Post your best costume designs here!

[Jawbreaker]

1 hour ago, Force Redux said:

This is terrific! Any chance you could share the costume file? 🙂👍🏻

If you tell me how lol. I'm computer ignorant

[Player2]

I haven't tried fire/fire on a stalker yet, so...

 

Old Smokey

Fire / Fire Stalker

[Player2]

Laserblade

Dual Blades / Bio Armor

[Dynamo-Joe]

Giant Robot Mecha style characters are something I'm becoming known for. And we now have TONS of options for doing them right. (Mecha costume set and Clockwork are enormously useful tools for that sort of look.)

 

But I got two requests recently for character types from Japan that gave me a bit of a challenge. Here's the first one - 

ULTRAMAN
From the original rubber suit fighting other rubber suit kaiju types - 


To sleek newer designs that have more sleek armor (but are still "rubber suit" underneath) 

To something much more "Mecha" like. 

 

There's almost no wrong way to make an Ultraman design. But there do seem to be a few standard rules: 

There's got to be a helmet of sleek "swept-back" design with somewhat oversized oval eyes (that sometimes glow). A stylized "mouth" should always be a part of the design. 

The suit should always be of slim build even if it's a "mecha". No oversized feet or shoulder armor or back thrusters like a Gundam - it should look like it fits on a human actor - even if it isn't. 

There always has to be a "power crystal" in the center of the chest - like Tony Stark's Arc Reactor on the Iron Man suits. 
If there's more than one Ultraman in a story - the main hero should be in silver and red. 

 

So with that in mind - this is what I came up with: 


You could add a lot to this costume and not break the above rules. But this is the basic look I came up with first. 

 

I look forward to seeing if anyone takes up this idea and adds to it! I do not have this character in-game. This is a design challenge. If you like what you see, feel free to use it for inspiration! 

Edited November 27, 2020 by Dynamo-Joe

[Christopher Robin]

4 hours ago, Jawbreaker said:

If you tell me how lol. I'm computer ignorant

@Jawbreaker The costume file is in a subfolder called "costumes" within the CoH folder wherever you installed the game.

 

Assuming you have Windows and you followed the instructions here then it will be in "C:/Games/CoH/costumes/"

If you don't know where you installed the game do a search (press the Windows key on your keyboard and type

".costume" without the quotes but including the period) and it should bring up all your costume files by name.

 

Find the file with the name "Battlezone.costume" then open a reply box in this thread and

drag and drop the .costume file to where it says "Drag files to here to attach" and post.

 

 

Edited November 26, 2020 by Christopher Robin
I added instructions. Cheers!

[Dreamboat]

40 minutes ago, Dynamo-Joe said:

I look forward to seeing if anyone takes up this idea and adds to it! I do not have this character in-game. This is a design challenge. If you like what you see, feel free to use it for inspiration! 

Costume I made waaaaaaay back when HC started up:

 

 

Ultraman Cosmos rip GO! If I made the character I'd go Kin Melee to ape Cosmos' Tai Chi-esque style and I'd throw in an alt costume with red Color Timer and Beastly Rage aura on the chest for the flashing.

[Dynamo-Joe]

The other recent request was related to Ultraman, at least by genre. See - there's this one Godzilla movie from the early 70s which obviously wanted an Ultraman of its own. There have even been rumours over the years that if the film had done better, they might've spun this character off into his own TV or movie series. 

The movie was Godzilla vs Megalon - and the character request was an interpretation of this guy: 

JET JAGUAR

 

I loved this guy! This was my childhood. Saturday afternoons one of the local independent stations in the area would play at least one or two Godzilla films. And so I saw Megalon multiple times before I was 8 yrs old. 

Sadly he just doesn't hold up on his own merits nearly as well as Ultraman. But there's always been POTENTIAL there! And he's still a fan favorite - appearing in multiple Godzilla videogames and the like. 

But how to interpret him in COH? The rubber suit-mation look just doesn't look like a proper robot, really. And the Michilin Man inner tube legs and arms - no no no. That's GOT to GO. 

Ultimately I got a lot of inspiration from the following image - a truly mecha version of Jet Jaguar that still encompasses the high points of the character and leaves no doubt of who it is, even while being so different. 

So - here's my first attempt at a Jet Jaguar:

I might yet tweak this a bit, but for a first go, I think it's not too bad!
So what do you all think? Does that work? 
 

[Dynamo-Joe]

2 hours ago, Dreamboat said:

If I made the character I'd go Kin Melee to ape Cosmos' Tai Chi-esque style and I'd throw in an alt costume with red Color Timer and Beastly Rage aura on the chest for the flashing.

That's exactly the powerset I would go with for Ultraman! And the alt-costume slot idea is killer! 

 

For Jet Jaguar I thought Martial arts would be cool. But ultimately I went with Street Justice for the screen caps. And I think if I made him that's what I would go with. That massive T9 Uppercut is just the thing to send Megalon flying! :D

[Force Redux]

@Jawbreaker I was about to work it out, but ty! Your costume helped me overcome a block on a suitable costume for my Rad/Rad tanker, Armored-Core! 

[Glacier Peak]

These mecha costumes are legit! Very creative players out there.

[First Player]

Rerolled from Sonic/Mental to Sonic/Sonic

[Virtual Green]

A great design (and badge title choice) as always, FP.

[TygerDarkstorm]

3 hours ago, Dynamo-Joe said:

The other recent request was related to Ultraman, at least by genre. See - there's this one Godzilla movie from the early 70s which obviously wanted an Ultraman of its own. There have even been rumours over the years that if the film had done better, they might've spun this character off into his own TV or movie series. 

The movie was Godzilla vs Megalon - and the character request was an interpretation of this guy: 

JET JAGUAR

 

I loved this guy! This was my childhood. Saturday afternoons one of the local independent stations in the area would play at least one or two Godzilla films. And so I saw Megalon multiple times before I was 8 yrs old. 

Sadly he just doesn't hold up on his own merits nearly as well as Ultraman. But there's always been POTENTIAL there! And he's still a fan favorite - appearing in multiple Godzilla videogames and the like. 

But how to interpret him in COH? The rubber suit-mation look just doesn't look like a proper robot, really. And the Michilin Man inner tube legs and arms - no no no. That's GOT to GO. 

Ultimately I got a lot of inspiration from the following image - a truly mecha version of Jet Jaguar that still encompasses the high points of the character and leaves no doubt of who it is, even while being so different. 

So - here's my first attempt at a Jet Jaguar:

I might yet tweak this a bit, but for a first go, I think it's not too bad!
So what do you all think? Does that work? 
 

EEEEEEE!! Omg you have no idea how excited I am to see Jet Jaguar roll across this thread!! I was a huge Godzilla nerd as a kid and this movie was one of the few I owned on VHS. Love your interpretation of Jet Jag-u-ar (always got a kick of how they say it in the movie; I can't say his name any other way, lol). 😄

[First Player]

2 hours ago, Virtual Green said:

A great design (and badge title choice) as always, FP.

Thanks man!

[Virtual Green]

A bit late to the party, thematically speaking, but here is my Halloween toon : the pumpkin-headed, pyromaniac spirit of chaos, Burnin' Jack ! (Fire/Bio Sentinel)

 

 

Edited December 17, 2020 by Virtual Green

[Jawbreaker]

29 minutes ago, Virtual Green said:

A bit late to the party, thematically speaking, but here is my Halloween toon : the pumpkin-headed, pyromaniac spirit of chaos, Burnin' Jack ! (Fire/Bio Sentinel)

 

Very cool name, power choice AND costume! That's a solid theme all around

[Player2]

Third Eye Spy

Psychic Blast / Sonic Manipulation Blaster

[Glacier Peak]

3 hours ago, Player2 said:

Third Eye Spy

Psychic Blast / Sonic Manipulation Blaster

I love the malaise pattern, absolute favorite!

[Player2]

I like how it mixes the purple and black like that.

[Player2]

 

Not sure what to do with this one yet.  I wanted to do a stalker, but I also wanted a mace to go with a lunar theme.

Presently made as a scrapper under the name Moon Shield.

 

[Player2]

Elder Evil

Darkness Control / Poison Controller

 

Poor lighting there, but I decided to go with the Malaise pattern again.  This time over the shiny muscular tights.

[The Volt]

Remade my TA corruptor from live (even though the consensus is that defender is better or it) gotta try out all them shiny new changes.

 

Cursor:

[The Volt]

Also, could have swore I posted this already but I forgot to.

 

Fifth Degree:

[MidnighterClubPatron]

Thought I'd share here GuyNoir, my DP/Dev Blaster I had in the past and future contest a few weeks back. Just had this idea for a cool screenshot for him today.

 

[Epoch Paradox]

On 7/1/2019 at 8:36 AM, Rylas said:

And his alt costume for funsies.

 

 

Very metroid looking. What mask/helmet settings are those?