We have fingers sometimes?
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Lothic,
Posted on: 2011-12-13 05:06 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Arachnos Soldier gloves have always had fingers. We used to bring this up as an example of how we really could have fingers in the game, but not much came of it. However, if you watch the Arachnos gloves for a while, you'll notice that they actually look pretty bad, since their fingers are always held apart from each other, which isn't actually how real people act when they hold things.
Rather than animated fingers, I keep thinking we could get away with mittens indented with trenches between fingers which are still conjoined. Currently, the Monstrous gloves do almost exactly this, and they look pretty good. Might be a good middle ground between genuine fingers and meat hands.
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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Arachnos Soldier gloves have always had fingers. We used to bring this up as an example of how we really could have fingers in the game, but not much came of it. However, if you watch the Arachnos gloves for a while, you'll notice that they actually look pretty bad, since their fingers are always held apart from each other, which isn't actually how real people act when they hold things.
Rather than animated fingers, I keep thinking we could get away with mittens indented with trenches between fingers which are still conjoined. Currently, the Monstrous gloves do almost exactly this, and they look pretty good. Might be a good middle ground between genuine fingers and meat hands. |
I'd never noticed that and I'd much rather keep our mittens than the hooked claws of a certain other superhero MMO
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I think the SoAs having fingers was kind of a special experiment the same way Ghost Widow's animated hair was kind of a unique "proof-of-concept" experiment.|
Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Arachnos Soldier gloves have always had fingers. We used to bring this up as an example of how we really could have fingers in the game, but not much came of it. However, if you watch the Arachnos gloves for a while, you'll notice that they actually look pretty bad, since their fingers are always held apart from each other, which isn't actually how real people act when they hold things.
Rather than animated fingers, I keep thinking we could get away with mittens indented with trenches between fingers which are still conjoined. Currently, the Monstrous gloves do almost exactly this, and they look pretty good. Might be a good middle ground between genuine fingers and meat hands. |
I've read where the Devs have basically backed off giving fully rendered fingers to everyone because of the complexity of the graphics involved. The extra polygons needed apparently pushes the limits of what our aging character models can do. Basically the effort to retrofit fingers onto the old models (and change all the gloves to work with them) has yet to be justified.
Having said that I agree that the way our current "Monstrous gloves" work is a good compromise between the default "mitten hands" and fully rendered fingers. Maybe the Devs could expand on that idea and create a series of "fingered gloves" that have the kind of extra detail the Monstrous gloves provide yet look a bit more human.
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I just created an SoA and he had... FINGERS!
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Sadly didn't get time to get a screenshot but it stood out like a sore thumb (
When did this happen? I've not noticed it before!
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