That makes a lot of sense! I was too impatient to really figure out the cause 
Thanks
curious if you are using the vive or rift?
Rift.
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Definitely one of the most unique character creation systems I’ve experienced. I think it’s very cool in many ways, but there are definitely some polish opportunities.
- More hair options as others have mentioned.
- Needing to reach into the user interface to pull out a set of ears and explode them on your character to switch them feels pretty weird. I think this may be a case where it would be preferable to be able to cycle through ears easily and quickly to see the differences between them. Needing to look down and having the explosion makes it actually trickier to see the difference between options.
- Having additional modifiers for uniqueness would go a long way for differentiating each other more as avatars. Long jagged scar, eyepatch, broken nose, notched ear, facial tattoos, etc.
- Being able to modify your character in some way after creation is pretty important with this. Seems like it would be a common case where someone accidentally made their character lumpy in some way without realizing it and then they are stuck with it.
- Would be awesome to have eye color as a customization option. This can go a long way to making each character very distinct. (The blonde guy with the red eyes, the bald guy with the blue eyes, etc) (if this is in and I didn’t see it, I apologize)
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Okay so my feedback for Character Customisation so far:
Character head/body
Being able to change your body type, shape of head etc. Is a really good change and quite well done, the uniqueness of each person is great, like when dyes were added to the game, you can tell who people are by their gear/colours and makes it easy to notice who is who without looking for their name, this is the same thing but a lot more fun, we’ve already had a lot of laughs with it, so thanks for that!
Customisation Options
As others have stated already, more hair options needed, need beards, being able to pick the style of eyes you want and then change the colour of them after would be much nicer and would have a much more personal feel to it then the pre-selected eye colours
Customisation Menu
Grabbing items and throwing them at the avatar with a poof a smoke when you do it, doesn’t feel like a very good way of doing it, grabbing the items on Oculus rift felt horrible, I kept grabbing the wrong thing to what I was trying to grab (video below) I think it would be a much better option to have a picture of the hair style and it just change when you click it so you can just quickly preview them all and select the one you like best, while the mirror is an improvement on what we have in the current game, a way to either grab and rotate or just press a button to rotate the avatar would be a much better way of checking out your avatar.
Apologies for the low mic audio, I had no idea it was that low when recording, will look into that for next time but hopefully this will show how the grabbing mechanic is for oculus rift users (or at least me if no one else was having issues)
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I absolutely love being able to adjust the body and head shapes, and I have loved the variety that has brought to the avatars!
Could something similar be done with hair to an extent? Like could the front of hair be pulled down for bangs, moved left or right for “swoop bangs,” or pushed up to just have none? I think it’d be neat if any base style had custom “pull and adjust like the body and face” for preferred bangs (or lack thereof). Also for length, what about pulling the hair up for shorter, down for longer, or even out (to make thicker/fuller, a ponytail or braid wider, etc) from a base style to give it a bit more versatility? Like the no-bang pigtails, an option to create a style of bangs, make the hair in the pigtails longer or shorter. Maybe even adjust the angle of the pigtails (like whether they’re higher on the head, lower, practically above the ears, or more towards the back)? If the base style were a single braid, could the braid be adjusted in length, straight down back or be able to pull over a particular shoulder? Maybe even this way, if it’s feasible, a base style could easily be “military-short” or “fantasy-long” (for either gender) and a main difference be hair texture (straight, wavy, curly ringlets, dreads, etc) or a particular style (ponytail could be any length or as short as a bun if they aren’t separate styles, single braid, pigtails that are placed differently, braided pigtails, “half up ponytail”, down/loose hair, where hair by temples has a band on them kinda like Korra, other style options as base I’m not thinking of, etc)
For hair color, could each color have a slider like skin color to choose the depth or lightness of a hue? Like still have blonde/yellow and brown be separate hues, but then there’s a platinum blonde and dark honey blonde, etc.
Yes, eye shape and eye color need to be different. Please let us pick our favorite eye shape and then choose which iris color we would like. Also cool if each eye color also had a slider to pick how light/dark
Also yes on rotating the avatar to see the profile, YES!!! love the mirror to see the back, so if not rotate, at the very least another mirror to see profile?
Edit: How is height determined?? Was there a way to adjust avatar height that I missed, or is it based off our height in the VR settings?? I thought people being different heights was super cool!
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Beards please!! Also an option for going bald would be nice. I need to represent my ugly old self in my avatar. I also felt that there need to be more eye options in comparison to other features, the eyes are one of the largest features to truly represent yourself and differentiate your avatar and in this sense I felt it was the most lacking. Love the changes so far though, keep it up!
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I’d love to have a bald option for hair and of course beards!
Besides that (and maybe a few more eyes & mouths) I like the changes! It’s easy to use, though I hit the “Create character” button accidentally - it was pretty easy to do when I got into it. Maybe a confirmation box, but not a big deal.
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I echo the need for more hairstyles as I felt there is a severe lack of styles, especially “female” styles. All options we choose (eyes, hair, etc) should have the option for a color wheel like in most games where you pick a color and then the lighter/darker slider to adjust the tone. I feel the mouths were a bit limited as well, so a few more options or the ability to stretch/skew them as @Airis suggested would work well here. As @Draven suggested physical features such as scars, moles, facial hair, and glasses(a must!!!) are absolutely essential to fun immersion and depth to identifying each character. Also a feature when creating your character to see a few gearsets/hats on them to see how the look goes together with the gear.
Also it has been mentioned, but shops in town for buying clothes (can be the cash shop), a barber (in game currency to redo hair and such), voodoo? (redo character traits with like a special item drop) would be helpful to alleviate any regrets in character choice and/or change in how you want to present yourself. Also it would add to the small number of shops that have purposes in cities currently.
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Dude, that’s brilliant. voodoo 
I would pay to have an outfit like Daeresha drew for Decoy. That’d be cool to submit outfit ideas and see if they end up in the cash shop or other in-game clothing store!
Edit: just to include Dae’s drawing of Decoy over here
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I believe it would be better if you could pick a nose/hairstyle/eye and reshape it just like you can do with the face. Kind of like Black Desert Online. This would probably be great because some people don’t like the presets. Also noticed there’s no eye color changer.
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The character customization is cool, the avatars looks much more lifelike an “realistic” now. I especially like how you can physically pull on the different parts of the face it adds some uniqueness. But I think even more diversity needs to be added for every avatar to feel special.
- I think most guys are missing options for beard/stubble/moustache! Stubble should be super easy to add in right?
- Add in some scars/tatoos/beautymarks as another option. I would personally like some freckles
- Most important and something you notice first, EYES. Have some more options, maybe some cute eyelashes for the ladies. Also add color after choosing style that would make so many more options. Maybe even have eyebrows separate?
- More Hairstyles. Try some really simple female hairstyles like “page” “bob” and a really long hairstyle. Maybe a simple ponytail, braid? I’m sure It would be appreciated! If you can add a curly hairstyle and afro hair!
- Personally I’m not a fan of the “lipstick looks” that I think is meant for female avatars? I just feel that my avatar looks like a dragqueen. One really simple solution for a more “feminine look” is add one smaller mouth, just a normal simple mouth just shorter.
I think adding options by throwing the parts/colors at the avatar is nice. Precision can be hard in menus in VR and it’s always fun to throw stuff around.
Lastly I just want to say that even in this state the avatars is a big step forward from the current ones i Orbus. Good work! Love it!
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The character customization is great and looks way better than the normal avatars but it could definitely use a eye and eyebrow color picker and maybe even the ability to manipulate the nose, eye, ear, and mouth shapes like the rest of the avatar.
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Nice start, I just wish there were more options. I tried, unsuccessfully to get anything close to resembling myself. Perhaps adding some additional pull tabs on the features (eyes, ears, nose, mouth) to allow tweaking size and spacing.
Another thought, how about allowing to save more than one that can be changed. That way when you finally defeat the big boss, you can put on your “Cat ate the Canary” grin. Or if, after hours of work, you wipe with just a sliver of health left, you can put on a Tired Zombie face.
It was very very cool to see the differences in people!! My input would be “more blue dots”. That’s a neat way to customize. Yay I can have boobs! One way we could make girls look more like girls would be to have a blue dot at the hips. Boobs +hips = girl . This would be great for hair also. Could make hair longer or shorter with the dot. Could change a parting or make bangs ect.
Also thanks for the curly hair option! I was excited to see that! Lol the curly pigtails is exactly how I normally wear my hair.
Overall very cool. I loved it. It was great to see faces with personality!
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Most basic thing we need!
- Default button - In case you want the look from the beginning
- Rotate button - you press on that button and the character does a full spin of 15 sec.
- Edit button - when you pressed finish, but decided to change the hair again
- Eye colors - eyes and eye color should be seperate
Do these 4. things and then do more hairstyles etc. THANK YOU!
bald hairstyle would be very appreciated
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We’ll definitely continue to make changes here, there’s a lot more we are planning to add, yeah.
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