We recently brought you Major Nelson's Vegas face mapping results, but those were merely pictures. Today we bring you the holy grail of face mapping evidence: video. It seems that the overall goal of face mapping, however, is not to map normal faces. If our previous commenters are to be believed, Vegas players have been trying all kinds of head gear, from sun glasses to Spiderman masks. It's fitting, then, that this video features a woman using the face mapping feature to give Xbox Live a permanent raspberry. Check out the video and tell us what creative things you've done with your Vegas avatar.
Reader Comments (14)
Posted: Nov 30th 2006 4:16PM (Unverified) said
I can't be the only person who pictures a bunch of 12 year olds with pictures of their ass as their face running around, am I?
Posted: Nov 30th 2006 4:32PM (Unverified) said
Am I the only one who can never see other people's face mapping? I have several friends who have used it, but all I see are the standard models that come with the game.
Posted: Nov 30th 2006 4:36PM (Unverified) said
That's it, I'm buying this game and stealing my niece's darth vader mask.
Posted: Dec 1st 2006 4:27PM (Unverified) said
believe me i've tried the butt face thing. can't really get it to work. i'm pretty sure the software attempts to locate eyes, mouth, basic face objects in order to make a map of the face. now maybe if you draw 2 black dots for eyes on your butt it would work? fun times!
Posted: Nov 30th 2006 5:46PM (Unverified) said
#1: Totally agree. Wonder how long till testacles have overtaken Live and start running around in combet gear shooting people?
Posted: Nov 30th 2006 5:53PM (Unverified) said
I've found that it takes a while to load up my friend's scanned face when playing coop. We can see our own scanned faces when the game first loads, but for some reason it takes about 5 minutes before we see each other's scanned face. A problem I have with the facemapping is that it usually tries to give me a semi-bald head. I noticed the woman in the video had a similar issue. Can the program not recognize black hair??? My RB6 character looks like a prime candidate for Rogaine.
Posted: Nov 30th 2006 6:06PM DeadPlasmaCell said
IGN had video of face mapping in their video review of the game a few weeks ago. Cool stuff.
Posted: Nov 30th 2006 6:46PM (Unverified) said
Got my copy of vegas today and tried it out. It didnt come out perfectly as I was still half asleep and the camera was at an odd angle but it still looks pretty darn good. Pic - http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/5895/facemappingaq5.jpg
Posted: Dec 1st 2006 9:04AM (Unverified) said
Cheesehead baby.
Posted: Dec 4th 2006 12:35PM (Unverified) said
I tried to make one with my Nightmare Armor Master Chief Helmet - It wouldn't accept it after trying to render it :(
Posted: Dec 1st 2006 1:15PM (Unverified) said
I used a dry erase marker and put my 'prefix' (clan tag) on my foreheaad along with a creepy curly moustache. Came through without any problems. I've atempted to draw a face on paper and use that, but couldn't get it to work yet.
Posted: Dec 1st 2006 2:02PM (Unverified) said
The way her face looks when she's actually in-game is really creepy, IMHO. Maybe that's a good battlefield strategy, eh?
It kind of reminds me of the two-headed babies in Silent Hill 4.
It kind of reminds me of the two-headed babies in Silent Hill 4.
Posted: Dec 1st 2006 1:35PM (Unverified) said
Does anyone remember how Perfect Dark (the N64 one, not the more recent 360 title) was originally slated to have this feature? It used the (overwhelmingly craptacular) Gameboy Camera to make your face appear in the game.
If memory serves, it was canned because of Columbine or something.
Man, it took a long time for the feature to reappear, eh?
If memory serves, it was canned because of Columbine or something.
Man, it took a long time for the feature to reappear, eh?
Posted: Dec 3rd 2006 5:14PM (Unverified) said
She looked like a god awful tongue creature, with a bad case of the red eye... While (thankfully) it seems that she was distroyed before being allowed to breed, conspearcy theory, sugjests her spawn will show themselfs soon enough...
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