To share how my characters turned out in that other game I need to give some context about why they look like that.
So, the game I tried is Soul Calibur VI, and since it's a fighting game I'm not sure how good they are with customization in general. Some aspects were more limited here than in SWTOR (like facial customization, amount of hairstyles and clothes), while other aspects were better (range of colors, more detailed body customization, goddamn heights aren't tied to body types). It was lots of fun to play with the options given in SC (especially outfits), so here's what I managed to do with my SWTOR characters in this game.
Buckle up, we're in for a long ride.
The first character I tried to make in SC was Auletta (not surprising, she's often the first when I try different character makers). Initially I wanted to recreate her look as close to SWTOR as possible, but quickly realized that it would be hard and aimed to just make her look good and have a similar vibe to the original. I think it turned out pretty good.
Also, while she is the first to be recreated here, this look is not. At first I attempted to create a version of Auletta that comes up much later in my headcanons for the characters (and doesn't even exist in SWTOR yet).
(SWTOR outfit is not final, I just needed to compare with the dark side corruption showing)
At some point she becomes the Empress of the Sith Empire, which prompts an outfit change, and after that the effects of the dark side start showing through in her appearance (though I'm still not sure why now and not earlier). This is where I had a bit of trouble - the outfit I came up with isn't perfect (though still nice looking) because there are some parts that can't be removed or recolored, and there are no alternatives that look as good. So I would remove the fire ornaments on the chestpiece and flowers on the lower part, but add some other patterns to keep the outfit more interesting than pure black clothes.
The most difficult part of making Shailla in SC was facial tattoos (still not sure if they look good enough, but it's probably not going to get better). Finding clothes for her was relatively easy, especially the first outfit. It's supposed to resemble one of Shailla's Jedi robes, and I kinda like the SC version more (just a bit). The second outfit isn't really supposed to resemble anything, I just put it together bc I liked the way it looks, but if we are to compare it to anything, it would be her clothes during the Eternal Throne drama. Maybe.
When making Raen, there were so many outfits to choose from that I decided to not do that and ended up with clothing that fits her vibe (even if it looks pretty different).
Kind of followed the same path with Airistan - instead of copying one of her armors, I put together an outfit that resembles her overall. Plus I think that dark blue colors fit her well, yet in SWTOR I can't work with it because the dye system is lacking.
So far Jett had the most revisions of her armor - I tried 2 or 3 outfits before settling down with this one. Armor in particular is difficult to work with bc it's easy to make it look weird or bad, that's why I had to change hers a couple of times.
When it comes to chiss characters, their eyes in SC look different from SWTOR simply bc there is no option to remove iris and pupil, you can only color it the same as the sclera, in this case both red.
Xaele's outfit is, once again, is less resembling of any particular clothing from SWTOR and more fitting the overall vibe of the character.
Zabraks by far are the most difficult to replicate in this game due to their horns and tattoos - you have to pick the horns as equipment and move and color them manually, and there aren't enough tattoo options to resemble the originals.
I was definitely lazy to replicate Vintu's tattoos properly, so maybe I'll change them later, but for now this is how he turned out. The armor is alright though, I think it resembles him just fine.
When it came to Imely, I wanted to emphasize the difference in her appearance compared to other chiss. To do that, I intentionally made her eyes darker and skin less saturated (saturation goes from 0 to 9, hers is 1, while other chiss characters have saturation from 6 to 9).
This is where the lack of hairstyles also became a problem - Imely is supposed to have curly hair, but nothing in SC fit that (and I barely managed to do Shailla's hair, bc she's also supposed to have curly hair, but at least she usually ties or braids it, while Imely often lets it loose). In the end I just gave her a braid.
The first outfit is kind of a mesh of her clothing as a Sith (and it just looks nice by itself, still one of my favorites), and the second one is supposed to resemble her Outlander outfit (I like that I could make the scarf purple, she would definitely keep something of this color).
Nevanor was a bit of pain to replicate. Pretty sure choosing his hairstyle alone gave me a headache (and the first one is still meh, but that's how hard it is to find something fitting for him). The second outfit had to be revisited twice before I felt like it's good enough. His fighting style was a nightmare to figure out (but that's a topic for another post). But it's worth it because now he's among my favorite recreations.
The first outfit is modeled after one of Nevanor's Jedi clothing, and the second one - after his outfit as the Alliance Commander.
And that's not even all of the characters, I just can't add more than 30 images in one post, so there will be another.
Bonus (as a treat for reading this far):
I also made Valkorion!
Yeah, of all SWTOR characters I could go for, I went for him.
But that's mostly because I learned that you can put characters from creation in a fight against each other, and I wanted to see Valky lose fights again and again.
Tagged by @palepinkycat, and who am I to refuse an opportunity to make more OC memes?
Pretty sure everyone has already done this, so if you see this and would like to do this, consider yourself tagged :)
Buys deep and thoughtful presents: Ollin (she spends a huge amount of time finding a perfect gift for everyone and gets very upset if she got it wrong (since she has a ‘people-pleaser’ trait)), Shailla (she takes seriously everything she’s doing, including choosing gifts), Lorri (she’s just a sweet person who wants to bring joy to people around her and gifts tend to make people happy), Nevanor (kinda same - he’s a decent person who thinks that a present should be thoughtful because you care about the person you’re giving it to. Btw, he’s that friend of Imely, so I’ll give a bit of info about him later).
Buys presents the night before: Raen (now she actually cares about gifts but simply forgets to buy them beforehand and panic buys them the night before), Imely (she’s just not used to giving gifts, but she tries).
Goes overboard on decorations: Xaetel (because Sith are boring and a lot of them don’t like to celebrate Life Day so he goes too far with all the decorations. People sometimes wonder how is it the same person as the intimidating Empire’s Wrath), Raen (does this even need any elaboration? Raen is always up to any fun), Jett (she actually likes holidays like the Life Day and want to create as much of festive atmosphere as she can. Yes, that includes putting lights on Blizz), Lorri (again, she wants to create festive atmosphere and may have gone a bit too far when they lost their droid under all the decorations).
Is banned from helping with food: Raen (no. Just no), Maureen (because one time she pretended she couldn’t pick sugar instead of salt and spoiled the meal, but she was just messing with people. Yes, it’s that Miraluka sniper I named Deadeye, but I thought of some traits and things for her so I gave her an actual name and am planning on including her somewhere), Nevanor (he tried and it did not go well).
Wears a novelty jumper: Ollin (she likes sweaters!), Airistan (she ordered everyone in the Alliance to wear a jumper during the Life Day. You didn’t think Vintu was the only one to have a (insert clothes) Uniform Day?), Jett (yes, she wears it over the armor. No, she won’t do it any other way), Imely (because it’s so cozy).
Goes overly competitive playing dejarik: Vintu (because he’s always overly competitive), Reena (but, like, friendly overly competitive), Bal’sara (she just gotta be the best, but, again, in a friendly manner), Auletta (because she doesn’t understand the concept of a holiday or games being played for fun and tries to win no matter what, as usual though).
Refuses to leave their quarters until it’s all over: Xaele (she’s too tired for all the noise and chaos. Let her rest), Jaria (unless there is a party and alcohol).
There is a reason I made that last meme. One of my JKs is supposed to be left-handed, but because of limitations in SWTOR he never uses his dominant hand in cutscenes. Interestingly enough, there was some visual glitch that made it look like he was only holding one lightsaber in the left hand, which is kinda cool. Not entirely sure what caused this glitch, perhaps something in weapons outfitter, bc in my 8 years of playing this game I've never seen this (or maybe I forgor) until about 2 months ago.
