Costumes! :D Who? What? Huh?

So since Zwill finally closed the costume reques thread... I hope they put up a new one soon!

Also, I hope that they go through the old one and catalog or make a spreadsheet of all the requests and mark them off as: already in game for players, in for NPCs (to be converted/remain restricted), what costume group, impossible to make, will make later, making right now... along with potential categories for groups like Science/Magic/Dino/Ent/Spectral/Tech/etc.

heck i'd happily complie it all for them if they are willing to look at it and give it to whomever it concerns to render. Who's in charge of it now? I know Tunnel Rat and Honey Badger make Fx for powers and auras, and Dink does a bunch of costume stuff...







anyway, I did want to just mention that there is still a lack of good long hair. for me, glam is used a lot for long hair, but it's bulky on top and skinny on the bottom, and doesnt fullfill my needs. right now Tielekku has the best hair after ghost widow/belladonna vetrano, but their hair is all straight-like and it's more the cape part that makes it lovely.

i'd like to suggest a long hair option or three O_o more using the attatched cape option for a long, moving hair item. seeing as how cape/back pieces can be blocked with other pieces, including the already cape-hair veil piece, this shouldnt bee too difficult beyond the work needed to make a new hair option and a new cape option and once it's done the hair-cape could also probably work as a new fur-cape option too.

i am no 3-D artist but here is my suggestion, which is basically a new, long, pretty, curly, thicker but not awkward like glam, hair option. i'd also open it up to males too as this in white along with the big bushy beard could give Zeus a very powerful look.

this also might be accomplished with an opaque tendril like aura giving medusoid hair in a billowy trail attatched to the back of the head, similar to DC's Starfire.

anyway, here's my mock up for... you know... GOOD hair.


hair by babydavidj, on Flickr

That's how Ghost Widow's works.

Yeah Ghost Widow has been serving as a sort of in-game beta test for a long "hair cape" for years now.

I think the main reason why it hasn't transferred down to players yet is that the Devs are concerned about using one of their limited body model animation "anchor" points for this. This is the same reason why we haven't gotten much in the way of robes or loincloth type items either. They have mentioned for years that their current body models are being pushed to the limits of what they can do. Since Ghost Widow is a unique NPC they can better control what it does with her specific animations.

They've probably also decided that it'd be a combination of "too much processing" on individual clients and "too much bandwidth" to send that data around to everyone else to make it worthwhile. Just imagine how rough it would be on the servers if you got like 15 or 20 long animated haired characters standing next to each other. That extra load is probably a real server lag issue to be concerned about.

Bottomline I'd love to have long animated hair styles for my characters.
I'm just not going to assume it'll happen anytime soon.

Animations are handled client side, and really, any graphics lag experienced would be no worse than the same number of people having capes. The game handles that just fine, and it would handle head capes just fine too.

Time the devs stopped worrying about low end machines. If necessary, enable it only for rigs running in ultra-mode.

Metaphorically speaking, if there was only 1 anchor point left, I'd choose something else over this. I don't have very many female toons and honestly, no ones going to be paying attention to your hair ladies. When a trial is being formed I'm not going to look around at people thinking "oh hey, I like their hair".

Not saying its not a good idea. It would be a nice something extra to have. But thats really all it is. What this game really needs are robes. Actual leg coverings. Think circle of thorns. Which would translate into dresses for the females. Win/win

Come to think of it, we already have a cape-animated hairstyle for players: the bridal veil. Realizing that, there's not really an excuse not to let us have the option of hair that works like both versions of Belladonna Vetrano's... those of us who want to wear some other cape costume part can just stick with the same non-animated long styles we've always used.

TBH, though I wouldn't mind animated hair, the one thing I'd like above ALL others, is new character meshes and new skin texture maps.

The current ones are way old and horrible, and REALLY let down the overall look of the game when compared against newer content.

Animated hair would be nice

Do want.

I think we're all missing the critical point here. Who is THAT on the right-hand side of the OP's picture? Let's all focus on what is important, here!

I'm not convinced that the hair capes would be a problem for low-end machines anymore than regular capes are now.


I would personally love to see the hair cape implemented for flowing hair. Half of all my women characters have long hair, and I would love to see hairstyles that are long and flowing. Or at least hairstyles that don't clip into their breasts.