All Things Character Art

Animated Textures as simple base skins:

With animated textures making their way into costume parts (the corsair cape and the chainsaw) would love to see some SIMPLE* base skins for characters made out of energy or exotic materials:

Swirling molten skin similar to the magma effects seen in SSA1 mission 1, final map.

Swirling plasmic energy that resembles the surface of the sun, complete with white hot glow and the occasional sunspot.

Parallax animations for cosmic skins that convey characters made out of outer space with stars, nebula and galaxies at their core.

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*Note that when I say simple I mean "without seams, bits or baubles added on." In other words, simple in terms of design concept. I realize that technically these could be difficult to pull off as they may require multiple animated layers (like the magma in SSA1), tweaks to existing tech (glow and reflectance maps included with animated textures), and perhaps altogether new tech (parallax animations on a texture that function more like particle sprites do in game with their angle connected to the camera and not the object geometry, appearing to turn the skin into a window). Regardless, I think these sort of skins would be so cool that it would be worth it.

Yo Dink, you're a huge fan of porting costume parts across genders or to new categories, and have done a lot of great work in this department. And I'm sure you've got a large list of parts that you plan on porting over as time goes on.

Any chance of adding the Princess Hat to that list, so that Males and Huge can wear it? Even thought it's called a Princess Hat, it looks like a cartoonish Wizard's hat and would be great for more silly looking wizards. Like the kind from old school Disney movies or cartoons. Just rename it "Wizard Hat" and change the hair to another existing hairstyle and we'd be set.

Just something to think on.

I don't recall if it was brought up in this thread, but I would *love* to have the retro-Arachnos costume pieces available for my VEATs.

While i have asked for Rularuu parts repeatedly, i would tonight wish to post some annoying clipping issues which i have discovered with the Rularuu's Talons costume pieces.









After preforming the "Spin" claws attack the weapon models would turn sideways, and whenever i used them with monstrous hands, the weapon on the open hand would clip.

Speaking of other things the art team is busy with, can we please get a selection of horns that cover the entire head in a way hair would? I'll let Lillith demonstrate:



See how she doesn't have just a few horns on an otherwise bald head, or over hair? Her entire head is an exo-skeleton of horns that form sort of a helmet. Now, I'm not being entirely truthful - she does have a pony tail at the back of her head, but she doesn't really have "hair" in the conventional sense.

With all the horns we have right now, they're all designed to be used over something else. If you use them over a bald head, you get pretty much that - horns over a bald head. But what if I wanted to use horns the same way I use hair - to cover the entire top and back of the head? We don't have any of that, and I'd like to have at least one set.

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Reiterating my old request for a tombstone-themed shield (perhaps for a Halloween pack?)

I'd love to have an arm bracer that covered the length of the forearm but left the hand bare. I've been making do with the cloud bracer but it's not ideal. The other bracer has decoration on it.

I'm surprised those bracers haven't been ported over to female characters - they match well with Valkyrie shoulder and boot pieces.

We could use some more medieval armor pieces, particularly now that we have chainmail to go underneath. I'd love to have a proper generic ornate breastplate rather than the roman themed vests we have. And a lot of the pieces that would work for a breastplate don't properly cover a portion below the belt, and lack any sort of matching option in pants or skirts - which can put a damper on wearing if a knight's more vulnerable spots are left exposed.

Bonus points if it fits a shining knight concept. To give you an example, here's some pretty amazing work a modder did for a nameless game. Remove the winged designs in favor of something more generic and you've got yourself an armor set worthy of a hero. Asking for this exact same thing is out of the question, mind you - but I hope this might give you an idea of what's possible if you're inclined to put a few more bits of armor in the game for us knight fans.

Something I just realized we have extremely little of is: SHELL designs.

We just got the WATER based powerset, so... where are the oceanic style costume pieces?

Shoulder pieces:

Conch shells, Nautilus shells, Mitre shells, Clam shells, Starfish; Fins (similar to fish monster, but colorable)

Chest designs in similar fashions (particularly a 3-d starfish would be cool)

Coral hair, shell hats, leafy-sea-dragon hair, lion/scorpionfish hair/fins, FISHERMAN HAT (with hooks and bobs?)

Tail similar to a seahorse's, shark's (animated)

Glove and Boot options: FLIPPERS (diver's footwear), coral, better fins than the fish-monster ones

Cape: manta-ray 'wings', a SCHOOL OF ANIMATED FISH? (Hey we have the waterfall option, and auras, maybe the fish could be an aura)

... Just trying to do a character up for a friend on deviantart and found a huge lack of both sea-creature and fossil-style items.