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Power Customization Request - Random Colors

AquaJAWS

By AquaJAWS,
Posted on: 2009-07-16 23:44 in Suggestions and Ideas

 

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I would like to request that, if the devs have time while implementing issue 16, that they include some kind of random color or animation selection option in the power customization. For example: on a fire blast, you select random as a color and every time you fire a fireball, a different color comes out.

Ideally I would like to have something where you could select multiple colors to show up in the random color selection, like the color comes out at random, but create a limited subset of colors to red, green and blue, but that may be overly complicated. Even a simple random selection would be nice.

I know you have a lot on your plate with this issue, and like what I'm seeing for it so far from the information given. This was just an idea I had that could be cool for some character concepts

 

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Hmm... That's actually a pretty good idea, one I hadn't thought of, myself. I remember Quake 3 Arena allowed you to pick your Railgun colour, and one of the options was either Random or Sequential, where every shot came out a different colour. So, yeah, that could be cool. I'd definitely support this.

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I suddenly have an image in my mind of a Peacebringer using Proton Scatter (The one that fires an individual projectile for each target) and every projectile being a different colour. Not what you mean, but damn if it doesn't make me laugh like an idiot.

Because of that, I must support this suggestion. Can't help but think it'd be harder than it sounds to implement though.

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This suggestion would make Libertine Lass's powers a reality. Born on the Fourth of July, she fires fireworks at her foes >.>

Yeah. She's about as American as you can get.
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I suddenly have an image in my mind of a Peacebringer using Proton Scatter (The one that fires an individual projectile for each target) and every projectile being a different colour. Not what you mean, but damn if it doesn't make me laugh like an idiot.

Because of that, I must support this suggestion. Can't help but think it'd be harder than it sounds to implement though.

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Hadn't thought of that, but I like it.

As far as difficulty to implement, wherever they pull the expected color from for custom colors, why couldn't that just return a randomly generated color instead of a pre-set one? I'm not familiar with the code or the details on how the engine works, so I could be WAY off, but they way I would have expected it to work would be like that.

Also, not sure if it would make it easier, probably depends on if its any random color or any random color from a user-selected subset, but they could probably get away with not syncing up the colors across clients and have it be different on every client, like the propel objects or alakazamreact emote.