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No Creature Creator for G8?

UthgardUthgard Posts: 867
in The Commons

I know some PAs have picked up the slack, but it seems kind of bewildering that we are nearing the end of the cycle of the G8 generation without one of the (to me) mainstays of the previous figures (or, at least, I am unable to find it anywhere). The Creature Creator was always interesting and a nice way to add details to personalize your creations or even make whole races with consistent characteristics; is there a reason it seems to have been ditched this time around?

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  • NorthOf45NorthOf45 Posts: 5,554

    As you said, some PA's have taken up the cause. Check out DarioFish for some familiar faces, er-, snouts, or whatever.

  • 3Diva3Diva Posts: 11,748

    Yep, DarioFish's HFS Ultimate Shapes is one of the best purchases I've made for creature creation. :) It has a WIDE variety of morphs and mixing them can create a lot of fun creatures! 

  • UthgardUthgard Posts: 867
    edited October 2020

    Right, the HFS pack was one I definitely was thinking about, but despite how good his creations look, it does not quite fit the same niche. The previous generation had much more granularity when picking up the traits you wanted (brows, mouth, nose,...) while this one seems much more limited in this regard, not to mention we never got something like Cake One's Fantasy Features or Fangtastic (and last generation's Creature Creator didn't even have the usual add-on with tail, hooves, horns and animal ears). It's like most creators have gone the way of making a single, cohesive product, rather than modular morphs that allow us to spin whatever we may come up with, which, regarding monsters and fantastical creatures, is at least half the fun.

    EDIT: Not that everything is grim and gloom, for instance, we had never had such an astonishing variety of fantasy skins and effects, and your own KamilyAnn is a stellar example of this.

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  • plasma_ringplasma_ring Posts: 1,025
    edited October 2020

    I gotta rec EJ Demon Races Creator and Morphs as well as their similar alien set for G8F. I use these a ton even on human characters, and in my experience they mix pretty well with the HFS shapes. 

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  • UthgardUthgard Posts: 867

    You know, I actually discarded those as the presets looked a bit too cartoonish for my tastes, but taking a more careful look at the individual morphs, they may be useful after all. Thanks for pointing them out.

  • Ghosty12Ghosty12 Posts: 2,068

    Yeah I was hoping they would port over the ones from the Genesis 3 Creature Creator morphs, as the design of the morphs were the ones I was looking for that were as close as practical to the vampires from Buffy.. Be why I use Genesis 3 more often because of that fact..

  • dankodanai_0815a7f74fdankodanai_0815a7f74f Posts: 80

    Genesis 3 and 2 Creature Creator was awesome 

  • plasma_ringplasma_ring Posts: 1,025
    Uthgard said:

    You know, I actually discarded those as the presets looked a bit too cartoonish for my tastes, but taking a more careful look at the individual morphs, they may be useful after all. Thanks for pointing them out.

    Yeah, the individual morphs are fantastic. I kitbash a lot of demons and aliens from characters that have pretty extreme HD shapes, like Josh Crockett's work, and since I'm usually trying to give them more range of human expression while keeping them firmly in inhuman territory those have been really helpful. 

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