A Thorny Sneakpeak?

This reminds me of something of a tangent and an anecdote:

Have a look at my Stardiver, my all-time most linked costume Do you see how she came out? Do you know how much input I actually had over her costume? Not very. Why would I make a costume in such a hands-off approach? Because the editor conspired to restrict me. Here's how things are tied together:

I wanted a character with as many auras as I could use, so I used bot the Celestial wings and the Celestial aura. The Celestial aura HAD to be white because the boots and gloves glowed white. The boots and gloves glowed white because IDF gear is set to match the colour of its glow to the colour of its secondary colour, which encompasses close to half or the item's surface. A gold primary was by design, and to avoid making the costume TOO bright, I had to pick either a white or a black secondary, and since a black secondary makes the lights not glow, I had to choose white.

Her eyes were originally intended to be green, but since I'm limited to only one aura, I had to match the eye colour to the Celestial aura colour, and the Celestial aura had to be white, as I explained.

Her Celestial wings were initially intended to fold down when she was on the ground, as they are on the pic. When I played around with it, I found that the offset from the back prevented the folded wings from looking like jet exhausts like I'd planned and just made them look goofy, so I had to go with the always open wings. The wings were intended to be white like the aura, but with them always open, they consumed and completely covered the white shoulders of the Celestial aura. The only way to solve this was to use a different colour for them, hence why they're a fiery orange.

I originally wanted to use the new Defence set as an undershirt for the armour, but thought it would make me look like a ponce to use a full set as soon as it came out, so I used "Defence Lite," which is Stealth, essentially. The colours I picked by concept.

She is wearing IDF boots and gloves to begin with because the IDF boots are both the BEST-looking large boots for females AND the only boots that actually glow. I had no choice in the matter. Once I'd used the IDF boots, it only made sense to pair them up with their set-appropriate IDF gloves, hence I didn't really have a choice there, either.

I never wanted to use the Celestial shoulders or belt. Correction, I wanted to use the belt, but it didn't match anything. However, I looked through all of the existing shoulders, an only the Celestial Armour shoulders matched the Celestial shoulder aura in any way. I pretty much HAD to use them. Once I'd use the Celestial shoulders and introduced an off-colour element to the costume, I could easily justify having another off-colour element in the Celestial Belt, which is how that one ended up there.

When making her face, I had to pick the sightless one, as that was the only one without features. Since I wanted a "black hole for a face," I needed framing items, and the only ones that fit were either Half Helmets or Helmets and the Half Helmets looked more alien. Only that one single chin strap, however, had the effect I wanted, which is to frame the face from below without covering the mouth, suggesting that there actually IS a mouth under there. The only mask pattern I could use to colour the neck separate from the face so as to make the face stand out as a black hole was Neck Cover, and if you look closely, that actually bleeds though the chin guard a little bit in the corner.

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Why am I retelling all this? Because I want to tell the Art Team that when I'm faced with costume items with limitations, I WILL work within those limitations and make a great costume regardless. Sometimes, the limitations are so severe and chain into each other so much that the costume ends up designing itself. And that's just fine, because if that's what it takes to make a good costume, then that's what it takes.

Please stop keeping pieces from me because they "clip." I trust I've proved that I can work around problems like that.

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.

Carni pretty much sums up my feelings on this whole disaster. What an epic waste of time on everyone's part. /em golfclap

Personally, I don't think it's a clipping issue that's holding the parts back. It's because the Devs are sulking because we didn't like their vision of the Circle of Neon Hedgehogs.

The sad part is that while I went out and bought the pack right away I still don't think these costume parts work for the actual CoT.

Null the Gull - Toggle on plain robes classic look for the Circle of Thorns :P

That would be nice.

(Yes, I know it won't happen, and is kind of ridiculous, but I far prefer the old CoT design.)

I've come to the decision that the parts, themselves, work pretty darned well. Ran both parts of the Posi TF last weekend and the remade Thorns really just felt...right.

The problem is that we have our spritzy new sorcerers still lurking about in caves, sewers, and a buried city in desperate need of a vaccum cleaner. It's just not a very good match. The New!Thorns look decidedly like magical supervillains in the right environment, but in their most common ones, they leave one to wonder if they didn't just take a wrong turn somewhere.

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/apologizes

HAH!
I almost want to put this in my sig...


LOL!!

I have been known to say this more often that I'd care to admit!




Thanks for the laughs, people (as always!).

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Posi, I _saw_ the player versions of the Pope-hat and and long skirt (Via demo-edit nothing outlawed) and they looked just _fine_

So here's the thing: I'm not touching it with a bargepole unless the already-existing-and-already-made-as-player-player-parts (eg Pope hat/longer skirts) are added back into the pack.

Do you want my money or not?

Of course they do, which is why, rather than put all the pieces people wanted in this pack, marketing will be announce the rest of the pieces, available in an additional purchaseable pack "because you demanded it!" in another coupla weeks, thus assuring people pay twice. It's genius!

Did this an age ago (before the re-re-design):



Funny... all the bits I was looking forward to aren't in the pack

I am also pretty sure this will be the case. Which as I said before is fine as long as I get them.

It would annoy me on principle if they did that... But you know, damned if I wouldn't buy the thing anyway. I want the mage pieces for Nemissary that much.

I honestly don't care if they clip with x-number of bulky boots, or if they look goofy with Martial Arts animations. I really don't... Boots can be changed and I'm playing a Dark defender for cryin' out loud... It's not like he (or most other characters-) will be busting out the acrobatic kung fu any time soon. o_0

AND the long skirt and the armored gloves. And probably the little demi-cape, but you can't see his back.

Before the term "pope hat" gained popularity, those of us asking for the CoT mage hats were actually asking to use their "silly hats," instead. And I stand by that request. Yes, the hats are silly. I still want to wear their silly hats

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.

Yeah, I haven't seen any of the requested parts on female models either. It's possible we're not getting them because porting them over to the female (and possibly huge) model would take more development time.

i just want a wizard hat for males , females characters got all the "wizzy" stuff in the magic booster