Official: Visual Effects bug thread

The "charge up" stance for the Valkyrie pack Mission Teleport, Pocket D Teleport and Teleport-to-base powers isn't working correctly. Instead the character takes up the stance, then starts to ease out of it, then starts to get into it, then starts to ease out of it again and so on in a rather spastic looking cycle until the power finishes charging and fires.

This is an effect bug concerning an NPC. All Nemesis soldiers with rotary gatling guns, in fact. Dragoons and such.

Now, normally the weapon is comprised of two parts - the spinning barrel on top and the pipe with a flared end for the flamethrower. However, when the Dragoon is using his Full Auto, a second spinning set of barrels appears over the pipe for the flamethrower and then disappears when he stops shooting. This doesn't occur when the Dragoon is using his flamethrower, only when he is using his gatling gun.

It looks almost as though the weapon was originally designed to have a set of two counter-rotating rings of barrels, because the second one is positioned pretty centred over the flamethrower pipe, but this business of appearing and disappearing is most definitely a bug.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

When i summon a Gun Drone on my Devices Blaster, if I have hasten running the Gun Drone has the hasten effect on it, although, of course it has no fists to glow so has this glowing ball sticking out of one side of the Gun Drone. if I summon a Gun Drone when hasten isn't running the Gun Drone looks normal.


By ap011a8571 at 2009-08-12

By ap011a8571 at 2009-08-12

Veteran's temp power "Sands of Mu" is missing animation when Brute's Dark Mele Shadow Maul is the power right before.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Active Shadow Maul
2. Que up Sands of Mu
3. Notice that after Shadow Maul ends, another round of numbers from Sands of Mu are displayed except the character just stands there

After firing the nemesis staff (veteran power), before the staff de-spawns, the jumping animation uses the empty hands version instead of the "I've got a giant electrified metal object in my right hand" animation.

Average Female body type.

I think Blaster: Psychic blast: Psi dart has a graphic effect that is in the wrong spot.

All of the other psy blast powers have the effects that play near the character's head being in a position that is just in front of the face or forehead, like this Blaster: Psychic blast: Mental blast power here:


However, Blaster: Psychic blast: Psi dart is now playing those effects behind and through the head, as if the effect had a new origin-point that is too far back:




This is visible in-game in the character creator, tailors, and in normal gameplay fighting NPC's.

I believe this would be a VFX problem, and not an animation.

For Sonic Powers, the VFX of the attack will sometimes linger. For instance, if I use Scream on a target, the circular energy "beam" will sometimes linger around my hero's head repeatedly, rather than tracking to the target as it normally does. I can try to get a screenshot if you need more info than that.

Other Sonic users have had the same problem, and someone suggested that this happens when the target dies, but the VFX/animation is still going (which can happen easily with Scream, as it's a longer animation and VFX trail). When the target dies, the VFX has nowhere to go, so it hangs out near the caster, vibrating, until the animation time is up.

This probably can't happen running solo, as it seems to take your target being defeated while you are attacking it (unless you used Scream, than another attack, and Scream caused the target to be defeated). But if the problem is not with the target being defeated as you attack, you might be able to make it work while solo.

Some custom powers don't remember their colours when I change them. So far, I've been able to confirm that no matter what I do to Eagle's Claw set to the Bright Face Smasher theme, it will come out white afterwards. And when I return to the editor and check the power, it will display grey/grey, but revert to red/red when I click on it, completely forgetting the yellow/white choice I made. I should note that Bright Face Smasher uses a palette that is DIFFERENT from all other powers I have set to the Bright palette. The one Bright Face Smasher uses looks like the regular palette that applies to costume pieces, rather than the one which applies to Bright powers.

Additionally, certain powers to the "FX in PVP only" theme will not remember colours, either, and none of them will respect the colours I picked in their display in the editor. Powers I can confirm this happening to are Temporary Invulnerability, Invincibility and Unstoppable, but NOT Unyielding. It's interesting to note that Temporary Invulnerability, Invincibility and Unstoppable, when set to FX in PvP only, use a different palette than what Unyielding does. Unyielding set to FX in PvP only shows the Dark themes palette, which I guess is why its colours are remembered. Temporary Invulnerability, Invincibility and Unstoppable, however, use what looks like the costume pieces palette when set to FX in PvP Only.

Also, the "Minimal FX" options seems to be outright gone, replaced by "FX in PvP Only" altogether. However, the old Minimal FX option did not allow us to pick a colour for powers set to Minimal FX, whereas FX in PvP only allows us to choose colours, only our choices don't seem to have any effect.

This is all happening on a Female model using Martial Arts and Invulnerability.

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In fact, just to make a comparison, I captured a powerset file of the changes after I make them and compared it to a powerset file of what I get after I pay the shop and leave. Here's what I got:

For Eagle's Claw, with the changes I want it looks like this:

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

I'm not sure if this is the right place for this, but it seems like it.

I've noticed a couple of bugs with some of the Halloween costume powers. Both were with Yellow Chaos, my Katana/SR Scrapper on Liberty, with Focused Fighting and Focused Senses active.

1) The Coralax Minon costume seems to have no flying forward animation. When flying forward with my Raptor Pack, the Coralax model runs through the air. This may be by design, since Coralax have no flight powers.

2) The Malta Gunslinger and Malta Operative costumes don't replace your character model like the others do. It adds a second model over top of you current one. When I put on either costume on, my cape, part of my robe, and part of my pants can can clearly be seen with the Malta costumes. This does not occour with any other costumes. I'll try to get a screen shot of it the next time I play.

You see that a lot with Blazing Arrow. It has a long animation, and if the target dies before the arrow fires it stays hovering in midair in front of you.

Something important to note is that in my experience it only tends to happens with enemies who completely vanish upon defeat, ie, Circle Ghosts, etc. Otherwise they just get corpse-shot.

I see that "hanging shot" effect a lot as well, between my NRG/NRG blaster and my wife's sonic corruptor. I do notice it more with corpseless mobs like Nerva Demons/Spectral Followers. It's actually kinda pretty.

BaBs: Gonna file this here since it's more of a VFX issue but the CCE's are still not quite WAI. I have a toon (blaster, if it matters) with a /cce 1 ccbackflip that goes from male to female models, and most of the time that plays well in and out of hover mode. Going back however is a /cce 0 cccast that will animate the cast "punch" but not the flash and the changeover is massively delayed. Tends to happen much more frequently from hover. For completeness' sake I should remark that the cc 1 slot has sparkling fairy wings and rocket boots, the cc 0 has no animating FX other than the ACCAHUD combat aura.

I know this isn't technically a "bug" but I think it's something that warrants mentioning and bringing to BaB's attention. I play blasters (and other such long-range oriented attack users) ALOT, and as was mentioned earlier when one misses, a random node is generated for the attack to home on but I wouldn't call it close to the enemy by any means so much as "in the general vicinity of" your target.

I personally think this should be tightened up drastically as there have been some real "What the hell just happened there?" moments when I've missed. One of my toons may be an ex-supermodel but I don't think he's so mentally deficient as to arch his back nearly parallel to the floor and fire his snipe straight into the cieling when the target is DIRECTLY in front of him. It's especially noticable on snipe moves. And yes, that EXACT situation has happened to me before. The character model contorts in ways that just aren't physically feasable.

I DO think that having the node randomly generated is a nice thing, it avoids the typical video game problem of "Even though your sword BLATANTLY sliced through the enemy, you missed", there are points where it's just ridiculous. I think it would be a great QOL update if the node generation was tightened to a small zone DIRECTLY around the enemy, above and behind them, but within say... a two foot radius. I can imagine my characters missing that badly, but when they fire a full 75 degree angle away from the target? Come on now, we're supposed to be crime fighters. NOBODY would last that long with aim that bad.