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Quote:thanks, that worked (or rather, I still had period bound with it somehow)Originally Posted by Zombie Man
1. Toggling the UI off and on used to be default bound to the period key, then the number pad period key, and now, to nothing.
2. In your CityofHeroes directory, open the keybinds.txt file in Notepad. Put in this line:
. "++disable2D"
And save it. Restart CoH. Hitting the period will toggle the display now. -
...okay, once upon a time, I knew how to shut the UI on and off, but since I've used that all of once or twice, I've forgotten.
Now, I find that in switching from my IE to my game, one of my characters UI has disappeared....
what's the command to bring it back? -
Quote:Batman is not an anti-hero. He even technically works with in the law, stretching the citizen's arrest allowances.Originally Posted by TyrantMikey
You know, one way to play a Mastermind (and, in particular, a Thugs Mastermind) and not break immersion is to play him/her as the antihero.
Yes, he'll fight crime, beat up criminals. But he'll do it for his own reasons, and sometimes reluctantly. He questions authority. He's not a hero. He tends to be larger than life. He's majorly flawed. But you can sympathize with him because of his flaws.
Popular antiheroes:- Batman
- Sub-Mariner
- The Punisher
- Rorschach
calling Sub-Mariner an anti-hero is something of a stretch as well, in fact, he fits the mold of a classic Greek hero (who could be both good or bad).
Rorschach and the Punisher, however, definitely are anti-heroes
Oh, just a note, thugs mastermind would be perfect for a character based on the Shadow....after all, most of his network were common people -
Quote:depends on species...a lot of spiders don't survive the birthing process, so they tend to be dead before the babies hatch....Originally Posted by bAss_ackwards
Don't those babies usually consume the mother after being born?
others lay eggs and leave....
wolf spiders are one of the few (comparatively) maternal species...
oh, btw, widows quickly become an infestation if you're not careful, had rain drive them into my apartment once a few years back.....REALLLY fun time cleaning the apartment after a friend of mine found five widows and egg sacks on a suitcase of mine (had to throw it out) -
Quote:A lot of people respond that way about my taste in pictures....I guess I'm somewhat tame.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Does it reflect poorly on me as a person that, after having seen the pictures in question, my reaction was "Well that wasn't really very unsafe?" I'm starting to get worried
Having seen a few of your other Champions designs, however, just convinces me the design would look better without the actual clothes, as your other designs that don't have them don't really have anything particular that "bugs" me in them.
I'm mostly interested in the female body more than the sexual act, I suppose. -
Quote:ArachnaeOriginally Posted by Samuel_Tow
This is disgusting. The spider itself isn't of the cute variety (like, say, a furry tarantula) and the "swarm of insects" on its back, especially as they move about, is basically a priority override for most people's brains to recoil. It doesn't matter if they're the cutest things, a forest of tiny living insects scurrying about is not cute.
Some highlights:
Quote:slightly taller forehead marked by six small red spots that are, in reality, eyespots geared toward detecting motion Quote:The lower body appears very spider-like, save that the legs are proportionally much thicker than a spider’s leg. Quote:a very friendly species, though somewhat too tactile for the comfort of many Yes, I made this race to play with latent arachnaphobia.Quote:touch is considered a very important sense to the Arachnae without having the intimate connotations that other races place with touch, and they rarely do anything without shaking hands, hugging, thumping, clapping, kissing or otherwise involving their body with the other person's.
Oh...and, yes, they are genetically compatiable. No, I can't even begin to figure out the mechanics behind that. Just say "shapechanging spells" and leave it.
Quote:Web Born (Heritage Feat)
Prerequisites: Non-Arachnae at 1st Level, Arachnae at any Level
Benefit: Choose an intelligence based skill, you may reroll that skill once per encounter.
Description: Arachnae-blooded characters have often funneled their inherited talent into very specific fields. Full-blooded Arachnae rarely find blanks in their knowledge, but some have specialized into a field such that they have even greater ability to find answers.
Special: Non-Arachnae with this feat are considered to be Arachnae for the purposes of using Items and Powers.
Appearance Effects: Arachnae-blooded characters have pure-black eyes. -
Quote:The character in question was designed to use as a reference shot for a shape-shifter character in one of her forms.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
1. Why go with all this fur, yet with a human-skin face and arms? I mean, this way it looks like a girl wearing fur clothes, rather than an actual were-girl, which is what I assume you're going for. It just makes it look a bit dissonant.
2. Do you really need clothes on her? Serious question here. If the fur is a suit over human flesh, then that can serve as clothes, and even if it's not, you can just go the typical werewolf rout and have her run around in just gender-concealing fur. It's what I did for my panda girl, and I've gotten complimented on her a few times. It might simplify the concept so it's easier to grasp in one look.
But again - unwelcome advice is unwelcome, so don't take me too seriously
Said shapeshifter has magically active nanites in her blood that allow her to shapechange and to share a current shape temporarily (til next sunrise, so last longest if initiated just after dawn).
She's a rather flirty goth girl who likes monster movies, so the shapes she takes tend to take sexy versions of said monsters. Currently has five forms "werewolf", "vampire", "mummy", "demon" and "ghost".
So, yeah, the fur is "decorative", but supposed to be part of her.
Unfortunately...I cannot link the actual images of her "sharing" her changes with various anime and video game girls as they are...decidedly...not safe for work....however, you can find them under "Goth's Transformations" in my Gallery.
http://thrythlind.deviantart.com/
by the way...I'm not sure why the one leg is tattooed blue in every picture....I think the artist just thought it looked interesting...which I'll admit it does... -
Quote:In one of my fantasy campaigns, undead are not necessarily evil. They're split into "Ghouls" and "Ancestors".Originally Posted by Golden_Avariel
I agree. I just think seeing zombie pets blue-side is immersion-breaking. It doesn't mean I can't live with it and I look forward to having my merc mastermind go rogue so obviously I'm not against heroic masterminds.
It's just that necromancy sort of bothers me as I find it awfully... not sure how to express it... icky? grotesque? unheroic? selfishly inconsiderate of the dead? Whatever... it's me, not you. I'm sure you'll be wonderfully heroic and have some comforting back-story like they are really badly made automatons, or good ol' ooc obliviousness to cover it.
BTW - thanks to Dumpleberry for his snarky remark to my previous post. I couldn't help but laugh at how I'd left myself open for that.
"Ghouls" being the traditional hateful, lethal evil creatures we all see on our TV screens.
"Ancestors" being generally volunteers that have prolonged their stay on the mortal realm to accomplish some task, usually protection of a site like a graveyard.
zombies and skeletons would be simple automatons, animated bodies sans spirit. It is considered...rude, at the very least...to animate someone's corpse without properly asking the spirit for permission. As such, sanctioned rituals to do so tend to take much longer than unsanctioned ones.
However, I must admit, the vomiting, rotting undead of the necromancy set are more attend to ghouls (ancestors tend to be better preserved and less prone to carrying lethal diseases...and also less often have a physical body), but oh well.
Also, I have a heroic banshee I'm considering rerolling from blaster to mastermind -
Quote:It's still not really my preferred for the look, but the basic idea came across.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
That's quite a non-traditional use of the word "good" there
Actually, Koi is the best character design I've had with Champs... -
Quote:Indeed, I thoroughly trust that any tail coming out of BaBs and Jay will trump pretty much anything Champs Online can produceOriginally Posted by Techbot Alpha
*Grumblegrumble awesome grumblegrumble not fair grumble*
But yeah. In my opinion CoX graphics and style > Champions graphics and style. Im sure others have a different opinion, and thats more'n fair.
But the great looks really are a cornerstone part of why I love this game. -
Quote:I currently have a Magic Thugs/Traps (selected magic on accident and shrugged and fit it into the descrip later) who's backstory is that she's a cat-spirit in service to Bast, one of the Eyes of Ra (basically the same job as an avenging angel in Judeo-Christian belief....ie: city-to-salt type stuff). All her minions are her brothers come to Earth in disguises. The reason they never run out of ammo is because they use magic guns.Originally Posted by falloutsurvivor
we know that with going rogue we will be able to change faction.
but a thug mastermind HEROES?
really?
thug are criminal how will it fit with the lore ?
She's supposed to be feeding Longbow information. They pay her via the occasional bank "robbery"....guess no one's noticed yet that they only take specific security deposit boxes -
Quote:Like this:Originally Posted by OmnipotentMerlin
Maybe when I17 comes out we might get a flood of non nekos
Grr I hate nekos so much. Sorry it is cause there is so many of them. There oversaturated. To many cat girls for me. Need more wolves.
Jun
One of 6-Pregens for an A-Kon game I'm planning.
Got some more Fred Perry too:
Two of the races from one of my campaign settings:
An mid-development version of the main character of my Bystander novel:
And some of my CoH characters interacting with Fred's:
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Quote:I17 is the free-upgrade coming along with GR.Originally Posted by overkillGA
Let down with i17 content? It's not a new sensation.
Positron tf halved, Epics available at lvl 20.. Do you get the feeling only the gripes of a noob majority are being listened to? After all they do make up the majority, with most veterans leaving the game.
Positon, a tf that can be completed in 3 hours by a team with at least 1 player who knows the ins and outs, halved..
Epics unlocked at lvl 20. Lvl 20 can be reached in a few hours on a farm map, so if people (new players) were that desperate to get one they could find themselves with 1 on the day of purchasing the game.
In the time I wasted on Jay's costume thread I think movable tails was umpteenth in the list of wants. Way behind the likes of..
Monstrous faces, that didn't all look like rabid hedgehogs (Yes, a bird's head could be a monstrous one).
A back pack - that did NOTHING!!! but was there to see, at the time dismissed because of animation problems - well there's several in game now, not to mention the purchasable one, plus wings, which all cope rather well.
Movable hair, or flowing hair. Not a favourite of mine but it was highly requested.
On top of this there has once again been a failure to allow villains access to the shadow shard or a lvl 50 contact with unlimited, non-timed missions. I understand we all got excited with the content for both heroes and villains to play together, but CoV has definitely suffered neglect over recent issues content-wise. 5 minutes in the MA could solve this problem, then we move it on to the live server...
I will continue this thread later, but for now I ask you to add to the list of missed opportunities.
The content is going to be in GR.
Like when CoV came out, and all the content of that Issue was in the paid expansion rather than the free update. -
Quote:Not really, but it's one of those points of perfectionism that sits in the bag of my head going:Originally Posted by BackAlleyBrawler
Do you get asked about that a lot?
Nag, nag, nag, nag, nag. -
Quote:Oh, Misi's Mom! Cool, I had thought that video link would be to the Moulin Rouge creepiness again.....Originally Posted by OmnipotentMerlin
cough don't you notice who is the artist in the video?
It is fred perry. The creator of gold digger.
I really love his stuff. He does great comics. Also love the FFXI web comic he does. He can draw good characters, and do sex appeal if you want. For both ladies and guys. -
Quote:That's easy, just avoid them.Originally Posted by poptart_fairy
Personally I just dislike anthro characters because they're so bloody overdone. Adding furry ears and a tail doesn't make an already tired concept any more endearing. CO was horrific for this.
It's not like they'll overwhelm the game. People thought the same when the devs announced "anime-inspired" pieces, which mostly amounted to more armor types which I've rarely seen used.
we're not going "city of furry" anymore than we went "city of anime" or "city of bondage"
we did have a brief flurry of "city of marvel" mostly because Marvel was sending people in to prove that people were stealing their characters....but even that's petered out.
If you dislike a character type, don't use it, but that's no reason to prevent other people who DO like that type to use it.
Heck, I'm a bit squicked out by all the cyborg pieces we do have, but I haven't said anything about "please don't allow more cyborgs". -
Quote:My apologies....thankfully, our current costume development team has shown itself as not following the ideas of "Liefield is the pinaccle of perfect proportion". So I expect our tails to be much, much better.Originally Posted by Fenrisulfr
Oh dear god!
I don't think I've ever physically recoiled in disgust at something that I've seen on the internet until just now.
Lycanus...oh gawd. Why?!
On topic:
Belts + tails at the same time? I'm liking it.
And I also hope to see at least one bushy tail added in.
Still, as ugly as Champions graphics are overall, they still can make a few good character designs:
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Quote:In terms of attraction:Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
Some artists draw holes to allow for the tails, others simply have the trousers (pants to you yanks ) sit so that the tail is above the wasitband/line. (although looking back at some of my older stuff, I've actually fallen foul of that. Curses >_< )
Still on the line wether Tigra and Cheetah actually count as anthros, given they are actually humans that have aquired animal traits one way or another. Although iirc Tigra is linked to a race that are technically anthros...
The line can get confusing at times.
For me the line between cute non-human/alien race and unappealing anthro pretty much comes when face becomes a snout and the hands become paws.
I don't mind animal ears (it's basically no different than an elf or vulcan, just with hair). And I don't mind a tail, humans have one, it's just vestigal and not readily apparent to people not familiar with legacy biology.
Even some change to the lower body is minimally acceptable...mermaids, nagas, etc...
I will admit to creating a race of drider-like people with a sort of ivory-tower-sage type culture and made them interbreedable with other races in the game (all the races were interbreedable, actually and the arachnae were almost left out of that except I'd already said I'd make all races compatiable...)....I have never thought about the mechanics of a drider-human match, and I'm not about to start now...I usually handwaved it as "shapechanging magic" and stopped there.
Historically, human methods of creating/imagining alien races is basically the following:
A) change colorations (orion slave girls)
B) change proportions (elvish ears)
C) add animal bits (Greek mythicals, Celtic mythicals, Japanese mythicals, Egyptian mythicals, Judeo-Christian mythicals, oh heck, just bloody pick a culture)
Heck, Klingon is basically human + fangs + dinosaur-like bone ridges.
But....
they still have a basically human face....
So for me too much past Gold Digger:
wererat
werecheetah
werewolf
to, say this:
wererat
werecats
werewolf
And I generally no longer see that form as human.
Even then, it's not disgusting, just...not close enough to human.
Anyway:
Cute Non-Humans:
http://thrythlind.deviantart.com/art...melie-88623302
http://thrythlind.deviantart.com/art...nabon-67359584
http://thrythlind.deviantart.com/art...Forms-67363021
http://thrythlind.deviantart.com/art...erry-105640642
http://thrythlind.deviantart.com/art/Gothika-152889662
http://thrythlind.deviantart.com/art...Cook-153817587
http://thrythlind.deviantart.com/art/Leila-154883101 -
Quote:This is even better than animated tails.Originally Posted by BackAlleyBrawler
They've also been put on their own costume node and will now show up under "Lower Body". Which will mean you can do a Belt and a Tail (animated or static) on the same character.
So many of my characters lose their tails in some costumes and I have to pull an excuse like "oh it's wrapped around her stomach like a belt" because that's all I can use to explain it. -
Quote:Well, it's Jack and team, surely our devs can improve on itOriginally Posted by Dispari
I made my monkeygirl in CO when I tried it (for all of one day). Have to say the tails were really stiff and straight. They seemed very fake, even though they were animated. Hopefully ours won't be as starchy.
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Unfortunately....Champions seems to enjoy the Liefield proportions and extends it to tails, but anyway, for a good set of variety (note I left the defalut blue-yellow colors on)
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Quote:Bushy would be good for:Originally Posted by AmazingMOO
It looks like we're about to lose the old 'legacy' tails in favor of animated tails. I have characters who use all the tails and will likely make great use of the animated tails when they're released.
Please let me take this opportunity to request something that has been missing from the tail menu since launch:
Bushy Tails
Most dogs do not have narrow tails. Most are quite bushy, with a few exceptions. Accordingly, there aren't many tail options for canine-themed characters.
I personally have a Racoon-themed character, so a striped texture on a bushy tail would be fantastic. I imagine that there are quite a few fox-themed character who'd appreciate a 'point' texture.
Thank you for your consideration.
squirrels (the famous beat-everyone Squirrel Girl of Marvel Comics maybe?)
skunks (Asrial from Ninja High School)
foxes (any of a number of characters from myth, legend and comics all over the world...Reynard, Kitsune, the Foxes of Aesop...etc)
wolves (werewolves)
dogs (rifts dog boys...would also appreciate less snarly heads in that regard)
raccoons (or tanukis)
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Quote:Then you probably want to post more on the Issue 17: Overview rather than the animated tails thread...just to be politeOriginally Posted by techboi
Animated tails do not excite me much, but the rest of what NCsoft/Paragon is implementing in i17 most certainly does (except Posi TF - being a mainly villain player this doesn't do much for me).
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Quote:I brush-style tail would be all I need for canines, vulpines, squirrels, raccoons, skunks and anything else.Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
Awwww yeeeahhh.
Now all we need is a fox tail and I get to finalise one of my characters. She wont like it, mind, but thats part of the point
Granted, I only really need it for three, maybe four characters out of 60-70, but still -
I hope animated tails means we finally get a brush-style tail (good for wolves and other canines, foxes and things like squirrels and racoons)