After looking at the Jagex website, I found a particularly interesting document involving new character development. Jagex is looking to higher a new Graphical User Interface Artist for Runescape and they offered a document as a link to those were interested in the position. Now after not playing Runescape for a while, I was wondering whether or not these updates have already been implemented. Remember, these things are not confirmed to be added to the game, but this is just something that Jagex is looking to possibly add.

Link to document: GUIA Homework

Here's an outline of the document for those who can't seem to open it for some odd reason:

CHARACTER DESIGN SCREEN
(Overall size: 485 x 305 pixels)
This interface would appear in-game, and would allow players to choose a new hairstyle and change their basic clothing kit all at once, allowing them to preview what they will look like before paying a sum to make the change.
At this stage, we are looking for your thought processes on how the interface should be structured. Usability is the priority here, over the aesthetics, so use generic placeholders for things like icons and graphics, just as long as we can see where you have placed things, and how you intend to have the player navigate through the interface (scroll bars, tabs etc). Feel free to explore multiple ideas with rough sketches, and to annotate to explain how you have arrived at your design decisions, or to make notes as to how you might add things like roll over states, or pop up boxes.
We would expect to see rough sketches (photos, scans or sketches in Photoshop are fine) with any appropriate notes, and one final .jpg at the correct pixel size with placeholders properly arranged.

Just to clarify, you don’t need to draw out lots of individual icons and we are assessing you purely on your layout and usability skills.
If anything here is not clear then please email careers@recruit.jagex.com and we’ll answer your questions.
This interface should include:

 A way for the player to select which part of their character they wish to change. This should include:
Hair
Facial Hair (for men)
Make up (for women)
Eyes
Cheeks
Mouth
Clothing:
Torso
Arms
Wrist
Legs

 A preview of the player’s in-game character model with some form of control so that the player may rotate their character.
 A preview of the player’s up close, higher detail Chathead model
 A selection of colours to choose from. There should be space for a maximum of 30 different colours. Each colour should also have a text description.
 A total price of the currently selected changes
 A confirm purchase button
 A window title
 A help button
 A close/exit button


Within each sub section, there should be some way for the player selecting from a number of different options. Each option should have a text description and a small preview icon, which will then be shown on the player’s character model or chat head model when clicked on.
There should be some way for the player to see they have a particular item in the list selected for purchase
Misc Points:
 Some of the clothing will be two-toned, so there needs to be some way for the player to choose between the two different parts of clothing to change their colours.
 Bear in mind the lists of items may need to be expanded at some point in the future.

HAIR STYLES (example for women):
 Bald
 Bun
 Dreadlocks
 Long
 Short
 Pigtails
 Crew cut
 Earmuffs
 Fringe
 Pinned Up
 Top Knot
 Pinned Bun
 Ponytail Spiked
 Pixie
 Odango
 Bun with fringe
 Pigtails with fringe
 French Twist
 Princess
 Two buns and fringe
 Short Hair with fringe
 Long hair with fringe

FACIAL HAIR:
 Goatee
 Long Beard
 Medium Beard
 Moustache
 Clean Shaven
 Short Beard
 Short Full
 Split Beard
 Handlebar
 Mutton
 Full Mutton
 Full Moustache
 Waxed
 Dali
 Vizier
 Half goatee
 Sideburns
 Imperial
 Sensei

MAKE UP:
Eyes:
 Pink eyeshadow
 Blue eyeshadow
 Purple eyeshadow
 Brown eyeshadow
 Silver eyeshadow
 Eyeliner
 Dramatic
Cheeks
 Light Blush
 Medium Blush
 Dark Blush
Lips:
 Red lipstick
 Pink Lipstick
 Brown Lipstick
 Goth Black

CLOTHING:
Torso:
 Striped Sweater
 Woolen Vest
 Princely Best
 Tattered Waistcoat
 Fine shirt
 Waistcoat
 Plain Top
 Light Buttons
 Dark Buttons
 Jacket
 Shirt
 Stitching
 Ragged Top
Legs:
 Plain Trousers
 Princely Breeches
 Shorts
 Ragged breeches
 Tattered trousers
 Torn trousers
 Breeches
 Striped trousers
 Turn ups
Arms:
 Striped arms
 Princely Sleeves
 Fine cuffs
 Woollen sleeves
 Ragged arms
 Tattered sleeves
 Loose sleeves

Wrist:
 Bronze cuff
 Silver cuffs
 Gold cuffs
 Bronze bracers
 Silver bracers
 Gold bracers
 Leather bracelet
 leather guard

yeah i guessed this was coming after Mod Nexus said the construction cape glitch couldn't be fixed until another big project was done. I'll assume characters and our equipment will all get updated.

I think I remember seeing a topic about something really similar to this a while back.

Yeah, I made a topic about this a while back, except mine was mostly about the female makeup possibility.

Also, if you make a new character, you'll notice the interface for designing the character has changed, and looks really nice.

Gothic eye shadow ftw. We'll have Mariyln Manson's walking around Runescape. I must admit that the current character looks are probably the worst part of HD. Hopefully they'll fix it up.

I don't much like the character model either for players. Make-up could be pretty interesting though. Though I'm a bit scared of what will arise in combination with the emo hairstyle offered already.

I don't think this is a possible new character update. I think this is just a good idea that the designer could put a lot of effort into. It's really just a test of how well the designer works on the layout, usability, etc.

Character design interface? Why that's perfect!


Thank you
Iceman

Why can't guys wear makeup?! Thats unfair!

Anyways, cheeks?

Holy crap. I'm getting so sick of your posts all over this forum, saying Jagex can't do this, Jagex can't do that. They CAN make detailed characters.

A improvement on character graphics would be awesome and something I would look forward to. Hopefully this will come into fruition and we will be able to see much nicer looking characters, instead of bad-looking characters with no faces.

What? I never said they couldn't, in my post. You need to take a chill pill.


Thank you
Iceman