This has always been the hardest part of the game. So many hours wasted in the facegen, and yet I don't think I've ever made a face I was truly satisfied with. This is worse in the Sims because I can't possibly make a full household in one sitting. It takes me days. Sometimes I just hit the random button a few times and run with it.
I fucking raged every single time I tried to make a male character because he'd always come out with baby-fat looking cheeks, or a lame undershot chin, or stupid looking lips, all because it looks 100% different from a separate perspective. >:[ This picture is truth.
I spent over half a day failing and failing over and over, until finally, I managed to make a face that make me think "yes, I can go with this!"When I first started playing Oblivion, I tried hard to make a loli-faced, big-breasted pretty girl to my likings.When I got a look at it from a different angle in-game, my entire soul cried out.I guess that's how it is... It's 3D, after all...
No matter how much time you spend tweaking it from a head-on perspective, it's not going to do you any good if the balance of the complete model is off...
Yup... God, this is driving me mad...With my trembling hand I pushed the button that closes the character creation window.And then...
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