All Things Character Art

More long hairstyles for female and male.
We got Glam and few more but too low on polygons, and low res rextures.
The newest hairstyles are awesome but since GR all we got has been short hair for females. We need some really long, curly, ponytails, long with bangs...

A similar piece like "Reaper" but less baggy, and a (ninja) scarf, both plain and tattered for capes. The olf scarf with little strips is a bit dissapointing.

Also, plain leather bolero with tattered and plain cut. Similar to Belladona Vetrano coat. Would love to have a tattered fingerless with texture gloves like her too.

I'd like to see some more Shaman costume pieces:

Something like the Banished Pantheon Shamans' lower leg things and shoulder detail: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/File:Shaman1.jpg

And Hequat's headdress would be nice too: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/File:Hequat.png

Also: The belt used by shamans would be nice too.

One more thing: Is there a way to make the Arachnos cape (Used by Arachnos Soldier PC's) recolorable? A bit odd that I can recolor everything else but not that.

And the Chest Detail too.

I'm noticing something that was mentioned but I don't see on your list at all. I may have missed if you mentioned.

Shoulder and back Emblems? Both shoulders, one shoulder, whatever we could get would be amazing!

Weapon sets really need some love. There are a ton of swords, and now maces seem to be doing pretty good. We do need more Claws, Bow, Titan weapon, and staff items though.


StaffFor Staff Items I would like a pure energy staff, yes like Darth Maul has. Or like the tons of staff weapons that were in Phantasy Star Online. Look there for inspiration, because there were some amazing weapons in that game. My real desire is for a Shepherd's crook though. I would also like to see something with glowing runes on it.

Titan Weapons: Axes, Sword, Scythe, and a tree trunk of some sorts.


Claws: The mecha claws are amazing, and I can see how ideas for claws could be hard to come by. However the Katar and the Roman Cestus (w/t blades) are all items weapons that you could look to for inspiration.

Bows: Bows Are even harder I bet. Because if you are not careful you start getting accused of copying that other mmo. I did love the Celestial Bow design that we saw in the concept art that didn't make it.

I find myself playing more and more weapon characters though. So I would really like to see more weapons of all types.

We have been told that you can't do weapon Auras, but is it possible to make the base model have an aura on it?

There are a bunch of swords that NPC have in the game that we still do not have access to. The snakes dagger, the Necro Knight MM Pet swords, ToV use both of these I think. I would love to get access to those weapons for BS, DB, and Katana.

DB still can not unlock the roman swords that BS can unlock. Which never made sense to me.

My last suggestions may sound a bit odd, but there have been some philosophical changes in the game. Staff and TW reflects these changes best. In both sets we have weapons that look like they could do smashing or lethal damage, and yet they both exist in the same set. Considering that, can we get a set of escrima sticks for DB, maybe some tomahawks, or other small axes? The excuse in the past was "We can't give it sticks because it does lethal damage." Well that no longer seems to be the case, which is apparent in TW and Staff. Maybe even change the name of the power to Dual Weapons. I am pretty sure at this point very few of us are worried about the damage type vs the weapon model.

Thanks as always!


One more thing. I would really like to see more LARGE glove options. I know I have sene Sam request this also. I love large gauntlets and gloves. More of those would be great!

This will be long. A lot of questions too.

First: what is this thread for, exactly ? As I understand, it is for player character costume models and textures, but not auras or power customizations which are covered by Tunnel Rat and Honey Badger. Is this correct ? What about costume pieces that contain particle effects ? What about costume pieces that interact with powers like rocket boots and piston boots ?

Second: that is an impressive list of things you cannot do at this time. "At this time" - released within next 6 months, I guess ?

Third: So what ARE you working on ? I understand not telling us about things that may never be released. But that is mostly applicable to tech, powers and concept art. Once the 3d art time is approved and first pass 3d model made, I really do not see how a player targeted costume set/part could never go live. And simply telling us what is in the pipeline, with no sneak peaks, would result in a) far better targeted suggestions b) aligned expectations, reducing post release drama.

Fourth: It seems inevitable that Monstrous will never get all the stuff normal legs have - shorts/skirts, new pieces to match new sets like Biolum, Mecha. Much less custom animations.
So let us approach this from the other side. Port the Monstrous feet to normal legs. The ankle joint is immobile anyway so just make the shin area closer to vertical. For example the insect claws already have both normal and monstrous versions.
Bonus: the new versions, being close to vertical will work with most pants AND will not look unbalanced in out of combat poses.

Fifth: new 3d effects on costume pieces: distortion effects, translucency shaders, flat textures drawn behind/inside models. "Not possible", "not now" or "shifty eyes" ?

Sixth: wings are not cape rigs and should not be mutually exclusive with them. Full body capes would probably clip too much but all waist capes should be allowed.

Seventh: new UI option "disable cape rigs" with settings "off", "all except player", "all". Purpose - allow multiple cape rigs on players without causing unavoidable performance impact when many players are in one place. Would also help people who have performance issues with the current "one cape rig per player" limit.

Finally: various costume suggestions in no particular order.

- Big tails. The tails we have so far, while nice, are all small.




- Animal Fur texture that is not Monstrous Fur with a different palette. Fluffy geo, while perfect, is probably not feasible. But even a plain fur texture with no skin showing would do.

- Reptile skin texture that uses two colors from costume palette instead of inheriting skin color. A version with scales everywhere would be great - the current reptilian option is naked in the belt area.

- Silhouette: full body tights that do not have a texture, do not take patterns and use the "glow" effect to prevent shading. One, changeable color. In itself, it would work as a "mysterious silhouette" and "energy being" with dark and light colors respectively. And it would provide a blank base for use with other costume pieces to simulate them being empty. Should be relatively easy to paint, yes ?

- "None" option for ears, especially for full masks.

- Cat feet (under monstrous) that do not have claws out. Because cat, seriously. And a scaled up version - bipeds need bigger feet than quadrupeds.

- Animal heads with their mouths closed. Because the hard part is already done.

- Ankle length boots and (more) shoes. Because existing pieces are few and limited, especially on males.

- Mantle back piece. Like High Collar but without the collar.

- A scarf that wraps around neck. With optional "trailing ends" cape rig - single rig with transparent space like the Scarf cape that already exists.

- Rularuu Staff. So we can go to Shadow Shard and poke the big eyes in the eye with an eye.

- Rularuu themed costume pack. Take the gloves and chest details from Rulu-Shin, add more stuff. Secondary versions where the eyes are textured as simple (glowing?) orbs, for mix-and-matching.

hey, just thought of something else that would be nice. plantigrade beastly feet. yeah we have the animal fur on the uni-toe foot, but what I am talking about is the splay clawed feet from the digitigrade (beast) feet but modified to go on flat feet.

beast legs have a really limited amount of pants that are useable with them, we cant use armored legs or tucked in legs or any kind of bulky legs (can we add any kind of loose pants for them, that would be nice too) so the ability to have "regular" feet with the splay claws would be really nice.

one last thing, with the steampunk look we got "victorian"-ish outfits, that's great, but could we get any outfits based on the current "gothic" style? ruffles, frills, patterns like the baron coat, maybe some necklaces with general mystic and not overly specific religious symbols(maybe a general cross, star, 6 pointed star, ankh, Buddhist beads nothing too specific, but general stuff), this could lead to some neat outfits. maybe some facial piercings as a detail 2 and new makeup options.

Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.

Walking through the Pocket D, it hit me! We need the Monkey Fight Club Icon as a chest emblem!

But it has to be low enough so that it'll fit on the Tank tops

I'd buy every single outfit Rian Frostdrake put up. In a heartbeat. Without thinking twice. Would love to see more stylized, contemporary, theatrical costumes I can mix up with other things! If supers really did exist, and were the age most supers in the game seem to be (low to mid-20's) and were dressing to Get Noticed, I think they'd have a much greater tendency to dress like a pop or a rock star, than anything else. By quite a far margin, too.

Also want to second the notion of actual fur. See, my Bi-Polar Bear character has white fur - which is to say, she has white skin with large tufts of unsightly grey body hair. She looks more like a 60 year old accountant at his first beach day of summer! (And if you can't fix the fur, I'm going to have to insist on sandals with dark ankle socks be made available!) Now, the ears are just fine (except that she has four of them), why can't the body match this?

And also second the quiver backpack! It doesn't have to be functional for a quiver. I get the argument about other weapons, but that doesn't apply to a quiver. A Robin Hood hat and short boots - maybe even a unisex crenelated-at-the-bottom tunic? - would be wonderful set, and something I've wanted since I made my first archer.

Some robes for the men-folk. Can be like the boleros we have now, but, of course, masculine. The lack of non-armor or non-tights options for males is really horrible. Rather than do yet MORE armor options, it would be nice to see more types of options available.

As always, thanks for listening!