Ok, seriously, icon lighting, wth?

Whose bright idea was it to make the place you change costumes to have some of the crappiest lighting in the entire game?

Please devs, more light. Make it like high noon in there 24/7. Do that to Facemaker too please, even though facemaker isn't as bad.

Icon's only the *second* worst. Inside the costume creator itself... that needs help, as well.

(Fix 'em all, and give a nice neutral background - while we're at it, have a "stage" so it can be seen, if desired, in a generic city background and "in action.")

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Yeah the city background makes it difficult to see some dark costumes, I agree.

darn good idea... seriously

you just made the best toon ever only to find out that the colors you selected were... just so very wrong.

The background is horrible if you want to make anything that's dark or black, especially villain-side. I don't know when culture decided that all villains had night vision and lived in perpetual darkness, but it makes designing some costumes painfully hard. And I have my gamma at 85%, which is SIGNIFICANTLY brighter than it normally is, and it's STILL dark, especially when it's daytime in the real world.

A more neutral background, a colourful background, a gradient or even a shifting-colour background would be better. The lighting inside the editor doesn't seem to be bad in and of itself, but sometimes it's patently impossible to get a look at certain parts of the costume with how rigidly locked the camera is. It's also completely impossible to tell scale, because all characters, tall and short, scale to the same identical height in the editor.

A changing room where we can try our costumes out, walk around in various light conditions and compare ourselves to either mock-ups of various NPCs or at least a range of mannequins labelled "short," "medium," "tall" and so forth, would be nice too. Just some way of trying out a new costume BEFORE we fork over for it, or BEFORE we step into the world and find out we need to remake.

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darn good idea... seriously

you just made the best toon ever only to find out that the colors you selected were... just so very wrong.

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Oh yes!

I am used to guessing now, and have a better idea of what the colors are going to look after I pays mah money, and hits them streets.


But I remember a couple of costumes I made 5 years ago (Shiver!).
Had one great red based costume I loved! . . and when I got outside, . . .
. . . I found out I should have named myself BrightPinkMan!

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Add AE buildings to the list. The lighting indoors just plain sucks. It should be high noon lighting in these public places.

Agreed, on all accounts.

Actually it looks like 4 PM lighting, right before sunset starts, would be better. It's still bright, but you have a good lighting angle, and good contrast.

Bright idea... I see what you did there.

Anyway, I agree. I sort of thought it was just me, but I'm rather glad it isn't.

lol

I've noticed that the lighting in Studio B is actually pretty nice, why isn;t it like this in all indoor areas? Maybe it's just my gamma though, which is at 77%.