Gaming Forums => Nintendo Gaming => Topic started by: Requiem on June 02, 2006, 04:09:04 PM
Title: Caricature-making software on the Wii?
Post by: Requiem on June 02, 2006, 04:09:04 PM
Quote Katsuya Eguchi: [...] We are looking to implement a similar kind of editing feature into the hardware that will allow users to create caricatures of themselves, members of the family, people they would potentially play with. and so when they go to play tennis, those would be the faces in the game. a more sophisticated graphic look wouldn't match well with the caricatures, but a simpler one does.
Wired News: So the feature would be in the hardware and then applied to, potentially, any game…
Katsuya Eguchi: Yes. The caricatures will exist in the hardware, as data, as one of several profiles that you could save in the Wii. And if you insert compatible software into the Wii, it will pull up the images that you chose.
Wired News: What would be some of the other profiles you could save in the Wii, then?
Katsuya Eguchi: The other details that will be saved as a part of the user profiles are as yet undecided, but right now we're focusing on creating an editing tool that will allow players to create images as well as allow users to select one of several already-created images, if they're not artistically inclined.
It's from this blog, so be wary of it's credentials. It does sound plausible and likely though.
Tally up another one for the Wii if true.
Title: RE:Caricature-making software on the Wii?
Post by: mantidor on June 02, 2006, 04:27:59 PM
link isnt working.
Sounds interesting though.
Title: RE: Caricature-making software on the Wii?
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on June 02, 2006, 05:04:57 PM
It's Kohler. It's on Wired's server. DUR.
Nothing to be wary of, only the overexaggerated expectations of the reader.
Title: RE: Caricature-making software on the Wii?
Post by: Griffin on June 02, 2006, 05:15:55 PM
BREAKING NEWS: Sony just announced a brand new, original innovation in gaming. You can now use the Eye Toy to scan your face and put it on characters in their upcoming Sony Sports Package!
J/K.... or am I? "DUN DUN DUNNNN!!"
Title: RE: Caricature-making software on the Wii?
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on June 02, 2006, 05:51:09 PM
DON'T GIVE SONY IDEAS AUUGH
Title: RE: Caricature-making software on the Wii?
Post by: Talon on June 02, 2006, 06:38:42 PM
This pretty much confirms at the least a camera for the wii possibly even a web cam. Now it will be interesting to see if its packaged with the wii or is sold seperately. If i had to make an educated guess the camera will be sold seperately and as a pack in with wii sports much like mario party's microphone.
Title: RE: Caricature-making software on the Wii?
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on June 02, 2006, 07:21:42 PM
No, i think it's just a variety of Mr. Potato Head facial features built in, like Beach Spikers had.
Reggie-Face will be unlockable after beating 999 Multi Man Melee in SSBB in under 2 minutes.
Title: RE:Caricature-making software on the Wii?
Post by: Michael8983 on June 02, 2006, 07:46:48 PM
I'm personally hoping the Wii-mote has both the rumored microphone and camera. Even if they do drive up the controller price (though I can't imagine they would by much), the gameplay benefits would more than make up for it. Having a standard mic and camera in EVERY controller would open up all kinds of options for developers.
I do however agree that this caricature thing doesn't support the cam rumor. I mean I can't imagine how a digital picture could create the 3D facial models in the Tennis demo.
Title: RE: Caricature-making software on the Wii?
Post by: Kairon on June 02, 2006, 08:19:28 PM
I would very much like to see a widely accepted Mic, but I'm not really sold on the benefits of a cam.
~Carmine M. Red Kairon@aol.com
Title: RE:Caricature-making software on the Wii?
Post by: EasyCure on June 03, 2006, 04:59:47 PM
its been said before that the wiisports package will have a feature where you pick and choose from a bunch of different facial features to be able to create something as similar to you as possible. its similar to what police do with face rendering software.
though if i camera were to be made, it would have to be like a gameboy camera 2 for the DS (so it wouldnt be called GB Camera 2....shoulda thought that one over a lil more) and you could snap photos and draw on them on the touch screen, or drag items such as the drawn noses and lips onto your pix using the stylus. its about time!
Title: RE:Caricature-making software on the Wii?
Post by: thejeek on June 04, 2006, 12:03:45 AM
If they include some sort of avatar facility where users can upload pictures of them selves, I give it under three seconds before someone uploads a picture of their own genitals and parents cry 'Oh! The humanity!'...
Unless of course their secret technology is some sort of AI knob detection software that will protect 'the kids' from the horrors of Duh Interweb :-(
Title: RE: Caricature-making software on the Wii?
Post by: Athrun Zala on June 04, 2006, 11:23:36 AM
although I'm not completely sold on the possibility of a camera, IF there is going to be one, why don't they place it on the sensor bar instead?
cheaper remotes, and eyetoy KILLAH until Sony claims that Nintendo stole the invention of the camera from them, like 3D graphics
Title: RE:Caricature-making software on the Wii?
Post by: EasyCure on June 06, 2006, 08:11:53 AM
as much as i'd love to have a sequel to the gameboy camera and have them revisit face-mapping modes in games like they wanted to try on n64 (see: perfect dark), i dont see it happening. sure a new camera could surface and there will be some camera-game interaction but as for face-mapping; i dont think it will fly.
the reason they said they cancelled it in PD was because of possible controversy. they used examples of kids mapping the faces of the prez or a school teacher or something into a game like PD and riddling them with bullets.
if that is the main reason, i dont see them changing now. that is why a caricature-making software included within the sytem is more reasonable. using different types of noses and eyes and mouths and matching them up to make a face is all it would take to keep nintendo safe from liabilty. the face mapping in the gb camera to perfect dark looked really good in the sole screenshot i've ever seen, and with the better tech available now a gb camera 2 or ds camera in conjunction with Wii's graphics would be even more believable. with the caricature software however, you'd have a face that LOOKS like yours or whom you choose to creat, and not a near perfect likeness, they could avoid people like jack thompson from saying "now these companies like nintendo are allowing our children to put the faces of their enemies in and letting them take 'pixel perfect' aim with what feels like a gun in their own hands."
its bound to happen with even the caricature software but i dont see it being as bad. you make a face that looks kinda like someone else and you can say its coincidence. you cant do that when you put out software/hardware that will let you upload a picture you take into the game and map that to a character.
sorry if any of this seemed random but i was reading something on jack thompson on ign and felt like ranting a bit.
Title: RE: Caricature-making software on the Wii?
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on June 06, 2006, 03:09:40 PM
I shoot people in the face
WITH CHEESE WHIZ
Title: RE: Caricature-making software on the Wii?
Post by: King of Twitch on June 06, 2006, 03:43:31 PM
SHOOT THEM IN MOUTHS, TEMPLES
Title: RE: Caricature-making software on the Wii?
Post by: Ceric on June 06, 2006, 04:28:00 PM
Camera in Sensor bar be cool. They already have technology that schools use to block out genitals and other inappropriate things. It's actually getting good at it from what I've heard. Nowing Nintendo though there more then likely let you roll your own before taking pictures. To easy for lawsuits and infringements of copyrights.
Title: RE:Caricature-making software on the Wii?
Post by: Galford on June 06, 2006, 05:31:13 PM
Rumors like this are floating all over the Internet.
The better ones include Nintendo having a simplistic dev kit built into Rev to a command-line interface for Rev.
