More Customizability? Options

[Siesta]

I know that the series is slowly starting to add more to the series, more clothes and everything, but will they soon add more to the game?

I'd love to see a hair salon come into the game, where we can dye the character's hair and change there hairstyle. I mean, if you look at some of the hair styles the spouses have(And towns people), it kinda makes you want more interesting hair. I mean, It'd be fun to look even cooler than usual and make a character just the way you like(Maybe even eye color changing?). I think Animal March has this, but I'd love to see glasses as well.

I also would like to see skin tone options, I mean, there aren't just white people playing the game, and people sometimes find the game more enjoyable with choices like that.

What do you guys think about "Customizability"? >w>;

[Nurse Fin]

Well, let's look at it this way, if they had these hairstyles for girls:

Short hair mesh
Semi-long hair mesh
Long hair mesh
Ponytail hair mesh
Pigtail hair mesh

That's 5 meshes right there. Guys would have another 5 meshes to choose from (like straight, spiky, wavy/bedhead, longish hair etc). Each hairstyle would have a texture added to give it color. The number of colors possible isn't really an issue, because they can just tint the textures with Photoshop once they've made one from scratch. Kind of like how the AP kids had such a great variety of hair colors while all basically looking the same. It wouldn't be very hard to have black hair, blond hair, brown hair, and red hair. In total they would have to make 40 textures for the hair, 10 meshes. They made 80 textures and 4 meshes for the AP children, so it wouldn't be that much more difficult to do hair for the protagonists.

And then if they had different shapes of eyes:
Sharp eyes (sorta like Cathy, Luke, Yuuki etc)
Droopy eyes (sorta like Kotomi, Gil etc)
Normal eyes (sorta like Leena, Takeru and so on)

Eyes are also made with textures, for the face. It wouldn't be that hard to do. Blue eyes, brown eyes, green eyes, gray eyes should pretty much cover the basics. In total they would have to make 24 textures for the face. 12 for girls and 12 for boys.



We would most likely only ever see something like this on a console game. If they ever really go through with making a Harvest Moon with interactive online capabilities, we'll probably have more customization. Along with a wardrobe system like AP, having the custom hair/face options I described above would make everyone's protagonist pretty unique. I don't even want to calculate the possible combinations because there would be too many.



Howeverrrr, it would mess things up so much if they wanted to deal with genetics, because that's where it would get complicated. They'd probably just stay with kids taking after your spouse and having a generic face to avoid having to program something really cool.