Insider: Character Visualizer canceled?

exile · Feb 19, 2009

I bought an art student from the local community college to do my character sketches...but I'd love to see the CV up an drunning, as it's probably more reliable than she is.

Chad

FireLance · Feb 19, 2009

exile said:
I bought an art student from the local community college to do my character sketches...but I'd love to see the CV up an drunning, as it's probably more reliable than she is.

So many jokes ... none of them appropriate.

armorclass10 · Feb 19, 2009

I could care less about the CV myself. But the Game Table was something I was into when I upgraded. I DM a regular group but was hoping to play online at my leisure, I know nothing is definite but broken promises would be rather disappointing to me now. I know I can get FG VTT but I would love to see VTT done by the owners of D&D. It's really just getting the right people to make it IMO.

Hawke · Feb 19, 2009

People mention the fact that the Visualizer is worthless without the GameTable. Well... I've used MapTool for weekly games for the last two years and I'd love to see something I could quickly and easily generate some great looking characters for. Especially if I can rotate the camera top-down and utilize a top down token combined with the portraits in maptool.

As neat as GT might sound, I'm not sure I can get my current group to ALL sign up for DDI at a higher price. As it stands many still enjoy doing their characters by hand. Until DDI is stable, fully featured, and provides enough content to be a major contender, I doubt I'll switch away from MapTool. Until then... Character Visualizer will be a great help.

I absolutely understand my opinion will likely be different than many others. I accept that. I'm okay that many don't really want the CV. It's just that I do

keterys · Feb 19, 2009

Especially as a pay service, I think it makes sense for them to remove mention of things that do not exist and might not exist for some time.

I'll admit that I did expect the Visualizer sooner rather than later, myself... and Game Table... I hoped end of year, but I'm not going to hold my breath. Maptool is pretty darn awesome in the meantime.

Dire Bare · Feb 19, 2009

exile said:
I bought an art student from the local community college to do my character sketches...but I'd love to see the CV up an drunning, as it's probably more reliable than she is.

Chad

You bought an art student? Is that even legal? How much do they go for?

Fallen Seraph · Feb 19, 2009

While I can draw fairly well, for myself I would still like the CV. It would be useful for when I cannot illustrate properly what is in my mind and thus having a image constructed to use as a base can help get past this.

For those that are wary of it because of its appearance. While not a perfect fit, try taking the image into something like Photoshop it is fairly easy to change the style of a image to emulate a different medium.

What I am wondering is if/when it comes out how will they keep up with new options? It isn't as simple as putting in data like the CB or Compendium, so how would they handle new weapons, new races, etc.

Silverblade The Ench · Feb 20, 2009

Eh, has the Game Table really been cancelled? Bloody well hope not!

elawai · Feb 20, 2009

Could Updating be the Issue?

Could one of the reasons for the supposed cancellation of the CV and Game Table be the updating of art as new supplements come out? When the Character Builder is updated, it is mostly pure data being entered. If the CV and GT needed updating, you would have to add more art resources - new forms for races, new types of terrain, etc. Adding new art resources sounds very time intensive.