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Nah, he wrote quite a ways back that he had to basically churn through all the stuff he had gotten at that point.

I am sure we will see him back next week.

Speaking of that old thing, I'd love to see an official and updated stand alone costume editor from Paragon (the City of Hero costume editor had to hacked to read it in English). Maybe with some sort of yearly licensing so you get updates when Sexy Jay and crew create new items.

The hard-core furries are all in Furcadia and Earth Eternal.

Hmmm Earth Eternal? I dont know this one... time to google it...

Yep, Sparkplay Media commissioned me to do their second official teaser trailer. Considering the technical hassles we went through to get it made, I think it came out rather well!

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Dark_Respite's Farewell Video: "One Last Day"
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Blue betray in flame? That's it, isn't it? I knew it! Hmm...

I would buy one or several for absolutly sure!!! This is managable with enough time and will and will return enough money to make the time invested pay back!!!

Also.. although WOW came with it first. The tech is nowhere as cool as with COH. The different costumes and the waay better emotes / stances make sure of that.

Hypothetically speaking, the devs could make something, oh, that has a software renderer that doesn't require vertex programs to perform mesh translation. Theoretically, such a thing would be forced to spit out opengl rendering primitives that could be intercepted and converted into a complete mesh model almost completely automatically in many cases. Such a thing could, if it existed, be converted into a model suitable for 3D printing.

If only there was a piece of circa 2005 technology out there that was capable of rendering City of Heroes player models, but wasn't optimized for OpenGL 1.3 or higher. And if only there was some magical software capable of intercepting OpenGL calls from OpenGL rendering software packages. And if only there was a plug-in for said software capable of converting OpenGL primitives into something like maybe wavefront format.

Of course, this is all completely hypothetical, because who would be crazy enough to try all of those things and discover that it generates perfectly formed player mesh models. I mean, that would be silly, Rube Goldbergian, and possibly violate the EULA. Hypothetically, however, if a red name happened to be curious about how such a thing could be accomplished, I might hypothetically be able to sketch out a hypothetical way to do that which would hypothetically work, at least hypothetically. Maybe with some hypothetically active emotes.

So it's all hypothetical then ...damn...

Because I know a few people who would be willing to drop £150 at the least to get their hero turned into a figure...

...still..shame it's all hypothetical...

What can you tell us about about powers, art, distribution, retail, stories, billing, Latin, sales, bugs, dairy products, accounting, singing, costumes, anything that happened from 2004-2009, conventions, PvP, design, or algebra?

We don't know what we don't know.

It's one thing to look at what may need to be done and it's something you've done many times and give an quick estimate, another altogether to look at something new and know it's a challenge but not have the time to do a true estimate and be pressed for an answer. In this case the "non-answer" is the best answer.

150 pounds is kind of expensive...


But I'd pay it. Several times over.

http://www.figureprints.com/Help/FAQ.aspx

Says this:
I would definitely pay $130 for a CoH char, and likely buy several, though probably not all at once.

They also have something called "Figurepets" that are, you know. Figures of pets. I could see this being used to make Mastermind/Troller pets or even NPCs/Enemies:
Less expensive because they're smaller and not "custom" like the main figure prints are, is my guess. They can mass produce them more cheaply.

And just in case, this here would be a very important consideration(emphasis mine):

Well, a few things to consider:

1) "3d printing" only gets us halfway there... perhaps not even that. OGLE (the open GL extractor) open source project can already capture a model. The last report shows limited success with CoH models- the NPC models are no problem, but the PC characters are kinda a little borked. That'll get you something like theNemesis jagers.

That's an exact representation of the model- it'll need sanded, smoothed, and sculpted. Things that have no thickness (like the razor thin edges of jackets, pant cuffs, some of the fancier flared items, capes, trenchcoats, and many of the head decorations) will either not 3d print at all or print in grainy blocks that will need buffed down. Some "flat" items that get the finer levels of depth from illusion, rather than model (fingers on the hands, some facial characteristics) will need etched on (or in some cases, have modeling material added and sculpted). Heck, some "effects" based appearance items might not be renderable at all...

Now, WoW uses more polygonal blocks than CoH does, so if FigurePrints did pure 3D printing, they'd be EXTREMELY blocky. Looking at their models, that isnt the case, so I'm suspecting they're doing something different. It just wouldn't be very cost-effective to be manually scuplting each and every custom order individually.

Well, WoW offers far less character customization than CoH, so they have fewer variations between the different "critical parts." They can likely do a model-matching type of system (if game asset X is used, use detailed 3d model Z instead of using blocky model Y.) As they build up a library, that will reduce the level of detail they need to manually add to each model.

Something like that really isn't feasible for CoH, though-- too many assets. We'd likely have to go with considerably more custom work after the 3d model was printed-- something we'd pay for due to the extra man-hours. Add to that the cost of setting something like this up and the lower potential market that CoH has to spread the costs around.... I'm willing to bet that a CoH implementation of a similar system would cost close to double of its figureprint counterpart...

(*HUGGLE POUNCES MOGGIE!!!*) RAWR!

(*gives +5 Interwebz to Moggie, just 'cause she's Moggie! *)

I'll add the dulcet tones of my melifluous purr to Moggie's. We need more stuff in the NCStore. As far as shirts go, how about a purple shirt with 4 pink stars on each sleeve, 3 pink stars in back, and a picture of ME (see sig) on the front? Sure to be a best seller!

+10 Interwebz for your kind words, Miss Golden! (*huggles*)

As in all strata of real-world social interactions, it is the extremist fringe which adversely colors peoples' perceptions of a certain demographic.

By the way, Mr. Pebble, sir ... I would gladly pay $10 for a booster pack which (among other things) contained an actual cat/kitten character skin, so that I could put a tiny costume on her and Amerikatt would actually be the size that she's *supposed* to be (she's a cat, NOT an Atlas catgirl).

I know that it would be more difficult to see a 1' long avatar (rather than the current 4' tall one), but I've got $10 USD just waiting to be added to NCSoft's till! (*waves $10 bill*)

Finally, I would like to add my voice to the multitudes who support Miss Dark_Respite's/Samuraiko's employment by Paragon Studios. She's not only a gifted videographer, but a very talented writer as well.

Her exemplary work will greatly enhance the market presence of not only City of Heroes, but Paragon Studios!

Nice shirt, Mr. Thongsnapper, sir.

Who? Dr Aeon? What was his in game name? Twoflower?

Why is Howard Stern wearing a mask and carrying a pistol??