Brooches/Shields as Belt Buckles

[El D]

Tons of superheroes have custom belt buckles that bear their own personal symbol or supergroup logo - Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Spider-Man, pretty much all of the X-Men. It's a minor touch that helps tie together a costume but also something that the game has never offered as an option. So I had the thought that the various brooch pieces and the shield models could excellently fill that niche. There's a lot of plain belt options from the early years of the game that would work pretty readily with a customizable buckle and most of the more fancy belts could benefit from them too. There would need to be scale adjustments to increase the brooch sizes and shrink down the shield models to make sure everything aligns properly (and even then some belt options still wouldn't function well with them due to clipping), but it seems like a fun way to add a decent amount of extra options using pieces the costume creator already has in it. Bonus points, they could have emblem details too provided the chosen buckle has enough surface area for a logo.

 

I did some quick image editing as a proof of concept, with some tweaking on the Shield one to match up the color palette.

 

 

 

[Greycat]

I don't know if there's anything about the in-game broaches that makes it not feasable, but more options would be nice. I'd just hope they don't stand as "proud" from the belt as some of the "sci fi" belt buckles do.

 

I'd *suspect* having chest logos on them is a little more fiddly or would need more work. (Aside from possible issues with scaling the graphic, but... *shrug.*) It'd be interesting if they could do it.  

[Psyonico]

43 minutes ago, Greycat said:

I'd *suspect* having chest logos on them is a little more fiddly or would need more work

Since logos are 2d elements, yes, they'd likely have to be turned into 3d elements.  But I think the OP only referred to brooches and Shields

[golstat2003]

More costumes are always nice. Good idea!

[El D]

23 hours ago, Psyonico said:

Since logos are 2d elements, yes, they'd likely have to be turned into 3d elements.  But I think the OP only referred to brooches and Shields

 

Certainly not opposed to fully separate chest emblems if they could make them into 3D elements, I just figured using scaled down shield models would be an easier path to 'belt buckle with logo' on it since shields are already made with bearing emblems in-mind. Though, the option to just slap a smaller chest emblem in the same space sans belt could also work. Similar to how Minx has the pointy M logo at her hips (though that is actually its own unique piece).

[Techwright]

I agree with this idea.  It's a good one, though it's not new. 

 

Including for reference:   @biostem proposed it to this forum back in 2020, and @TheMoneyMaker made the suggestion in January in answer to a thread I'd made regarding brooches used in a different capacity.    As I mentioned in that thread, Champions Online has long had belt buckles that perform similar to this.

 

 

[El D]

1 hour ago, Techwright said:

I agree with this idea.  It's a good one, though it's not new. 

 

Including for reference:   @biostem proposed it to this forum back in 2020, and @TheMoneyMaker made the suggestion in January in answer to a thread I'd made regarding brooches used in a different capacity.    As I mentioned in that thread, Champions Online has long had belt buckles that perform similar to this.

 

 

I looked around the forums before making the post, but it seems my search fu was too weak. Not surprised other folks have had the same idea though. Or that Champions Online already has that sort of costume functionality. Their character creator does a lot of things I wish were available in CoH.