Focused Feedback: New Costume Additions & Fixes

[The Curator]

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Costumes

New Costume Parts (61)

• Male/Female/Huge > Head > Various > Detail 1 > Blackwing
• Female > Head > Various > Detail 1 > Seer Visor
• Male/Female/Huge > Head > Various > Detail 2 > Blackwing
• Female > Head > Various > Detail 2 > Seer
• Male/Female/Huge > Arachnos Soldier > Detail 2 > Blackwing
• Male/Female/Huge > Arachnos Soldier > Detail 1 > Blackwing
• Female > Arachnos Soldier > Detail 1 > Seer Visor
• Female > Arachnos Soldier > Detail 2 > Seer
• Male/Female/Huge > Arachnos Widow > Detail 2 > Blackwing
• Male/Female/Huge > Arachnos Widow > Detail 1 > Blackwing
• Female > Arachnos Widow > Detail 1 > Seer Visor
• Female > Arachnos Widow > Detail 2 > Seer
• Male/Female/Huge > Upper > Tight > Chest > Awakened Beholder Clean
• Male/Female/Huge > Upper > Tight > Chest > Awakened Beholder Corrupted 1
• Male/Female/Huge > Upper > Tight > Chest > Awakened Beholder Corrupted 1 Flipped
• Male/Female/Huge > Upper > Tight > Chest > Awakened Beholder Corrupted 2
• Male/Female/Huge > Upper > Tight > Chest > Awakened Beholder Corrupted 2 Flipped
• Male/Female/Huge > Upper > Tight > Chest > Awakened Scryer Clean
• Male/Female/Huge > Upper > Tight > Chest > Awakened Scryer Corrupted 1
• Male/Female/Huge > Upper > Tight > Chest > Awakened Scryer Corrupted 1 Flipped
• Male/Female/Huge > Upper > Tight > Chest > Awakened Scryer Corrupted 2
• Male/Female/Huge > Upper > Tight > Chest > Awakened Scryer Corrupted 2 Flipped
• Male/Female/Huge > Upper > Tight > Chest > Awakened Seeker Clean
• Male/Female/Huge > Upper > Tight > Chest > Awakened Seeker Corrupted 1
• Male/Female/Huge > Upper > Tight > Chest > Awakened Seeker Corrupted 1 Flipped
• Male/Female/Huge > Upper > Tight > Chest > Awakened Seeker Corrupted 2
• Male/Female/Huge > Upper > Tight > Chest > Awakened Seeker Corrupted 2 Flipped
  • Notice: The Awakened chest options are mutually exclusive with shoulder pads that clip and they will not appear. Likewise, if you currently have incompatible shoulder pads selected, the Awakened chest options will not appear.
• Male/Female/Huge > Upper > Jackets > Blackwing
• Male/Female/Huge > Upper > Various > Shoulder > Blackwing Light
• Male/Female/Huge > Upper > Various > Shoulder > Blackwing Light Original
• Male/Female/Huge > Upper > Various > Shoulder > Blackwing Heavy
• Male/Female/Huge > Upper > Various > Shoulder > Blackwing Heavy Original
• Male/Female/Huge > Upper > Chest Details > Special Symbols > Blackwing
• Male/Female/Huge > Upper > Tight > Chest Detail > Blackwing Light
• Male/Female/Huge > Upper > Tight > Chest Detail > Blackwing Light Original
• Male/Female/Huge > Upper > Tight > Chest Detail > Blackwing Heavy
• Male/Female/Huge > Upper > Tight > Chest Detail > Blackwing Heavy Original
• Female > Upper > Gloves > Blackwing > Custom
• Female > Upper > Gloves > Blackwing > Original
• Male/Huge > Upper > Various > Gloves > Blackwing Light > Custom
• Male/Huge > Upper > Various > Gloves > Blackwing Light > Original
• Male/Huge > Upper > Various > Gloves > Blackwing Heavy > Custom
• Male/Huge > Upper > Various > Gloves > Blackwing Heavy > Original
• Female > Upper > Tight > Belt > Seer
• Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Tight > Pants > Awakened Beholder Clean
• Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Tight > Pants > Awakened Beholder Corrupted 1
• Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Tight > Pants > Awakened Beholder Corrupted 1 Flipped
• Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Tight > Pants > Awakened Beholder Corrupted 2
• Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Tight > Pants > Awakened Beholder Corrupted 2 Flipped
• Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Tight > Pants > Awakened Scryer Clean
• Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Tight > Pants > Awakened Scryer Corrupted 1
• Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Tight > Pants > Awakened Scryer Corrupted 1 Flipped
• Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Tight > Pants > Awakened Scryer Corrupted 2
• Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Tight > Pants > Awakened Scryer Corrupted 2 Flipped
• Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Tight > Pants > Awakened Seeker Clean
• Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Tight > Pants > Awakened Seeker Corrupted 1
• Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Tight > Pants > Awakened Seeker Corrupted 1 Flipped
• Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Tight > Pants > Awakened Seeker Corrupted 2
• Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Tight > Pants > Awakened Seeker Corrupted 2 Flipped
• Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Skirts > Pants > Awakened Beholder
• Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Skirts > Pants > Awakened Scryer
• Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Skirts > Pants > Awakened Seeker
• Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Monstrous > Pants > Awakened Beholder
• Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Monstrous > Pants > Awakened Scryer
• Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Monstrous > Pants > Awakened Seeker
• Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Various > Boots > Blackwing Light > Custom
• Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Various > Boots > Blackwing Light > Original
• Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Various > Boots > Blackwing Heavy > Custom
• Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Various > Boots > Blackwing Heavy > Original
• Male/Female/Huge > Backpacks > Blackwing Light
• Male/Female/Huge > Backpacks > Blackwing Heavy
• Male/Female/Huge > Cape > Full Mantle > Brooch > Blackwing
• Male/Female/Huge > Cape > Half Mantle > Brooch > Blackwing
• Male/Female/Huge > Cape > Asymmetrical Mantle > Brooch > Blackwing
• Male/Female/Huge > Cape > Single Shoulder Mantle > Brooch > Blackwing
• Male/Female/Huge > Cape > Over Shoulder Mantle > Brooch > Blackwing
• Male, Female, Huge > Auras > Path Auras > Rocket Boots - Jump
• Male, Female, Huge > Auras > Path Auras > Rocket Boots - Fly
• Male, Female, Huge > Auras > Path Auras > Rocket Boots - Jump & Fly
• Male/Female/Huge > Costume Presets > Blackwing Light
• Male/Female/Huge > Costume Presets > Blackwing Heavy
• Male/Female/Huge > Costume Presets > Paragon Protector

 

Costume Proliferation

• Missing costume options added to missing categories:
  • Male/Female/Huge > Arachnos Soldier > Wolf > Detail 1 > Parity Pass - Many missing options added.
  • Male/Female/Huge > Arachnos Soldier > Wolf > Detail 2 > Parity Pass - Many missing options added.
  • Male/Female/Huge > Standard > Detail 2 > Samurai Menpo
  • Male/Female/Huge > Standard > Detail 2 > Oni Mask
  • Male/Female/Huge > Masks w/Hair > Detail 2 > Samurai Menpo
  • Male/Female/Huge > Masks w/Hair > Detail 2 > Oni Mask
  • Male/Female/Huge > Full Mask > Detail 2 > Samurai Menpo
  • Male/Female/Huge > Full Mask > Detail 2 > Oni Mask
  • Male/Female/Huge > Hats > Detail 2 > Samurai Menpo
  • Male/Female/Huge > Hats > Detail 2 > Oni Mask
  • Male/Female/Huge > Hoods > Detail 2 > Samurai Menpo
  • Male/Female/Huge > Hoods  > Detail 2 > Oni Mask
  • Male/Huge > Upper > Various > Chest > Yakuza
  • Male/Huge > Upper > Various > Chest > Yakuza 1 Glow
  • Male/Huge > Upper > Various > Chest > Yakuza 2 Glow
  • Female/Huge > Back > Backpacks > Circle of Thorns
  • Male > Upper > Sleeveless Robes > Chest > Spectrum
  • Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Monstrous > Pants > Spectrum
  • Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Monstrous > Pants > Gold Bricker
  • Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Monstrous > Pants > Gold Bricker (Legacy)

 

Costume Fixes

• Various skirt models have had poor/non-functional LOD models that cause them to appear broken at distance; Skirt models should now always render the higher detail model.
• Female > Upper > Various > Asymmetrical Shoulders > Skull 1: Fixed this option being listed twice.
• Male/Huge > Lower > Various > Boots > Flat > Spectrum: Fixed this option using the wrong texture.
• Female > Lower > Various > Boots > Flat > Spectrum: Fixed this option being listed twice.
• The Seer Detail 2 and Seer Belt options can now tint the color of their glow using Color 2.

 

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[SanguineLeo]

The "Awakened" preset does not seem to be appearing at the Atlas Tailor for any of the body types.

[KingsGaming]

Could yall also add the Oni Mask/Samurai Mempo to the Hat section as well?

[Sharkbat]

Advanced shotgun, grenade launcher, and advanced grenade launcher customizable colour patterns would be greatly appreciated. The models are great and work thematically very well with sets like arsenal control but the purple and green colour schemes they have going on make me not want to use them at all. 

Edited Tuesday at 08:53 PM by Sharkbat

[Cobalt Arachne]

4 hours ago, SanguineLeo said:

The "Awakened" preset does not seem to be appearing at the Atlas Tailor for any of the body types.

Mistakenly on the patch notes; That preset had issues and had to be shelved.

 

Just fixed the notes.

[Flashtoo]

Request: Any chance we could get a version of the Seer belt where the secondary color changes the color of the light? Currently the secondary color doesn't do anything.

 

Bug report: Blackwing chest emblem has some transparency issues with certain tops, looks like a z-buffer problem. Screenshot and list of tops where this issue occurs below.

 (Pictured: Animal Fur)

 

List of tops that display the issue - categories that are not listed such as Jackets and Bolero where the top pattern is available underneath still display the problem but are omitted for the sake of brevity:

 

Shared:
Bodysuit Armored
Bodysuit Leather
Bodysuit Muscled Gloss
Bodysuit Muscled Matte
Bodysuit Padded
Alpha
Animal Fur
Armored Pads
Armor Plate
Bioluminescence
Chainmail Shiny
Chainmail Dull
Chaos Leather
Circle of Thorns
Clockwork
Rusted Clockwork
Defense
Enforcer
ExoProto
Insectoid
Jester
Justice
Leather Armor
Metallic
Metallic 2
Metallic 3
Monstrous Fur
Mummified
Olympian Guard
Omega
Onomichi Warrior
Overguard
Organic Armor
Plant 
Reptilian
Sinister
Stealth
Techbot
Tech Sleek
Ulterior
Valkyrie
Vanguard
Witch Leather
Awakened (All versions)
Celestial Armor
Fire and Ice 1
Fire and Ice 2
Spectrum
Armored->Retro SciFi (All versions)
Armored->Tech Knight

Male/Huge:
Cybertech (All versions) 
Leather Straps
Imperial Dynasty
Tanker
Tattooed Bare Chest
Tattooed Tank Top
Tattooed T-Shirt
Tattooed Yakuza
Yakuza 1 Glow
Yakuza 2 Glow
Zombie

Female->Tight:
Insectoid Hybrid
Imperial Dynasty (All versions)

Female->With Skin:
Angelic Plus
Barbarian
Bridal
Bridal&Lace
Cybertech (All versions) 
Imperial Dynasty
Excess Plus
Heart Plus
Tank Top
Tattooed Tank Top
Witch Bare
Witch Lace
Zombie
Talons
Talons 01
Metallic Dress Top
Yakuza 1 Glow
Yakuza 2 Glow
Labeaux 1
Labeaux 2

 

I have seen this problem before and remember solving it with a modded version of the chest emblem texture, using the old version of PiggViewer to do the conversion from .dds to .texture format instead of newer texture tools.

Edited Wednesday at 03:59 AM by Flashtoo

[Subber]

For consistency sake between different collars and collar-like costume pieces, Seer collar should be proliferated to the shoulders options, but be mutually exclusive with the Detail variant. Same should be done in the opposite direction with the neck-occupying items in the Shoulders section, in the opposite direction.

[Waljoricar]

12 hours ago, KingsGaming said:

Could yall also add the Oni Mask/Samurai Mempo to the Hat section as well?

For the Hoods section too please, if possible!

Edit: and the Full Masks section as well! 🙂

Edited Wednesday at 08:50 AM by Waljoricar

[Waljoricar]

I've been playing around in the CC and something I've noticed about all of the Awakened textures for Male/Female/Huge > Lower > Tight > Pants is  that they appear to have a black blend colouring at their base which cannot be removed.

Is this intentional? Can it not be removed? Much like the "black neck" on the Paragon Protector helmet, this poses some challenges when trying to create a consistent colour between leg and boot.

 

Edited Wednesday at 09:42 AM by Waljoricar
Spelling/grammar

[Winter]

Nice work on the Rocket Boot path aura.  It looks good on all jump and fly animations across Male, Female, and Huge character models.  I especially like the flaring effect it has when it engages, where it pulses brighter 2 or three times before "stabilizing."

 

I do have to ask: can a similar animation be added to the Vanguard back detail, the one with the single small jet?  It's never had one, and at this point it feel silly that it doesn't given all of the other jetpacks available as back items.  I don't know the mechanics behind the design of the game, but I have to think it could be worked in the way Rocket Boots (the costume item) or any of the jet packs work.

[twozerofoxtrot]

Apologies for not providing Focused Feedback in my post, but is there a chance at all we could work in Freakshow costume parts on this page?

 

Clearly some of them have been worked separately from the Freakshow models since 1) the private servers came online and 2) more relevantly, we see parts such as Excelsior feeders, iron jaws, and mecha-arms on Freakloks.

 

It would be a really cool capstone to have these parts, even in their unaltwred and low-poly state, available to players. Possibly as an unlockable item for completing Dap-Dap's or Dr. Buzzsaw's arcs?

[Cobalt Arachne]

40 minutes ago, twozerofoxtrot said:

but is there a chance at all we could work in Freakshow costume parts on this page?

This Page? Unfortunately, I've only mapped out as far that it's worth looking into (Freakshow arms exist on all three body types, there's arm-less torsos for players already, etc) 

Next Page! I've already added looking into it to my to-do list... I need to investigate the existing NPC arms, confirm there's no compatibility issues with how the Freakshow arms might attach to player models when brought over to their sequencers, playerize them to take tinting color, and add them to the costume menu.

Be aware, the player Freakshow arms would likely appear under the Robotic Arms options, and would work similarly to the new Awakened Torso.

In that when you have Freakshow arms selected, you can not use any shoulder pads at all on them.
It might also require a new category of double Robotic Arms that locks you into a glove choice, similar to the other option available.
For the single-armed Freakshow option, you'd only be able to use Asymmetrical Shoulder Pads on the arm that is not a Freakshow arm.

This all being, 'It seems doable in my head and I see no obvious issues for implementing it.', but since this is City of Heroes, something could be unexpected spaghetti and throw my idea out.

TLDR; I'm aware of the demand for Freakshow arms, and will be looking into them for next Page, but that's not a promise until I've guaranteed they work. 🙂

[Mariposa]

I know its not "thematic" like the new Blackwings costume parts, but since the Homecoming team is not really into creating new costume pieces from scratch, can you guys please add the Talon hood with hair included? I've been requesting it for ages now lol even in different threads about costume parts.

Also some new hairstyles, even if they are from existing NPCs would be awesome. I think we are in serious need of new hairstyles options, please.

Like Desdemona, Mother Mayhem, Belladonna, Ghost Widow...

PLEASE ^^

 

Edited 22 hours ago by Mariposa

[Cobalt Arachne]

33 minutes ago, Mariposa said:

please add the Talon hood with hair included?

I'll check... But I want to say the hair on them are something weird, like a chest detail; Will verify though!

[Kaelit]

Any chance you could group up the Awakened costume pieces under a single piece (or three) and then provide the variants via a subcategory menu? It would look a lot less cluttered in the drop down list and be in line with how the rest of the multiple-options pieces work, such as Black Knight. 

Also, is there a possibility we could get regular costume patterns to work on Clean version of the Awakened chest and leg pieces? That'd add a helluva lot more options to play around with.

Finally, the Blacklight pieces are great, but their reflectivness doesn't match any of the other costumes which might make mixing and matching a problem. I'm betting it's late but could it be brought down a notch and made to look more like other metal pieces? That'd encourage their use in costumes that use pieces from multiple sets instead of using it in-set only.

[Cobalt Arachne]

3 hours ago, Kaelit said:

Any chance you could group up the Awakened costume pieces under a single piece (or three) and then provide the variants via a subcategory menu?

I did try this, using the conventions in other categories that allows condensing sub-masks into the sub-menu, but it doesn't seem to work with the Chest torso category, if the primary texture isn't the same, it won't condense. Since the Awakened bodies use different primary textures for each option, they don't condense.

[ExeErdna]

15 hours ago, Mariposa said:

I know its not "thematic" like the new Blackwings costume parts, but since the Homecoming team is not really into creating new costume pieces from scratch, can you guys please add the Talon hood with hair included? I've been requesting it for ages now lol even in different threads about costume parts.

Also some new hairstyles, even if they are from existing NPCs would be awesome. I think we are in serious need of new hairstyles options, please.

Like Desdemona, Mother Mayhem, Belladonna, Ghost Widow...

PLEASE ^^

 

 

I just want the belt and some more parts from the Cabal group 

[scope.creep]

Could we enable Carnival of Light/War/Vengeance masks for male and huge models, please?

Edited 37 minutes ago by scope.creep
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