All Things Character Art

You know how the carnival of shadows illusionists have those sort of brocadey patterns on their gowns? Could we get something like that for jackets or tops or skirts and stuff? It'd be good for making an a costume look formal/fancy/magiciany! It's be a great pattern to put on a detail layering over another item.

Here's an oddity which is readily detectable and reproduceable, but which I can't recall anyone ever mentioning. Unfortunately, it's not in Dink's sphere of influence, since it's not a visual arts problem, but rather the responsibility of whoever the "Sound FX" manager/person is.

With any of the new flight animating backpacks (mecha, retro sci-fi, etc.) that can broadly be described as "rocket packs" placed on the back ... they all use Sound FX taken from the Angel Wings (ie. a sussurating flap-flap sound) rather than something more appropriate ... such as either Rocket Boots, the Raptor Jetpack or even the Goldbricker Jetpack already-existing-in-game sound resources.

Dink? Could I ask you to be lovely and have you inform your Sound FX counterparts (none of whom have Red Names) down the Minotaur Maze to bug this oversight and find the time to schedule a correction to it at some point?

It's the end. But the moment has been prepared for ...

Any one played SSA 2.2? HOW ABOUT THE BUSH JACKET AND PITH HELMET! Good lord I've been asking for those since Jay started his thread.

Dink is their some particular reason that the female armored chest category doesn't have access to the Stealth chest detail?

Are their clipping issues or is it just an over site?

Now that we have the retro bubble helm, I think we could get stuff like this:





Also, could we get a torso piece similar to the unitards worn by Abyss or Nightcrawler:





Maybe they could go under robes?

The various unlockable broadswords should get added to dual blades and then see what can be taken from both of those for katana.

Katana can give up the rusty machete, which I never thought went with the animation style of katana anyways.

For new parts, the expansion of robot arm 3 has been great so don't slow down. One huge crab claw, one hairy monster arm, one tentacle arm. Even just a normal arm that you could give a different texture to than the body so you could have a human torso and reptile arms for example. Just keep expanding and relabel them alternate arms.

Related, is a robot arm 4 that is both arms completely feasible. Robot arm 3 has some great designs already because that's where the cool things go that wouldn't work as a standard arm or glove. I love the option for asymmetry but having the option for both arms matching some of these cool arms would be the best.

Probably never going to see something like this in game, but would love to see skin options. Like metal, glass/crystal, liquid/gel, and energy

The Think Tank back in the shop.

I'd love if they could find a way to get more than 2 colors on a body part.

This limitation hurts several costume pieces. Such as:

Barbarian Bracers (the arm bands have 2 colors but the matching bracers only have 1)

Roman Vambraces (if you choose the skin option you can only color the bracers 1 color)

Roman Greaves (same as vambraces, if you choose skin you can only have 1 color)

and pretty much any of the "with skin" options for females

I am sure there are more examples like this but I think the point is made.

These might have already been suggested - if so please add my support to them.

With the strong 'nature/biological' theme of recent and upcoming sets (Beast Mastery, Nature Affinity, Bio Armor, Water Blast, etc.) I'd really like to see some expansion on the flora and fauna themes.

Currently we have some leafy features, but I'd love to see a 'woody' skin texture and costume parts to aid in the creation of plant elementals, golems, dryads etc. Various vines with either leaves, blossoms or thorns would be a great addition as well especially entwining the limbs similar to the organic armor spikes. A pollen/spores aura would be nice.

On the fauna side, I think we really need some 'natural' bony claws and spikes similar to the Mot bosses (just scaled back a little). They would seem a really good match for bio armor and mutant characters in general.

For amphibian characters a set of gills (either a head or shoulders (neck) detail) would be very welcome as well, as would more natural fins for arms/legs/backs.

Avian characters would love some more feathery accents.

Some more non-mammalian tails would be great: scorpion (as seen on the Liger), Ovipositor/Sting (complete with dripping venom/slime), actual feathers, fish/fin, dino bony 'club', etc.

The seers in Praetoria sometimes have their arms bound to their side, can we have a "chest" option that activates this feature, locking the arms into a position like this?

Also, can we have something silimar for legs, in two different forms? I'm thinking floating standing vertically (to give the appearance that I never touch the ground) and sitting (invisible wheelchair!) which could then be coupled with this next thing:

wheelchairs, hoverchairs, and jump-jet leg attachments, for handicapped persons who wish to continue their superheroics!

(this would be really awesome for everyone, because you could roleplay out a hero's injuries rather than hand-waving them away!)

2 quick suggestions here:

1. Can we please get some mechanical tails? It doesn't matter what style. Sleek tech, Crey tech, Steampunk, Cyberteck, anything would be lovely.

2. Could it be possible to get a reflective-less costume texture? Like Matte (which I'd still love to see added to Chest/Legs/Head), but more-so.
Here's a good example of what I'm talking about:

Pendragon's beautiful armor is shown off in the newest tweet by City of Heroes. Can we get a confirm or denial on whether players will gain access to Black Knight/Pendragon style armor in the near future? Spike and spikeless as options would be appreciated as well.

Thanks for all you've done, Dink.

Would it be possible to make shin guards and bracers/anklets to go with bare feet? Similar to the ones for wrists and forearms, but for ankles and shins.

I'd like to use anklets for my Atlantean-type character, and I think shin guards would be great for barbarians or what-have-yous.

I actually can't find any pictures of comic book characters who utilize plain round anklets, which is bad for illustrative purposes but excellent in allowing us to further distance CoH characters from existing comic book ones.

But looking for shin guards pulls up Skeletor, which is a pretty good example.



And plain round anklets, similar to Captain Marvel's power bands.