This response is a little delayed but I thought it was important to highlight one of the issues with the current system that separates facial data for male and female zois.
I understand that there are anatomical differences between male and female faces. However, in reality, these differences are not as significant as they are in CAZ. The biggest differences between male and female faces in Inzoi has little to do with biology and more to do with beauty standards and expectations. For example, females in Inzoi tend to have large pouty lips and small noses. This is not reflective of reality (see below).
One example of this is nose shape. I was trying to make a face similar to the black and white image below. I was unable to create this nose on a female face, despite trying several facial presets. I was able to create the desired nose shape in a male preset but when I changed the preset from male to female, the nose became significantly smaller with a much different nose shape.
I understand that some players are afraid that any changes to CAZ will affect their existing creations, but the current system restricts player creativity far too much to remain unchanged.
Let’s hope that in the September 3rd update, where they also worked on genetics, this issue will be resolved as well. No one can know for sure, of course, but we really want to believe that the genetics of men and women have finally been unified, and we’ll be able to create characters of any gender more flexibly
I hope so too but I know there are a lot of players on the discord channel who would be asking the developers not to make any changes to CAZ. I really hope the dev team knows that for every player that has a perfectly crafted character they’d hate to see changed there are many more who are unable to make the character they want because of the current restrictions.
Yes, I completely agree. I’m even prepared for all our previously created characters to be completely incompatible at game release, as long as it allows us to fully resolve all the problems with further editing. Or they would require an update where something could break. After all, you can always fix them later if you’ve done it once. It’s early access, after all, and we all knew that everything could change, and we should be prepared for it.
That said, I don’t think it will come to that. And even if there is an update, with the right approach it could very well preserve the appearance unchanged, simply by recalculating the old values once and flexibly replacing them with new parameters.
