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CCP Games recently released a new developer blog post, this time detailing the new Character Creator feature included in the upcoming EVE Online Incursion expansion rolling out in December and January. Featuring all new art for each bloodline, race, and gender, the creator is the first step in providing station avatars for players in 2011.

The Carbon Character System was made to enable us to create characters for several projects, including Eve. It started off as a design document containing various wishlist features, ranging in complexity from the simple to the impossible. I believe most of the items on the list ended up being possible, with the possible exception of essentially being able to perform a striptease with arbitrary clothing. Hmm, do they even do that in CGI movies these days? Do I really want to know?

Anyway, the system has been seen in public before, highlighing cloth simulation and recently on the Singularity test server. So what‘s it all about? Is there anything new here?

For this blog, which I hope is the first of several, we‘re going to take a closer look at a couple of interesting features of the system you‘ll have in your hands soon. There are lots of interesting (to me, anyway) things about the system to explore, but I‘ll start with what makes the faces tick - the specs of the faces and the face sculpting feature. My vantage point is right in the middle between programming and art - I do character tech art.

EVE Online: Character Creation

CCP Games

TransGaming

EVE Online

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