The combination of these techniques will give you a really solid-looking image of yourself.'įor privacy-minded players who don't want their console capturing a map of their face or those without a PS4 or Kinect camera, Thomas said they'll still be able to create players from scratch using the game's customization system, as in past editions of the series. Because we're referencing real people, it only allows you to create human-looking players. 'You used to be able to pull and tug players' faces and create crazy noses and stuff. 'That means there can't be any more alien players,' said Thomas. The available modifications are based on Visual Concept's own library of facial features of actual NBA and Euroleague players. When demonstrated for The Associated Press with a PS4 camera and console, the process required two attempts to generate an accurate hairless model, which was then further detailed with skin textures, hair and eye colour. The face mapping marks the latest effort by a game creator to add virtual representations of players in a game, following similar endeavours, like EA Sports crafting virtual athletes based on still images of players' faces, and developer Rare harnessing Microsoft's Kinect camera to fashion cartoony avatars for its motion-detecting title 'Kinect Sports Rivals.' That just shows how much math and things are required to compute these points in 3-D space, then construct a model that looks like you.' 'But if you think of things in milliseconds like you do when you make games, with the computer processing power inside that box, three minutes is like an eternity.

'That doesn't sound like a lot of time,' said Thomas. The process requires a well-lit room and takes about three minutes. It then renders photorealistic 3-D models on screen that can be tweaked and placed onto the bodies of virtual players in the game's career and online modes. The technology utilizes the stereoscopic cameras for Sony's PS4 and Microsoft's Xbox One consoles to amass several angles of gamers' faces. 'We've been talking about doing this for a number of years, but it really wasn't possible until we knew the processing power of the next-gen machines. 'It's all done using the processing power of the next-gen systems,' said Jeff Thomas, vice-president of sports development at 'NBA 2K' developer Visual Concepts. The process uses the camera for either the PlayStation 4 or Xbox One game consoles to create faces for wannabe Kobe Bryants and Kevin Durants. The developers of the interactive basketball franchise are adding the option for gamers to digitally graft lifelike 3-D renditions of their faces onto virtual players in the series' latest installment, set for Oct. LOS ANGELES - 'NBA 2K15' is angling for a slam dunk with an innovative new way to put players in the game.

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