DarkChilde

I got the same message. I checked the Nvidia site and found that there were indeed new drivers which I, of course, installed.

Now, I am unable to get into CoX. The game client will not load except in "safe mode". In safe mode I was able to select a character although the game froze on the Steel Canyon loading screen when the progress bar reached about 33%

I uninstalled and cleaned and reinstalled the new video drivers.
I uninstalled and reinstalled City of Heroes.

At the moment I'm just frustrated. I'll probably try and go back to the last restore point after I'm not as irritated.

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I've alway loved 3D rendering and love what you did too!

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Thanks!

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Man your renders are off the chain man!


Great job on these three!


I Really like that second one though!

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Thanks! I think it's one of my best pieces so far and I appricate you saying that being the art lover that you are

As the next installment of my unplanned series which began with the ever popular Midnight Guard PinUp Wallpaper

Here's the second: Midnight Guard: Hero HQ

While you're there, there's a new(ish) image of my namesake.

Sadly only one of these is an actual CoH hero ..

the rest are mine ...

all mine! Muahahahahahahahahahahahahah!

Ahem, ok, well here's the link: The Midnight Guard: Posing

Thanks to Larissa-Rasputin over at DeviantArt for mentioning this thread

Well, it's kinda the point of a Dark Defender isn't it?

Thank all of you for the kind comments, they are all appreciated!

I've put the full sized versions in my (so far unused) DeviantArt gallery.
Link is in my sig.

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What program are you using? Poser?

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They're rendered in Poser 7. Fluffy was created with an add-on called MetaForm that only works in Poser 6 so I created him, posed him and then brought him into P7 for rendering.

The dark shaders are my own creation and are available over at DAZ3D in the freebie section of their forums.

If you have something more specific that you want to know, send me a PM and I'll try to answer you without boring those who don't care so much

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your guy is pretty pimp lookin and thats a nice shot

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Thanks

Here's what he looks like in-game right now: Lame Screenshot

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Wow, I was expecting some lame screenshot, and what I got was an amazing 3d render! Awesome!!!

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I try not to be lame too often

Here's another: Dark Blast

These were both originally rendered at 1280x1024 'cause I like to use them for my wallpaper.

I'm not sure I like the Shadow Fall in the Dark Blast render, it's almost too solid but otherwise I'm pretty happy with both of them.

Dark Childe summoning Fluffy

It's not a book but a tool that can certainly help in getting poses and whatnot right when used with a book to help get the "look" you're going for is this:

DAZ|Studio

It's a 3D application that's free that works a lot like Poser. I believe that it does come with some content (figures and whatnot) so it's not going to be an investment from the get-go.

I know that some "purists" might not appreciate me adding this in here but if you're going for drawing and 2D art consider it nothing more than a computer based woody figure.

Anyway, good luck with your art!!

I think my favorite, and coincidentally the most ludicrous line in the narration is this:

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We are what we pretend to be

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I guess I'll fly over to the supermarket tomorrow and teleport my friends there so they don't have to run themselves ...


Although ... after the video I was presented a link to this:

Satan's Video Game All-Stars

which all together seems to be a better production. After all, where else can you see a teenager in Bermuda shorts play air guitar to music from The Omen?

Tomato, tomahto ....

ps. ICF_Zombra ... "The Dark Darkness" excellent

In the gallery at: Artzone


Edit: Someone has let me know that apparently you have to join to view the gallery. It's free though.

There's Manga Studio : http://www.e-frontier.com/go/mangastudio_hpl

The Debut version still appears to be $49.99

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Which makes them fairly weak and almost pointless. I would rather have a choice that builds a lot on my strengths then a little on my weaknesses.

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Actually it seems that it's you that missed the point rather than the powers. The APPs and the PPPs are specifically designed to fill holes in each AT. Having played many a Defender and now Corruptors and Dominators I personally am glad to have the chance to have a decent melee attack and especially shields of some sort even if they aren't as fantabuloso as a scrapper, tank, brute or stalker's.

I'd think that after playing 40 levels without a ranged attack that most of the melee group would be happy just to have them available. But then, none of the characters (ATs) I've played have ever been a 1334 build (no, not even my scrapper -- he's Dark/Dark so 1334ness will never be his to covet) ...

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can someone just make me a tp bind that puts me strait up at max range by using a button???

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Can't be done ... targeting your TP has to be done with the mouse.

Great guide!

I'm really enjoying my flaming beast of firey death - mayhem missions will be sooo much more meaningful to me. I've put off taking RoF, probably until 22 I'm thinking, my three attacks (yes, only 3: Fire Blast, Fire Ball and Fire Breath) do quite enough dammage but leave be wheezy and gasping for breath. As soon as I've worked out a bit and gotten Stamina then I'm sure that I'll be a RoF junkie too.

Oh, did I say "Great guide!"

Did you know that players in any of the CoH Betas (Beta, Pre-order waves) were able to reserve a character name on all the live servers?

The character that was in the top slot at a designated time was reserved for that player on all the live servers for a period of time (a week or so IIRC). Of course you had to log into each server and create that character or you'd lose it after the time elapsed.

I still have my Beta character on several of the live servers

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That CuppaJo once killed a man for accidently serving her Decaf?

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Untrue. She ripped his left arm off ... sheesh .. if ya kills 'em dey don't learn nuthin

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Last time I checked, bad design decisions were still usually made in error.

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More clumsy conflation. There's a difference between making an error of judgement and an error in arithmetic, or in basic perception of what's on the screen in front of you.

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Last time I checked with the President, his errors in judgement usually begin as errors in arithmetic.

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but certainly not always, I'd think that with the individual you mentioned language is more often the problem ...

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Total Cost for working Salvage storage and a working Empowerment Station: 130,000 Prestige

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7 members at 20,000 bonus Prestige per member = 140,000 Prestige

Minimum number of members necessary to achieve this: 7.

Devs' idea of a small SG: seven members.

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That's to achieve it right off the bat (squeek) ... our little villian group with 2 active characters and one that I took to 20ish currently has a power room, a computer room, a workshop, a computer and a generator. Once this hits live we'll feel like we're rolling in the dough.

130,000 to make a group useful in some way doesn't seem outrageous at all. I just wish they'd rethink the 15 minute rule. Perhaps time on the test server will alter that in some way.

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Nooo lets not oh I dunno SCALE IT to the number of people in your SG. </end rant>

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How exactly would that work? I start a SG with 10 people, buy all my stuff and then add another 60 people after that to buck the system?

A agree that the prices are pretty outrageous but since SG membership is anything but static I don't see scaling the prices working to anyone's satisfaction...