{"id":464,"date":"2026-01-31T15:12:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T21:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/survivorsoflateearth.com\/blog\/?p=464"},"modified":"2026-01-31T15:12:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T21:12:40","slug":"female-character-art-fixed-and-character-avatar-added","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/survivorsoflateearth.com\/blog\/female-character-art-fixed-and-character-avatar-added\/","title":{"rendered":"Female Character Art Fixed and Character Avatar Added"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

While play-testing the Character Creator system, I realized that there was an issue with the female character’s art. I was already aware that the female head was wider than the male’s head. The more I looked at it, the more glaringly obvious it became to me that it needed to be fixed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Female Character Art Improvements<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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\"Before<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I moved the female character’s head over by a pixel and adjusted all facial elements accordingly. It’s a subtle change, but it looks better, I think. While I was at it, I updated the inner portion of the breast art to be a lighter shade so it’s not quite so pronounced. I’m not sure I’m satisfied with the lightness of the shade, but for now, it’ll do.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Finally, An Avatar<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

With everything added and functional in the Character Creator, it was time to implement the character in its first form in the game: the character avatar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Poor Tedd. Holding down the fort for 4 months in one form or another.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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\"It's
It’s Eloise’s time to shine.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

For 4 months of development, a random ‘character’ named Tedd served as the placeholder for the character avatar. Why Tedd?<\/strong> It just popped into my head as an easy character name, and that’s the character that’s been made and re-made for testing likely thousands of times.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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With character avaters added into the game, Tedd finally gets to take a well-deserved and permanent break from being the avatar placeholder!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Character Creator Not Quite Finished<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

I was pretty happy, thinking that the Character Creator was pretty much done. All that was left to do, I thought, was to add the character avatar, and embed the code inside the game in order to provide the ingame functionality for a player to edit their character. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boy, was I wrong. <\/strong>I realized I’d only added one accessory slot. This was supposed to cover hats, glasses, earrings, and accessories in other facial locations. It occurred to me that 1 slot was just not going to cut it. So, I’ve decided that I’m going to add 3 additional accessory slots. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There will be 1 accessory slot for the head (for hats and stuff that sits atop the player’s head), 1 slot for eyewear (including glasses, eye patches, goggles, stuff like that), 1 slot for earrings and ear wear, and finally, 1 slot for miscellaneous accessories (like a clown nose or necklace.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, this is going to make it take longer to finish the system, but that’s not a big deal. I had planned for it to take about a week to complete the whole system. We’re on day 5 of collective days of development, so we’re well within the projected time frame and working at a pace where the system should be finished by the expected time. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While play-testing the Character Creator system, I realized that there was an issue with the female character’s art. I was already aware that the female head was wider than the male’s head. The more I looked at it, the more glaringly obvious it became to me that it needed to be fixed. Female Character Art […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-dev"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivorsoflateearth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivorsoflateearth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivorsoflateearth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivorsoflateearth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivorsoflateearth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/survivorsoflateearth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472,"href":"https:\/\/survivorsoflateearth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions\/472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivorsoflateearth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivorsoflateearth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivorsoflateearth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}