Character Creator & Character Customization (Official Thread)

I would love it if we could modify body type. I loved that about Fallout 4. I'm not sure if it's possible for a lot of variation in a game with a lot of cutscene interactions though, but minor changes would be great.

yeah same here there are a couple of half decent hairstyles in DAI and tbh the default one is one of them but unfortunastely that's as far as it goes. I do use those hairstyles but thanks to the fact I've found DAI easy to mod. I've been pretty much using mods to give me the better haiirstyles I want. I must admit I like the one I'm running with on my Rachel Travelyan atm it's really suiting her. TBH the ME trilogy had better options even though it had less of them. Hopefully though MEA does improve on DAI it looks like there's a chance it will all the clues are there at least because had Sara's hairstyle been available in DAI I'd have likely used it by now on one of my quizzies. I'd always prefer the hairstyles to be in the game already as not all  games are easy to mod and in fact despite my best efforts I couldn't get any mods working in the trilogy or in DA2 tbh. Although in DA2 I don't really need it as I'm quite happy with the styles they gave us there. I've only managed t oget mods working in DAO and DAI but those are the ones that need it the most. Hopefully MEA will have it all covered but only time will tell.

Yeah, it produced really mixed results.  Some of my characters looked great, other's I had to abandoned because it was like a completely different character.  I really don't understand why such dramatic differences occur.  Someone earlier suggested following the FO4 approach of essentially doing it in cutscene...which I think is a good idea.  Not sure how difficult it is to implement that though.

See, my problems with the CC in Bioware games is that my male characters always come out looking awful. I pick one of the default looks and tweak it slightly or go with the main look for them. My female characters always look great though. It's weird. I can make a woman's face that's anything from quirky cute to classic beauty to dramatically striking, and it always comes out great, but have me make a man and you'd think I've never seen a person before.

yeah mine generally turn ou the way I want them too as well sometimes they turn out a bit differently but in general they work as intended

I would love for them to allow body customization, even something like having a few preset types like Lithe, Fit, Muscular, Amazonian, etc. I would say that evn this won't happen, but Ian answered a tweet about this in a way that leaves a sliver of hope. I would also love scars to come back but add different kinds of scars. So far they have slash ones, but it would also be neat to have things like burn scars, bullet scars, or maybe something like biotic scars as options. This would be another thing that would be cool if we could do it to the body as well as the face. Finally, I would like for them to allow the full color wheel for everything such as hair and eye color. They did this in DAI with the eyes, so doing the hair shouldn't be a problem.

Perhaps the skin is warped or blackened, like the wall we see in Jack's loyalty mission that she says is biotic scarring. I just through that out there as an example of more exotic scars that they could do. 

I can see the scars and tattoos returning, since they have them in DAI (even though it's just face tattoos).

It'd be cool to be able to put tattoos on the rest of the body as well, at least torso and arms.

Different body types I don't think so, even presets (tho it'd be really cool).

I don't think long hair is going to happen, unless always pinned up, but I hope there's at least a good variety of cool hair. If Morrigan and Josephine can have them, why can't we?

And I think by what has been shown that we'll have better casual clothes than DAI at least

Different body sizes might result in less cinematic conversations with NPCs. Didn't one of the DA devs claim that was part of why DA:I had less? I believe designing scenes where characters physically interact with other characters or objects also takes more work, because varying body sizes can result in clipping.

If so I'd much rather there was one body size to rule them all.

if character customization in A will be similar to DA:I with facial animation capture, it will be almost perfect

I don't recall any dev saying that, other than about how it made The Iron Bull's romance scenes hard to animate but they were pleased the animator pulled it off. I recall the devs saying that there being less cinematic conversations was more an experiment they were doing or something like that. 

I'd like the chance to colour my character's eyes separately, one green, one blue for example, maybe also some 'punk' style hair options
& tats.

Just my opinion.