In-Game Character Portraits Please!

[Lasershadow]

This is something that this game is lacking that I am surprised has not been implemented yet is portrait selections for your Character during Character Creation. Something that could be added in future developments to provide some default portraits to fill in for your character in the future.
I have used the guide to make my own portraits before but with the rising amount of game characters with images for various poses please in the future add portraits for your Character into Character Creations!

[A Ballad from Nocturne]

There is a very simple reason for that: you can load up your own picture, so there is no need for a selection of pictures to pick from, and there is no way to accommodate to all the possible changes the champion can undergo.

It would be nice if there was a set of pictures to pick from just because it's far more convenient, but it's still unnecessary and therefore kinda a waste of resources.

[Pixel Peeper]

One of the biggest issues is that this game is transformation-heavy. Any portrait you choose at character creation may not be valid for very long. It's the main reason why the custom portraits exist.

[Lasershadow]

I get what both of you are saying. Still couldn't hurt to at least have a portrait of each race and gender for not tech savvy or lazy people.
Heck even a non Dev could post in the guides a flood of googled images that would fit for easy cut and paste use.
I am still saying that sooner or later PC portraits will be needed content to complete the game.

[Lasershadow]

Oh. The Devs could make a "show off your portrait" contest of some sort to have players fill in the blanks of PC portraits.

[A Ballad from Nocturne]

It couldn't hurt but it most likely won't happen. As far as I know the Devs never intended to include pictures for the champion, so I don't see why they should consider the game to be incomplete without them.

Don't get me wrong, I would be happy about it but I am basically 100% sure that this isn't considered something the game lacks by a. the Devs and b. the majority of the player base

[Kalypso]

Originally posted by Pixel Peeper:

One of the biggest issues is that this game is transformation-heavy. Any portrait you choose at character creation may not be valid for very long. It's the main reason why the custom portraits exist.

Modded CoC1 did that exact thing, and it had way more wacky transformations.

[A Ballad from Nocturne]

Originally posted by Kalypso:

Originally posted by Pixel Peeper:

One of the biggest issues is that this game is transformation-heavy. Any portrait you choose at character creation may not be valid for very long. It's the main reason why the custom portraits exist.

Modded CoC1 did that exact thing, and it had way more wacky transformations.

One specific mod does that, and as cool as it is it's still really low quality pixel art. It wouldn't fit in the slightest with the design of the CoC 2 CGs.

[Kalypso]

Originally posted by A Ballad from Nocturne:

Originally posted by Kalypso:

Modded CoC1 did that exact thing, and it had way more wacky transformations.

One specific mod does that, and as cool as it is it's still really low quality pixel art. It wouldn't fit in the slightest with the design of the CoC 2 CGs.

It very well could, done right. Video games have been doing it for years.

[A Ballad from Nocturne]

Originally posted by Kalypso:

Originally posted by A Ballad from Nocturne:

One specific mod does that, and as cool as it is it's still really low quality pixel art. It wouldn't fit in the slightest with the design of the CoC 2 CGs.

It very well could, done right. Video games have been doing it for years.

Of course, the Devs could pay for having literally each and every potential body configuration drawn the same style and quality all the other art has, but that requires a lot of money just for that. I'm not saying it's impossible, I meant to point out that it is quite a lot to ask for.

[Kalypso]

Originally posted by A Ballad from Nocturne:

Originally posted by Kalypso:

It very well could, done right. Video games have been doing it for years.

Of course, the Devs could pay for having literally each and every potential body configuration drawn the same style and quality all the other art has, but that requires a lot of money just for that. I'm not saying it's impossible, I meant to point out that it is quite a lot to ask for.

I agree, but at the same time, couldn't tell you how many times i missed a transformation and only found out when checking my character page. It would also be nice to have a visual for the transformations.

[Kalypso]

Hell, if i wanted to put my art in a game like this, i would volunteer to do it for free.

[A Ballad from Nocturne]

Originally posted by Kalypso:

Originally posted by A Ballad from Nocturne:

Of course, the Devs could pay for having literally each and every potential body configuration drawn the same style and quality all the other art has, but that requires a lot of money just for that. I'm not saying it's impossible, I meant to point out that it is quite a lot to ask for.

I agree, but at the same time, couldn't tell you how many times i missed a transformation and only found out when checking my character page. It would also be nice to have a visual for the transformations.

I absolutely do not disagree on that, it would be hella amazing to have a visual representation of our champions. Just trying to be realistic here. On the other hand the Dev of Unholy Arts has just announced that their game will have animated scenes in the future, actually for all the possible player character avatars. That said atm there are 3 to pick from & it might be 3 even when the game is finished.

[yumri]

Originally posted by Kalypso:

Originally posted by A Ballad from Nocturne:

Of course, the Devs could pay for having literally each and every potential body configuration drawn the same style and quality all the other art has, but that requires a lot of money just for that. I'm not saying it's impossible, I meant to point out that it is quite a lot to ask for.

I agree, but at the same time, couldn't tell you how many times i missed a transformation and only found out when checking my character page. It would also be nice to have a visual for the transformations.

Seeing as you have at least 20 different transformations just for the body before you get to anything else you would have the most likely solution being that it would be the system of either
1 They commission an artist to draw all possible combinations

2 They commission an artist to draw each part in each color then have them put together when you add or subtract something

For most which do this it is 2 not 1 as 2 is much cheaper and quicker but leads to some of them having visual bugs when stuff overlaps. As it is set up right now we can imagine how our character(s) look in our heads. IF they were to be drawn for us then the game will lose that aspect of what the idealized version of it in the player's head is.

[Liyran]

Considering this game is making $33,000 a month on Patreon on top of Steam sales, you would expect something like this to be in the game. Or at least more content updates instead of the one paragraph of text they add once a month. But here we are.

[Lasershadow]

I think I like to add that I am not antagonistic about this. I just think considering the time this game has been out it seems this sort of feature simply has been benched so long it has been left forgotten.