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Offline Everquest 2 Character Creator

Posted by Zonk on from the cute-toy! dept.

Worthplaying has a note that Ubisoft (SOE's EU distributor) and SOE have made available an offline character creator on the UK EQ2 site. It's somewhat large, but the EQ2 character creation process is somewhat in-depth. Should make for a fun toy.

18 comments

  1. 365 MB? by Pluvius · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it be easier just to take all of the physical customization crap out and release a utility concerning the parts of the character that are actually important? I bet you could fit that into just a few MBs without even trying.

    Rob

    1. Re:365 MB? by Blackwulf · · Score: 2, Informative
      Wouldn't it be easier just to take all of the physical customization crap out

      Considering that the tool IS for the phyiscal customization (there's not much statistic character customization in EQ2, they kept it simple outside of race and class in terms of actual numbers) then sure, they could have fit all that into 0MB and it would be a lot easier..

    2. Re:365 MB? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      No - that would not be "easier." Release all the player customization utilities as they are VS. somehow taking out all the physical "customization crap". Hmm, do nothing and release the tool that already exists modified for offline play vs. modifying that online tool to get it into a smaller file.

      Yup, you're an idiot and have never programmed a thing in your life. FOAD.

    3. Re:365 MB? by tod_miller · · Score: 1

      Rob,

      girls play everquest because they can have black hair and black nails, without thier mums shouting at them.

      go figure. Plus it is great advertising for the game, and if you want to configure some dry stats, use paper!

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    4. Re:365 MB? by Pluvius · · Score: 1

      By "easier," I meant "less wasteful of space."

      Rob

    5. Re:365 MB? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      By "you're the dumbest person I've ever interacted with" I mean, "you're the dumbest person I've ever interacted with."

      It's surprising that you and I are of the same species given how much smarter I am than you. Stop coming to Slashdot. Your UID is so high, it's gay.

    6. Re:365 MB? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      There's no need to release a tool that only lets you pick a few stats. The entire point is to let people customize physical characteristics to distinguish their character (which is the important part).

    7. Re:365 MB? by ameoba · · Score: 1

      If you take out the physical customization, every character would look the same leaving you with World of Warcraft.

      ...that is, when the servers are up long enough for you to actually see the toon.

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  2. Only a matter of time by Pan+T.+Hose · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't know when, I don't know how, but I am sure that people will find some creative way to generate pictures of naked women that way...

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    1. Re:Only a matter of time by One+Div+Zero · · Score: 4, Funny

      If you save a character created from this program, it creates a file into it's /saves/ directory, under that characters name. If you open this save with a text editor, you'll see two lines indicating the armor the character is wearing. In this case, it should be on something like armor/cloth/rags/ if you change that to armor/0/ and then save the file in the text editor, and then load it again in the character creator, the character will appear naked.

  3. Nothing new by birder · · Score: 1

    This program has been available for months and in fact is pretty useless. It gives you a real look at what the characters look like with no animations. If you pre-ordered EQ 2 before the American release you got it for free or just pick it up off a torrent site.

    It really only takes just a few minutes to make a character so the idea of saving time before purchasing retail wasn't really a good excuse. In fact, any characters I created before hand I didn't even use.

    It's nice that it's offically given away now and people don't have to feel like thieves for downloading it elsewhere.

  4. WOW offline by geekboxjockey · · Score: 1

    Blizzard already took this idea and applied it to their whole game...WOW an "offline" MMORPG.... now if only we could play it while it was offline..... these server downtimes are driving me nuts

  5. This is not new by Meest · · Score: 1

    Like someone said above. This has been out for a long time.

    I pre-orderd at my local GameStop and recieved my Pre-Order Package that included 2 discs that let me design my character long before EQ2 was released.

  6. Nothing new by Mindee · · Score: 1

    I think end of last July I seen this on suprnova *mourn* and being given out at certain stores as a pre order incentive. It does actually give you a good preview of the char models of EQ2 but doesn't really let you appreciate that EQ2 is quite a resource hog sadly.

  7. Amazing by Pan+T.+Hose · · Score: 1

    I posted my frivolous prediction that people will find a way to generate naked women, and an hour later you came (no pun intended) with a solution to do just that. Now, if lust is not the main force behind innovation, then I seriously don't know what is. This is consistent with my hypothesis that there would be no civilisation without sins, especially the deadly ones.

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    Sincerely,
    Pan Tarhei Hosé, PhD.
    "Homo sum et cogito ergo odi profanum vulgus et libido."
  8. Trouble installing? And how versatile is it? by Asmor · · Score: 1

    Tried installing this... Said it was missing mss32.dll, found the dll on google and downloaded it, then it was unable to find something in ddraw.dll, so I downloaded ddraw.dll, then it said it couldn't find something in kernel32.dll, and when I downloaded that and put it in the directory, it didn't fix the error.

    Any ideas?

    On a different note, how versatile is the tool? Is it like Heromachine or City of Heroes, or is it just a small step up from the horrible character creator for EQ? I ask because I'm wondering about using this to make pictures of characters for D&D.

  9. Never mind by Asmor · · Score: 1

    Sorry, my bad. I'm a moron.

    Didn't have Direct X 9 installed. You always sorta take Direct X for granted, seems like everything installs it that needs it... But I got a new computer recently and I guess City of Heroes, the only game I've played of late, doesn't need it.

  10. CoH? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Has City of Heroes released something like this? I spent more time making characters then I did actually beta-testing it...