All Things Art: 'Lost' Costume Pieces

Maybe you could put up a sticky note somewhere in your office, it could read
MORE ANIMATED PARTS: COH/COH2

If having multiple animated items ever becomes feasible again can we please revisit that? I have a couple of characters like that with really beautiful concepts that would vanish if I were to go to the tailor.

Gonna second the Bolero + Wings being brought back. If it's multi-capes that cause problems, fine. But if the wings + lower cape don't, why exclude them?


Also, I'd like to see the legacy "chopped" tails back. They were never an official option, but it's what tails would turn into if you used them with trench coats, the bolero, and maybe a few other pieces. I love the new changes with tails, but even if I use the legacy ones, I can't get the chopped ones back with these costumes, effectively ruining them for me.







Notice how short the tails are and how they stop before they clip with the "butt capes" of the two pieces.

Old belt positioning option please....



See how the belt lays against the hips in the left two? Original style.
See how its higher and flatter in the right two? New/current stuff

Flag capes!

I think it was during a beta period, or something that never made it quite in, but I remember seeing screenshots of a Union Jack cape. I think it was something to do with Hero One, and it was just a bug that made it available to players, and thus it was removed before coming onto the live servers but... well, that would be awesome! Especially if you could put in lots of different countries. Now that would be customisation!

Also to add my /signed to the request for the old thigh boots (I miss them) and the fur shoulders which I didn't see at the time but which look awesome.

If I had the time to go through all my old screenshots I'm sure there's something that I've forgotten about along the way...

The "Toxic Avenger" back option.

I think this backpack was made available for a short time through a bug, but it's still a missing costume option.

I don't have a picture because as far as I know, the video involving it has disappeared from this world.

See, there were several teaser videos released for City of Villains, before it was even in open-beta. One of these involved someone (Positron?) narrating while flying around Port Oakes. I can't recall exactly if it was his character or a second one, but in that video a werewolf type person was shown, and they had ripped beast-leg jeans. Not that baggy ripped crap like currently is in, but tights-jeans with ripped knees. It never made it into beta. Why? It was great for anyone playing a transforming beast. I've always missed it. Having perfectly clean, hemmed beast-leg jeans is stupid if you have just transformed or are a wild crazy feral son-of-a-.

Also this costume option:
http://sdmb.culex.us/pics/main.php?g2_itemId=1153 (for a month or two there was a bug where Tops-Tights-Flack Jacket-Flack Jacket produced this mostly transparent abomination) (PS I am kidding but only kind of, I have several characters missing body parts to all viewers and enjoy it)

Whats the problem with Clipping any way do they fear some one is going to make "CLIPPING MAN!" and run around showing off the flaws in the CC? If they did would we care? NO.

Seriously some clipping looks good and the stuff that looks bad people wont use unless its intentional. We also have a report function. I don't think this is a real issue or reason to restrict costume pieces.

From the CoV Beta:

• Fur Shoulders (Both the shoulder only and full chest versions, both seen in this thread)
• Pirate Shirt
• Wrap Face (I think it's the face that the ninja pets have)

• Malaise pattern
• Trousers with a pattern on the top and the bottom
• Non-shiny versions of the now-shiny costume pieces (this was mentioned in the other thread, but this seems like where it should be)

I'm pretty sure those fur shoulders were removed because they're supposed to be a unique costume piece for Woodsman.

I know I have a picture somewhere someone made of some of the changed hairstyles (Flip, Wedge and a couple others were changed). I'm still looking for it.

In the meantime, here's a fun example. Here is the first CoH character I ever created:


He's using the old "pointed ears" option, which we can remake with current ears options, so that's not a big deal. But he's also using the old style jacket and especially the old style pants that let us have different patterns on the upper and lower legs; here, he has flames on the lower legs and nothing on the upper legs, so the flames are shorter and not stretched out.

Here's what happens if I take him to Icon:


Yep. Aside from the colors they can't figure any of it out.

Edit: Here's the picture showing the hairstyle differences:

The Wedge style didn't originally have a peak in the front center; the banks went basically straight across. The Flip style is extremely different.

I'm not sure if this 'fits' in this thread, but whiskers look pretty awkward.

Maybe make them 2d sprites or something that doesn't look like spikes? I don't
really use this option at all, though I see it on others and it looks pretty nuts to
me.

Anyway, ignore this if you rather not see this here.

Another for bringing back Bolero with Wings. We already have a red name (babs? bah, can't find it now) saying that wings with cape-physics isn't a big deal. The theory is that Bolero with Capes needed to be removed so all Back options were removed.

Please bring this back!

One aside:

I now many options were removed due to problems with clipping. It would be some work, but if there were a mechanism to check for clipping that players could actively enable or disable, then there would be no room for players to complain about clipping.

This obviously would involve some non-trivial tech, but it's just a thought.