Post your best costume designs here!

[TheMoneyMaker]

On 7/10/2025 at 1:27 AM, Syler said:

 

P.S. If anyone has tips on how to take better in-game pics I am ALL EARS

 

I have seen people use a second account to position themselves better for screenshots. Make a tiny character and give it hover for 3D maneuverability to get all the best angles. Also make it a stalker so you can have the most likely lower level toon follow you around safely.....except where snipers are an issue.

[Marshal_General]

On 7/10/2025 at 12:27 AM, Syler said:

On 7/10/2025 at 12:27 AM, Syler said:

P.S. If anyone has tips on how to take better in-game pics I am ALL EARS

 

Face a wall and spin the camera around. Depending on how close up you want to be determines how close to the wall you should be.

[Hatecube]

Granite Diablo my Stone/Super strength tanker

[Octogoat]

On 7/10/2025 at 7:37 PM, VeiledOwl said:

 

Personally, I use the 'second account as a cameraman' method (a stalker with flight and minimum height helps with angles. Mini Mode more so, but that's expensive) combined with a custom (unpublished) AE mission called 'Photo Shoot' that I tweak as needed depending on the character. The only objective is to collect an object (which disappears on collection) or free a hostage, depending on map constraints - anything that won't autocomplete before both characters enter the map. When doing this, I typically have the villain group set to 'empty' unless I'm trying to use them as a prop as well.

 

A major limit can be the map and enemy options available, as well as finding a spot with good lighting/scenery, but a major benefit of using AE for screenshots is the 'Toggle Invisibility/Invulnerability on' setting when testing unpublished missions. It can allow the cameraman and photo target to take photos without risk (if, for example, you want an action shot of your character soloing an AV or GM). Setting an attack power on auto can also help while you spam the screenshot button on the second character.

 

As an example of using AE to set up screenshots, here's my illusion dominator summoning more decoys than Phantom Army allows:

 

 

 

I did this by making an Ally objective and setting the number to the maximum the map allowed. Then I made a custom character using the original's costume and rounded them all up for a picture. Speech bubbles are edited in, of course.

 

If a character's powers aren't customized, turning them into an AE character (or using a Doppelganger) can also be a useful method to get in game shots of them. Though positioning them correctly can be an exercise in frustration (as is making them use the correct powers at the correct times), making it generally easier to just use the two accounts method.

The diabolical captain obvious strikes again is what I get from that pic

[biostem]

Honestly, it's not her fault that things don't stay dead around her, nor that your socks are always damp...  "BogBourne"

 

  

[temnix]

As protein supplements declare, it is time to get Huge.

 

Bob Raccoon Eyes

Spoiler

Bob Raccoon Eyes
Thief

Bio: "The most famous inmate in the history of the United States penitentiary system, Bob "Raccoon Eyes" Fishkin has ducked in and out of American prisons since 1916. That first conviction was for lifting the wallet off a policeman who had been beating up a pacifist, but Bob quickly moved on to bigger and better things. With 74 convictions to his name now, he has been imprisoned everywhere from Alcatraz to Camp David. To the teeth-gnashing chagrin of the Justice Department he appears to be immortal or at least has aged only by about a decade in all this time, now looking a little over forty. Across all his incarcerations and escapes Bob has been able to buy his freedom back by hiring the most outrageously expensive lawyers, no doubt with heist dough. An uncanny insight has helped him time and again... After the 1973 public demonstrations he was allowed to wear his old-time jailbird's overalls by a special act of Congress in exchange for dropping out of the race for the federal district attorney for Guam and the Northern Mariana, but Bob's action figures remain in circulation."
 

***

 

"Old Atlas... I knew him pretty well back in the days, before the war. I was too small for him to catch, so we would just talk. Look at the globe they've loaded him with now."

 

 

"Wentworth's... I remember when they advertised in newspapers that milk boys threw from bicycles... They ought to install a back door here, it pays off. Now what to pick? I'm kinda out of the loop when it comes to art value. But nobody will convince me that Pollock wasn't just a spray paint vandal. Nobody."

 

 

"I took this eye from the Masons, but it doesn't tell me the going rates."

 

 

"Pinball! My love. Not on a heist, though. Kinda noisy."

 

 

"I take my fee for letting them collect insurance and stroll through this part of the city to enjoy myself. Sit down in a park for some R&R. What are these boots called, by the way? I'm used to wearing them ever since I got measured at Sing Sing, but I don't know their name. Clogs? Something else? Drop me a line, if you know. I always like to expand my vocabulary."

 

 

"Then, out of nowhere, some punks appear and try to take away my cash! Well, I'm a nice guy most of the time, but this ain't a failed hug. It is a knee-in-groin. My groin, unfortunately."

 

 

"Gah!"

 

 

"Then I got mad. And when I get mad, everybody gets it! That's why they call me the Savage Melee Ninjitsu Stalker. In addition to Raccoon Eyes, that is."

 

 

"That done, I head back towards the City Hall. Climb the roof, to the flag. Call me a rogue, but the Statesman was a real deal. He used to put me behind bars every ten years or so, but that's okay, I just ran away. I salute the fallen champs! And..."

 

 

"...if this flag is made of the Statesman's only cape, it must be worth something."

 

 

"To avoid temptation I slide down and go inside. I have a good reason, too..."

"Excuse me, sir?" "Shut up. I got a tip there is a hidden treasure under the floor."

 

 

"Well, maybe not exactly here... Aha! The wind rose marks the spot!"

 

 

"And with a little effort..."

 

 

"...the right tools, it's gonna be mine."

 

 

"Well, I didn't find a treasure. But I assessed the assets!"

 

 

"Open for business!"

 

 

USSR Space

Spoiler

USSR Space

 

Bio: "The space program of the Soviet Union had its spectacular breakthrough in 1957 with the launch of the first satellite, and it was continued by the first manned flight of 1959. While the United States were able to land their astranaut on the moon in 1970, the inherent contradictions of the capitalist order were already beginning to make themselves felt. Throughout the 1970s, as more and more countries joined the Soviet-Chinese block, the shriveling capitalist world fought a losing battle while the USSR flourished apace and in space. The first Earth colony, on Mars, in 2011 was a Russian-Han mission dome, and over the following century humanity expanded to twelve other star systems, discovering, meeting and accommodating many strange and alien species and several other civilizations, including the newly-peaceful Rikti. Not yet able to engineer their own portals, humans bargained to use the Rikti's for space transportation. In 2105 Cpt. Andrey Shelga went through a portal casually, but it was one by Portal Inc., and he found himself a stranger in a very strange land."

 

***

 

This character moves with a Streak effect at the lowest intensity, barely noticeable. Not at all here.

 

 

 

The slimmed-down, shoulders-narrowed Huge build is one of the most handsome figures available in this game.

 

 

Front view

 

 

Right side and left side. The eyes of the skull glow in the dark.

 

 

Close-up. That mushroom through the helmet wasn't intended, but it is a nice touch.

 

 

"A cave with free-standing fires below a city park? There must be a scientific explanation for this..."

 

 

Martian assault

 

"This is soothing. Out there we are always fighting germs, alien parasites, meteor storms..."

 

"This capitalist order has its delights."

 

(Those who want a wallpaper-sized version of that, here is the link: https://postimg.cc/ZvPBwQWS

 

Skeptical. It is too bad that the rocket pack shares the exhaust color with the metal color, there are only thin whisps of fire as a result.

"I wonder how long this is going to last... They say they are already burning up." Flipping a coin in the air over the Freedom Phalanx.

 

 

Magister Kakhran

Spoiler

Magister Kakhran

Tuned In

 

Bio: "When the oil tanker breached by Ms. Liberty started to sink off Port Oakes, a square, massive figure on bird legs appeared and began to make passes and drone incantations. Within a half-hour dark clouds gathered over the site of the wreck and cold winds blew. In another half-hour genuine snow began to fall, even though it was well into April. This change of weather continued, the grim figure standing by in its luxurious scarlet mantle, arms raised, while the spilling oil congealed, until an Arachnos tugboat brought the first of the containment crews, whereat the helper pushed off on an ice floe. He was assumed to have been some kind of champion, but later began to be seen around the Isles, dealing with villains and vigilantes indiscriminately to seek magic artifacts. He calls himself Kakhran and claims he is a magister of all occult arts in his home dimension. And who is to say he is not? He can throw a Skulls thug by fifty feet without moving a finger, and that is a good calling card."

 

This is definitely one of my best costumes.

 

***

 

Close portrait

 

 

Full figure

 

 

His path happened through Praetoria. There he is walking. It would be nice to have the hardware for a proper shadow.

 

 

Buses never come in Praetoria, yet there are people waiting for them everywhere. They wait and wait, and then Hamidon comes and eats them up.

 

 

A magister to the Magisterium: appropriate

 

 

Dealing in the Rogue Isles

 

 

Stealth and Ninja Run: Longbow supplies

 

 

Calling down the weather

 

 

Good fishing

 

 

The crazy casino rain

 

 

Bank

 

 

Eek!

 

 

Like tenpins they fly

Edited Monday at 02:04 PM by temnix

[Ezzerhauden]

My latest creation. My Psi/Psi Tanker Prodigal Son.

 

[Syler]

7 hours ago, Ezzerhauden said:

My latest creation. My Psi/Psi Tanker Prodigal Son.

 

 

I saw you in Atlas park recently! Was going to tell you I loved your costume but had to log off. Simple but sleek 🔥 

[biostem]

Don't let her diminutive size lull you into a false sense of security.... She's "Lil' Poison Dart":

 

  

[Hydrothermia]

Ensnare

Plant Control/Nature Affinity Controller

[biostem]

Tragically struck down in the line of duty and given a second chance via modern technology, this once unassuming policewoman returns as "The Brave Battle Sister":

 

  

[biostem]

In a joint venture between Portal Corps and some inconsequential government contractor in the midwest, a lower-cost and more compact and self-sufficient hazardous environment suit was developed, and is now undergoing field trials in Paragon City, under the project name "Streamlined Hazardous Environment" suit, or "sHEV" for short...

 

  

[biostem]

Sometimes you gotta hold onto even the dimmest light...  "Shrouded Luster":