporate some limitations on that |
| 552s | right |
| 554s | yeah we're definitely going to be doing |
| 556s | that i think clayton can speak more to |
| 558s | that |
| 561s | oops plate are we losing there |
| 565s | we lost him |
| 566s | well so so the |
| 568s | the weight entitlement system for how |
| 570s | those inputs affect the bones is |
| 572s | actually something that zach worked on |
| 574s | more oh nice yeah it's a bone by bone |
| 577s | basis on a per race and per gender basis |
| 580s | so |
| 581s | so now people who don't know what they |
| 582s | should bonus zach can you tell them a |
| 584s | little bit about what a bone is |
| 586s | [Music] |
| 588s | uh |
| 591s | so uh bones uh it's pretty much |
| 594s | you can visualize it just like you would |
| 595s | visualize a bone in a skeleton but |
| 596s | really what it is it's just a transform |
| 598s | in space that describes how each vertex |
| 601s | should be |
| 602s | transformed if that bone is also |
| 604s | transformed so whenever the bone in the |
| 606s | arm moves all the vertices that are uh |
| 608s | skinned or weighted to that bone will |
| 610s | move the same way that that bone does in |
| 612s | a proportion to |
| 614s | the weight |
| 615s | with that bone in that vertex |
| 617s | ah |
| 618s | so if you scale it up it makes all the |
| 620s | vertices around it scale up and one |
| 622s | thing that chris does very frequently is |
| 624s | he'll go in and like touch up the skin |
| 627s | weight so that the vertices scale kind |
| 629s | of how we want them to because |
| 631s | like originally we had kind of like a |
| 632s | blockier look with the weight but he |
| 634s | went in and like uh really tweaked that |
| 636s | and got got something that looks pretty |
| 637s | good for the larger weights too |
| 640s | oh very cool yeah and i think it's a |
| 642s | combination of that and what you and |
| 643s | zach are doing under the hood because |
| 645s | you guys are kind of averaging in |
| 647s | between all these bones too to make |
| 648s | smooth transitions which really makes my |
| 650s | job easier as well |
| 652s | i'm just going to play around while kind |
| 654s | of you guys talk about all this fun |
| 655s | stuff yeah and it's also um super |
| 657s | awesome that we get to |
| 659s | do all these manipulations and get a |
| 662s | really wide variation of body types and |
| 664s | faces and characters |
| 666s | just from like one standard mesh you |
| 668s | know |
| 669s | um yeah a lot of times some character |
| 671s | creators they just swap it out and |
| 673s | different meshes you know |
| 675s | but we're really like manipulating and |
| 676s | molding and sculpting |
| 678s | a single mesh that can achieve like a |
| 681s | really wide array of results |
| 683s | and he was showing some of the wrinkles |
| 685s | and the textures on the face i know you |
| 688s | guys have are really excited about like |
| 689s | the detail system i don't know if you |
| 690s | want to talk a little bit more about |
| 692s | that |
| 695s | i'm pretty excited about the detail |
| 697s | system right now we're just using it for |
| 698s | wrinkles but that's a system for pretty |
| 700s | much blending any texture detail |
| 702s | holistically over the entire body of a |
| 703s | character so whether that's like scales |
| 705s | on the renkai or uh doing like the you |
| 708s | saw that the vec has like starvation |
| 710s | over their body you could blend in like |
| 712s | different starvation patterns and we |
| 713s | could even use it for like body hair |
| 715s | sliders for the dwarves and yeah all |
| 717s | sorts of things for something as crazy |
| 719s | as the tolnar once we mean like armpit |
| 721s | hair yeah i keep forgetting about that |
| 723s | body here |
| 726s | how do you feel |
| 728s | catkins about making holes for armpit |
| 731s | hair and all the armor |
| 733s | yeah this is gonna be quite the |
| 735s | authoring hey i guess we have to figure |
| 736s | out horns anyway so why not right true |
| 739s | true fair fair |
| 741s | yeah i love the hair customization |
| 742s | you're on right now oh i do too i love |
| 745s | it |
| 746s | yeah |
| 748s | i really haven't seen that actually very |
| 750s | much in many character creators |
| 752s | it would be cool that over time when |
| 754s | you're in game you have to get a haircut |
| 756s | because your hair grows out |
| 758s | especially with like all the |
| 759s | combinations of |
| 761s | your cheeks like hair your chin hair |
| 763s | your lip hair |
| 764s | i i like the difference yeah the the |
| 767s | different um options that you can kind |
| 770s | of touch on right look at the look at |
| 772s | the variance and just the lip length |
| 774s | like yeah that is that is pretty cool |
| 777s | because in a lot of other character |
| 778s | creators that many of us probably have |
| 780s | experience with right these are presets |
| 782s | that you choose you don't really get to |
| 784s | manipulate the preset itself like i |
| 786s | would choose this super long length you |
| 788s | know muster the short one or the short |
| 790s | one and i wouldn't have the variance in |
| 792s | between that i could customize that's |
| 795s | pretty cool |
| 796s | yeah i mean this is an impressive feat |
| 798s | of engineering by the team i mean |
| 800s | they've really done some awesome stuff |
| 802s | and they've really worked out a ton of |
| 804s | the extra parts of the character |
| 805s | pipeline that we didn't quite have |
| 808s | nailed down yet and and these guys have |
| 810s | really flushed everything out and it's |
| 812s | yeah it's really cool to see i mean i |
| 813s | think we all get mesmerized by this |
| 815s | thing every time we play with it |
| 817s | and we've been talking about |
| 819s | letting people customize each eye |
| 820s | separately i know because that's gonna |
| 822s | be a question that comes up too |
| 824s | but right now we don't have that feature |
| 826s | in |
| 827s | yeah there's still so much more left to |
| 829s | do |
| 830s | having one blind looking eye would be |
| 832s | sick absolutely or different colors uh |
| 835s | 100 |
| 836s | yeah in tandem with the scars you know |
| 838s | you put a scar over that eye and then |
| 840s | sort of make it |
| 841s | milky i also like that you can adjust |
| 843s | the uh fingernail colors as well i want |
| 846s | to rotate them |
| 850s | you'll have to up the strength of the |
| 852s | yeah yeah because you're transparent |
| 855s | yeah |
| 857s | i was telling steven i want to be able |
| 858s | to put like the tattoos on my nails to |
| 860s | make nail art |
| 862s | so if you zoom out you'll see his |
| 863s | toenails too yeah |
| 865s | oh that's so cool |
| 867s | that is so cool |
| 870s | love that |
| 871s | let me see if there's some other other |
| 873s | presets we can play with now you put it |
| 876s | this guy needs like a trifold hat |
| 878s | oh yeah for sure it looks like a |
| 879s | musketeer i'm very piratey yeah |
| 883s | let me see here let me go to |
| 886s | some other presets oh there we go this |
| 888s | one's like one of my favorites too |
| 890s | because i love the hairstyle it's cool |
| 892s | yeah it's really good on that yeah the |
| 895s | hairstyles are awesome uh jinzy as |
| 897s | everyone knows is a favorite i think of |
| 899s | the community but yeah she's been |
| 901s | leading a ton of the charge on the |
| 903s | hair eye customization stuff while i've |
| 906s | been dealing with more of the body |
| 909s | now let's talk about these so this is in |
| 911s | the appearance section right this is |
| 913s | mainly like adjusting |
| 915s | attachments to the character but when we |
| 917s | talk about the model itself and we move |
| 919s | into things like being able to sculpt |
| 923s | sections of the face |
| 925s | this is such a cool |
| 927s | yeah |
| 928s | these are areas that we can actually |
| 930s | touch up on so when i grab this and i |
| 933s | pull it in a direction right it starts |
| 935s | customizing different segments of the |
| 937s | body uh zach you worked on this yes |
| 940s | yeah clayton and i attacked teamed on |
| 943s | this one um |
| 945s | we really wanted to give players that |
| 947s | feeling that they were |
| 948s | grabbing and pulling and sculpting their |
| 950s | own character |
| 952s | especially with like more minute details |
| 954s | i mean it would have been easy to give |
| 955s | character like players like 100 sliders |
| 958s | you know |
| 959s | but |
| 960s | it's |
| 961s | it feels better to have a much more |
| 962s | tactile response than like clicking and |
| 964s | dragging dragging |
| 966s | and pulling all these like uh |
| 969s | points around |
| 971s | i appreciate that i can have |
| 974s | the the flat filipino nose |
| 977s | yeah i mean again not every game allows |
| 980s | it so |
| 982s | yeah so |
| 984s | i i remember zach mentioned uh how much |
| 987s | variation we achieve through the |
| 989s | customization features a lot of that is |
| 992s | achieved through what steven is playing |
| 993s | with right now with these dots that are |
| 995s | appearing and the reason why those are |
| 997s | dots instead of |
| 999s | the little plates that you see |
| 1000s | highlighted on the character is because |
| 1002s | these are actually changing the shape of |
| 1004s | the character's features all together |
| 1006s | very more micro level adjustment tool |
| 1009s | yeah plates are used for |
| 1012s | moving things around |
| 1013s | and it sort of maps exactly to your |
| 1015s | input and that's why that pick map or |
| 1018s | the the plates feel so nice |
| 1021s | then you can click on those dots and |
| 1022s | drag those around and actually change |
| 1024s | the shape of a feature altogether |
| 1025s | [Music] |
| 1026s | you can go from some intense eyebrow |
| 1028s | cheeks and make like make a make them |
| 1031s | bigger smaller change the location and |
| 1033s | then you can go in |
| 1035s | and refine the actual shape of it using |
| 1037s | those thoughts |
| 1039s | yeah this is this is phenomenal sorry |
| 1041s | chris go ahead no i'm just saying |
| 1043s | they've really spent a lot of time i |
| 1045s | think sort of getting the feel right you |
| 1047s | know we've all been playing with it till |
| 1048s | it felt kind of intuitive or kind of |
| 1050s | easy to use and friendly |
| 1054s | yeah that's i mean watching the progress |
| 1057s | over just even the last three weeks has |
| 1059s | been unbelievable |
| 1062s | you know |
| 1063s | i'm i'm excited to see the backlog of |
| 1066s | features that are going to be |
| 1067s | incorporated as |
| 1069s | you know we move forward with the |
| 1070s | character creator beyond alpha 2 um |
| 1073s | but if you guys you know are |
| 1076s | like i said our core audience that kind |
| 1078s | of watches our development just from |
| 1080s | alpha one to alpha two this is an |
| 1082s | entirely different thing right alpha one |
| 1085s | was |
| 1086s | was something where you know we had a |
| 1088s | number of preset options that were very |
| 1090s | limited there was there was little to no |
| 1091s | manipulation that was possible at all |
| 1094s | and this is a fully fledged first pass |
| 1096s | in alpha pass but |
| 1098s | nonetheless still |
| 1100s | is something i don't see every day in |
| 1103s | games that i play or in mmos |
| 1105s | particularly right |
| 1107s | um and that's really cool to see |
| 1109s | uh one of the other things that's |
| 1110s | interesting about this and you know a |
| 1112s | lot of people sometimes beg the question |
| 1114s | you know you only spend so much time in |
| 1116s | a character creator right like that's |
| 1117s | your initial experience a lot of people |
| 1119s | when they're trying to get into the game |
| 1121s | and and uh level up as quickly as |
| 1124s | possible from a competitive competitive |
| 1126s | standpoint like they don't spend a lot |
| 1127s | of time in character but the cool thing |
| 1129s | about this character creator is that |
| 1130s | it's not just intended for your |
| 1133s | character |
| 1134s | right it has application |
| 1137s | with npc's that you might hire that our |
| 1140s | design team might leverage this tekken |
| 1143s | in order to create you know marquee |
| 1145s | characters um |
| 1147s | uh it also has some application outside |
| 1150s | of just uh |
| 1152s | humanoids right um |
| 1154s | zach or clayton you guys want to talk |
| 1156s | about that a little bit |
| 1158s | yeah i mean so we're gonna use similar |
| 1160s | tech uh for |
| 1162s | implementing things like animal |
| 1163s | husbandry or |
| 1165s | even just for creating creatures i have |
| 1168s | some tasks slated for myself to |
| 1170s | implement something similar to what i |
| 1172s | did for characters but for creatures |
| 1174s | and |
| 1175s | yeah tooling is a big focus for us and |
| 1177s | making sure that designers have |
| 1178s | everything that they need to build the |
| 1180s | game with a lot of variation in the |
| 1182s | content |
| 1183s | yeah we spent a lot of time just working |
| 1185s | out the tech for this so it'd be nice to |
| 1188s | use this tech in other areas of the game |
| 1190s | when it's applicable whether that's the |
| 1192s | husbandry system |
| 1194s | or any more customization points we give |
| 1197s | players in the future |
| 1200s | i would also like to add that we are not |
| 1202s | sacrificing a lot of |
| 1204s | runtime computational efficiency for |
| 1206s | this we are uh making sure that |
| 1209s | optimization is always at the forefront |
| 1211s | of these decisions |
| 1212s | i i was doing a lot of the optimizations |
| 1214s | that we shared a while back with uh |
| 1217s | the simulated siege with a thousand |
| 1218s | characters and with just the early |
| 1221s | rendering test 1000 characters and this |
| 1223s | is using a lot of the or in a lot of |
| 1225s | these features implemented with the same |
| 1226s | tech for merging the mesh and merging |
| 1228s | the materials and batching that data for |
| 1229s | the gpu so that it can just crunch it |
| 1232s | all out at once so the first uh couple |
| 1235s | weeks was just spent making sure that |
| 1237s | this is viable for an mmo because you |
| 1240s | really don't see this type of large |
| 1241s | scale and this detail of characters |
| 1244s | uh with this level of customization |
| 1247s | in any game regardless of a large-scale |
| 1249s | mmo so we had to do a large amount of |
| 1252s | due diligence and tech to make sure that |
| 1255s | it can actually work |
| 1257s | yeah i think that if you look at how |
| 1259s | like the facial hair we broke that into |
| 1260s | slots like that's an obvious example |
| 1262s | where we're achieving a lot of variation |
| 1265s | by breaking those into components that |
| 1266s | you can select individually and build |
| 1268s | your own combinations where it's not |
| 1270s | possible for a lot of other games |
| 1272s | because we're combining those meshes and |
| 1274s | combining those materials with our |
| 1276s | udom slot pooling solution |
| 1278s | and to steven's point earlier you know |
| 1280s | when we had our sort of very limited |
| 1282s | character creator you know in our |
| 1284s | previous versions this really is i mean |
| 1286s | you're able to do sort of what my job is |
| 1289s | which was i was just making variants of |
| 1290s | characters to sort of put in you know |
| 1293s | and now that players can can do it it's |
| 1295s | just really cool to see come together |
| 1296s | the tattoos you should show that you can |
| 1298s | change the color too oh yeah because i |
| 1301s | think you're showing the tattoos which |
| 1302s | is cool but tiny ux features which is |
| 1305s | just |
| 1305s | being able to click on a |
| 1308s | tattoo and drag it anywhere on the body |
| 1310s | it's such like a good feeling experience |
| 1313s | that |
| 1313s | a lot of character creators you click it |
| 1315s | and it's just there |
| 1316s | and then you're changing it on a slider |
| 1318s | in the ui you know |
| 1320s | being able to like manipulate it on the |
| 1321s | character it just feels really good |
| 1325s | i agree this does feel good |
| 1328s | yeah i mean it's the benefit of having |
| 1329s | so many gamers as developers right you |
| 1331s | guys know what feels good and what you'd |
| 1333s | like to see and then |
| 1334s | actually implement it |
| 1336s | and another one of our core tenants is |
| 1339s | reusability of these tech features |
| 1341s | and you can see that we have scars and |
| 1344s | tattoos available in this decal system |
| 1346s | a lot of those are using the same |
| 1348s | technology to drive it and a lot of the |
| 1350s | details that you'll be able to place on |
| 1352s | the character we're reusing |
| 1354s | the technical features that we've solved |
| 1357s | to implement more features for you |
| 1361s | yeah most of the hard hard work is done |
| 1363s | in regards to tech |
| 1366s | yeah |
| 1368s | sorry i'm just trying to find like a |
| 1369s | nice little |
| 1370s | place for the scorpion |
| 1372s | teardrop the scorpion teardrop scorpion |
| 1375s | teardrop that's what i'm talking about |
| 1377s | okay it's cool that that's pretty cool |
| 1381s | i love that i love it all right let's |
| 1383s | talk about a little bit um |
| 1385s | let me see here |
| 1388s | play with the scars oh the scars yeah |
| 1390s | let me play with the scars |
| 1392s | he did he was messing around with it |
| 1394s | earlier when you guys were nerding out |
| 1396s | [Music] |
| 1398s | oh yeah talk to me a little bit about |
| 1399s | the scars clayton because i know you did |
| 1401s | a lot of work on that front with chris |
| 1403s | yeah |
| 1403s | yeah so i |
| 1405s | it's using mostly the same system as the |
| 1407s | tattoos but it's using a little bit more |
| 1409s | texture detail um |
| 1411s | and yeah it still uses the same direct |
| 1413s | manipulation and the scaling and |
| 1414s | rotation whenever you selected it |
| 1415s | highlights it for you so you know which |
| 1416s | one you're manipulating but basically |
| 1418s | it's just uh adding some bump detail and |
| 1421s | some like roughness and metallic and it |
| 1424s | has all this information that chris |
| 1425s | worked really hard on uh to |
| 1428s | show three-dimensional uh information on |
| 1431s | the character and you can sort of just |
| 1432s | place that wherever |
| 1435s | yeah it's always a fun process to |
| 1437s | working with clayton and zach because |
| 1438s | they're great at giving feedback and |
| 1440s | they're great at explaining exactly what |
| 1442s | they need they're like hey could you |
| 1444s | just make a couple adjustments to this |
| 1446s | map or this input and then we end up |
| 1448s | getting pretty much where i think |
| 1450s | everyone wants us to be with these |
| 1452s | especially when it came to uh i think |
| 1454s | you reworking a lot of the color clayton |
| 1456s | and getting that into them yeah uh |
| 1459s | basically there's like a flat color |
| 1461s | which is basically just a multiplication |
| 1463s | of the base skins color so we really try |
| 1466s | to make sure that the scars look and |
| 1467s | tattoos look good on every skin color |
| 1468s | that was a focus for us uh and |
| 1471s | it so it takes a base color and like |
| 1473s | multiplies it but then you also have a |
| 1474s | discoloration value that you can add to |
| 1476s | make it look a little bit more fresh or |
| 1478s | a little bit you know more aggressive |
| 1481s | yeah i love the um |
| 1483s | kind of wrinkle setting too |
| 1485s | really aging these characters |
| 1488s | yeah and i i will be adding um a lot |
| 1491s | more muscular detail as well so we will |
| 1493s | be able to control that so that you can |
| 1495s | kind of make your gun more i want my if |
| 1497s | you'd like my one pack chris yeah no we |
| 1500s | can do it you can get to the one pack |
| 1502s | also |
| 1503s | the one pack |
| 1505s | that's awesome |
| 1507s | the keg |
| 1509s | your fantasy maggie |
| 1510s | of course you |
| 1513s | know oh you know dwarf action |
| 1516s | i need need to look like i |
| 1519s | drink all the ale |
| 1520s | so have you shown off the hair color |
| 1522s | controls yet i have not yet |
| 1525s | bring it down a little bit sorry i was |
| 1527s | just being entranced by all the options |
| 1529s | and playing things trying to get people |
| 1531s | to |
| 1532s | just see the versatility um all right |
| 1534s | let's go to the hair color options where |
| 1536s | are we going here the head head yes hair |
| 1539s | i love it i worked |
| 1540s | pretty hard on that one with uh ginsee |
| 1542s | and |
| 1543s | um |
| 1544s | so with you and the rest of the team |
| 1546s | giving a lot of helpful feedback yeah |
| 1548s | but yeah you can pick two different |
| 1549s | colors and then it'll pretty much every |
| 1551s | hair color uses the accent in the fill |
| 1553s | differently but usually the fill is the |
| 1554s | root color and the accent is the tip |
| 1555s | color and you can adjust the gradient |
| 1557s | both the softness of the gradient and |
| 1559s | the offset of the gradient to really |
| 1561s | blend those colors however you want |
| 1563s | across the entire hairstyle |
| 1566s | yeah and jincy has a very scrutinizing |
| 1568s | eye so i know it's not easy clayton she |
| 1570s | kept coming back but like it needs more |
| 1571s | sheen here but yeah it's she's great to |
| 1574s | have leading this up too for all this |
| 1576s | hair tech |
| 1578s | let's see so this is now on the top |
| 1580s | though let me go to the beard |
| 1583s | and play with the beard one |
| 1586s | so accent and filler |
| 1588s | so i'm gonna throw a little bit of white |
| 1589s | in there oh that's a lot of white |
| 1592s | bit of salt and pepper a little salt and |
| 1594s | pepper |
| 1595s | look at that gradient too |
| 1597s | i like the highlighting though it looks |
| 1598s | cool |
| 1599s | yeah and we can control that through |
| 1601s | sort of different uv manipulation and |
| 1603s | get that salt and peppery mix in there |
| 1606s | let me actually turn off |
| 1610s | the hair and just do the beard |
| 1614s | and so i'm playing with this gradient to |
| 1616s | kind of determine |
| 1618s | the strength of that highlight right |
| 1621s | yeah so the contrast is sort of the the |
| 1623s | strength of uh that the differentiation |
| 1626s | between those two colors and the |
| 1628s | gradient will shift it along the hair |
| 1632s | i mean i could spend all day in this |
| 1633s | character |
| 1636s | i feel like that's how most people feel |
| 1638s | and the beauty of it is that you can |
| 1640s | save your character and we already have |
| 1642s | some of those features available |
| 1643s | and |
| 1644s | load them |
| 1646s | right and in the future we want we want |
| 1648s | people to be able to share those |
| 1649s | characters uh amongst each other |
| 1653s | for sure and not only that but you can |
| 1656s | save them for like we were talking about |
| 1658s | earlier like future npcs that you might |
| 1660s | hire on your freehold |
| 1662s | um and have those npcs look a certain |
| 1665s | way |
| 1666s | um i think that'd be really freaking |
| 1668s | cool |
| 1669s | that would be cool yeah |
| 1671s | very cool yeah i was even talking with |
| 1673s | the designers about integrating the |
| 1674s | character creator into the quest |
| 1675s | designer tool so that they can just |
| 1677s | create npcs with the click of a few |
| 1679s | buttons and have that already assigned |
| 1681s | to the quest and data |
| 1683s | all right i want to show off a sculpt |
| 1684s | tool can we use like a is there a preset |
| 1687s | that we have available let me see oh |
| 1690s | wait we did this i want to show the |
| 1691s | blend yeah okay so we're going to body |
| 1695s | um let's see yeah we did this guy |
| 1698s | a little bit |
| 1699s | um |
| 1701s | this guy looks pretty cool |
| 1703s | [Music] |
| 1708s | yeah that's pretty cool oh my god wait a |
| 1712s | minute i know i know that guy |
| 1714s | oh my god i forgot about this guy |
| 1718s | we were playing with the uh the |
| 1721s | functionality and how |
| 1723s | we could get |
| 1725s | um |
| 1726s | how |
| 1727s | granular we can get in the customization |
| 1729s | options to create you know |
| 1732s | different personalities out there |
| 1734s | you know it's gonna |
| 1736s | like backfire on you stephen there's |
| 1738s | gonna be ton of you and a ton of people |
| 1740s | making you in game no no no |
| 1743s | this actually looks great i hope |
| 1745s | hopefully |
| 1747s | excuse me hopefully asman likes |
| 1749s | likes this little rendition of it right |
| 1752s | it looks cool it does look cool it's |
| 1753s | kind of creepy |
| 1755s | how realistic it is too all right let's |
| 1757s | talk about blending so explain to me a |
| 1759s | little bit about the blending mechanic |
| 1763s | yeah so blending is a little bit more um |
| 1767s | it's not so in-depth especially for |
| 1769s | those players i don't want to spend |
| 1772s | you know time adjusting each angle of |
| 1774s | like the ear tip this is more of a large |
| 1777s | scale macro tool that you can select a |
| 1779s | couple you know presets and then you can |
| 1782s | get certain features from one preset or |
| 1784s | different features from a another preset |
| 1788s | so you place down your |
| 1789s | your presets and then you can click and |
| 1791s | drag and morph between those different |
| 1794s | presets oh yeah |
| 1797s | look at that that's pretty cool |
| 1800s | yeah i'm i'm impressed with how many |
| 1802s | options and ways you've given the player |
| 1804s | to mess with this character |
| 1807s | oh this would be cool for like a family |
| 1810s | so when you're creating npcs and you |
| 1811s | want them all to be similar like you |
| 1813s | make a mom and dad and then |
| 1816s | it'd be interesting |
| 1818s | yeah so you're taking features from each |
| 1819s | preset and you're making something |
| 1821s | completely new out of it |
| 1824s | oh that's looking great so weird |
| 1829s | it's freaking awesome |
| 1833s | i love this |
| 1836s | so you can add as many as you want |
| 1839s | and kind of pull between them huh not as |
| 1842s | many as you want i think there's a max |
| 1844s | at some point |
| 1846s | oh yeah |
| 1848s | for ui purposes |
| 1854s | too far apart stephen |
| 1856s | that's so cool it does give me the uh |
| 1859s | yeah it gives me hope for the system i |
| 1861s | will not name but |
| 1863s | that'll |
| 1864s | i'm the only one that's terrified of |
| 1866s | that one that catkins is having like |
| 1868s | nightmares about no |
| 1871s | we love her about animals |
| 1873s | oh i'm excited for that |
| 1879s | there you go |
| 1881s | that's looking good |
| 1885s | i mean |
| 1887s | it's looking |
| 1889s | yeah that's the right one it's looking |
| 1891s | like something |
| 1893s | i guess it's nice so you can make your |
| 1894s | guy like haggard for certain days of the |
| 1896s | week |
| 1898s | wait what this is mondays |
| 1900s | examines your character differently yeah |
| 1903s | for each day like a monday |
| 1906s | he looks like he's judging you |
| 1908s | no i i know what we can do here |
| 1911s | okay what can we do |
| 1914s | oh my god i'm scared |
| 1932s | zach said this is a fantasy game |
| 1936s | oh my god hold on let's go back to the |
| 1939s | back to the beginning and let's see what |
| 1942s | what it could have been hold on let me |
| 1944s | see real quick but it could have been |
| 1946s | what do you mean |
| 1947s | you know just steve what |
| 1952s | hold on and bring this all in tune i |
| 1955s | gotta get the hair into there we go all |
| 1956s | right let's take a look at our options |
| 1959s | now the length |
| 1961s | oh wow look at that i like the length |
| 1964s | that's not too bad that's not too bad |
| 1966s | oh okay that's a lot of hair it's really |
| 1969s | heavy on the hair front |
| 1972s | this is interesting |
| 1974s | this is like a bro version oh yeah |
| 1978s | i kind of like that i like that too |
| 1981s | yeah that's pretty interesting |
| 1984s | now let me go ahead and |
| 1987s | go back to the blend oh no actually the |
| 1989s | sculpt |
| 1991s | and let me adjust the eyes |
| 1993s | real quick |
| 1996s | no |
| 1996s | no |
| 1998s | no |
| 1999s | okay that's better |
| 2001s | like that yeah that's pretty good yeah |
| 2005s | yeah were we talking about clayton no |
| 2006s | negative results yeah that's right we're |
| 2008s | talking about |
| 2010s | so yeah that is one of our coordinates |
| 2012s | this is one of our core tenants that we |
| 2014s | want to make sure that the the user is |
| 2016s | always getting positive results with |
| 2018s | whatever they're customizing of course |
| 2019s | you can go crazy with it and try to make |
| 2021s | it look as goofy as possible but i |
| 2024s | definitely know monster factories no no |
| 2026s | moss factories i mean you could do some |
| 2028s | monster factories like |
| 2029s | with the tattoo put the scarring like on |
| 2032s | the eye |
| 2033s | yeah we can just grab the scarring |
| 2036s | and put that over the eye oh there we go |
| 2039s | let me manipulate this now wait for it |
| 2043s | i think i can make it super crazy large |
| 2046s | and like pull it down |
| 2048s | oh now that looks kind of creepy |
| 2052s | that doesn't look like it's slashed by |
| 2053s | like an axe or something you might have |
| 2055s | lost that fight i know i did lose that |
| 2058s | fight |
| 2059s | now we can adjust in the eyes hold on go |
| 2061s | back to the eyes and put this like weird |
| 2064s | film over it and make it maybe a little |
| 2066s | bit more |
| 2066s | sick yeah like a mage hit him with a |
| 2068s | fireball in the face or something yes |
| 2071s | and then oracle vibes we can take the |
| 2073s | pigmentation here make it a little bit |
| 2077s | a little uh |
| 2080s | hold on let me see |
| 2082s | now he's starting to look a little |
| 2083s | creepy |
| 2085s | right |
| 2086s | that doesn't look too bad oh that's |
| 2088s | scary |
| 2090s | i like that |
| 2092s | i wouldn't mess with that guy |
| 2093s | no he seems creepy give him some more |
| 2096s | wrinkles so now something interesting is |
| 2098s | that |
| 2099s | you know unreal obviously is a |
| 2101s | phenomenal engine epic is such a |
| 2103s | such a great company with you know the |
| 2105s | amount of resources that they pour in |
| 2107s | really to |
| 2109s | helping um you know out of the box this |
| 2112s | there being options for developers to |
| 2114s | use but |
| 2115s | at intrepid we really like you know |
| 2118s | creating |
| 2119s | the functionality ourselves i know that |
| 2121s | there's some some other |
| 2123s | character creators out there that people |
| 2124s | probably have seen with unreal engine |
| 2125s | one of which is what what's it called |
| 2127s | meta human i think meta human yeah |
| 2129s | yeah and yeah |
| 2131s | makes awesome characters but um |
| 2134s | yeah we we built all of this tech |
| 2136s | in-house uh yeah zach and i worked |
| 2138s | pretty yeah we wanted a solution that |
| 2140s | was tailored for the experience that we |
| 2143s | want to give players and especially the |
| 2144s | tech we needed to support it yeah |
| 2146s | especially for an mmo right because that |
| 2148s | that those technical requirements those |
| 2150s | those limitations are very specific to a |
| 2153s | per project basis almost |
| 2155s | 100 |
| 2156s | if we want to render as many characters |
| 2158s | as we want to in large scale battles we |
| 2159s | have to |
| 2161s | yeah |
| 2163s | well you guys did a phenomenal job and |
| 2165s | yeah everyone and even the people who |
| 2167s | are not here in this call like right |
| 2170s | that's what i was about to say like |
| 2171s | great job this was a wide-ranging um |
| 2174s | effort by not just clayton zack and |
| 2177s | and chris but with ginsee and brian gans |
| 2181s | and tristan and uh jim and the effects |
| 2184s | side um |
| 2198s | especially benoit a very important role |
| 2201s | of course through any development as a |
| 2203s | production team and benoit did an |
| 2205s | awesome job organizing |
| 2206s | um organizing a lot of it um |
| 2210s | we're falling apart without him for one |
| 2212s | day |
| 2214s | he's great for morale too because we'll |
| 2216s | be in the meetings and he's like i'm |
| 2218s | sorry i was mesmerized by the screen |
| 2220s | also let's not forget stephen oh of |
| 2223s | course stephen was here with us through |
| 2225s | this entire process he was guiding the |
| 2227s | entire thing giving us tasks on how to |
| 2229s | make this better and also is the driving |
| 2231s | force it was crazy enough to hear my |
| 2233s | pitch on what i wanted to make for the |
| 2235s | character creator and actually give me |
| 2237s | the responsibility to make it happen |
| 2240s | well you guys have done a phenomenal job |
| 2242s | and and i hope that out there in the |
| 2244s | community you know you you guys are |
| 2245s | seeing the quality right um that we're |
| 2248s | striving for in ashes of creation you're |
| 2250s | seeing that continual improvement the |
| 2252s | development on going on a monthly basis |
| 2254s | right now on our march towards alpha 2 |
| 2256s | and you guys are going to have an |
| 2258s | opportunity to play with this character |
| 2259s | creator to find the bugs in this |
| 2261s | character creator uh there's going to be |
| 2263s | additional functionality that we're |
| 2264s | going to discuss probably back on stream |
| 2266s | when we get there um that wasn't |
| 2268s | included as part of this first offering |
| 2269s | of this work in progress but is is the |
| 2271s | intent that we have for for this |
| 2273s | particular area of the game that we want |
| 2275s | to showcase eventually um so you know |
| 2279s | we're really just excited to see this |
| 2281s | this game come to life and to see you |
| 2283s | guys you know |
| 2284s | react to the hard work that our |
| 2286s | developers are putting into it and that |
| 2288s | that's exciting for me and i know it's |
| 2289s | exciting for you guys too um margaret is |
| 2292s | there anything else or guys doing let's |
| 2293s | show the randomization and also maybe |
| 2295s | the vec randomization so we can show |
| 2297s | maybe some more of those like uh sure |
| 2300s | tusk options and stuff |
| 2302s | but yeah i think that you know you said |
| 2304s | a lot of what i would resonate as well |
| 2308s | everyone worked really hard did an |
| 2309s | amazing job i mean look at this this is |
| 2311s | phenomenal |
| 2312s | um and there's more to come in regards |
| 2315s | to i know there's going to be a lot of |
| 2316s | questions about the other races and the |
| 2318s | different differences between them in |
| 2321s | character creation as well as you know |
| 2324s | the sexes we'll we'll be showcasing more |
| 2326s | of that like as we progress in our |
| 2328s | development so stay tuned oh the |
| 2331s | textures here are taking a little bit |
| 2332s | huh oh there we go perfect now this |
| 2334s | guy's uh this guy's a chunky vec little |
| 2337s | chalkiness here |
| 2338s | he's got a little song going on |
| 2342s | let me see zoom in on |
| 2344s | some of the face here |
| 2346s | if you go to the parents tab it'll uh |
| 2349s | [Music] |
| 2350s | be a little easier for the |
| 2353s | yeah there we randomization |
| 2357s | cool to see the tusks change whenever |
| 2359s | you hit randomize yeah i love that so |
| 2361s | much |
| 2362s | since he did really good on the test |
| 2364s | customization with a lot of variation |
| 2366s | yeah and that's something we'll make |
| 2367s | sure to bring into the other creature |
| 2369s | races as well |
| 2371s | yeah it looks great i think one thing |
| 2373s | that's really cool about uh doing the |
| 2376s | races and the features that we've done |
| 2377s | so far for the character creator is that |
| 2378s | it paves the way for the cooler things |
| 2381s | that we're gonna be doing later |
| 2384s | yeah totally agree very excited you guys |
| 2386s | have done a phenomenal job |
| 2389s | and i know |
| 2391s | that i share the feelings of the |
| 2393s | community when we say |
| 2395s | that we are very excited for the future |
| 2397s | and what not just the character it |
| 2399s | brings but watching all the other |
| 2401s | features for alpha 2 start coming online |
| 2404s | it's pretty exciting |
| 2406s | awesome well we will see all of you back |
| 2408s | on stream and for those of you who are |
| 2410s | watching on youtube feel free to leave |
| 2411s | us comments as i said before we're |
| 2413s | always excited to read feedback from all |
| 2416s | of our followers all of the people who |
| 2417s | are excited for ashes oh my god look at |
| 2419s | that guy's face |
| 2421s | excited for ashes of creation we read |
| 2422s | that we internalize it and we we come |
| 2424s | back to the community with actions that |
| 2426s | represent those |
| 2427s | those feelings so thank you for joining |
| 2430s | us during this video and we will see you |
| 2431s | back on stream |
| 2434s | bye |
| 2437s | [Music] |
| 2494s | foreign |