Discussion: Spring (Fling) is coming!
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Posted on: 2011-01-26 14:16 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
They should give us costume emotes like they did for Halloween. The Sybils and the models from the Ouro Flashback would be cool.
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How would it be any worse than a MA scrapper in the witch costume? |
Originally Posted by Arcanaville
I don't know about the current animator, but I do know BaB would have ripped off my head and punted it out the window while shouting "T for Teen" if I asked him to make martial arts animations that work with that costume.
However, if the new animator is crazy enough, I'd love to see how that would work. I have this mental image of my MA scrapper completely entangled around a Hercules Titan while it tries shaking me off its arms. |
Im sick about excuses given by players about NPCs costumes conversions.
The devs are the ones that should give excuses for not giving us that awesome stuff, not players.
All we players have to do is ask for everything, pray, send them gifts and wait it the bell rings.
Btw, with those amazing screens from warden_de_dios, looks like the sibil toga doesnt have any problem with MA animations 
one strange question,wonder if during spring fling,strike pack will drop? today 2x weekend starts first time during winter event. and as for I20 i could see it dropping during year 7 event.
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Originally Posted by Local_Man
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Originally Posted by warden_de_dios
They should give us costume emotes like they did for Halloween. The Sybils and the models from the Ouro Flashback would be cool.
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I had no idea they even did this. I'm so confused now.|
Originally Posted by warden_de_dios
They should give us costume emotes like they did for Halloween. The Sybils and the models from the Ouro Flashback would be cool.
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And come to think of it... I wonder how drops will work this year with Going Rogue, Vigilantes & Rogues...
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HELLO? Nobody is making the obvious comment here. Issue 19.5 (Strike Pack) is to launch in 'Early February" and the do not publish during an event because of the code. So it is HOPEFULLY safe to assume that 19.5 will drop BEFORE Feb. 10th.
Right?
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Based on this new data point (Spring Fling starting the 10th) I've already amended my original prediction of when Issue 19.5 is launching (which was either the 1st, 8th or 15th) back to now either the 1st or the 8th. Given that they might decide to open up the current 19.5 closed beta to be open for a bit the 8th is now looking like the most likely date. |
Originally Posted by CaptSammy
HELLO? Nobody is making the obvious comment here. Issue 19.5 (Strike Pack) is to launch in 'Early February" and the do not publish during an event because of the code. So it is HOPEFULLY safe to assume that 19.5 will drop BEFORE Feb. 10th.
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Originally Posted by warden_de_dios
They should give us costume emotes like they did for Halloween. The Sybils and the models from the Ouro Flashback would be cool.
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You could probably get a job creating comic book cover art with these.
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Originally Posted by PrincessSpice
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A new costume code for PAX East, perhaps? |
Originally Posted by Abraxxus
Not gonna happen anytime soon. As explained by Sexy Jay, the NPC character model animation rigs that use those costume pieces are built differently than the ones used by the player models. More than likely, the only way one will get those costume pieces would be as a costume code that turned you into a generic sybil.
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Oh, rather more useful to everyone who isn't going to whatever PAX East is, a booster pack of cossie code style powers.
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Originally Posted by mousedroid
A new costume code for PAX East, perhaps?
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Yeah I can accept that blanket generic excuse for many NPC costume items (like the sybils' dresses) because of the limitations of the "cape" animation attachment points and whatnot.|
Originally Posted by Abraxxus
Not gonna happen anytime soon. As explained by Sexy Jay, the NPC character model animation rigs that use those costume pieces are built differently than the ones used by the player models. More than likely, the only way one will get those costume pieces would be as a costume code that turned you into a generic sybil.
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But when it comes to the superhero "fashion model" and her unique belt and boots I think that excuse breaks down and becomes very close to just being typical Dev BS. There's nothing overtly special about the shape/texture of those items as compared to anything we already have in the costume editor. In the case of these items we aren't prevented from having them because of limitations in the character models - we aren't able to use them simply because the Devs have arbitrarily said so.
I know the Devs like to keep many items as "NPC only" just to keep them unique. But the irony of this case with the "fashion model" is that her purpose in the game was to be a FASHION MODEL, someone who supposedly was modeling clothing that the public (in this case player character superheroes) were meant to get access to. The fact that the Devs have specifically kept the items from this one NPC restricted is almost laughable when you realize that.
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Ok, someone, anyone, answer me this;
How are those costume any WORSE than something we can make in the costume creator already; female model, bikini top and bottom. Nothing else.
How? How can those be considered worse?
So. That logic fails utterly. The arguement against them is totally invalid.
Just make it tick the 'do not allow capes' box that works for the bolero and trench coats. Bam, problem solved. It really is that simple.
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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
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Nothing new, how many years has this been going on? The missions that are there are fun, but old now.
It is time to add something new to the mix. For the past few years you all have added new content to both the Halloween and Winter event each year it's been ran. Why then does the Valentine event get no such love? And yes pun was intended. It's like, eh they won't care if we don't add anything new. Honestly, I have not bothered with the Spring Fling in 3 years except the odd Snaptooth farm missions. Which get old fast.
Something, anything new needs to be added. Even if it's a re-hash of the save the BNY, with the twist that it now is cupid that needs saving. New map, and snaptooth could continue to be the bad guy. Might be kinda lame, but hey it would be new.
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It's easy. You just demorecord a martial arts character, then modify the file to map in Candy LeBeaux, one of the Sibyls, whatever, and then play it back with the command to save each frame as a separate screenshot. Keep the one you want, and voila, done. It's how I make a lot of my vids.|
Originally Posted by Zenlon
I had no idea they even did this. I'm so confused now.
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Hey, that reminds me! Yo, rednames! Where's the video for the Spring Fling event? You did one for the Winter Event that was pretty damn spiffy, where's this one?
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Ack. What costume emotes? I hope I didn't miss anything. |
Originally Posted by warden_de_dios
They should give us costume emotes like they did for Halloween.
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Originally Posted by warden_de_dios
They should give us costume emotes like they did for Halloween. The Sybils and the models from the Ouro Flashback would be cool.
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Originally Posted by Dark_Respite
It's easy. You just demorecord a martial arts character, then modify the file to map in Candy LeBeaux, one of the Sibyls, whatever, and then play it back with the command to save each frame as a separate screenshot. Keep the one you want, and voila, done. It's how I make a lot of my vids.
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line 1 is A_MA_KICK
line2 is A_MA_HOBBLEKICK
line 3 is A_MA_ROUNDHOUSE
I have no clue what those kicks are called in the game.
On a unrelated note I'm pretty impressed with GoToMyPc, I figured running the game client would totally crash the connection.
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I think it's more to do with having to make an animation for the skirt to match every current animation where we use our legs - the NPCs just need to be built with the skirt matching their attacks and a couple of emotes.|
Originally Posted by Zombie Man
Could either one of you demorecord experts do the same (high kicks) to the Lich and Tsoo Sorcerer, please? I think it's time we look at the claim that we can't have dresses and long skirts because kick maneuvers wouldn't look right.
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Although the recent hints from Sexy Jay might point to long dresses for players
EDIT: Also, aren't the NPC skirts their actual legs? Like don't the models have just the skirt, rather than the skirt going over the lgs, which would cause clipping?
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*looks at warden's work*
And they think demorecording is useless... nice work, man. (That does look seriously weird on the lich and the Tsoo... the sibyl and Candy look more like Rockettes...) When are you going to try your hand at vids, too?
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Vids are a big step up in talent and patience from what I'm doing.
I have started a list of the new clockwork animations that would work great for a coh music video. I'm thinking Freeedom Phalanx vs Praetorian Phalnax in Thriller meets West Side Story setting.
Well, I saw worst clipping issues with awful costumes in game...
This doesnt look bad at all, need some tweaks but it doesnt look too bad.
See, devs?
Give us long robes, sibil togas and fashion model boots!!
But as far as I know, he doesn't have any legs to clip through his man-skirt - it's instead of his legs, rather than covering real legs, like player avatar skirts do.
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