Face recognition for cap?

[flyfreebird89]

So i was playing Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 on my friends computer, and i saw that you could scan your picture for created players and i was blown away at how it looked exactly like me and my friends. I spent more time creating people than actually playing the game because it was just so cool to see us in the virtual world. Granted he does have a real high end computer and we took our photos with his professional camera, so i don't know how poor it would have looked with a weak quality photo and computer.

Will 2k EVER use that technology or at lest something similar to what EA uses for Fight Night, etc. or is 'Create A Player' just not that high on their list of things to upgrade?

Isn't the point of most gaming to experience basically a different life and experience than the real life you live? Who doesn't want to see themselves dunk on Yao Ming or get in a shoot out with Kobe, etc? Not to mention, it would be an easy way to make old school rosters and players for the console on our own and not have 2k get in any trouble for using a players likeness that they had no permission to.

They did make a big jump from 2k9 to 2k10 in CAP but it's still horrible imo. And Is it just me or does ever player no matter what skin color resemble a black person except for asians? You try to create a white person, and it looks like the Wayans bros in those suits/makeup for the movie "White Chicks." I'm hispanic and i felt the same for me, it just felt like i looked like a light skinned black guy. Which completely ruins Association for me and my friend because we hate it when everyone retires and the league is filled with a bunch of players that look exactly the same and just look horrible overall.

Here's to hoping they make vast improvements in this department and give that face importing/recognition/mapping or whatever technology a shot!

[RICH72601]

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I personally have been waiting for something like that for a long time, but I guess it really isn't that important to them or maybe they feel some people may abuse it in some way that would affect things like dowloading/uploading rosters and such. People can think of some stupid things to upload.

It would definitely be key in creating players that aren't in the game, roster update mess ups, etc. The technology is already there. I remember even my brother being able to upload a photo to Tony Hawk on Playstation. Hopefully one day we'll be able to enjoy a feature like that.

[NY State of Mind]

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Yes i would personally love this feature but i know it won't be available

[Shinyhubcaps]

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I concur everything that's been said.

A lot of games run very high-resolution face mapping which, in all honesty, 2K isn't even close to using. Fight Night, MLB The Show, and Tiger Woods PGA to a lesser extent all have very high-resolution, anti-alias facial maps. Tiger Woods PGA, of course, had a facial recognition mode for the PS3 (and Xbox 360 as well, I believe).

2K has some good things in its games, but the graphics (this would be Visual Concepts, actually) are not nearly refined enough to notice subtle facial differences. In the time they have to make the game, too, it's easier to have a serviceable facial editor with fewer options than bring in a new interface like photo scans because, like I did with Tiger Woods PGA, people who do the photo scans would still want to tweak the fine details, and the current system is not capable of that.

Similarly, PES 2010 has a ton of options for hair. I mean like 200+ options. 2K has less than 30 hairstyles. Some games invest time in the subtle differences, and 2K/VC does not.

[Phreezy P]

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I hope we can use facial recog. for the player portrait.

[kolanji]

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that is not a bad idea! but i would lemit it only to "my player Mode" and "team up"

[jeebs9]

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I been saying this idea since the whole My Player thing started. If they had this feature....I would actually play that mode.

[SacKings1999]

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And Is it just me or does ever player no matter what skin color resemble a black person except for asians? You try to create a white person, and it looks like the Wayans bros in those suits/makeup for the movie "White Chicks." I'm hispanic and i felt the same for me, it just felt like i looked like a light skinned black guy.

Haha, that is so true. But I've downloaded old roster files, like '96 Bulls, and Kerr and Longley actually look white- so I guess if you know what you're doing it's ok. But I'm not an expert at the face creator, so I run into the same light-skinned black guy problem you mentioned.

[DaGreatKobe]

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They should make this available with the Kinect.

[Phreezy P]

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They should make this available with the Kinect.

You wouldn't need kinect for this. Just a regular pic.

[stlstudios189]

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there was an ability to do this with the eye toy on PS2

[other]

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In all fairness... All the games with better facial graphics have less players on the screen at one time. Baseball is close, but there is less simultaneous close-ups. -back to the topic- That would convince me to buy the otherwise useless Xbox 360 camera! -ha-

[flyfreebird89]

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In all fairness... All the games with better facial graphics have less players on the screen at one time. Baseball is close, but there is less simultaneous close-ups. -back to the topic- That would convince me to buy the otherwise useless Xbox 360 camera! -ha-

Soccer games do it with way more players, PES 2010 on PC has amazing texture and facial graphics and lots of close ups.


Have there been any confirmation on Create-A-Player being redone at least? I was hoping to bump this in hopes that it wouldn't be too late to catch Belubas attention on this.

Heres an example with an older PES 08 and worse graphics than 2010 and it still looks good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmRyG7u4kAo

If they could do it in 2007 for an 08 game, why can't we get something in 2010 for a 2k11 game that shows everyones face the entire game? I'f i'm not mistaken, Live doesn't use this either, correct? Just another way of being better than them if you add it.

This feature+MJ=GOAT game to me. Oh and of course HAKEEM 'THE DREAM' OLAJUWON sig shots "Dream shake" anyone?

[aloncho11]

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^ and the graphics on PES player faces are even better. There's always room for improvement for any sport title.