because having 2d animated heads and 3d animated heads in the same game/platform causes one or the other to look uncanny/weird when seen side by side
No, the actual reason is that dynamic heads, from the investors standpoint, looked like a massive waste of time and money since nobody used them in any serious manner unless if they weren’t aware that they were using them. So, to make them not appear as a waste of time and money, they forced everyone to use them now. People can’t use alternatives if they simply don’t exist!
If you have issues with the visual parity of one of the dynamic heads
So many of them have problems.
- The mouth on “Skeptic” is too thin compared to the 2D version
- The mouth and eyes on “Heeeeeey…” are beyond too thick
- :] just looks really off
- “Chill”s mouth and eyes are just wrong
- “Err…”s mouth is too small, too thick, and the eyes look odd
- “Check It” is BEYOND messed up
And those are just heads in my inventory.
emotive and expressive 3D heads.
The dynamic heads are neither emotive or expressive. They lack all the posing required to actually be expressive. As someone who plays VRChat with a full face-tracking headset, trust me, the dynamic heads in comparison are awful.
Also, Dynamic heads don’t natively support VR face-tracking, nor is the PC face-tracking that good to begin with, again, due to the lack of actual poses you can do. And honestly, the lack of poses is partly due to the 2D faces never being fit to become 3D animated faces. They just don’t work and it’s very apparent that they don’t.
Their default animations are anything but expressive and nobody actually bothers animating them when making custom animations.
Roblox was also never really fit, or even needed such tech with the heads. They aren’t a focus of the engine at all. When talking to someone, you’re looking at their speech bubbles or what they’re doing, not their face, because roblox ISN’T inherently a social game, letalone there are social games, more often than not, you’re in 3rd person not looking at a single persons face. There is literally no point for dynamic heads to exist in the first place. Not a single soul was complaining about the lack of them.
Animated heads are not required at all for expression of self.