I brought up a weapon creator to UGO before but they weren’t interested.

No date on HM3 yet. I have a meeting with them on Monday, hopefully that will help make the coming priorities clearer for me.

1. items: everybody loves’em!
generally speaking, it’d be great to see more items of specific types / ages /genres… for instance: there’s not a lot of cowboy equip (hats, marshall’s star, guns, pants, boots) - very unfortunate for those of us using HM to create their rpg-chars for games like deadlands.
speaking of deadlands: more cyber- and steam-punk elements would be awesome - ares predators as one gun-option for instance or a steam-powered backpack (or anything like that). a bigger set of items for pirates and victorian/fin de siecle age and support items for games like “cthulhu” or “dark continent”
the same is valid for military uniform sets. it’s rather difficult to create US civil war soldiers, high rank officers and the like.
oh - and of course more hair, facial hair and eyebrow options! the step with the pre-made faces was right (and it like’em), but please give us more options to build faces and heads ourselves.

2. poses/body types: the six existing ones usually are sufficient. however, i’d like to support the idea of an additional pair of poses for children/adolescents, elder people and obese - you’d usually find them in most contexts - from comics to rpg.
together with that, more options for mutations would be great (tentacle arms! claws! mayhem!)

3. the new layer idea sounds great - combine it with patterns and colours for each layer and you’ll have the perfect build (however, i do not want to think about the size of hm3 if that’d come true)

4. additional to the face-creator, have you ever thought of a weapon-creator? several categories (staffs, swords, axes, rifles, bows, pistols) with several modules and layers to create a superweapon worthy to be held by superheroes / rpg-chars

again, thanks for doing this for all of us - we will never forget or stop using HM!

besides, when’s hm3 coming out?

the only thing is i dont know when it will come out so i can be one of the first to start creating=] thanx

And now, for some suggestions:

1. I like how you thought of getting 4 slots for Coats & Shirts where you can select e.g. 4 Coats. I assume there will be such a system for all other clothing types? I suggest: Torso (4 slots), Legs (~3 slots), Feet (~2 slots: Boots & Socks), Neck+Shoulder (~2-3 slots), Arms+Hands (~3 slots: Arms (like, robotic arms etc), Hands, Bracelets), Head (~Many slots : Eyes, Eyebrows, Nose, Mouth, Moustache, Beard (I suggest separating those 2), Mask, Headwear, Headwear 2, Hair, Head Aura (like, flame/energy/psy-waves etc emitting from head - like the Energy types in the Hands selection)).

2. Screw new body poses It would be too much work for you and add too much size to the program.

3. Instead, please make 6 new body types: a Teen male/female, an Elderly male/female, and an Obese male/female. The Elderly ones may be crooked a bit - useful for those wacky scientists! And I strongly suggest making Obese a separate body type, with the corresponding clothes etc. That Obese extra in the Skin section and the fat-belly Overshirt just aren’t enough.

4. Maybe you could do even 2 more body types: the Skinny male/female. E.g., the Normal male is Superman - with his muscled build, wide chest, biceps etc. And the Skinny male is Spiderman - not so muscle-ey, just an ordinary guy with superpowers. With women it can be similar: compare Power Girl and Catwoman. The first has a bigger build, more developed muscles, bigger… AHEM, okay, you get the drift and the other is more slim and petite.

5. It would be awesome if you make more elements taken from existing superheroes. Now, I understand that including the Superman logo or the Spiderman mask could get you in legal trouble But… you’ve already got “Wolverine’s” claws and “Batman’s” cape, so you get the drift. I’ve just tried recreating some existing heroes’ uniforms, and sadly coudn’t get all the right details

6. More types of hair & facial features, as many people have commented, are very needed. More insignias are needed too! (e.g. a Saturn insignia may be very helpful for space heroes, and a skull insignia - for Puni… ahem, some badass types ).

7. I’d suggest a new selection for Torso slots - Sci-Fi Armor. There are already some fine examples of it, but more are needed - of New Gods/Galactus type, and of Liefeldian 90s type (heh. just thought how awesome a Liefeldian HeroMachine may be ), and of modern robotic type.

8. Is there an option to make a wheelchair-bound hero (like Prof.Xavier)? If there is, and I missed it, sorry.

9. More “civilian” boots! My Kingpin-type villain doesn’t have any assortment to choose from!

OK, I know, too many suggestions already
Anyway, as I said, you do a great job!
I just hope some of my suggestions could be of help.

1.Give us body types or some other way to indicate characters’ ages: kids and teens (useful for sidekicks), adults, and older people (mad scientists, prominent citizens, and helpless old folks just waiting to be rescued by OUR HERO!)

2. Also, while we’re talking about old people, please consider adding a “bun” to the feminine hair choices (useful for kindly little old ladies like Martha Kent or Peter Parker’s Aunt May).

3. Speaking of ladies’ hair, I’d like to see more styles that look longer, or suggest they are longer–going past the woman’s shoulders. I really like the “tousled” option for women’s hair. I’d like to see more styles that frame the face like that one does. Marvel’s superhero generator has a feminine hair option in which the hair flows over one of the character’s eyes–very sexy! In short, longer hair that frames the face.

4. I’d like to see more poses: seated, or in a fighting stance, for example. Did the hero just throw a punch? Let’s see it!

5. I’d like to see vehicles for our heroes: horses, cars, airplanes, spaceships, etc.

6. On the coat menu I’d like to see a jacket from a military style dress uniform that has rows of ribbons on the lapel. just look at General Petraeus or one of these big Pentagon guys the next time they’re testifying before Congress or something.

I know these are a lot of suggestions and you probably can’t implement them all, but I hope you’ll think about some of them. I still love HeroMachine! Thanks!