Custom face from photo

[PHarmann 10]

Is it possible to create a custom face for your char. I have seen some for download, but i fail to find the - here is how you do it - article. the templates ive seen so far looks more like a terrible trafficaccident - Am I suppose to try to copy that?

I remember from the old OFP days, that you could turn a personal photo into the face of your soldier?

Is this still posible (if it ever was), and how do i do it? and IF i succeed will my face have to be uploaded to the server to be seen by my squad members?

regards

grethe

Edited May 11, 2011 by PHarmann

[Horner 13]

as far as I know you can make an addon from just about anything.... You just need photoshop and some other tools like the BI tools. (Mainly Oxygen 2)

[sw1 10]

I may be wrong but don't you just have to name your image face.jpg with proper dimensions (256x256, 512x512...) in your profile folder?

[liquidpinky 11]

I may be wrong but don't you just have to name your image face.jpg with proper dimensions (256x256, 512x512...) in your profile folder?

Bingo.

Only thing is that it it uses a default custom face so you can't alter face shape without an addon.

[wyskass 10]

Textures for faces are not simply photos of faces. Because it's a 3d shape, the actual graphic is stretched in the same way as if you ripped of the skin off your head and laid it out flat. It would be stretched and not look like a photo from the front. It's an image that is wrapped onto the model, not a projection of a photo.

Otherwise it would only look correct from one angle. It's not as easy as it might seem to make your own head into a game face.

Best way to do it would be to take a an existing face template from the game, take a few shots of your head from a few angles all around, and merge those photos in Photoshop onto the template with some finessing to make it look correct.