Hair Dudes!

Ok, maybe I am just plain sucky at Av customization, but it seems to me that the beard/mustache sliders need some extra tweaking.

As it is, you can have large or small, but they look... well, not to be mean, but rather sad. if you go for a small mustache, you cant seem to make it bushy, if you go for a goatee you can make it thin (yes you can bring it all the way down to shadow, but at some point you reach a shadow/full goatee threshold, and there doesnt seem to be a middle ground).

Now maybe it's only me, but I would like to see as much ability to tinker with facial hair as you have for head hair.

hmm and while talking about hair....


BODY HAIR

how about a slider that allows the body to be smooth or covered in hair (well a couple actually...)

slider 1 - coverage. from none to full body (with the hair growing first in normal place and then moving out from there in thickening patches
slider 2 - hair density, from almost none to bushy as walking furball.

After all, I am sure that there are some out there that would just love to be a furball.

* Raises hand *

I wanna be a wookie...

But, speaking of hair, the reason I use my spikes is because the hair is... not what it should be. If I could just have thicker bangs that I could move closer to my forehead, and long hair that was really loooonnnnngggg, and side fringe that could be thicker, I could work with that and be a happy woman.


Kerstin

OH YEA! I wanna be Elmo!

A further note on this from me. I notice on my male av that if you opt for a short hairstyle the sideburns never hook up with the hairline. A suggestion might be to start the sideburns higher up?
thanks!

Thanks for all your suggestions and comments. We have plans to add several hairy features to av. customization, but I should mention they are rather low priority at the moment.

1. 3rd dimention to facial hair- currently you can customize the length dimention (i.e - short sideburns to long muttonchops) and the thickness dimention (i.e. 5 oclock shadow to bushy beard). The 3rd dimention is "width", so that you could then create a pencil thin moustache, for example.

2. Start the sideburns higher up (for the very reason stated by Misnomer)

3. Body hair of some sort - It will probably be more like a texture slider that spans the normal range of human body hair patterns. If you're waiting for long, flowing body hair that waves in the wind and gets stuck to your avatar's butt a la Sully from Monsters, Inc.... er, don't hold your breath. (unless you can hold your breath for affordable CPUs that run at 1000 GHZ. Sorry to all you furverts out there )

Seriously, if all you want is a hair texture applied to your avatar's body, this is already possible in the current system using the "body tatoos" layer. I'm pretty sure I've seen a couple avatars walking around with such a texture applied in the past.

Kerstin, we did add longer hair in a recent release. But until we can apply physics to hair (another CPU killer), we can't go longer without the hair slicing unnaturally through your avatar when you move around. (Hair is a notoriously tricky problem for computer graphics to render, especially for a real-time app. ) I'm not sure what you mean by "thicker bangs and thicker side fringe" but using a different texture for your hair than the default texture might solve your particular problem. And you should be able to play around with the hair sliders to get your bangs closer to your forhead (admittedly this can be tricky and non-intuitive given the number of hair sliders to sort through.)

-Xenon