Own Face ingame?

[mr.g-c 6]

Hi, my brothers and me want to do something special for the next LAN-Session in our neighborhood - we want to have our REAL faces in game...

How is the best way to achieve this?

I saw very often on public servers people who looked like well known celebrity's, so basically you can recognize them pretty well....

Who can help me with this, where do i start?

Best Regards, Christian

[maddogx 13]

I tried this with my own face once... it took me ages and didn't work out well. And I'm not exactly a Photoshop noob. Get ready for some considerable effort.

Basically you're gonna need to understand the structure of such a face pic before you start. I believe there was quite a good thread in the MP section a while back. You're also gonna need to take some photos of your head from different angles (front, side and back I think).

Edit: Found the thread for ya.

[mr.g-c 6]

Hi, thanks for your answer....

I downloaded the Photoshop template from Wipman, but how to get my face fitting on it? How to stretch it.... damn it that looks pretty complex....

Regards, Christian

[wipman 1]

Hi, yes, indeed is very complex; the best way of get it that i know

is to take various photos of your own face, from the sides (front of

the ears) other from the side of the face (front of the cheen) other

from the front (nose, mouth, eyes) and then... you got to cut off

the selected areas... and re-scale 'em down to match (cover) the

"details" of the face (eyes, eyes holes surroundings, nose, lips, ears)

and... fill the "empty spaces" between 'em with flesh "patches",

squared look alike "patches" and then; redo all the shadows

for the deep areas of your face and all the lights in the tall zones

of your face. Which is a damn pain to do and that i never managed

to do even half well and that i only try to help if it's a fella who asks

me to do it and not a Mr. Idon'tKnowWhoTheF***YouAre Lastname:

AndIdon'tCare. Do it by hand is a true pain and without the plugin

to do it "directly" is so painfull that i gave up to do it for myself

and i don't want to do it for anyone else. Let's C ya

[mr.g-c 6]

Thanks for your comment, wipman.... you have strange way to write posts....

Nevertheless i'll try it first with just the front of my face and my eyes... maybe that is enough first....

I mean i doubt that the faces of celebrity's were taken from all the sides....

Regards, Christian

[NeMeSiS 11]

Hi, yes, indeed is very complex; the best way of get it that i know

is to take various photos of your own face, from the sides (front of

the ears) other from the side of the face (front of the cheen) other

from the front (nose, mouth, eyes) and then... you got to cut off

the selected areas... and re-scale 'em down to match (cover) the

"details" of the face (eyes, eyes holes surroundings, nose, lips, ears)

and... fill the "empty spaces" between 'em with flesh "patches",

squared look alike "patches" and then; redo all the shadows

for the deep areas of your face and all the lights in the tall zones

of your face. Which is a damn pain to do and that i never managed

to do even half well and that i only try to help if it's a fella who asks

me to do it and not a Mr. Idon'tKnowWhoTheF***YouAre Lastname:

AndIdon'tCare. Do it by hand is a true pain and without the plugin

to do it "directly" is so painfull that i gave up to do it for myself

and i don't want to do it for anyone else. Let's C ya

Just a random comment: You dont have to press the enter button all the time, the sentence will automatically go to the next line of its too long. (Double) enters are only needed for the next paragraph. Now your posts look a bit like poems.

(No offence ment)

[Col. Faulkner 0]

Just clart a random face with cam' cream and say it's you

underneath it all!

[max power 21]

you could always cut all the skin off of your head along the seams on ArmA UVs, wash it off, roll it flat, and take a picture of that.

[paragraphic l 2]

I've managed to create the entire face texture from own photographs with no original texture being shown anymore

But I started a year ago and have been tweaking and fixing stuff ALL the time. I made sure some characteristic features where shown how they should, but still you need to have a good look at the face to recognise me. So I wouldn't bother as it doesn't look like you have enough experience with photoshop and stuff like this.

A simple pasting of the front of your face might do but you could just aswell just get the text tool and write your name on the forehead.

[mr.g-c 6]

Well my long-year Girlfriend is a photographer and a photoshop ACE!

My skills in PS-CS3 aren't bad either (using it for Webdesign)......

I mean there is also Marek Spanel's Face in Arma (look for the face named "Mark S"), i think i can recognize him there (when you compare this to the latest Arma2 video by PC-Games)...

Even better you can recognize him, when you played longer, get to main-menu and see in this background-video the lonely Bluefor-soldier viewing the field. Sometimes you see him from front with mimics and i would bet my ass thats Maruk....

Picture: [Picture removed]

Regards, Christian

[paragraphic l 2]

Okay sorry to presume you have not enough photoshop experience/skills by just your posts here.

And indeed Maruk is recognisable, I have to say I'm not near as good as a texturer as the guys at BIS are but I think to remember they having some sort of face scanner, which offcourse makes it a LOT easier.

Fact is though, you still need to resize your entire face, eyes, nose, ears, eyebrowes, mouth, forehead, chin, cheeks, hair... everything to fit the wireframe for the face. So eventhough you will be recognisable it will never look like you because the proportions will probably not be the same as your own.... UNLESS offcourse your head is similair to the arma one.

I wish you good luck and I hope you don't have an ATI card cause even if you have your face looking wright, it will be to bright thanks to some bug... and you have NO idea how much work it is to recolour everthing to the correct dark shade to have it match ingame

the wireframe for the face provided by Placebo should also be found somewhere around the forum

[maddogx 13]

If you want to avoid the ATi bright face bug (which is also visible to other players online, if they have an ATi card), you can also try saving your face as .paa instead of .jpg - but you'll need to downsize the file, because .paa files are much much bigger than .jpg.

[wipman 1]

Hi, i think that BIS used a expensive plugin for the PS for "transform"

easyly, the faces to the game mapping; there is the Samuel L. Jackson's

face (which im sure that BIS didn't paid the image rights...) and may

had been made from a photo focused on the cheen; this ones can

be used to make you're own face in game but, it takes time and you've

to tweak or your own skin colour (CTRL+L & CTRL+B) and gamma

levels etc. Belive if i tell you that try to make your own face match

the BIS head model mapping is very very painfull. In fact, i hate it

like i hate the renault twingos; which is a lot. Let's C ya

[mr.g-c 6]

Hi, i think that BIS used a expensive plugin for the PS for "transform"

easyly, the faces to the game mapping; there is the Samuel L. Jackson's

face (which im sure that BIS didn't paid the image rights...) and may

had been made from a photo focused on the cheen; this ones can

be used to make you're own face in game but, it takes time and you've

to tweak or your own skin colour (CTRL+L & CTRL+B) and gamma

levels etc. Belive if i tell you that try to make your own face match

the BIS head model mapping is very very painfull. In fact, i hate it

like i hate the renault twingos; which is a lot. Let's C ya

Where is this Photo located?

Anyone knows the PS-Plugin Name?

[max power 21]

They use Maya and Maya has some powerful texture baking, map projection, and transfer features.

[anc 0]

This might help.

http://www.worldforge.org/project....Texture

Regards

[mr.g-c 6]

This might help.

http://www.worldforge.org/project....Texture

Regards

Hi, wow thanks for that.... although i don't think doin it exactly like in this tutorial fits perfectly for Armas faces...

But gives me a good idea how to make it.

Best Regards, Christian

[maddogx 13]

This might help.

http://www.worldforge.org/project....Texture

Regards

Hi, wow thanks for that.... although i don't think doin it exactly like in this tutorial fits perfectly for Armas faces...

But gives me a good idea how to make it.

Best Regards, Christian

Actually it does pretty good. I tried it out yesterday and was able to make my own face pretty quickly - although it took some photoshopping, as was to be expected.

Still doesn't look like me in-game though. I guess my head just has the wrong shape.

It would be cool if we could make some minor RPG style modifications to the size and shape of the head, ears, nose etc.