Why does all my guys look the same?

[Aviv]

I noticed today that always my crew look the same. In the Control Room, and also in the Bridge. Always the brown hared generic looking guy. I've tried swapping them around, but it never works. I really really don't like it. Any idea to why it happens?

Also I sunk my first battleship (the Yamato-class) near the Marianas Islands today too. (Sorry I have to brag haha)

[Torplexed]

I always felt the crewmembers in SH3 all looked the same too. They probably just carried that philosophy over. I think this was just another area where they decided to cut corners.

You've got a whole ensemble onboard in SH5, but from what I hear that gets old fast as well. In the end it's still a sim mostly about sailing and fighting the ship rather than hanging with the crew.

[magic452]

A Yamato class is truly worth a brag. :yeah:

Well done.

Magic

[Stealhead]

You get a little variety with TMO crew appearance wise it is better than stock at least and Op Monsun has good crew variety.

[commandosolo2009]

I'm not sure about TMO, but stock guys are different, and I believe them to be taken from "Below 2002" at least my Exec on one shift looked like cool breeze from the Unit (http://sharetv.org/images/person/small/scott_foley.jpg)


I also noticed that when you switch people to the station chief (left most box) you get different faces. Try out and tell us.
Regards,
2k9

[Armistead]

I usually get a good mix, but often get a pair of twins in TMO. I do see different faces in different boats. I once tried to count the different faces in TMO and came up with 12.

[Daniel Prates]

Correct me if I'm wrong (I'm too lazy to start the game now just to check it out), but TMO deals not only with face corrections but also clothing, isnt' it? Like the crew not using shorts and t-shirts in the middle of a tropical storm, which is something I saw once in stock!

Oh BTW: I will pay 25 dollars for anyone here who provides a mod where all crewmen have the faces of the various members of Monty Python's Flying Circus. The challenge is on. :DL

[tomoose]

I posted about this problem quite a while ago. I am an avid TMO user and usually have the same 'generic' brown-haired guy at the following stations;

- both diving plane wheels
- checking the dive station lights
- all the bridge watch crew except for the officer

I tried looking at a few files and changing "heads" around but no joy. I'd asked also if it was possible to 'paste' your own face into one of the models (along the same lines as putting your face on a pilot in IL2) but apparently that's not possible either.

In short, despite TMO or RFB etc it seems of the 12 'faces' the game keeps picking on the same one for various stations.:-?

[Ducimus]

Crew appearance is supposed to be randomized. For the most part it is. On rare occasion this randomization breaks and the whole crew looks the same. Never could figure out why. I tried to minimize this by making officers and i think some NCO's only have certain faces available to them, while the crew other faces.

[Aviv]

have the same 'generic' brown-haired guy at the following stations;
- both diving plane wheels
- checking the dive station lights
- all the bridge watch crew except for the officer


Yep exactly. I'm not sure, but I noticed this problem after I rotated my crew out of port (you know what a lot of ppl do- "promote" crew off the boat to get some new guys) and somehow it broke it. Always these same guys at the places mentioned. In the conning tower it is not so much of a problem. I will try again later to change over the guys- but I don't think it will work.