Is There a Better Way to Animate Ice Powers?
By
Doctor_Kumquat,
Posted on: 2009-07-24 05:35 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Since it's a power that would have to literally be re-drawn on every power, and every body build... They may be working on such things, but I dunno - I like the current one. It DOES look more "crystaline" but it has snowflakes. 
>_> i like the snowflakes.
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I wouldn't mind a version of ice armor that is subtler, similar to hoar frost when it first animates up.
That is IF they are eventually doing some new geometries for these various armors and shields.
Honestly, the giant bulky armor is what keeps me from using it as a set.
I'd like to see a sharper more jagged ice set. With, ideally, thinner amounts of ice. So I don't look like I'm covered in giant transparent blocks of cement.
Well, honestly, they are working hard on these things. I imagine at some point they'll just be tweaking what we've got. Just with these ones that require WHOLE changes rather than just color alts, I can't imagine they're going to be easy or quick.
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i wish we could get the current ice armor graphics as an aura. (For ice blasters, etc. on their costume)
Yes, that'd be awesome too. I would love to have snowy flakey stuff, not just vaporous. It's a little overbearing. Hoarfrost is pretty.
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i wish we could get the current ice armor graphics as an aura. (For ice blasters, etc. on their costume)
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Ice blasters can just take Ice Mastery, and get the same look on their defensive toggle at L44.
Rule number six of an empathy defender is NEVER underestimate a blaster's ability to die. I don't care if he has CM, Fort, both RAs, bubbles (both FF and Sonic), and is fighting next to a Storm defender with hurricane on. If there is a way to die in that situation, the blaster will find it.
I apologize if this question is coming out the wrong way, but in light of Issue 16 and the ability to recolor the ice powersets, the changes of color sorta highlight the flaws of the very "geometrical" rather than "fractal" ice armor and similar aspects of some other ice powers.
Is it possible to update these animations so they look more "icy" (for lack of a better word) and less geometrically blunt? I'm sure some folks like this "cubey" look better, but it'd be nice to have an alternative style/animation of smooth, shimmery ice or drippy, "icicly" type appearance to choose from (and yes I took unnecessary liberties with the word "icicle" - just give me my triple-word score Scrabble points already, lol).