CK3 Dev Diary #07 - Characters & Portraits
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It is very likely that it does not need any further discussion and thus bumping it serves no purpose. If you feel it is necessary to make a new reply, you can still do so though.
Yes. My example is from a slightly different era. Seventeenth Century Art by Rubens...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/Peter_Paul_Rubens_004FXD.jpg
As you can see, female standards of beauty have changed considerably since then...
Yep! For example round moon-like face was considered attractive in ancient China. I'm not demanding a change, but having physical traits tied to a certain trait would be very beneficial modding wise. Imagine someone with the Habsburg legendary bloodline having the iconic deformed jaw and so on. And for social attractiveness changes, wouldn't that be interesting to model something like that? Like in the 800s wide pelvis girl get + 10 opinion, and in 1200s bigger breasts got +20 opinions or something.
I don't know how hard it is internally to add. I guess if physical appearance are made to be hidden traits it'll work.
Edit: maybe add a field like "accompanied_traits = {}" is not very hard. Idk though.
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I've heard - although I don't recall if this was confirmed, a rumor, or merely a musing - that the greater the degree of the Attractive trait in a character, the more symmetrical their features will be, and vice versa for Ugly.
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Something around those lines has been discussed a long time ago and, back in the day, it was mentioned that this opens up to "(race A) = ugly" mods and the like and we all know the internet enough that, yes, that would happen. I mean, as soon as they introduced "fat" as a trait, a discussion about "fat trait should cancel attractive" came up. I don't know about the opinion of the current developers at all and I do understand what you mean, but I'm just mentioning how it went last time this subject was brought up.
As for the attractive trait vs. harelip/hunchback/etc, my own headcanon on the subject is that a man with an amazing chin, gorgeous eyes, incrideble cheekbones and a nicely proportioned body but hareliped might not be as attractive, but since the traits are a mark of inheritable traits and not just a descriptor of the current person and since the traits are calculated in separate from one another, his chances of passing to the next generation any or all his positive features are not lessened because he migh also pass ahead his less attractive ones and vice-versa. It is not exactly the same, but in the same vein of why (unless "dormant traits" are a thing*) an attractive character should probably not loose his "attractive" trait if their entire face is mangled in battle. Because it didn't affect his chances of passing that trait.
*and if dormant traits are a thing, we have another problem in tracing who has those.
Well, characters don't have preset features to select from, but instead individual "DNA", that determines all of their physical traits, meaning their isn't any preset nose shapes, but instead various values that determine different parts of the nose, such as nostril height, nostril width, etc. for instance. At least that is what I think is the case, with what has been stated.
So unlike CK2 where you would only have maybe like 6 nose types to chose from, in CK3 theoretically the noses can be nearly infinite in terms of shape and that is just the noses. All features of the face can most likely be changed in shape in all sorts of ways and can be impacted further by traits, your character will gain weight if they have the gluttonous personality trait, their cheeks and nose will become flushed if they have the drunkard trait. They will gain scars and will be affected by disease and illness.
Now unto the shear scale of possibility that CK3 will provide for unique characters. This is no longer just addressing the quoted post and is just a kinda mini rant I want to get off my chest.
The possibilities for unique characters is most likely endless and that is just physical appearance, then their is the ~3 personality traits, the educational trait, lifestyle traits, coping mechanisms, both good and bad, congenital traits, and any other traits like, Pilgrim, Viking (I am pretty sure the Viking trait is a localization for the Norse culture for a trait called Raider), etc.
Then their is all of the lifestyle perks, across all 5 lifestyles, 3 perk trees each. The amount of variety that can provide on top of all the different traits will provide such a large range of variety. Then their is also the bloodlines with dynasty wide bonuses to your characters.
I honestly believe that CK3 will be so full of opportunities for unique characters and stories. I am really excited for Crusader Kings 3 and I am so anxious for the game to be released.
Okay mini rant over now.
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Thanks for the reply. As for the concern about racism, did anybody bring up "race X opinion +10"? Then each race will have different things they find attractive.
I just want a way to associate some traits with other trait, as some sort of a meta-trait or a "struct" of traits. Purely for modding liberty.
My opinion is that we should not be the one limiting ourselves just because we want to stop the bad guys from doing something. There are all sort of mods out there and some of them are already pretty racist (elves vs orcs for example).
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I might be in the minority. But it seems to me, that making a sequel to a game that has dozens of forum posts complaining about pre-plague slow down due to courtier numbers, but now every person will also have to render a 3D visualization, is a bit odd. Especially considering that nobody was really complaining about the 2D portraits in the first place.
All of this unnecessary graphical glamor seems like it will only make the potential userbase even smaller, when many of CK2s players wont even be able to play anymore.
All of this unnecessary graphical glamor seems like it will only make the potential userbase even smaller, when many of CK2s players wont even be able to play anymore.
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Slow down due to the number of courtiers is entirely CPU bound and has almost nothing to do with the rendering of characters, which is for the most part handled by the GPU. Characters that you don't look at are not rendered, so the number of characters doesn't have anything to do with the load on the GPU. Please don't complain about things that you don't really know much about.
Also, CK2 Portraits were... not that great, lacked variety (especially without portrait packs!) and had too many different styles. Also mixed ethnicities weren't a thing. And 3D portraits certainly make the potential number of players larger, as its less niche.
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The performance barrier associated with pre-plague slowdown due to courtier numbers is irrelevant to the question of 3D visualization, because only the characters who are being displayed will be 3D-rendered.
The pre-plague slowdown is because every courtier that exists increases the computational cost of the game itself.
Every courtier has prestige, gold, and piety counters that tick up (or down) monthly.
Every courtier is able to start plots.
Every courtier is able to die.
Every courtier is potentially able to be recruited to plots against other members of the same court.
Every courtier can be targeted by events.
etc.
The minimum spec for CK3 on Windows and Linux is basically a decent-to-good 2010 desktop gaming PC. The recommended spec is an entry-level 2019 desktop gaming PC.
The minimum spec for Mac feels weirdly high, but I understand there are actual reasons for that. (Whether they're good reasons is a separate question.)
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Can we expect a character editor with custom dynasties anytime in the future, seeing how that was one of the most enjoyable things about CK2? In all honesty it seems odd that it wasn't included at launch.
They have confirmed a Custom Ruler Designer will come in the future as part of a free update, they announced that in their first livestream they did.
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