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I have no idea whats needed for you're project but I wiped this out
I can't remember who, but someone on the boards recently remade most of the Icons in the game. They may have art assest on hand that can do this way better then me.
Found that thread here
For the Statesman symbol I have a feeling GG may have a something that can be used.
She's friendly, don't be afraid to ask.
If my cheesy graphic is the only thing you can find to use, I've saved the Photoshop Document and I can give that too you. Or send you whatever file type would work best.
If you chose to save this image (it's a png) right click and save as. I you click copy image and try to paste it into a image editting program the transparent layer will be black (maybe white). -
I'm not saying Vets don't spend extra time at the trainer weighing all the options, but the fact that each of you has the name of every power in every power pool memorized means you get to spend more time at the trainer in the decision phase and not in research mode.
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Quote:Originally Posted by BrokenPrey
This is my favorite of all the little memories Babs shared on that blog, Posi not being able to tell Babs and the IT guy apart also made me chuckle.Quote:My first introduction to the RL Jack was while I was at the offices of Cryptic interviewing for the position I was eventually offered. I was standing in one of the hallways of their cube-farm chatting with some of the people there and looking out the window into this enclosed into the atrium in the center of the building. Some unfortunate employee had walked out for a break and managed to lock themselves into this inescapable inside-out room and was banging on the door to be let back in. Jack came strolling down the hall, past the door and loudly proclaimed, "Don't let him back in...he'll never learn." Without even pausing, disappeared around the corner. -
Quote:First off I'm going to work hard to be waaay less of a ***** in this thread today.Originally Posted by Jade_Dragon
Hm. That sounds reasonable. Similar to an idea I had, in fact. (My suggestion was to draw the weapon and attack with it at the same time, like a gunslinger's quick draw) The problem, I think, is that you need the stance to change after the animation plays (so you can play a different animation as you switch stance) while I believe the stance changes before the animation plays.
It would be a considerable amount of work to add a second animation to every single weapon power in the game. But at least it wouldn't be as much work as adding a second animation to every single NON-weapon power in the game. (Which would be required if you wanted to have alternate animations that kept the weapon drawn)
I'm not familiar with the Gunslinger quick draw. It's killed my characters plenty of times, but is it similar to Ice Sword, Fire Sword and the Stone Mallets that players can use?
I'm gonna use the Bring It has an example one more time. If I summon Stone Mallet and have it in my hands and use Bring It, the Mallet is removed from my hands and the emote doesn't play. Once the animation for Bring It starts I can resummon the mallet in the middle of the animation and the emote isn't effected.
I also believe stance is determined before animation. If you're a DP/Dark for example, Twilight Grasp will never animate if you don't have an enemy NPC targeted, but every time you have guns in your hands and you click Twilight Grasp the gun models are flushed from your hands. I assume this is because the game is getting ready to change stances, cleaning out the hands, but when the game goes to animate the power it realizes the proper conditions to use Twilight Grasp aren't being meet and you end up just standing there in a neutral state.
I'm not in this thread because I think redraw is killing anyone's DPS and I don't want aesthetics to no longer be a consideration. I just think there are a few places around the game where redraw could be removed. Having to look at the same Redraw animation over and over gets monotonous and I have to start shelving characters because I need a break from the animation. -
Quote:You can either post the costume file you want used for Statesman pinata to the forums.Originally Posted by Lanterns Ghost
Lord Nemesis IS the Can.
And Yes I want a swing at Broomsti...I mean the Statesman piñata!
Or you can make an AE arc with a boss using your coustume of choice and let me know the storyarc number.
Or we can work out a time for me to pop onto your server and I'll demorecord you.
There's a few problems I haven't worked out with Huge models and wings but I have the art assests and demo files ready to go for female and male models. I'm more then willing to help you with any of the steps needed to get your costume in my hands. -
Gut it. Save the costume at the tailor though. That way you can still visit them in some way when you want.
Quote:If I had less then 70 I rolled for recipes. If I had 70 or more merits I bought a low level knockback protection..the only problem with that is that you can't trade over merits. -
Rumor is Marcian is working on some super secret project for this thread. From what I can gather it's the Freedom Phalanx as the gang from Peanuts reenacting a scene from the movie Caligula.
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I wish there was a way to tell if new players are subscribers or using a trial account without asking them.
Once a player hits level 6 though I can tell if this is their first time through the game. They spend extra long at the trainer since they have all those new pool powers to choose from.
First time I ever hit level 6 and got to go through all those pool powers was so fun, and the flood of character concepts that opened up in my mind from the possible powers combinations was amazing.
I physically smile when I see a team member on the map standing next Praetor Duncan and I know they are thinking about whats the first power pool they're going to take.
I frown in Imperial City when I see new people standing next to the store for so long. That menu listing every origins DOs should show DOs the player can use at the top of the list. -
Quote:Can you post a photo of what the river looks like in normal times from that spot you shot the video?Originally Posted by SuperOz
This video I filmed yesterday on my iPod: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PdoEuuMqBs This was as of 5pm yesterday. I hope to film the river again today.
I hope this passes quickly, having to wake up in the morning and then going to bed at night with the fear of mother nature being the only thing you can think about is a horrible experience. -
Quote:Well then I need to give Games Workshop some credit, I never played any of their games only admired their models, but Games Workshop made such a big impact that whenever I see a soilder in space with a giant gun the term space marine comes to mind.Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood
Actually Games Workshop has the name "Space Marine" as a registered trademark.
My description of Avatar.
Space Marines vs Elves
Sorry about that Forbin I must of mistaken Mr Hurt for Mr Mcdowell. Imperial Fists was the information I was looking for.Quote:Chaplain Carnak - John Hurt
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Nemesis does most of his best plotting sitting on the can.
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Forbin can you tell me who Malcom Mcdowell's character was? I didn't catch what group he was with.
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Quote:Where you able to bypass the launcher and boot any of those games directly. I'm worried this new system won't allow me to skip a verify files screen.Originally Posted by Fleeting Whisper
I have no problem with the NCSoft Launcher... except that I don't like Exteel, Dungeon Runners was shut down, and it doesn't work properly with Guild Wars or City of Heroes. (I have no experience with other NCSoft games.)
I got curious how many players are using Linux, and I have no way to properly get that number. I can however tell what operating systems is being used if someone is viewing an image I post on this site.
I can give a dozen reasons why these numbers aren't representing Linux and Mac fairly, but I did find it interesting that with such a small sample Linux showed up almost 2 percent of the time. -
That is worth a billion.
I have a Mexican named Que Arrow ES who I've tried to give a Mexican theme and I never came up with anything as cool as this. -
Quote:You can choose new animations for several powers now Starcloud, was the animation system being used in anyway like that when babs made this statement. Did Swap Ammo exist yet? I dont remember any toggles that control anther powers FX before Swap Ammo.Originally Posted by Starcloud
Babs was working for Paragon Studios/NCSoft, the same people who still own the game and this was after he got new animation personnel to train, when he made those statements. He was lead animator for, what, four, five *years* and knew the animation system inside and out.
He said, point blank (paraphrasing here), "To eliminate redraw means redoing every animation of every primary weapon using set, every secondary set that can be used with every weapon using set, and that's just too much time to waste developing for a minimal benefit."
The animation system hasn't changed from then till now. It's still a massive waste of time and resources for a minimal return. You're basically looking at a year or two of no new animation work, no new enemy models, no new environmental animations, etc. in order to eliminate redraw.
Anyway I hope BaBs trained the new guy, since Babs showed up at worked one day and got told to clean out his desk.
Babs decided to make emotes cause weapon draw when they didn't before. Does the new guy collecting Babs old paycheck have to keep all Babs decisions in place? Who cares if someone has their claws out when they do Bring It? How many other places can force redraw be removed?
Wasn't Babs the guy who said we'd never have Power Customization? That's a real question, since I seem to remember alot of people yelling dead horse and quoting BaBs when people asked for Power Customization. -
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Login to the game with say a dual blades character,
put your weapons in your hands and type /emote bringit. Nothing happens but the weapons go away. The Bring It emote has been coded to call FXDESTROY to remove the swords from your hands. BaBs made that decision because it looks awful when you animate that Emote with the sword in your hand.
The same thing happens with Claws. you can't animate bringit with the claws out. The game kills the claws FX and you stand there and have to type /emote bringit a second time.
Babs made this decision based on aesthetics, and aesthetics is one of the most important things. I used to be able to do a ton of emotes with a weapon model in my hand, these days they're aren't that many. Babs and what ever help he had, went in and added code that flush out weapon.fx on all those emotes. BaBs was a professional and he really cared about his work, but he made certain design decisions that are not some concreate rule the guy whos now working in BaBs old cubicle. -
Quote:I wanted to know if he was employed by the same people who fired him when he said that?Originally Posted by Schismatrix
NCsoft if that helps at all...
Although i completely fail to see how that's relevant since the core game engine was the same regardless of who owned it.
Trying to get a timeline for those BABs quote.
Did he say this before or after Positron told us about R-Type programmers?
Was this quote before or after those R-type programmers completed their work?
BaBs worked here for years and tons of stuff has changed but he's constantly quoted as if he just said this yesterday.
Somebody tells me Babs said something without giving me a date the only thing I know is he must of said it before he turned of his mailbox and stopped posting because he found dealing with us to be too much of a hassle. -
Quote:Does this mean we won't be able to bypass the launcher when we want to? If I'm on a TF and I crash I really don't want to do a Verify Files.
For example, we are currently working to integrate City of Heroes into the NCsoft Launcher, which will bring with it a significant improvement to the process of downloading and updating the game for all NA and EU (Mac and PC) customers. One of the immediate benefits is that all of our customers will finally benefit from the same launcher and the most up-to-date information; this is the first step in bringing our communities together. -
Quote:Who owned the company when BABs said this? You're throwing around the words of an employee but I'm not sure which corporation he was working for at the time of this statement.Originally Posted by Luminara
Indeed.
This horse was buried when BAB made it clear that he couldn't remove redraw without adding all of the necessary animations or completely redesigning that system, either of which would entail an enormous investment of time and resources, and in the case of animations, additional HDD space, memory and processing power. -
I assume Ultramarine is a term that unique to Warhammer while the phrase Space Marine is a term used in several video games and the scifi genre.
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Every year this game gets better then the year before. I have faith the will continue. -
I'm wondering if there's an RSS feed for the boards, and if so could someone put me towards it.
I'm asking here cause the subforum is the most likely to know what a RSS feed is. -
Quote:Blazing_aura.fx and atomic_fists.fx are two FX that don't check stances.Originally Posted by Jade_Dragon
The point is, calling an FX script that does not match your stance changes your stance.
Demorecords give you file locations the game is calling, doesn't matter what isn't in the demorecord. The FX and Mov animation are calling the same location in both cases.
Which of those Devs are still even working here?Quote:Plus, I just don't think the devs of this game are going to take seriously complaints about aesthetics. Keep in mind these are the devs who took 5 months and two issues to put capes in the game -- a game about superheroes -- because "we didn't want to do it unless we did it right". -
Quote:Jade do you think the Devs might be able to make an invisible sword model?
What this means, basically, is that you could do an MA roundhouse kick with a Katana out. But everyone else playing the game would also do that roundhouse kick with the Katana out. Including Martial Arts Scrappers who don't even have a Katana. While it is certainly POSSIBLE, the way the stance is "baked in" to the animation means that it must be baked in for EVERYONE using that animation.
Stance refers to position of the model, its not calling weapon models or FX in any way. FX effects are being overwriten (suppressed?) when any other attack FX is attached to your character.
ThisQuote:I think the main problem is aesthetic. I am sure they can allow the weapons to remain drawn for all the weapon powersets when performing a non-wpn powerset animation (Boxing, Dull Pain, etc.). However, there may be quite a few powers where this looks less than stellar and/or causes one to impale oneself. I would be fine with having the weapon just appear in the hand, instead of having the draw animation, but this must be a decision the devs are against for aesthetic
I think every AT should get a new inherent power, a toggle call Igore Aesthics. This power would allow me to treat any weapon models attached to my coustume as an aura and not a weapons FX. If Shields and the way it's animations work outside the system means it can't use this power have the game check powerset choices at character creation and if you chose shields you have to deal with redraw.
I can run atomic aura on my hands no matter what animation or what powers I use. Let me use a toggle to put those guns in my hands all the time. If the toggles running the game would see that and not force me into constat redraw.
Coh Codex
Under the navigation the Mov tab list animations, FX tab list FX. People seem to think these two things are the same.