Norik
[14] Master
Oh, this is possibly the most biased discussion topic related to Soul Calibur: Custom characters. This mode was first introduced in Soul Calibur III, attracting many people who where not that much into fighting games, which were kind of dying by that time. Until this point, not many people seemed to have a problem with it. Then SCIV came along and messed everything up by , ironically, creating one of the best character creation tools to ever appear in a videogame.
Why do we hate it so much? Until what extent is this CaS crap a good thing? I made this thread to discuss what makes CaS such a beauty, yet such a horrendous piece of garbage.
1. It messes up hitboxes. Although a lot of people don't seem to get it, CaS messes up hitboxes. For those who don't know, hitboxes, as explained in the picture below, are invisible boundaries the developers set to make actions happen. This is one of the basic concepts of videogame programming: Collision Detection. In a game, when two objects collide, actions are triggered. But instead of writting five lines of code for each possible point where the objects may collide, programmers use hitboxes, reducing the amount of work (and thinking). Hitboxes are programmed for the 3D models of a character, which has different dimensions to CaS characters. This could make an attack made for Astaroth, who is bigger than CaSes, hit without even making contact, or at least that's what it would look like to us. This is particulary stupid with grabs, since a character could technically grab you without even touching you. Some attack from smaller characters, like Amy or Talim, might not even work correctly. The picture below explains hitboxes by making damage hitboxes red, and vulnerable hitboxes blue.
This is the reason why CaS doesn't allow chanhing the size of you characters.
2. This is NOT Mugen. Although some people apparently don't get that. I really don't care if you want to make a character from Final Fantasy or whatever, but just try not to turn Soul Calibur to something it is not. Making Link or whatever is cool, but people get to the point of making Sonic, or even the Smurfs...
So yeah... I'll keep updating this as people post reasons why CaS is just a little thingy to make your fanfictions an NOT an ugly black and red festival of ugly, horribly redesigned mugen characters.
Why do we hate it so much? Until what extent is this CaS crap a good thing? I made this thread to discuss what makes CaS such a beauty, yet such a horrendous piece of garbage.
1. It messes up hitboxes. Although a lot of people don't seem to get it, CaS messes up hitboxes. For those who don't know, hitboxes, as explained in the picture below, are invisible boundaries the developers set to make actions happen. This is one of the basic concepts of videogame programming: Collision Detection. In a game, when two objects collide, actions are triggered. But instead of writting five lines of code for each possible point where the objects may collide, programmers use hitboxes, reducing the amount of work (and thinking). Hitboxes are programmed for the 3D models of a character, which has different dimensions to CaS characters. This could make an attack made for Astaroth, who is bigger than CaSes, hit without even making contact, or at least that's what it would look like to us. This is particulary stupid with grabs, since a character could technically grab you without even touching you. Some attack from smaller characters, like Amy or Talim, might not even work correctly. The picture below explains hitboxes by making damage hitboxes red, and vulnerable hitboxes blue.
This is the reason why CaS doesn't allow chanhing the size of you characters.
2. This is NOT Mugen. Although some people apparently don't get that. I really don't care if you want to make a character from Final Fantasy or whatever, but just try not to turn Soul Calibur to something it is not. Making Link or whatever is cool, but people get to the point of making Sonic, or even the Smurfs...
So yeah... I'll keep updating this as people post reasons why CaS is just a little thingy to make your fanfictions an NOT an ugly black and red festival of ugly, horribly redesigned mugen characters.