Character Creator & Character Customization (Official Thread)

If you can't see the similarities between this statement you made:

"You do a lot of the same things in both CCs and DAIs consisted largely of picking a pre set and molding that pre set to your whim."

And the summary by thesnarkyshaman

"So you're saying that these two character creation systems both involve the basics of a character creator system (namely taking a preset and creating a character from it) and thus they are similar."

Then I just don't know what to tell you.

The range is limited within each preset. So if you choose say head number 8, you'll have a different range of skin tones to choose from than if you chose head number 3.

As if. That's not an accurate comparison in any reasonable sense of the word!

Not going to happen, I'm afraid. This CC is so limited that recreating celebrities to any noticeable degree is essentially impossible.

From the sound of this tweet, it sounds like a CC patch post launch is looking very likely, and they are compiling a list of suggestions for potential new features.

Erin Kane‏ @aloudernoise
My complaint is with the CC's extreme limitations in general. The skin tone part comes from the tweet you got.
She says 8 can't be changed

Ian Soon Frazier‏ @tibermoon
Ok, I checked it out. The #8 heads do have a slightly narrower range than head 1 or 3, due to the base texture. I'll see if patching is a possibility for that or not. We're looking at various CC patch possibilities now, so this can go on the list.

Cheers.

Let's see in terms of analogy, maybe a better comparison might be a comic book compared to a novel. You can certainly enjoy a comic book, but you'll finish it quicker than reading a novel, and depending on the calibre of both mediums you may not enjoy it as much as you enjoyed the novel.

Yup! Brilliant decision making from BioWare: completely hobble the CC just so an NPC who'll probably hardly have any screen-time can look vaguely related to your character.

Limited CC for that isn't still necessary though. DA2 modeled our siblings and mother after us even if that was limited, the CC wasn't. FO4 gave you option to design both yourself and your significant other. DAI gave options to design both Inquisitor and Hawke. So it can be part of reason why it's so limited- face scans being another one, but our twin and father could still look somewhat like our characters without it restricting CC.

Oh quick question! I would be so grateful if someone could point me to which video shows the creation of the lilac-haired Asian Ryder.

Please and thanks!

I honestly don't know how much stock I'll put in this explanation if Bioware tries to say that's why. They did a mother and a sibling in DA2 who looked at least somewhat like Hawke with no hobbling of the CC. Of course it wasn't 100 percent perfect but it certainly would have been something Bioware could have used as a jumping off point for this CC. 

And from what I remember there were free mods around for the PC that perfected the familial resemblance for DA2. So it's a little hard for me to believe that a person using consumer level tools in 2011-2012 could do what an entire team of devs using developer level tools and building a game from the ground up can't in 2017.

(Not going after what you said, I'm just saying that will be my reaction if Bioware officially tries to go with that excuse)

Edit: At this point I realize I'm rehashing what a ton of other people have pointed out 

Check Ability Drain on YouTube. It's from her video.