All Things Character Art

Just wanted to pop in and point out (again) that it would be really nice to get monstrous versions of some of the awesome gloves in the game. Not having a version of Bio Armor or Ascension really stinks.

Hair with the witches hat from Croatoa would be nice.

Hey Dink...



Ok, that's all for now

Feathers.

We need feathery bits.

Hair and faces. GOOD hair and faces, not the outdated, old, overly polygonal junk from Issue 0 we have too much of right now. Dear god, would it kill to have some shoulder-length and longer hair for men that wasn't almost square? Some day-to-day hairstyles for both genders that wouldn't look out of place on the street? A re-render of some of the female long hairs so that it wasn't square? Like, ACTUALLY square in places? And with decent textures?

Oh, and some young/teen faces for both genders that don't look uncanny valley levels of 'weird' or contorted. Please? Male models suffer from this especially. Did the person responsible for the Issue 0 designs actually, y'know, look at real people? At all?

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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.

Here's a suggestion that should actually be very easy:

Can we please copy the female Tights With Skin patterns "Shorts 1," "Shorts 2" and "Shorts 3" to the Tights lower body category. For reference, Shorts is this pattern:



Right now, these shorts can only be used with bare human skin. Unlike the male briefs patter, these cannot be used with armour, mutant legs or, leather, chain and so forth. Shorts with tights do exist for bare legs (bizarrely enough, since that's not a "tights with skin" option), but again - that's only usable on bare legs or coloured bare legs. It's not usable with the game's more interesting textures.

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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.

Could we get the leather armor pattern available for monstrous pants? (And any others that are missing, but leather armor is the one I've noticed most recently.)

I have a request: Dink, is it possible to port the Robotic Arms 3 Fire and Ice pieces to both Robotic Arms 1 and 2, as well as to port the glove portion to gloves for regular body types like Tights, Sleeveless Jackets, Armoured and so forth? At the time of their release, we were given some kind of incompatibility explanation, but I'd like to offer the following as evidence:



Those are Fire and Ice 1 and 2. I haven't listed 3 since we were told the problem with that was transparency. But look at 1 and 2 and, more specifically, look at what's in the red circles - seams. Not just any seams, but the exact same seams that are only any regular Smooth/Bare glove, because the actual gloves are Smooth/Bare with a plate attached. These should be usable with regular bodies (Tights, Tights With Skin, Shirts, Sleeveless Jackets, Sleeveless Robes, Armoured, Robotic Arms 1 and Robotic Arms 2) without any additional work done. The plate might clip with some shoulders but that shouldn't be a problem. The upper arms should also work with any of the other Robotic Arms tops, because it's designed to connect to a Smooth/Bare glove, which all glove options under Robotic Arms 2 are designed to also fit over with no gaps or clipping. In fact, the upper arm of those hands is no different from the mesh of the regular Tights upper arm, just with an extra shoulder detail attached, so it should be usable separately.

Moving on from that, I have a personal request: Can we please not make any more Robotics Arm 3 only pieces that only exist as a combo upper and lower arm and can never be used separately? This violates one of the costume creator's greatest strengths, which is versatility - the ability to use items in ways they were not envisioned to be used, and in so doing create costumes that are uniquely our own. Recent costume content that has had Robotic Arms in it has been dangerously prone to just add them as a Robotics Arm 3 option and never add them as separate pieces, and this can't go on. Please, do what you can to ensure that at least Robotic Arms moving forward are not designed as whole pieces.

Finally, I have a clipping-related request. A long time ago, large gloves were banned for use with long-sleeved clothing, specifically Jackets, Robes, Trenchcoats and Boleros. Could you please see about lifting that ban? I know this will open the door to some potentially ungainly clipping, but it will also open the door to the ability to create one of the game's strongest costume designs - The PPD Interrogator. Part of what makes Kang, Washington and the other Interrogators so awesome is the fact that they're able to use large gloves over long-sleeved jackets, specifically the trenchcoat. Right now, we have a decent selection of large gloves which are large enough to cover most of the sleeve, and we have sleeve options which aren't as long, most notably the short police shirt sleeves. Would it be possible to do something with those gloves?

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And finally, a bug report: Resistance Gloves for women are still bugged. Here's a pic for evidence:



Note what's in the blue circle. Resistance gloves are basically Tights gloves with two extra props attached - a "pipe" on the forearm, and a bulge on the back of the hand. These two are not supposed to be connected, and for Male and Huge characters, they aren't. In fact, they aren't connected on the female RIGHT hand, which in this pic is concealed by the pelvis. However, on the female LEFT hand, polygons attach the pipe to the bulge, causing them to stretch as the wrist rotates away from idle. Because these polygons have also inherited a texture that glows from somewhere, they're INCREDIBLY obvious when they stretch. From my limited understanding of 3D modelling, it looks like part of the glowing band towards the end of the pipe has somehow become attached the the bulge on the back of the hand and are stretching the glow in a really bugged-looking way.

I've reported this before, I'm pretty sure, but I want to put it here where you can see it directly.

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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.

After checking out the new staff pack on Beta, I thought I'd come here and repost an edited version of my request there.

Staff Requests:

1) a true spear -- The bladed weapon in the new pack on beta is nice, but much too modern for what I want out of a spear. I'd be perfectly happy if you could take the already-existing trident and just remove the two outer points to create a new spear.

2) a natural mystic staff -- While the Mystical staff on beta is nice, I'm still hoping for something more naturally magic, like a slightly gnarled wooden branch with a mystic orb/gem inset at the top. Heck, the blackwand is already in game. Can we get that as a staff?

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Originally Posted by Thirty-Seven I think the Male model REALLY really needs some options similar to Brief but in more of a mid-thigh length variety, and also just above the knee (or as pictured below, just past the knee)...

I've been wanting bicycle shorts for men forever. Women have had them for some time, but just like with all the other shorts options (except Boxing), only women get them currently. We need more shorts of all types for male/huge, please.

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Hi Dink. I sent you a message about this, but thought I would put it here, too, as this is the official thread.

For some time now (and especially since Water Blast came out), I have wanted proper bare feet for characters. I have a couple of characters who should thematically go barefoot, but the bare feet in the game right now look horrible. I have posted about this elsewhere and others have agreed with me.

I think the best recommendations came from Samuel_Tow, who pointed out that we have perfectly serviceable models in the game right now that could be used with new textures, including zombie feet, and the ExoProto boots and Stealth boots.

In another thread, someone had posted something like "Dink is currently responding to every request to make specific parts 'less ugly' with 'okay'", so I am hoping you can address this.