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2 hours ago, Naomi said:
I'm willing to entertain a more orange and more red palette since the power customization route might be less likely to happen in a reasonable amount of time, and the green color is a bit of an odd choice in context.
There are what looks like 7 particle files for the trails, each using about 3 colors each (start color, be color by time x), so sorting out the new palette is a bit more work than changing just one basic color for the FX (all of which are definitely yellows and greens).
If I can get some video of the results, I'll try and get 2 options to choose from and post them here in the future for which would go on beta, if approved.
Wow, what a fast response! Thank you so much!
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Well I actually made something new.
Install the Office Plant Upgrade using Michiyo's neat little app.
Re above texture glitch: Sorry I didn't see that when it was posted. Was it ever fixed? If not I can try to look into it...-
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1 hour ago, TheZag said:
Having fired tracer rounds, the color they emit isnt the color of the fires they start. But this is a superhero game and being able to edit the color would be nice.
I believe this but at this time, the color of the fire they emit is so greenish in color that at first when I made my Pistol characters I kept getting confused about 'Wait, I meant to put in Incendiary, not Chemical.' Yellow is a fine fire color. I just think that for the sake of visual design, it'd be better for it to be a more school-bus yellow than lemon-lime yellow.
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34 minutes ago, srmalloy said:
Actually, if you start with a pure yellow -- 0xFFFF00 -- and lower the brightness, you'll find that the color does turn into an olive green color. This is laid out in more detail here. This has been known for centuries, and is an artifact of color perception, the same way we can't have bright browns or violets
I am aware of this and intended to convey said awareness in my post, but apparently I'm bad at communication.
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A fix that feels like it should've been addressed by Paragon Studios before the content was released back on Live but wasn't, due to late-released content being.. maybe a little rushed. Incendiary Ammo projectile particles do not match the color of the power icon or of the DoT particles that attach to enemies after they've been hit. Most people who aren't actually the ones playing the Dual Pistols character probably don't notice that anything's wrong since they just assume the Pistols guy is using Chemical Ammo, and even the Pistols player may not notice if they typically run on large teams where particle effects are easy to miss, but when soloing, the color discrepancy is obvious:
Eyedropper tool brings back #FFFFxx yellow tones for the projectiles, i.e. exactly equal red and green content, which registers to the eye as greenish when it's darkened/attenuated even though it's technically the 'purest' kind of yellow. Compare to the default fire effects that have more red than green content, for an orangey tone. Unfortunately this isn't something I can patch clientside, since the projectiles use generic shared grayscale-image particle textures and if I nudged them to be more reddish to offset the greener aspect of the coloring, and doing so would stain every other usage of those particle textures more red than they should be, so it has to be done by changing the particle FX color values serverside.
So, how to fix this? Two possibilities:
Unlock color customization for Dual Pistols.This is IMO the less desirable option, because of the difficulty in implementing it in a satisfactory way. This option would entail either:
1) Color customization only applying to the Incendiary Ammo, which presently isn't even viewable in the tailor (only default ammo is),2) Color customization applying to all types of ammo with the same colors, which is disappointing and counterproductive for people who want all their ammo types to be distinct from each other (in particular Incendiary and Chemical),
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3) The dev team diving deep into the UI to not only introduce the unprecedented ability to swap powers between "modes" within the tailor interface but to allow three or even four (if you count the default ammo) separate color customizations for every power in a set, which would be amazing and cool and ideal for the players but seems extremely unlikely to happen.
Alternatively, Change the color values for the Incendiary Ammo projectile particles to a more orangey yellow.This option gets my vote because it'd be much easier for our dev team to actually implement. Below, a mockup of what the projectile color for Incendiary Ammo probaly should look more like, globally - I did my best but of course there's only so accurate you can be when changing a 2D image of fuzzy 3D particle systems:
I really doubt that this would piss anyone off, because the people I talked to about it when I have brought up the subject can be divided into two camps, which are "Yes, I agree, I hate that it's green, it should be orange" from the people who play with Pistols a lot and "What, isn't it orange already?" from the people who never paid that much attention. Camp A gets what they want with this change, and Camp B doesn't even notice a difference. Net gain.
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I'm not sure how this went so long without being reported/corrected, probably the bystander effect, maybe just that nobody's dug up the relevant file paths before. But anyway it's getting properly reported, in detail, now:
The "Industrial" style option in the Short Ceiling Walls category shows up purple instead of its intended color because the game is calling the bump map instead of the diffuse map, as shown in these screenshots.
This is definitely not intentional. I have done some digging in the game files, and the correct diffuse texture does exist, it's just being replaced by the wrong one. The path for the correct texture, the diffuse map, is texture_library/WORLD/V_CoV/Bases/Bases_stlfac02/bases_stfac02_upper_wall_40_master.texture, but the ingame model displays the bump map, texture_library/WORLD/V_CoV/Bases/Bases_stlfac02/bases_stfac02_upper_wall_40_master_bump.texture instead. I cannot tell if the two have been completely transposed and the diffuse map is being called as a bump map too, or if the bump map is mistakenly doing double duty. Adding custom colors works correctly, but it retains a purple cast to whatever colors are added. It'd be nice to actually be able to use this texture in bases without an unintended mandatory purple tint.
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With October and its eternal night upon us, it got me to wondering. Is it possible to program in a setting for supergroup bases that halts the progression of the day/night cycle in the whole base, so it could be set to "active (default)," "day only," or "night only?" I am aware that there are a few sky options that already lack this cycle, but:
-The only "day only" skies are the Lighted Path and Cimerora skies, which are not normal-looking (even Cimerora has a gold/sepia tone instead of blue),
-The "Space" sky is a good normal-looking night-only sky, but it would be good to have more variety available, such as night skies with visible clouds,
-Some of the existing always-night skies still use the day/night cycle timer to spawn meteor showers or not and having a day/night control would then allow you to set those to always-on or always-off,
-Even with the non-cycling sky options, certain placeable objects still follow a cycle of lights-on/lights-off and I, for one, would like to be able to halt that if my sky isn't changing
I'm aware that the code for the base editor is a horrible snarl and this may not be possible to program in, but if it were, that'd be freakin sweet.
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Bring back Echo Zone beacons for bases.
I would have argued against their removal if I'd known it was coming, but prior to their removal, I've been in several bases that used them for concept reasons. I do not believe that their existence made it appreciably easier to get an Ouroboros portal than it is now (it's just as trivially easy to ask someone to drop one for you as it is to set up a simple base with Echo beacons in it) so removing them in the name of making the Entrusted With The Secret badge easier to get was ultimately pointless, and did nothing but break a bunch of supergroup base concepts that were using them for RP-centric purposes like memory crystals, holodecks, and magic history books.
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13 hours ago, Marshal_General said:
How are you getting it to do facial markings? I don't remember seeing options for that under paint.
They're horns, tilted with advanced posing and clipped through the face just a smidge.
10 hours ago, Hyperstrike said:
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WordsSorry, no, I'm right. There is nothing in these images that is connected to Homecoming in particular or any rogue server any more than to City of Heroes back when it was live, any more than literally any piece of fan art could be. The few characters that are unique to Homecoming, such as those from the new Vazhilok/Freakshow content, are absent from my work here and will not be made.
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Ditto. And now, Penny Yin.
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I understand the concern, but I'm not worried. There is nothing here that could possibly get Homecoming in trouble - I do not represent the Homecoming team, I am not suggesting these miniatures be used as assets for Homecoming, and there is nothing present in any of these miniatures that is somehow specific to Homecoming in particular rather than just City of Heroes at large - we're only one of several rogue servers out there. Any reference images I used were from ParagonWiki or Google Image Search. As far as anyone at all is concerned, I'm just sharing City of Heroes content on a City of Heroes forum.
As for me, personally, getting into trouble: People post copyrighted characters on r/HeroForgeMinis all the time and they even have a flair for it. It happens, and this is a drop in the ocean. I don't intend to try and purchase any of these figures, so I doubt Sky Castle Studios will take notice.
Anyway, here's Ghost Widow.
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I've lately gotten really, really into making miniature designs on HeroForge, and over the past few days I decided to make a whole bunch of CoH NPCs...
Got a bunch of minis of characters belonging to friends and sgmates and me too but not enough screenshots to put next to them for reference, so I'll show those later.
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1 hour ago, Greycat said:
Depends on what's going on with the NPCs. Not all the NPC pieces, as I'm given to understand, are the same as our costume pieces (basically folded, mangled and twisted for a specific fit and look on an NPC.) Some are, some just don't translate. (I'll let someone who has more familiarity with them describe it - I think @Flashtoo may have been the person I'm thinking of with a better explanation.)
Hi yes, I can give a more detailed explanation. Basically there are three kinds of NPC costume parts:
1. The ones that will fit on character models as they are. Almost any kind of skintight thing is this, such as the metallic ripped-up dental floss costume that CoT Succubi wear, as well as textures that go on parts that are the same shape as what PCs get, such as the boot texture the Carnival Strongmen wear. Some items in this category, like the Carnival Ring Mistress's bandeau tops, would have only limited coloring functionality, because of being more than two colors (including skin color), but could still be used despite that. There are also a few parts like the Carnival Harlequins' tall boots and Lamashtu's skull bikini that have unique geometry but still fit on PC models.
2. The ones that sort of fit on PC models, but need editing at the geometry level. These are parts that are assigned to the 'wrong' body slot for PC use, like the Menders' belts and shoulder details, which the game treats as a single item instead of several independent ones. To make these usable by PCs, someone would have to edit the geometry to cut it apart into several pieces and assign them to the correct body slots. There are also some NPC faces like the ones on the PPD detectives that don't fit on the PC head models because they're a half-face texture that gets mirrored symmetrically, whereas PC face textures are full faces with asymmetrical details like beauty marks and scars. Making these NPC faces available to PCs would require manually mirroring the textures with themselves to create PC versions. Most costume parts that involve 'cape systems' are this and we're unlikely to get them because they're highly resource intensive to render.
3. The ones that don't fit on PC models at all. Desdemona and Penny Yin are good examples of costumes with this property - their legs and feet are custom-shaped, and trying to fit their boots onto PCs creates gaps and horrific clipping. Another example is the puffy-sleeved shirts with bows at the back that the Carnival Attendants and Seneschals wear - these are fused with the chest, unlike the 3D shirts that PCs get, and can't be used with the way PC costumes are set up.
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The only way to do this is to build that room outside/above the base plot instead of inside it and place "item" walls yourself instead of using the actual base walls- if you've already built the rest of your base, you can accomplish this by making the room accessible by teleporter instead of just walking in.
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Great name and great use of the tire costume parts 😄
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Bugs the hell out of me as well. The problem is that the Flex animation isn't put together to accommodate a shield and therefore it defaults back to the original chest-pound - therefore the way to fix it would be to make a new "Flex animation with shield" animation for it though and I don't know how easy that'll be.
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What needs to exist to address this issue is the addition of a "Tattooed Short Sleeves" part for Jackets. The upper arm geometry is part of the Jacket Sleeve part in this costume top category, rather than part of the Chest part as it usually is.
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I'm not hugely up on my Praetorian lore (though I should be better about it, seeing as one of my own characters is a Praetorian Carnie).
That said, the concept of a Seer gone rogue because of DE contamination is entirely plausible - the contamination and subsequent influence from Hamidon might be itself enough to overpower Mother's hold. While this would still point at a Science (representing the DE alterations to the character) or Mutation (representing the innate psychic powers that would bring her into the Seer program in the first place) origin, it is in my mind the simplest and most sensible way to play things. Perhaps it's some Magic phenomenon that gave her back her free will.
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On 3/9/2021 at 8:44 PM, decomposey said:
Because I needed a place to store clothes, but the base layout didn't support a closet, I had to improvise.
[Image removed for brevity]
Two Bank Teller Bottoms on their sides doe the main body, two Bank Teller bottoms upside down for the base,, a row of Bank Teller Top over the top to make it flat and even, and two Tsoo Pens as the handles
That is one awesome-looking wardrobe.
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I've seen a few grand pianos made of alphabet letters, but here's my upright: three mission-style counters overlapped with each other, some short wall pieces to cover the flickering, a few stair rail posts, and a keyboard made presumably the same way as the grands I've seen out of modern picture frames and knife handles.
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Oh, I like the colored labels indicating hazard zones, that's neat.
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On 2/17/2021 at 11:45 AM, Virtual Green said:
Wisecrack (WM/Ninjitsu), a former (and reluctant) Carnival of Shadows acrobat, now freed from their mystic brainwashing, and fighting crime with his particular style of slapstick... one mallet swing at a time!
(Somehow and truthfully NOT inspired by a famous DC Comics anti-villain, more of a love letter to characters like Spiderman and Nightwing, with a dash of Astro City's Jack-In-The-Box)
Gosh, he sure does look a lot like my own Punchline.
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Screencapped:
This happens with both Labeaux 1 and Labeaux 2 for the Robotic Arm 1 and Robotic Arm 3 top categories.
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Wow, Plasmic, that must've been a bitch and a half to get the beacons to attach to the correct porters!
I've posted this elsewhere as well but here's how I do it in the Dauntless Reverie base - color-coded by zone type (with blue zones taking up two teleporters, one of which is dedicated to zones like The Hollows and Croatoa that have their own dedicated stories):
Missing NPC dialogue text
in Bug Reports
Posted · Edited by Flashtoo
From a Night Ward overworld spawn.