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Originally Posted by eriqjaffe
I wasn't thinking of having FaceGen generate the hair , I was thinking something more along the lines of bobble's OOTP facial har mod - as the player image is created from the FaceGen data, have BTSoverlay a "hair" image on top of it, the same way OOTP does for caps.
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I've wondered about this for some time with OOTP. I'm sure I don't fully understand the technical obstacles involved, but the only explanations I recall seeing as to why this isn't feasible is that it would require every player/coach to be positioned exactly the same way within the frame, presumably facing directly forward, and that this wouldn't look realistic.
(Is this accurate or am I oversimplifying here? If anyone out there knows, please correct me if I'm mistaken and clarify.)
Personally, assuming this IS indeed the case, I would be perfectly fine with it if it meant players having hair. To me, the angle they're facing is much less important in terms of realism than whether or not they have hair.
This is especially true in the NFL as compared to MLB. In baseball, you only have a relatively small number of players with long hair (think Manny Ramirez, Andrew McCutchen, Tim Lincecum a few years back), but there are literally thousands of football players who sport long hair and/or dreads. It doesn't matter so much when you see a guy who has short hair IRL with a bald head in his Facegen likeness. But how weird is a Troy Polamalu, Steven Jackson, Larry Fitzgerald, or Clay Matthews going to look in their FG pic with NO HAIR?
Seriously, considering how much more of an issue hair will be in BTS, given both the abundance of players with long hair and the lack of helmets, maybe it's time OOTPD as a company bites the bullet and springs for a full Facegen license so hair can be added.
Just sayin'.
