Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Female face models are too masculine...

Am I the only one that finds this to be the case? Just adding sliders would do a lot to improve the situation because then we could make the females look more female if if the preset is masculine.

... Hmmm, nope. All of the female faces I saw looked like ladies.

I don't recall seeing any masculine looking ladies in the character creation.

Look at the bone structure...




The heavily pronounced zygomatic bone is a defining masculine feature. Yes, women have it too but not like this. This is just one example.

I think that some of the presets (particularly the elven ones) could use tweaking, although not because the female faces look masculine, but I'd prefer that Larian take a second look at the presets rather than that they give us an array of sliders. I can also see how they might be disinclined to invest a lot of ongoing resources into customization if so many players are choosing to play Default Vault Dwellers. Our in-game behaviors provide feedback too.

They aren't likely to be picked to appear in perfume adverts (which usually feature pixie-faced waifs), but no, they don't seem to be masculine. I wouldn't object to some 'dainty' faces, but I don't have any problems with those featured.

Actually, a couple of faces who looked liked they have more than the usual amount of testosterone would actually be a welcome addition. A solid muscle-bound fighter or, when implemented, barbarian, could have a face that is more heavy-jawed and masculine than the current options.

The zygomatic arch is not particularly large on that face...

I don't think you're right in that. High cheekbones (pronounced zygomatic arches) are found in both sexes. Take a look at (for example) Kiera Knightly.

EDIT: The photo I linked to was unreasonably large for the forum, but I'm sure you can Google.

Is this trolling? I can't even tell anymore.

It's also a half-elven face, and elves are noted for their cheekbones.

Seems so.

I was thinking exactly the same....
I was under the assumption that most of the faces were taken from motion/face capture technology (with a few tweaks).

Yes they are too masculine, not all women have defined jawlines. Some elves look like transgender humans with elf ears. I'd prefer more feminine versions. But, that is no problem if they let us mod the faces. Extract the face meshes, sculpt non-destructive (preserve the indexes) in i.e. Blender and update the vertices with new coordinates. I did that in skyrim.

They look plenty feminine to me.
Following for what is sure to be an unmitigated disaster.

Um. No.

How many girls would love to look like that without make-up.

Half expected to see a bearded lady in this thread.

It was my understanding that the characters were scans of real life faces. So the female faces are scans of real ladies.

Odd, I found a lot of the male faces to be too feminine.

They are. Sure, in several cases they have been modified by the devs to be able to give us several options based on the same face or to fit non human races. But all these threads claiming the women being ugly/not feminine enough is just being mean. These presets are based on real living human beings. And they have feelings too you know!

I hadn't noticed, and the provided image didn't sway me.