Possible new idle pose

[srmalloy]

At today's costume contest, it saw a couple of characters with the Staff Fighting powerset activate a power just to draw their weapon... and then stood there holding it in both hands, bobbing gently in idle stance with one end of their staff in the face of the character next to them. It seemed to me that what was needed is a pose that lets a character show off their staff without waving it around. It wouldn't be much use for non Staff Fighting characters, although you could have a generic wooden staff default, but an idle pose of the character standing, holding their weapon vertically with its butt on the ground, would let them show off their staff as part of their costume:

Similar drawn-weapon idle poses could be defined, possibly wrapped up together as one 'pose_weapon_drawn' idle pose, for the other weapon-based powersets to show off a character's weapons without having to keep activating a power against an invalid target.

[biostem]

I think it's when selecting one of the "form" powers, where you kind of tap the staff against the ground - very cool pose if you could remain in it afterward...

 

Similarly, the heal, end recovery, and T9 powers from ninjitsu have some cool poses.

Edited May 13, 2023 by biostem

[srmalloy]

And watching other characters at a CC, the 'Talk Pool' emote has part of the animation standing holding a pool cue with its butt on the ground, so it may be possible to strip out part of that animation for the pose.