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[kingandy]

Boo, the Fábrica de Heróis is suddenly no longer in Bruce Timm style. This makes me like it slightly less.

However, it's still less bloated, better-looking and more tweakable than the old HeroMachine, so...

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Re: It's in beta

[kingandy]

"I think what he's doing is releasing the first body style as the beta"

Oh definitely - I think the body styles came out over time in the old version too. I only found it in the last week or so myself, but I have this vague notion that the 'child' sizes only came out after that.

FWIW, I have mixed feelings about Fabrica's new level of customisability - that you can now have a freak with wooden legs or rocky arms certainly has its benefits. However it does make it a heck of a lot more fiddly. It really needs some kind of colour scheme option - either the ability to select a single major/minor colour pair and apply that to all segments, à la City of Heroes, or maybe a sort of 'custom palette' area where you can store colours you're using a lot (especially your skin colour, since "skin" has become a slightly more abstract concept now the body section is split up - you can give your arm a non-skin colour and "paint" it with flesh-coloured segments using gloves or shirt outlines).

Re: It's in beta

[(Anonymous)]

From a user experience standpoint, keeping it usable and friendly while also adding features is definitely the big challenge. With my new code base I'm trying to do that by making the "duping" features and such optional. If you don't want to turn them on, it'll work the same way it used to.

I've also added a bunch of customizable colors, where you can store up to I think it's 16 of your own choices, chosen either via the color square or direct hex values.

I also added "Color all Skin" and "Color all Hair" buttons so you can apply your current color settings at once to all skin or all hair items. In 3.0 I probably will add a "color all" button that will do the same thing for every item.

I also added a paint brush feature, where you can copy the current color settings to any item you click on, which I think is handy.