All Things Art: NPC Conversions
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Abraxxus,
Posted on: 2010-10-10 23:56 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
And now that I have more time to reply I'm gonna drop an itemized list myself, and stress the fact ANYTHING CONVERTED SHOULD BE MADE UNISEX EVEN IF IT REQUIRES MODIFICATION
1. Hellions/Skulls masks and jackets
2. Carnival masks and possibly the corset with optional shoulder detail for the collar. I can understand the corset being made female only, but would REALLY appreciate a male version of the mask even if it requires new art.
3. Sybil dresses because we need a roman costume option for characters that wouldn't wear armor and look bad in a toga. Sister Solaris is the signature version, the generic one should be available to players.
4. Nurse hats for medic toons.
5. AE Restoration Tech pattern for the racer jacket, also for medic toons.
6. Ghost aura for toons that want a more etheral touch.
7. PPD Hardsuit pieces from all variants including the ACTUAL hardsuit pieces as well as the shell pieces.
8. Kheldian sash or at least something close to it, it would take five minutes to port and it's been requested since it appeared in game. It's time.
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And how's about letting us have characters with actual white skin, not some horrible, murky, off-white-pink-thing sort of colour? It's kind of annoying, the fact the skin tones are so strange because of the semi-yellow underlay or whatever it is that makes them off...
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Originally Posted by bAss_ackwards
How about Sister Airlia's outfit? Or at the very least that sexy, sexy top.
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.
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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.
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There's a brown tinge to all the textures that doesn't tint very well with all colours. Almost all other textures are saved as greyscale. I'm not sure why this was done, but I suspect it's to avoid naked characters, as absurd as that might sound all things considered.|
Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
And how's about letting us have characters with actual white skin, not some horrible, murky, off-white-pink-thing sort of colour? It's kind of annoying, the fact the skin tones are so strange because of the semi-yellow underlay or whatever it is that makes them off...
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As an idle point of fact, I'm pretty sure I could write a small programme to parse through a costume file and check if the skin colour doesn't repeat anywhere in the rest of the file. Standard Code Rant obviously applies as who the hell am I to say this, but I keep thinking that a validity check would be a far superior solution to the problem of nakedness than essentially nuking your own costume creator.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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Mender stuff, Clockwork... aaaannnd... I dunno, Snakes and CoT Ghosts! I'm serious about those last ones too. Any attack that used the legs somehow can be ported into an already-coded punch attack of one sort or another (there must be a few of them to choose from, right?) or something much like that - it'd totally be worth it to be able to choose "snake" or "whisp" for the Lower Body option.
I know it won't probably happen though, but there it is, I've said it.
PPD Drones as an alternate for FFG and other floating 'devices'
PPD Guardian and Enforcers as alternate designs for MM Robotics
Malta Operatives, KoA, PPD SWAT Officer, Ghost. Equalizers and/or Grenadiers as alternate designs for MM Mercs
Prisoners, Family, Skulls, Hellions, Praetorian Resistance and or Destroyers (all types) as an alternate design for MM Thugs
Tsoo unmasked Ink Men as an alternate design for MM Ninja
Banished Pantheon, Vahzilok and/or Halloween Event Zombies as alternate designs for MM Undead (minions)
CoT Hordelings as alternate designs for MM Demon Summoning (minions)
Gremlins as alternate designs for Electric Control's pets.
Tuatha and Devouring Earth Plants as alternate designs for Plant Control's pet.
Slag Golems, Devouring Earth's Rock and/or Crystal critters as alternate designs for Earth Control's pet.
Winter Horde's Blight or Snowbeast as an alternate design for Ice Control's pet.
Lanaru's Head, body patterns and top portion of belt
(Rikti MMs)
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I LOVE these ideas for customizing pets. Brilliant. I've long wanted to change my pets up. Just add Trolls to Thugs for Masterminds. |
Originally Posted by Yogi_Bare
PPD Drones as an alternate for FFG and other floating 'devices'
PPD Guardian and Enforcers as alternate designs for MM Robotics Malta Operatives, KoA, PPD SWAT Officer, Ghost. Equalizers and/or Grenadiers as alternate designs for MM Mercs Prisoners, Family, Skulls, Hellions, Praetorian Resistance and or Destroyers (all types) as an alternate design for MM Thugs Tsoo unmasked Ink Men as an alternate design for MM Ninja Banished Pantheon, Vahzilok and/or Halloween Event Zombies as alternate designs for MM Undead (minions) CoT Hordelings as alternate designs for MM Demon Summoning (minions) Gremlins as alternate designs for Electric Control's pets. Tuatha and Devouring Earth Plants as alternate designs for Plant Control's pet. Slag Golems, Devouring Earth's Rock and/or Crystal critters as alternate designs for Earth Control's pet. Winter Horde's Blight or Snowbeast as an alternate design for Ice Control's pet. Lanaru's Head, body patterns and top portion of belt (Rikti MMs) |
Tuatha for Plant = /drool.
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My only main need is the menders, I mean how can I make a mender toon without having the emblem... please don't make it a chest emblem
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ESPECIALLY Carnie bustiers! My male toons want to dress as Dr. Frank N. Furter for Halloween! XD
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Even the Carnie bustiers?
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I hope all of the requests for carnie, knives and longbow costume pieces end up convincing them to take the time to make these for us
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Carnie thigh high boots!
Wyvern boots!
Carnie Masks (or have the same mask look, but uses various of the face details...goth, makeup, dark circles, triangle, ect...ect)
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2. IMPORTANT NOTE: The arm-blades are unfeasible and -unecessary.- Giving us the rest of it would be -fantastic.- |
Goodbye. Not to the game, but the players. Goodbye. Everyone, remember to have fun. That's all I can say.
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These are infact available currently.
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Originally Posted by Demon_Shell
Aside from wanting to play as a Coralax, the only costume piece on an enemy that I've ever wanted was Dr. Aeon's cyber-comb gloves from his appearances in the higher end Tasks.
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Where?
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Originally Posted by Terminal Velocity
These are infact available currently.
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I would hope that, since Pets are basically player controlled NPCs, some of these could be almost a direct port (with color tweaks that make them distinguishable from their Enemy Group counterparts); others would kinda be pushing it... but I would like to see the push. |
Originally Posted by Goblin_Queen
I LOVE these ideas for customizing pets. Brilliant. I've long wanted to change my pets up. Just add Trolls to Thugs for Masterminds.
Tuatha for Plant = /drool. |
This is one of the last segments keeping us from almost total 'costume' customization.
Apparently, I play "City of Shakespeare"
*Arc #95278-Gathering the Four Winds -3 step arc; challenging - 5 Ratings/3 Stars (still working out the kinks)
*Arc #177826-Lights, Camera, Scream! - 3 step arc, camp horror; try out in 1st person POV - 35 Ratings/4 Stars
Ever notice how costume threads grow faster than any other thread?
Seems the Devs would take that as a hint as to how important costume items are to us.
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I thought it was a "flesh" colored tone. Which really messes with pure white skinned flesh tones and any of the lighter colors on tights with skin for females.
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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
There's a brown tinge to all the textures that doesn't tint very well with all colours. Almost all other textures are saved as greyscale. I'm not sure why this was done, but I suspect it's to avoid naked characters, as absurd as that might sound all things considered.
*edit* As an idle point of fact, I'm pretty sure I could write a small programme to parse through a costume file and check if the skin colour doesn't repeat anywhere in the rest of the file. Standard Code Rant obviously applies as who the hell am I to say this, but I keep thinking that a validity check would be a far superior solution to the problem of nakedness than essentially nuking your own costume creator. |
Can we have this please? Even if cant go with some skirts.Those boots are awesome. Much better than the high tights we have now, (too "thight") and much better than high heels, those boots only look well on Lady Grey.
The shape of the belt is too awesome.
There's a lot of great ideas listed, but first and foremost, I've wanted Sky Raider gauntlets for a long time. Also those vents on the side of Crey Tank helmets.
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Love to get that cleavage for my characters too.
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Originally Posted by Angelxman81
Can we have this please? Even if cant go with some skirts.Those boots are awesome. Much better than the high tights we have now, (too "thight") and much better than high heels, those boots only look well on Lady Grey.
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I'm more concerned about who that even is. Did I miss an arc somewhere?
edit: Nevermind, found out.
edit 2: sashes
Pieces and costumes I would love to see:
More NPC roman pieces:
sandals, bracers, chest detail and sybil dress, bracers and belt.
Menders:
Single shoulder pad, chest detail, belt...
Succubus:
Skin tights, hairstyle, high boots...
Also Carnies, Legacy of chain collars and shoulders, Mother Mayhem trenchoats and high boots...etc
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It's an orangish, brownish tinge, the kind of marker I'd have used for, yes, flesh when I was a kid (incidentally, the colour I never had). It doesn't just mesh poorly with light colours liike white and other low-saturation colours. It also doesn't mesh very well with the darker, more vidvid colours. You can't really see it with just Tights with Skin, but the moment you mix this together with pure Tights, you get tangible seam lines between the slightly different shades.|
Originally Posted by ThePill
I thought it was a "flesh" colored tone. Which really messes with pure white skinned flesh tones and any of the lighter colors on tights with skin for females.
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That's not really an NPC conversion topic, but one more for the general All Things Art thread, or possibly even a separate suggestion. But I still maintain what I've held to be true for years - skin and face colours need to be redone to be greyscale. Even if they keep their current colour selection, making them greyscale would make the colours much more true to what we pick and much more controllable, to boot.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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/signed. Would be cool if feasible.
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Originally Posted by Yogi_Bare
I would hope that, since Pets are basically player controlled NPCs, some of these could be almost a direct port (with color tweaks that make them distinguishable from their Enemy Group counterparts); others would kinda be pushing it... but I would like to see the push.
This is one of the last segments keeping us from almost total 'costume' customization. |
I'm not sure if this fits the thread, but I agree, as well. A bit of everything seems like the better solution to a lot of one thing... That just happens to be exactly what I didn't really want all that much.