Hey everyone, Blacky here!
Since additional stock eye textures were heavily requested in the comments on my last post, I’m back to showcase the results of my latest work!
Our eye shader is strongly geared toward realism, or rather, it performs best with more realistic eye textures. So I decided to take things a step further, and I’m happy to announce that we’ll be adding a total of five new grayscale realistic eye textures, two new Cat Eye textures, and a total of ten fully colored eye textures.
A quick explanation for our newcomers about the difference between the two systems and how to use them:
The grayscale textures can be colored directly in-app through the color selection window. The white areas of the texture will take on whatever iris color you choose. This system works very well, but it comes with one major limitation: you can only create monochrome eyes this way, since the Eyes section does not feature masks, gradients, or similar systems like the rest of the Character Creator does.
I felt I want to bring a bit of fresh wind here and that’s where the new colored eye textures come into play!
As the name suggests, these textures are already pre-colored and work right out of the box. To see their original coloration properly, simply set the iris color to white. Of course, you can still apply additional iris colors on top of them to create some really interesting results, even though some textures were not specifically designed with that in mind. Still, I’d definitely encourage experimenting with them!
Many of the pre-colored eye textures combine multiple colors at once, and some are inspired by actual real-life animal eyes, such as tiger, crocodile, deer and gecko eyes. I figured this would open up entirely new possibilities for character creation in general.
I really hope you enjoy them. I had an absolute blast putting these together, and if the response is positive, there will most likely be a second wave in the future!
As one final bit of behind-the-scenes info:
The release will happen as soon as Odes finishes implementing the new caching system for the cloud, so stay tuned. It won’t be much longer now!
With that said, I wish you a great start to the new week, and until next time!
-Blacky