Character creation: Presets grid with 3D preview

About this game

Developer: Render Cube · Publisher: Toplitz Productions · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Realistic 3D · Screen type: Character / Unit Detail

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What to study

Medieval Dynasty opens character creation with a preset wall, not sliders: sixteen painted faces in a grid, one click, and the 3D villager at left becomes that person. The tab icons along the top are the rest of the creator (body, gender, head, hair, clothing, extras), but the grid is the decision the screen is built around, and it is the only moment in the audited trailers where the creator shows its preset tab rather than a slider tab. Frame at about 0:13 in the Anniversary Trailer (Steam); the trailer cuts to the General slider tab immediately before and after, so the preset grid is a brief flash, caught here settled.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

character-creator portrait-grid preset-rail

Components

Parts on screen.

Character model Portrait Tabs

Screen inventory

• the character preview at left: a full-body male villager in a linen tunic and rope belt, standing against the dark creation-screen backdrop
• the Presets panel at right: a 4x4 grid of painted portrait presets (men and women, varied hair and beards), the first preset selected, under a 'Presets' heading and a row of six category tab icons (body, gender, head, hair, clothing, extras)
• the panel is the whole right half of the screen and the portrait grid is its subject: every preset face is individually legible, and the selected preset matches the 3D preview at left

Top 3 colors

#151416 23%#110f11 23%#070707 21%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© Render Cube / Toplitz Productions, Medieval Dynasty screenshot: Anniversary Trailer video (Steam); Wild Game Update, Full Stock Update and Crossplay trailers audited, 0 keepers, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Toplitz Productions.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-11-05. verified 2026-11-04: pipeline candidate v2_0007.png @ 13.088s in the Anniversary Trailer, inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native); genuine in-game character-creation screen, settled and legible (Presets heading, all sixteen portrait presets, the six tab icons and the 3D preview all readable). DISCLOSED: the trailer applies a soft depth-of-field vignette, so the fourth (rightmost) column of portraits is slightly softer than the first three, and the panel's right edge sits just off-frame; a 5 fps fine scan of 12.8-14.4s found no better-framed Presets moment, and the adjacent General/Head slider tabs (dense2 p_03-p_08) are held as same-screen alternates in review-notes.md.

No published Toplitz Productions / Render Cube video or fan-content policy found (checked 2026-11-05); fair-use study/commentary use, unofficial, not endorsed, takedown honored within 48h.

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