Trike

A Timefighter is a time-traveling fighte of course. 😁 Her bio: https://www.deviantart.com/dashmccool/art/Timefighter-893409405 No the collar isn’t in game, it’s a Krea creation but I liked it. In game I used one of the Clockwork faces which has the wires/cables neck. I agree that this kind of collar would be an awesome addition. So many sci-fi uniform ideas! No idea why this particular one came out so well. This was the only render I did of her, but sometimes we get lucky. As opposed to Blind Luck or Trick Question, who never come out right but you’d think those would be easier renders. Jail Bird was likewise a one-and-done that it got right immediately. The intermittent rewards are keeping me hooked. 😂

It nailed the clock belt. If you isolated the face of Princess Umi in that first pic you have a great headshot for her FBSA page. https://fbsa.wiki/wiki/Main_Page Here’s Monster Detective for an example: https://fbsa.wiki/wiki/Monster_Detective

Peg, meet Maynard.

Tonight's batch. Timfighter … oops, Timefighter Onyx Lynx Mujaji Lyrica Jailbird Dream Sickle Trick Question (Krea did not understand "3D glasses" or "rounded bowler hat")

Curiously, I was having the identical issue last night. I was messing about in Bing to create a hero facing a kaiju and it kicked out a costume I quite liked: So I went into the game to make it. Based on the color combo I went with something Irish and tried various names with “luck” or “lucky” and managed to snag “Blind Luck”. On EXCELSIOR. Like, wot 😮. So I used the Sightless face, then took it into Krea. (Wow, WRINKLES.) I tried the various settings and found the one that is Flat worked best, but it still wasn’t great. Although I did manage to de-wrinkle his boots. Then I ran out of credits. Like Air Speed earlier where I took the face of one and pasted it on the body of another, I’ll probably have to mix’n’match body parts. Problem being that every render is slightly different size and in a different position. Anyway, the results:

Winter Forest upscaled by Krea.

That’s where my character The Furry of Satin lives!

It’s interesting that it interpreted the face with mouth open both times. I’m still baffled why it can’t do fingers, though.

Redd Flagg where Krea gave him a cap.

gone to the americans

duped rare

I took the screenshot into Photopea, an online ersatz Photoshop, and drew on it. However, I’m on my iPad tonight and it’s not mobile friendly. Plus I was drawing with my finger - never a good idea. Basically I just hinted at facial features with crude lines and used the Color Replace brush to turn the hair brown. Super crudely drawn and hilariously bad… but it gave Krea enough direction to render the face and hair correctly. I’ll have to take it to PC to do the finish work but this result is better. So that might be a trick to use in the future. First, color replace: Then I drew on it:

This looks like my character Hail Columbia. I must’ve stolen the idea from you!

The logo on his tee looks like Rularuu! 😎 Did you specify that his shirt has a stylized picture of a person throwing trash into a garbage can? I find that makes a difference. On the first iteration of Redd Flagg it turned his bandana into a Cincinnati Reds baseball cap until I told it he was wearing a “red bandana tied on his head”.

His armor looks like laminated wood, which is a very cool idea.

An algorithm wrote that. We are truly all going to be replaced.

The Family, done Frank Miller style.

On a parallel Earth accessed by Portal Corp, the hero Air Force encountered his evil doppelganger who stole the designs for his "smart fabric" flight suit and called himself Air Strike. After several battles, Air Force captured Air Strike and sent him to the Zig. (I did an AE series of missions and everything back in the day.) Both versions of Dayton Wright had daughters. Air Force's daughter Xenia grew up to become Air Speed (above) while Air Strike's daughter Zephyr became Air Raid. This second coming of CoH, which I never thought would happen, has let me play with my legacy characters growing up, like Mighty Lad becoming Mighty Man, and the offspring of previous characters coming to the fore as the next generation of young heroes, such as Bamboom following in the footsteps of his father, Boom-Boom the Panda. Krea is just making it all even cooler.

The other characters from Heartsick's bio, Redd Flagg and Senorita Chupacabra.

One of my favorite recent screenshots getting the Krea treatment: Battleshield fighting her doppelganger. Unfortunately I ran out of credits tonight so I couldn't tweak it. I'll go back tomorrow and try to fix the face and boot on the one on the right.

Quality takes time! Sometimes for my bios I do dumb one-liners (Hercules Jr.) but sometimes I do a deep dive into history and give it a CoH spin, which is frequent. I mean, I spent an entire afternoon just looking up old-timey phones exchanges (like “Pennsylvania 6-5000” from the Glenn Miller song) for Monster Detective before I settled on “Montrose 6-3000”. Montrose because it sounds like monster, the 6 for the Miller song (my dad’s favorite musician), 3000 for Avengers Endgame (“I love you 3,000.”) For something people just blow right past when reading his bio. 😂

I’m enjoying doing “history of” pictures showing the development of fictional technology over time. Mecha Evolution: https://www.deviantart.com/dashmccool/art/Mecha-Evolution-1037191060 Walking Tank Evolution: https://www.deviantart.com/dashmccool/art/Mecha-Tank-Evolution-1037200069 So I have been trying for weeks to do a similar “history of power armor”, taking the design from steampunk to nanotechnology but I kept getting stuck at the in-between stage where they have exoskeletons that are like the ones we have now that just surround the body, evolving into the powerloader from Aliens. For some reason it kept getting hung up on the “skeleton” part of “exoskeleton”, giving me endless versions of this: Which are cool, but also a little creepy. I got literally dozens of things like that. I tried dumb ideas like “similar to miniature girders” and stuff. Those were so silly I didn’t bother to download them, except for one that was so out-there compared to what I was asking for it made me laugh: Why it took a prompt that read, “a worker wears an exoskeleton that surrounds their body like miniature girders of a building” and turned it into the robot skeleton of a chimpanzee is baffling. Then I had the brainstorm of using the word “framework” combined with “held onto the body with straps and belts”. Finally! Exactly what I wanted. The moral of the story is to keep plugging away, maybe your brain will eventually kick out the right combination of words to make what you want. Now I just have to pick one or two to use.

Dannngg… I want to read this book, man.

I went to my monthly eye doctor appointment today where they dilated my right eye and then I watched the solar eclipse so I kept looking at it wondering if I messed up my eyes. 😁

Air Speed