Finishing Bird Costume Set?

So were there any plans to finish the bird costume pieces? We got a couple of heads, thanks. A few beaks, nice. We already had wings, thanks. Talons, check. But...

...feathered tails?
...feathered chest?
...feathered pants? (bonus points if they blend with the talon Monstrous legs)
...feathered arms?
...some kind of talony-glove that blended with the feathered arm?

Also "nice to have" (but not strictly necessary, though would bring birds up to par with cats):

...bird texture patterns (i.e. like the Cheetah and Jaguar spot patterms, only pick a few bird patterns). For the record I could argue wolves and bovines need their own texture patterns too.
...wing color variants: instead of strictly the "edge color" and "trailing" color we have now, add a couple other variants from the bird world

Also nice, wing emotes:

--/em wingdisplay -- wings open out straight and up at 45° angle and hold

--/em wingspread -- similar to wingdisplay only out at a 90° angle (wing edge parallel to ground)

--/em wingflap -- some variant of the "few flaps before landing" animation, just one that we can trigger while on the ground. Imagine how annoyed birds sit there and flap their wings a few times.

--/em wingpoint -- some kind of "pointing at you" with the arm AND wing pointing

--/em wingthreaten -- I can visualize in my head but hard to desribe, but it would be like /em angry only incorporate the wings

Just seems to me there are alot of emotes that would be fun to have a "winged" variant...right now the wings are kinda passive outside flying and jumping. Not complaining, the wings and all their various animations are VERY cool. I still marvel at them all these years later.

Still, wolves, cats, and bulls got their Monstrous Fur and Animal Fur, and a number of tails and animated tails. The avians seems to have gotten only half, or even less than half, their due.

There is no 'bird costume set.' It was part of the Beast Pack, and that's how all of the pieces went. Head, feet, some patterns here and there, and a travel power.

I wish.

People (myself among them-) have been asking for feathery bits for ages.

valkyrie skirt is feathery
or use scales pattern for a smoothed down feather look

"Normal mapping," got it. Not all Photoshop terminology makes it well to 3D rendering space. ;-p

As a person who makes nothing but bird toons - webbed feet, a bird tail, couple more beak choices (a really long beak for example) and feathered arms would be wonderful! Those 4 items are difficult to replicate at present.

Samuel_Tow:

While the fur works at a distance, and even to a degree close-up, on a clothed bird, it doesn't on a more "naked" look (such as a bare-chested male).

I've learned a few of the "cheats" but they don't really cut it, and don't make a good blend with the head except with VERY specific colors. As Nalrok corrected me, the "normal mapping" between the feathered heads and the Animal Fur (or Monstrous Fur) does not match. You can force matches if there are proper shades of colors (use darker or lighter colors to make matches), but then that railroads you to certain colors.

(The aweful color palette in this game is a separate problem.)

You can also stick to dark colors, which don't show-off the mismatch as bad.

But a few examples I've tried (an played):

--Two parrots, to be specific, two "pirate parrots" which are colored the sterotype "Amazon parrot" colors (a medium green with lighter green or pale yellow highlights). I have them dressed in the long jackets to hide their beltline and chests so only really the bottom part of the thighs show. Animal Fur in a medium green with a paler green or pale yellow-green cheetah or leopard pattern fakes a texture well enough because the at is only 4' tall. This falls into your argument about distance viewing. But I would have preferred them to be "naked," in which case the cheats fall apart.

--One raven and basically "naked"--black with a muddy light blue and uses one of the mystic line patterns because of his backstory. Because he is so dark and the default gamma in the game is so dark, the look is very convincing (can't really see "texture" with it being all black).

--A seagul. Ended-up using "Tights" and the "mesh" texture in dark grey to break-up the flat texture of the tights. Not super convincing though, but best any of us ("Flock of Seaguls" SG) could come-up with after some experimenting. White is always tricky in this game. And again, it's only passable since our specs are for 5' tall or less. Also, being forced to use the mesh pattern means we couldn't use bicolor blend patterns on the body for a better coloration (since seaguls are typically white with grey or black).

But for another example, Polly's Revenge has a TALL form (max height) alternate look, and the methods for "faking" feather start to fall-apart when scaled-up.

So a "simple" texture map, again, is really all I'm after.

And while *you* may never look up-close at costumes, many folks do, myself included, and I suspect many RPers (coming from Virtue, that's my view into the game) may also. Not to mention the camera forces you in-close indoors all the time. ;-p

Also, as someone visual, I can assure you that "passable" and "good" are two different things. Illusion is in the subtleties you don't actively see unless you're trying too. That's why texture maps work...tricks of light and shadow trick your brain. The fur pattern on a bare chest in brighter "bird colors" in no way tricks me into seeing anything other than a bird head on a furry body. Why? On closer examination it's because the texture map does not have the pattern of light and shadow we associate with "feathers."

ALL OF THIS YES PLEASE

i was also hoping for a sort of feathered bikini *cringes at the word bikini*... let me finish... like how the zombie outfit is sort of a tube top and mini-shorts for all models.... but with feathers... is what i'd like.



but definitely the things mentioned in the OP. as an artist, and comparing them to already existing parts, all of that is way do-able and way over-due.

<3 to dink. you can do it!

That really reads poorly.

Want..... Wings...... Always....... Open.... Wing option for all wings D: