Video of the Races

[Korelin]

Nice video of all the races Vanguard showed off at E3:
http://www.silkyvenom.com/forums/showthread.php?t=590

[Aazenius]

Wow... Vanguard Porn! Funny how all the females had armor on, and the guys didn't...

[Korelin]

Conspiracy!

[Aazenius]

Those fox looking people remind me of Starfox, sorta. I truely hope the game is as customizable as they claim. I remember when SoE made a claim like that, and then ended up scrubbing a few of the facial changes because of memory. I read that they solved that problem here, by basically giving everyone the same face/body model, but the faces have enough changes (where it counts) that they actually look like different races.

[Pirotess]

Correct there is one universal bipedal model that is kept in memory and then each race has various maximum and minimum settings that allow them to deform the model. This allows for a massive memory savings. This savings is further accentuated since the developers dont have to keep 20 different versions of the same armor in memory for each model, they can just scale and deform those as well. Furthermore Vanguard also employs a layering system so its possible to actually remove parts of your armor and see other layers of clothing underneath them which can also be changed or modified individually. Its a much more advanced system than the one we got used to in EQ1.

[Camerous]

Another thing you have to remember is those models were just rushed out to show at E3. Brad has stated there will be more tweeks on them before release.

[Aazenius]

Even without the tweaks they still look nice. I think the Dark Elves kinda look like the EQ2 version though.

[Guanott]

Not bad graphics... just if they would have used some sort of recording device other than a video camera for their big movie; being my only problem with the short clip. So far it's looking good, and hopefully doesn't fall into the same problems that seemed to plague eq2 and whatnot. Lets hope it comes out somewhere past decent.

[SixGuns]

It is nice to see the differences in the races though. Gives you a nice visual of whats to come. Promising!

[Aazenius]

Originally Posted by Guanott

Not bad graphics... just if they would have used some sort of recording device other than a video camera for their big movie; being my only problem with the short clip. So far it's looking good, and hopefully doesn't fall into the same problems that seemed to plague eq2 and whatnot. Lets hope it comes out somewhere past decent.

I wish they'd release new screenshots of all the races, maybe side by side to give a size comparison. At the very least I'd like screenshots that are clearer then the video is.