New body types in the future?

[jimthehermit]

I know children are asked alot, but will there ever be body types other than male and female? Like a Giant/Monster type and a Child/Gnome/Dwarf type? Or one type that's resizable?

I assume the code to interact with the objects are built into the objects- but they don't have to sit on sofas. Walking, running, postures, gestures, being shot at, etc., would be fine.

If I had a bigfoot (and a dog and raccoon), I could film one of my short stories.

[jimthehermit]

Just had an idea

How about a male the size of females and a female the size of males? That way all the animations would still work and we have some variety.

[willshetterly]

How about a male the size of females and a female the size of males? That way all the animations would still work and we have some variety.

The objection was that the walk for the sexes is different. But I think that would be tolerable with different body types.

[Chris Ollis]

The objection was that the walk for the sexes is different. But I think that would be tolerable with different body types.

Aside from the sexy or blokey walk being applied to the opposite sex, the bigger problem is having the time to convert every single character we've made to the other skeleton which would involve a lot of careful resizing and vertex adjustment as well as the mind numbingly slow process of duplicating neck seams that work.

[corthew]

Aside from the sexy or blokey walk being applied to the opposite sex, the bigger problem is having the time to convert every single character we've made to the other skeleton which would involve a lot of careful resizing and vertex adjustment as well as the mind numbingly slow process of duplicating neck seams that work.

What he's suggesting is making male skins for the female skeleton and female skins for the male.

It wouldn't require anything more than new skins.

The animations are already there.

[Chris Ollis]

What he's suggesting is making male skins for the female skeleton and female skins for the male.

It wouldn't require anything more than new skins.

The animations are already there.

That's what I described. On average each costume would take half a day without other interruptions to resize and reskin. I can't remember how many costume variants we have, its either 100 total or 100 each I think, so that's possibly 100 days non stop working on creating costumes resized to the other skeleton.
I think its safe to assume that Amos has a little too much on his plate to consider such a massive undertaking.