Let me start by saying I think that the rendered leaders so far in the game look great, but they also look pre-rendered and please tell me Stardock if I am wrong.
The issue with this is race customisation; one of the things that has always bothered me in these types of game is that custom races tend to have to reuse art assets like diplomacy movies from the base races. In a game like GC2 and now GC3 where you have so much freedom over ship design this can be especially jarring.
What I was hoping to see in GC3 was something like the leader and unit customisation available in the Elemental line of games applied to designing races visually at the start but with more variety of parts with animations rendered in game. This would allow for a large variety of creative visual race customisation without needing to use tricky external tools. Have Stardock looked at this possibility? At least for custom races?
