All Things Character Art

Tri. Corner. Hats. Wear 'em reversible and forward. Think 19-century (and not the buccaneer hats, more revolutionary George-Washington patriot-y or His Majesty's Naval tradition hat)!

/been askin' since 2004.

Dearest, beloved, wise, and talented Dink,

Could you find it in your heart to allow us to use the various Eye Auras with the Empty Think Tank costume piece? Being able to make a pair of disembodied glowing/burning/electric eyes floating in a clear fluid would be awesome.

I recently got access to the mecha pack, and while it's just as awesome as I was thinking, there's a small hole that's been bugging me a bit, specifically about the jetpack.

Don't get me wrong, it's great that we have a jetpack of any sort in the game now, and it's doubly nice that the one we got is so good to boot. The problem is that, as nice as it is, it just doesn't fit aesthetically in some cases. Specifically I'm thinking of the contrast between the 'chunky' and 'compact/sleek' mecha styles. The two different wing options are a good example - both are amazing looking, but the Komadori wings are more compact than the Shrike (both while open and closed) and better fit a character with a more compact, sleeker aesthetic to their costume.

The thing that bugs me about the jetpack is that, unlike with the wings, we only have a representative of one of those styles - the chunky one. There's nothing *wrong* with what we have, but it feels incomplete.

Before I saw the first screenshots of the jetpack, I had been hoping for a much more compact 'flat' style that fit closer to the character's back for a particular character of mine. The thing is, geometry that almost exactly fits that particular idea already exists - the central section of the jetpack or of either of the wings. Stripped of either the wings themselves or the large rocket pods and their struts, any of those pieces would make a quite serviceable 'compact/sleek' style jetpack with relatively little modification (mostly just transplanting the wing-pack jet exhausts onto the exhaust-less jetpack central bit, and possibly adding a second set of exhausts higher up on the back for whichever one was used).

Is there any chance of a modified piece like this being added to the set in any way? My dimensionally-displaced-starfighter-pilot-from-the-future character would be extremely happy to have her jetpack again.

Please can we have a few things;

-Vanguard Backplate (Back Detail)
-Longbow pattern (Pattern for tight tops and bottoms)
-Warden Helmet (Hat)
-Longbow grenades chest detail (Chest Detail)
-The belt/webbing over jacket from the soldiers in the Vanguard base (Belt for Jackets, Chest Detail for jackets)

Please, Dink, I truly am begging now

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

New Rularuu weapons are needed too

Hi Dink,
With the water blast power set coming in the semi-near future, I was wondering if we might consider some aquatic-style clothing options. Specifically, I was looking for something that resembled a wetsuit, with both zipped and unzipped fronts for both male and female characters, and maybe some fins/flippers for your feet. Would be also a good time to consider that scale mail I keep mentioning ...
Or maybe, and this is being very fanciful, I realize, armor pieces (shoulders, chest, gloves, boots, belt) that looks like it was carved from shell (like with nautilus detailing).
Also maybe mesh tops for both sexes that look like they might have been made from fishing nets?
Thank you for your consideration.

With water coming out I also want to bump my request for liquid parts on costumes. AFAIK The costume creator lacks any kind of fluid filled clear container hooked up to the person aside from the brain-in-jar head, and very little of the costume creator is really 'SCIENCE' looking vs just tech IMO. I have long thought we needed more science and more liquids in there.

This was my brainstorm thread for weapons that went no where.
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=288939


The important thing to me, is that we don't need the tech to actually do LIQUID as in moving around and all that. It can just be a tank shape that glows and is presumed full like in this art I came across. Full bottles of colored liquid can be added to almost anything and look awesome!

http://i50.tinypic.com/10pspaw.jpg
http://i50.tinypic.com/98r0p2.jpg
http://i47.tinypic.com/27xfo9c.jpg

Oh gods, I would *kill* for the IDF proper armour. The front plate just doesn't cut it for many concepts

If we got the Olympian, Resistance and PPD parts as full wrap around, with 'clipping' allowed for player discretion, why not the same for IDF? It makes no sense...

(And the VG back plate IS a back detail. The last excuse given was 'back details aren't possible like that at the moment'. Which, y'know, is now provably no longer true....so...)

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

We also need Black Knights and Talons of Vengeance costume sets.
And another Weapon pack for staffs. Even the Black Knights got staffs!!
Set must be on market.
WANT
MORE
COSTUMES


Thanks for the awesome work, Dink!

I probably asked for this a million pages ago, but it's worth repeating


Can we please either get the Ghoul shackles, or shackles in general?

I know that nothing has really been done rularuu-wise since the original weapons were put in, but i had some ideas for new ones, and maybe as a wish..that we could earn the rulu-shin pieces in game.


Rulu-shin costume pieces - maybe tie them to an accolade dealing with the shadow shard?
Rularuu spear - for staff
giant eye-blade - titan weapons
an overseer eye-gun - for beam rifle
two small overseer eyeball pistols - Dual pistols
a thinner overseer eyeball fun - for assault rifle.

Btw is there any chance for a broadsword version of Excalibur? or more swords in general of the barbarian and excalibur's design? Black night swords are awesome but are kinda thick for me. Though I still want them lol

I wanted to resist doing this, but I figure I might as well. You know how I've been suggesting adding a more muscular texture to female characters for the last three or four years? Well, that's mostly because I have a couple of specific characters I want to make. And courtesy of Alex, I now have an picture perfect representation of what one of them should look like:



This is the much more proper form of Xanta from the first pic I posted in the thread. I get that I'll never have a female character who looks like that just because the costume editor can't do this physique, but a more muscular texture that looks like this would go a LONG way.

I also want to point out that while I know a "more" muscular texture for females exist in the game that just aren't available to players, it's really not very muscular, objectively speaking. To my eyes, if ever we get such a texture, it would have to be on the more "ripped" end of the scale. I get that some people don't like that kind of look, but to me that's what the base skin is for. Because, really, adding a more muscular skin than the base that's only more muscular by a tiny amount if you stop to look for it specifically seems like it would be missing the point.

And besides, if we can get a functionality that supports swapping skin textures under certain Tights with Skin, then I figure we don't have to restrict ourselves to just one new skin texture. We could have several.

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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.