Making a character from real picture?

[jamesst20]

Hi

I was wondering if it was possible to make my players in a game looks like my friends from real picture.

Thanks you

[CuteAlien]

If your friends all look like Pacman it should be easy :-)

But otherwise not yet, although we're getting close to be able to do that. There's a few guys researching on that and if you just google for stuff like "3d face from photo" you can get a few hits with promising results. I suppose it's one of those technologies which will be in many games in a few years, but for now if you succeed in creating that you would still have a really cool feature.

[ACE247]

As I remember the Game Rainbow Six Vegas 2 I have has a webcam capture method which took 3 pictures of your head (left, front, right) that then allows the software to extrapolate basic face geometry and overlay that with your own face. It worked great, but hardly anyone ever used it because It then didn't allow the player to wear a helmet over that, so obviously one got shot too easily.

[Cube_]

wow, really?
I didn't know that was possible...
what would happen if there were multiple faces in the pic?

[Kojack]

As I remember the Game Rainbow Six Vegas 2 I have has a webcam capture method which took 3 pictures of your head

That could be rather disturbing, considering the kinds of things griefers already do with custom sprays in games like TF2.

I was wondering if it was possible to make my players in a game looks like my friends from real picture.

Do you want this to be a development time thing (your friends are always in the game) or runtime thing for any player? The former is easier, take photos of them and do some editing to make them line up (the 4 point cloning tool in Corel Painter is awesome for making photos fit over face textures). If it's real time, that's harder.

Facegen is a tool that can generate 3d textured head models from photos. There's an sdk so you can add it to your app. But it costs. They charge $995 just for permission to include a mesh it generated in your app, plus more for the tools themselves.