Question: What powers do you want Alternate animations for?

One of the projects we are working on is to create more alternate animations for various powers. The animators asked me which powers I wanted to have this applied to and rather than simply come up with a list myself, I thought it would be interesting to open the discussion to you the fans.

Caveat:
Powers with Alternate Animations will still have nearly the exact same Animation Lengths, so this thread is not about creating shorter animations for various powers.

So, let's hear it! Tired of doing Backflips with Eviscerate? Sick of beating your chest like Tarzan? Eyebeams not your cup of tea? Tell us about it!

First...lets do et folks!

Hasten!
Aid Self
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I'm going to assume Power Pools are out, but Jump Kick looks outright crazy on non spider-hero guys.

Considering how split the community is on Dual Pistols... the set needs options for less "Gun-Fu", and more "realistic" shooting. I'm sure that will be one heck of a challenge to make interesting normal animations with the same animation time.

Any armor/mez protection that anchor you while activating.

Elemental melee sword/no sword choices.

I want every one of my fire tank's attacks to use the fire scimitar.

I want every one of my ice melee tank's attacks to not use an ice sword.

Dark Melee (needs me some kicky Dark Melee)

Thunderstrike/Total Focus, and other animations like them: a non-jump-in-the-air animation

Archery: Crossbows (pie-in-the-sky, I know)

For Blast sets: animations that have the blast coming from the chest area

For Psychic sets: alternative animations where the hands are used to focus them, instead of the head (I know this makes little sense, but all of the animations around the head just turn me off of these sets a lot of the time)

Midnight Grasp is one that seems lackluster.

An alternative animation could be, say, the one from Foot Stomp or Stone Spears, as their animations seem more popular, and perhaps more fitting.

Though I don't know whether it would be possible to change the animation on the enemy, perhaps rather than tentacles the visual effect on them could be like the dark wispy effect you get in Petrifying Gaze. Just more centered around the legs.

Put me down for alternate animations for the entire Dual Pistols set.

I love the Gun-Fu look, but if your character concept is more 'Wild West' or 'Pulp action' inspired, then it doesn't exactly fit.

Teleport, the animation on this is perfectly fine for many concpets and INCREDIBLY silly for others. I really like the travel poor but only a couple of my people like sticking both arms way up in the air.

Stun from the energy melee/maniplation, unlike teleport I don't like the baseball pitch punch too much at all.

Fire sword attacks, same problem with teleport I really like the fire sword attacks... sometimes. On some character I don't actually want to create a fire sword, but the fire sword attacks are good.

Complete wishlist. I would love to see alternate animations with implements for all/some blasty/support sets, like a staff/wand.

Medicine Pool definitely. Something to show a non tech way of repairing damage. Perhaps magic spell, syringe of adrenaline etc. Flight would be cool if you could have like rocket belt the way Wonder Man used to or the always ask for jetpack. Fighting pool also especially Tough. Dual pistols would also be nice with a more old style gunslinger mode for the cowboys or Punisher types.

Perhaps a different stlyle of mind powers as well. I dont know if its possible but where the animations played more on the victims of attacks like bodies shaking or going rigid and then collapsing, etc. Thats all I got for now

Rage.
Freezing Touch - ARM THRUST OF DEATH, YEAH!
Ground punch for Frozen Aura would be tight. Maybe even Solar Flare.
I'll echo the "no sword" idea.

That's all I can think of off the top of my head. I'll have to go look through my characters later.

Also, it'd be awesome if we could use the default power colors for custom animations... 'cause sometimes I like using the default colors, but if I only want to change one option (say, ground punch in SS), then I've got to recolor the whole set if I want it to match.

Wild Streak - Lv. 50(+3) Beast Mastery/Sonic Resonance Mastermind, Amnesty - Lv. 50 Staff Fighting/Dark Armor Stalker

I'm not going to suggest anything in particular, but rather something that could be a long-term project.

Go back and look through the earliest powersets. Notice how, overall, there isn't much diversity in the animations. Most blast attacks, for example, share the same handful of animations. And compared to the newer sets, those animations are very simplistic and kinda dull. Instead of just making new animations for powers X, Y, and Z, why not go through and gradually give every powerset a couple of alternate animations? Not necessarily like Super Strength, where most of the powers have alternates, but stuff like making sure that each Blaster Nova-style attack has a unique and thematically-appropriate animation. Little bits here and there to help give the oldest powersets a tiny shred of individuality.

Traps. e.g. the wrist tapping animation to teleport traps in for Triage/Trip Mine.

Dual Blades. Some some more thrust/stab options for those toons who use the Rapier/Main Gauche pairing as the current Hack/Slash styled animations look a little odd with lighter weapons.

Regeneration. Can we get something other than the chest thumping for Integration? Also, having MoG not waste part of it's (now rather short) duration rooting you would be nice, but that's outside the scope of this thread.

That's all that springs to mind immediately.

I'm unsure exactly if power visual effects would fall under this preview, but here are a couple things that I would like for alternate animations/effects

For Energy Blast, I would like the set to have alternate power effect animations that are more like laser blasts, or really anything that isn't 'bubbly' like the current energy blast

For Ice Armor and the Ice shields from Cold Domination, I would like a more minimalistic Ice Armor option, perhaps like Hoarfrost-like, for differentiation, particles could orbit the character, like with Thermal Radiation's fire shields and Minerals.

Edit: Also, it if is possible to change on-hit reactions, please add the Ghost Widow hold animation as an option for Gravity, it would fit the set thematically as well as provide better visual feedback that your target is held.

Hasten, Aid Self

Would be great if Energy Blast, Dark Blast and Fire Blast and the like had weaponized versions as alternates. (i.e. using a gun instead of your finger)


I hate the Fire Sword (&circle), ICE Sword... animations. The swords just don't fit conceptually.

Glinting eye & ebon eye

Maybe put a mechanical (Aid Self) like animation on Deflection and insulation shield?

I've always thought the animation for Rage was horribly unfitting, myself. This is supposed to be the moment you fly into a destructive rage, right? So why does it look like you're repressing your emotions for them to explode later? I always thought the "beat your chest" animation of Tough suited Rage a lot better, and vice versa even.

I love having a ranged attack on my scrappers, but I hate Laser Beam Eyes. I don't want laser beams coming out of my eyes! I'd prefer it emanating from my characters hand (either one).

Eye beams.

Breath powers.

Both of these have preventing me from taking powers and/or entire sets.