I would love to see some form of measurement so I can see just how tall (or short) my new character will be. My stamsorc looked about the right height on screen, but ended up being too short and I can't afford to buy an appearance change.

Sometimes the character you make, doesn't translate over the the actual game looking the same way. I've had to delete quite a few characters after making them because they didn't look right.

Yes, update the lighting (a toggle for different lighting conditions would be nice), and have all the hair, eye and "human" skin colors (not altmer and dunmer obv) unlocked. It's the least they could do.

Is it too much to ask to have the same lighting and Field of View in Chargen as in the game?

Or, let us tweak the character before leaving the tutorial, after we have had a time to see the whole thing in game.

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Nestor wrote: »

Is it too much to ask to have the same lighting and Field of View in Chargen as in the game?

Or, let us tweak the character before leaving the tutorial, after we have had a time to see the whole thing in game.

That's a good thought, Nestor - I'd like that! We got to tweak like that in Oblivion, remember?

I loved that feature in Oblivion (honestly I wish it had been in Skyrim too). I kinda struggle with character creation, so I like to have another chance to touch them up. Actually, I agree with most of these suggestions. ESPECIALLY the lighting one. It’s waaay too dark.

I think for now, fixing bugs, rebalancing class, make them feel unique again is way more important

When using the randomize appearance option you should have the ability to save as many as, say 10, slots. Then go back and review your favorites and begin customizing from there.

Agree with almost all of the suggestions. One of my pet peeves is the inability to tweak before leaving the tutorial. How many times have you made what you thought was a good-looking character who doesn't translate well into the actual game? Or how many times have you made a character and then you take her into combat and her voice turns out to be absolutely appalling?

The other is the inability to use any of the hairstyles, adornments etc that you bought in character creation. Some hairstyles totally change your hair colour, like the Seafarer's Crowning Trim - I wouldn't have taken white hair if I knew that when I put on that hairstyle my lovely pure white tresses would turn the colour of a dingy used mop. I need to be able to test all of my options to be sure that I've found exactly the right combination. On the bright side, if we have the option to tweak before exiting the tutorial we can get around this.

The CC is pretty good but as mentioned by many others it could use an update.

• Different lightning options. This is a major issue which has stayed throughout all the various CC backgrounds from chapters. Let us be able to switch between some options to check how skintones etc look in various light.
• More angles to look at the character. It can be damn hard determine how some proportions look with the very set field of view we have right now.
• Height measurement. I'm more than fine with the races having specific heights, but it would be nice with some indicator to tell how tall a character is. It doesn't have to be specified in cm or inches, just some 1-20 or whatever.
• A second final adjustment after you've seen the character in game, or the option to look at the character moving around with ingame camera view.
• Better armour preview options.
• Scars being seperate from body/face markings.
• And the oddest one I've discovered through all the alts I've made - Inner eyebrow lifting option for all. This is a bizzare thing that only exist for male Redguards. If you slide the Eye Height to the right, you will notice that a big chunk of that part of the slider will lift the inner part of the eyebrows aswell. Something that is very noticeable and nice on all the eyebrows we have which are looking way too angry. *

* Here are two pictures to show the eyebrow thing.
Default angry looking eyebrows. Inner eyebrows lifted as high as possible with Eye Height It's not a massive thing, but it's still darn weird you can only do it on male redguards.

Agree with all of the above suggestions. I especially like the idea of an Oblivion style option to tweak your character before starting the game proper. This would be especially useful for people like me who forget to do basic things like choose an Alliance and a voice, sometimes even a class . I've lost count of how many toons I've created and then immediately deleted because I forgot something important or they looked weird. We absolutely should be able to use all of our store-bought items too, I'm confused that this isn't already a thing tbh. And the light is horrible, pretty much always has been - remember Morrowind CC? *shudders*...

And we really do need to be able to save whilst editing, I created the most beautiful Breton boy, answered the phone and when I got back just minutes later, my boy was gone, lost forever to data heaven and try as I might, I've never been able to re-create him. Well, that's a bit of an exaggeration since the characters do tend to look alike, but you get my point.

And for those saying there are more important issues/bugs etc, of course there are, but ZoS does have more than 2 employees you know. These are just some cool ideas for QoL improvements in the future.

Ha, you should have seen back in the day when the character creation screen was in your cell in Coldharbour, now that was dark. Back then your characters would always look completely different in game. I made an Argonian thinking he was tan with blue stripes, he turned out to be dark brown with green stripes. That's why I took to the habit of designing all of my characters on PTS first, that way I can tweak them to be just how I want them before making them on live.

The problem, of course, with adding new customization options to the character creation screen is that unless they give 1 appearance change token per character slot to every player it will be completely unfair to older players, who will have to buy tokens if they want to use the features on their existing characters.