Henri

Hey guys, can't tell you how sad it feels trawling through all my old screenies. I know MMORPG's don't last forever, i've been through this once with EQ, but this was such a big shock! Kind of 'here today, gone later today'

I did find some old screenies i thought might be worth posting, though this was early days... excuse the costumes It's a bit like being a self-respecting adult and your mum gets the childhood photo album out, lol...

K, this was my first ever screenie, taken before i'd even actually moved an inch in the world, don't remember the toon name but he was claw/somet scrapper, deleted him half way through the tute...




Next short lived toon was Kawasaki Man... sorry...
I had a kawasaki, this was as close as i could get to my leathers...




Then my first long term-er, think i got this guy to lvl12 before deleting him...
I like The Flash, I like Cap America... meet druuuuuurrrrrrrrrr (drum role) Green Flash!! Yep, i sucked at character concepts then, and names, and costumes, and at not poking the eula with a long stick...




Then we got serious, and i'm so glad i found this screenie, didn't think i had any of her... This was my first serious character, CyborGirl, sonic/energy blaster, she was my main for a while and i got her to around level 30, took ages




And finally, this is a more recent screenie of my Mastermind Robostein, but just found it and remembered i liked it
Giant Robot attacks Atlas Park!
No photomanip, just taken at a weird prepective whilst jumping and firing a power




It's been a great 4 years playing CoH and getting to know all you lot in the Multimedia and Screenshot and Video an... eeeesh, in the Art Forum, i'll miss visiting here more than anything i think. Cheers guys, you all Roxx

I'd like to throw my 2inf worth in here too. I'm not going to try and convince anyone either way that Champions is our new saviour, how you deal with this bombshell is for you to work out, this is just how it's panning out for me. Also, this won’t include any game mechanics type comparisons or number crunching stat debates, I didn’t take much notice of that in CoH, and I’m not going to start now, I play games for fun and so the only stat here is fun on or fun off

I love CoH, I love the game, I love you lot, love my characters, the costume creator! love it! I'm not giving up hope that CoH may have a more positive future than just... 'click', but i'm a rebound kind of guy. When I lose something I try and replace it with something else. I’d tried CO on a free trial out of curiosity when it was first released, hated it, didn't even finish the tutorial, but then I knew CoH was sat there waiting for me, tapping it's foot and wondering where I'd been for the last hour...

Been trying it again over the last couple of days and I have to say, I don’t hate it. I even decided today I liked it. I’m F2P at the moment as I’m not committing to anything until I know what’s going on with CoH, but my initial thoughts are, it is worth my sub if CoH can’t be saved. The community have been TOTALLY welcoming, the COX channel has many CoH names I recognize, which is nice, and also quite a few CO members who are very friendly and helpful. The game is a lot more involved than I'd assumed, the missions so far are fun (low level so far, I’m level13), I’ve actually lol’d at two of them now, a Sammy Davis jr/Dean Martin pair of thugs waiting for some bags to fall through a manhole, and an oriental mob boss type bloke who scarpers as soon as you arrive, the voice acting is really quite funny

I’ve noticed the main issues raised in this thread in the comparing CO to CoH (which probably isn’t fair, but also probably inevitable) seem to be the art style, the costume creator, and the number of character slots, all points very important to me too. I am an altoholic, I have a great interest in art, and I was very involved in the costume creation area of the forums. The art style was very easily solved, due to the fact that I’m a victim of NVidia’s complete inability to release a driver update that works! CO instantly recognized that my GT240 has old drivers which prompted me to go into the games graphical settings, and found a lower setting that seems to give no reduction in quality other than to remove the black lining around everything, which is the very thing I didn’t like about the art style anyway, result! The costume creator, I was initially in despair over, until someone in COX channel piped up that once you get a char to lvl10, it opens up massively account wide. It does, I’m now quite impressed, and for a subbed player there’s apparently even more options unlocked, plus a lot of ingame unlockable content. I think it will be at least on a par with the fantastic CoH CC. And the alt problem… no, that’s still a problem at the moment, although just read further up this thread that some people have 60 alts, so… there’s hope there.

Here’s a screenie of the art style with no inking/black lining…




Anyway, hope all this rambling might just give a bit more of a positive view of your options if you had discounted CO due to general opinion or perhaps a self bias previous experience of the game, as I had. But again, your future is in your own hands and you take your own paths. Cheers H.

Good luck with your move Deedee

Yep, colours opposite each other give a very striking contrast... think i might have said that...

quick link from another post, hope it helps mate

Cool stuff! I'll be watching this with interest

Grats winners, and good contest Big_Soto

Thanks guys, and Dee, i welcome crit on my stuff always, appreciate you taking the time

I see what you mean about the areas you pointed out, and i think i know what it is. I use special layers inbetween some of my shading layers that i call fillers, so if i've missed some area on the shading it shows through green (i also have a bright green layer at the bottom of the layer pile so if i can see green, i've missed an area. I don't tend to like working with green in my pics ) On the filler layers i just very basically splat some paint in to cover the missed area, then go through the shading layers to see what i've missed. Then i delete the filler layers before saving the final merged pic. I guess i forgot to delete a filler . I've got the .xcf saved so i'll check it later. This is why feed back is good, makes you look again at your work to get it right cheers.

Hey dudes! Just posting up my first piece i've managed to get done since moving back to UK.

'Bad Day at the Office...' for Robot H3NRi

Please click my sig to see it fullsize on my DA site, this small pic's not the best. Thanks for looking

Yep thanks, lot of renovation needed on the new house (new to us that is) which is keeping me busy, but i'm finding some time for fun stuff too, namely CoH Even started a new Robot H3NRi pic tonight, though my old hard drive was unsalvagable unfortunately so having to start again with a lot of stuff, including all the settings and add-ons i had for GIMP, it's coming along though

Loving that fire effect DeeDee, great stuff

Ahh, sort of only just discovered what this thread is all about, there's been some absolutely stunning pieces submitted.

Hope you don't mind me adding a few i've done of my characters.

First one is of my main 'Robot H3NRi':



And two of 'British Hero' in his previous incarnation:





hope you like

Ahh, well now i see that my first question, although may have been the most pertinent, may also be the most irrelevant.

was this shortly after taking the red pill?

That Warlordwardog piece is fantastic!! Nice one

(Am i seeing things, or has the face changed?)

I had a bit of a dabble in the cel-shading world... it wasn't pretty, lol

I did pick up some great artists on DA though for cel-shading hints and tips:

=TovioRogers has a great japanese style and nice use of colour imo. http://toviorogers.deviantart.com/

totmoartsstudio 2 has a more mature style of cel-shading i think, and i'm also not sure it's a style he works in a lot, but i liked it and took a lot of reference from his work. http://totmoartsstudio2.deviantart.com/

Then there's this guy..., lol, only kidding

That's a couple more for your list though

Brilliant StarGeek, that sorted it nicely. Thanks very much

@Zombie Man, this is a common problem. Check first that you're not lying on the floor, having fallen over. This usually fixes 87% of the problem 69% of the time...

Hi guys. Does anyone know how to change the forum language settings. Mines suddenly switched to french and i can't switch it back, as i don't speak french. All my headings and stuff are in french so it's going to be difficult to navigate through menus i suspect.

Any ideas? cheers H.

K, my first choice was easy, it has to be my main, Robot H3NRi. It's his original costume, which is the one i was always most happy with. I've filled his costume slots since but never managed to improve on it as this original design is how i see him. It uses a lot of basic pieces but that just adds to the character i feel





Someone once said to me in a team, 'A spines robot!? Hah, i'd like to see that!' Well here he is

Second choice is more tricky, i have a lot of robots... I think i'll have to go for General Kale. He's not actually a character though, he's the arch nemesis of my Robot Mastermind, Robostein. He lives in the year 4010 AD, and in his robocidal pursuit for robot supremacy over humankind, managed to ignite a robot war that has been raging for 86 years... (i will finish that comic at some point ) This is he...




Hope you guys like them, and thanks for the comp Big Soto.

Brillant, a costume comp, with a Robot theme! What better opportunity to rejoin the CoH community

Hmm, only 2 costumes per player... what's that in binary? :P

Thanks for the comments guys. The reason I asked really, was because i suspected there might be some issue with content copyright, and i'm getting the vibe that this could well be the case in involving this image in my website.

I'm really still in the early stages of building this idea so i've decided on a more generic but still sci-fi related basis for the business, watch this space!

...hmm, space... the final frontier... wait, no, that's been done already...

Hi guys. I'm just wondering if anyone has any info regarding the use of CoH related fan art for commercial use. The art is 100% by me, so there shouldn't be any issue there, but it does depict CoH recognisable character items. Does the art belong to me to use as i wish, or is the subject matter bound by copyright?

I'm not selling the actual picture, but rather using it as a splash header for the pages of a sales website.

Any info and experiences would be much appreciated, thanks

This is the image i'm wanting to use: