Our Life 2: Hair Color Tracking Feature
Shawna has implemented another new feature for the character creation system! Hooray for wonderful progress. Most of it isn't relevant for the current builds, but there is one part people are going to appreciate; the eyebrow layers were formatted to change colors the same way the rest of the hair can!
But also, now you don't just have whatever nice looking hair you picked and that's it, there's more that the game will know about your character based on the choice. In Step 1 your hair color is your natural color by birth. Opal doesn't let you dye it at that age. The eyebrows will automatically match that color.
In Steps 2-4, you can change the color of your hair and the game will be able to notice that it's not the "natural" color anymore. It will ask during the transition between Steps if the shade changed over time on its own, fading or getting darker with age, or if it's dyed. Then we'll be able to properly reference whatever happened with your hair within the story itself.
The eyebrows will be able to stay the same color as the rest of your hair or you'll even be able to keep your eyebrows the "natural" color from Step 1 while dying the hair on your head to show even more clearly that it is a dye job.
If the front and back of your hair are two different colors in Step 1 that still won't count as being dyed, your character will just naturally have two-toned hair like Kyra does in OL1, for example.
It's pretty nifty! Hopefully it'll be fun for players to try out once the game is further along.
Comments (29)
Thank you, Shawna! All the little details add so much, It makes it feel so real
I think you are on track to make this game even better then OL1 and that is no small feat I loved the work you all did in it. I am excited to see the end result.
Love details like this. Y'all are seriously going above and beyond and I appreciate that.
It makes me wonder if this means we'll be able to chose what kind of eyebrows we have (i.e. bushy, thin, thick, shaved with patterns/bare spots from scars, etc.). I'm really happy that we'll be able to have the eyebrows be different from the scars soon. 😁 The current colouration is too close between the large scar that goes over the eyebrow and the eyebrow itself.
Thank you so much!!
THANK YOU SHAWNA <3!!!!
I'm so excited! this is such a cool feature and having the eyebrows be so customizable as well is great! The amount of detail being added with all these updates is always amazing to me.
That's SO cool, omg!!
Y'all put so much creativity into even the little things.
Shawna ya done it again this is an amazing feature
Nice to get some additional reactivity in the narrative that way. Any chance of adding something like colored highlights or streaks (i.e. partially dyed)?
that’s actually so cool, i cant wait for that to be implemented haha my MCs hair is gonna lighten over time i already am planning it 👀
YES
thank you Shawna!😭💕👌 you really spoil us~
You guys really keep spoiling us! <3
YEEEES i'm so happy about this one! Thank you sooo much Shawa! I was really hoping we could change the eyebrow color and wow there is ever more cool things! 🤩🤩🤩
I love this so much! Thank you to you and your team for spoiling us like you do ☺️
This is amazing! Any chance we can get our eyelashes to match our hair color too?
Wow, kudos to you and the Shawna! I just love all the little details and the references to them.
This is amazing! The amount of customisation and work you all put into these games is truly astounding. It makes me so happy and thankful 😊
omg thats unbelievable amazing! I love it! thanks for the loads of work!! <3
bless Shawna with these quality of life changes 🥺♥️ thank you for all the hard work everyone!!
Oh yay! I was hoping for something like that! Thank you all so much for your hard work!
I have my character as having dyed his hair, so this is a very nice feature indeed. Does mean I’ll have to wait until Step 2 for purple hair, but a small price to pay for better immersion ^_^
this is really the kind of thing that sets these games apart from others makes you feel a lot more for your character and by extension the rest thank you
Oh this is such a neat feature!! Lots of appreciation for all the work being put into customization 🥰
Shawna does it again! 🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿
Ooh this sounds like a really cool feature
*screaming in customization options heaven*