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I wasn't saying their initial design was sloppy. Just replying to that idea that you could have the same Fire Blaster powersets copied as different colors. That is just something waiting to cause trouble.

Precisely. Sloppy design only gets you into trouble.

Thanks Infernus_Hades! I'm poking around the website but it seems to be pretty programmer heavy for resources and guides. Am I just looking in the wrong place for beginner animation stuff in Max?

It's good to see some solid dialog on this. Thanks for being upfront on this to us BAB, means a lot to us.

I'm an animator, been animating in Maya for years and I just went and got 3DS Max 9. I have no idea what I'm doing. So I'm asking anyone out there in the community who animates in Max and feels pretty comfortable in it if they would be able to get me up to speed on the basics. If anyone is feeling helpful/kind/mentorly/etc. please feel free to send me a PM.

Right now I'm pretty lost in the sauce. Not even sure how to set a key.

I would be going nuts with this rig, but I can't use it so now I'm just plain going nuts. In-house, do you guys only use Max? Or are other 3D programs in use as well?

Argh! Why can't it be for Maya?

You want to know what reason number 7 is? It's that there is no reason number 7! That's why he can't give it out!

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If you really want to get noticed in a restaraunt, enter dressed in full plate armor complete with dents from the days battles.
I used to be in the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism).

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Did something like that one time... Went to Burger King in garb after a Shire business meeting. A lady asked me if I was in the SCA - and I couldn't help but respond "No, I'm in a play!".

Non SCAers may or may not get the joke....

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I was a performer at a local faire that used to be held by a college here, and one saturday evening after it closed up the ENTIRE performing population all headed to the same little place to eat... all still in garb.. some still in character... and all thirsty, hot, and hungry.

So I imagine from the perspective of the hostess on duty when the entire royal family, a few dozen bards, 10 musketeers, 8 pirates, a handfull of knights, 3 jesters, 7 jugglers, a tumbler, 15 beggars, a few merchants, 5 criers, 13 squires, 8 elves, a mess of fairies, and puck walk in and say we would like to sit together... the night got really odd. I can only feel sorry for them being caught so off guard by our sudden raid, as there were only 2 waitresses on duty that night. After a few hours of insanity, we departed leaving behind us all the tables from 2 of three rooms lined up in 3 rows, cluttered with dishes, an exhausted staff, and 3 large punch bowls filled with tips. We know were an obnoxious lot, but we try to make up for it,

***note, the attendance numbers above were tossed up in quick estimation, as I do not remember the exact amke up of our party apart from in total 71 people came along for the fun.

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Now that sounds like a smashing good time!

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I think we got the best looks when we pulled out the full size grid maps of middle earth and began putting pins and markers out to plot troop movements.

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The sound of dice on a table is rarely something a proprietor wants to here. Once we convinced him we weren't gambling, they never bothered us at Dunkin' Donuts again.



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It's those blinking yellow eyes. No one can trust them.

Oh boy. In one of my classes there are these two that talk about World of Warcraft from the very start to the end of the class. Not really the best thing they can do, since they've paid $1000 for the class. They never seem to even do the in-class exercises. Sheesh.

That one is wicked awesome! Nice jeorb Kroen!

Oh I'm very sure people see that not everyone likes it. Some have been very vocal and very against it even before I9 was on Test.

Chalk it up for being in the hard place of a developer not being able to please everyone, or continue to angstify at your leisure.

If you're suddenly thinking of the already brilliant core game of CoH/V as a searching game and the fun part of it as the loot from the Inventions system, then you have missed the point of I9 greatly my Shubbie one.

I9 is a new layer of goodness adding to the depth of fun that is the City of games. Take it for what it's worth, but if you are going to prioritize loot before the fun mechanics of the rest of the game, then you might as well play a more loot-centric game.

I might add, that this system is completely ignorable. How amazing is that? They've made it so that you can play the game with, or without inventions! Only you decide how in-depth your experience is in the City of!

Hoo boy, that should've been said in the voice of Captain Quark or something.

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While there are a few vocal posters here who've made vocal statements to the contrary, from what I've seen, most players are unhappy with the current drop mechanism.

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Odd, I've been reading the opposite. Most players are not unhappy with the current drop mechanism. There are a very vocal few, but that's about it.

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I'd have to agree on this. Be careful when speaking for other people Moo. That said, give it time. They've already said that they're watching invented costume pieces to see where they'll go with it in the future.

Oi, I wish you'd post about the closed testing selection process already! I'm getting antsy over here!

Isn't it terribly funny how excitable the forum goers can get over one silly screenshot? I love it, hahah.

C'mon _Castle_, since when do you take that pose at anytime using the Nemesis Staff? Hrm?

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I was hoping for some more new costumes.

I can only hope there are a ton of new costumes for inventions. And by a ton, I mean ALOT.

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Same here. I'm hoping for a crazy-go-nuts amount of new stuff. Too bad wishing very hard doesn't make it so.

Now that is freakin' awesome!

Hahah, brilliant.

You've been asking for those forever now. Those tech wings will just have to do for you!

Forget tech wings? Bah, I want em' both! Though I am looking forward to making an undead dragon Scrapper (Dark/Dark) with those skeleton wings.

One day, mark my words I will be working for this company.

One day!

*shakes fist*

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Oh - and I'd love to do a giant mech game. Love it.

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Holy moley! This so needs to happen!

Cripes _Castle_. That was so bad it became good. How the heck did that happen?