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dwightmc
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Champions,
Check out the latest Aura to hit the C-Store: http://community.arcgames.com/en/news/champions-online/detail/3040703-now-available_-glow-aura-pack
Learn about the upcoming costume design contest: http://community.arcgames.com/en/news/champions-online/detail/3040693-design-a-costume_-we_ll-put-it-in_game_
we'll have an official costume design thread created just before the contest period begins, so keep an eye out for that.
Thanks!
Dwight
Check out the latest Aura to hit the C-Store: http://community.arcgames.com/en/news/champions-online/detail/3040703-now-available_-glow-aura-pack
Learn about the upcoming costume design contest: http://community.arcgames.com/en/news/champions-online/detail/3040693-design-a-costume_-we_ll-put-it-in_game_
we'll have an official costume design thread created just before the contest period begins, so keep an eye out for that.
Thanks!
Dwight
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For the Costume contest, can we snag images as 'individual parts' if they are real-world pictures?
Also, new dev action figure? Is it a cryptic north figure?
Yes, if you aren't able to draw something you can use any way you can to give us an idea of what the costume would look like. All i would suggest, if you use real world pictures, is to put them together in such a way so we can visualize the entire costume set. That way your entry is more likely to be considered, and this is only because we are looking to create an entire costume set in-game not just single pieces.
Hope this helps,
Dwight
In other words...
I got this. My submission is already done.
I still don't forgive you for this vehicles thing, but we can sit on the couch together now, Cryptic. Don't touch me though, I'm not ready yet.
Besides now being able to restrict the glow to just certain parts of the body, how does this new Glow Aura differ from the glow provided by the Legacy Kinetic Manipulation Aura?
I've been using the KM aura wonderfully as a generic "glow" effect on several heroes of mine.
Does anyone have pictures/video of the new Glow Aura?
When XP earnings during a Double-XP Weekend still feel like I'm underperforming,
there's something terribly wrong with the reward system...
You can find/contact me in game as @PatricianVetinari. Original Join Date: Feb 2010.
:cool:
Oh and, MORE TIGHTS!!!
And playing by myself since Aug 2009
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I love using the KMA on any hero that does not seem to need a specific trait aura since it seems a lot like Personal Force Field Technology and a nice extra layer of Super Science to protect my heroes as they charges in to battle.
I have not purchased the Glow Aura, yet, but when/if I do I'll post some pics. It would definitely look good on - Spaaaaaaaaaaaaacehaaaaaaaaaaawk! <
or whatever his name is ;-)
I know im gonna take out the old etch and sketch and whip up something!!
Honestly, with mine, I can't pull it off. Mine is a 'over the clothes' costume and weapons.
will the WInner's costume be a Z-store costume item or ingame drop?
Exactly my Thoughts
This Glow aura looks SUSPICIOUS like a copy of Kinetic Manipulation judging from the Photos
Funny that when i started coming up with my design i was like, "dang...i dont have a back piece or weapon now" I wonder if we can do mulitple entries, need to re-read the rules again.
Part of me wants to ask if they'd consider 'Voltroning' two peoples' ideas together if they jived just right...
Which, I'd totally be cool with.
too bad 2nd and 3rd place couldn't be an added costume as well....here i am getting all greedy!
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Congratulations to spordelia in advance.
Yesterday, on Fort Hood- the base I am stationed at, 3 Soldiers lost their lives in a shooting. A potentially psychologically disturbed individual took their lives and wounded others, and turned his weapon on himself. Debate politics somewhere else, I want to make a proposal.
One of those killed was a friend of my roommate's, and he is grieving. Fortunately, I started my vacation yesterday and was off the installation before the shooting took place. This is the SECOND shooting event at Fort Hood, and I can't imagine the trauma and grief this has brought on others.
Let's have another contest where the cash equivalent of Zen is donated to the Wounded Warrior Project. Or perhaps as players, let's come up with a charity event/contest. I'm not sure how to do this, but while I know we can't give back lives and limbs, I'd like to do something like this for our wounded. Not only that, but I'd be willing to do it for other charities as well.
I would pitch in for this.
If we...figured out how to do it.
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I was thinking of an in store item, that instead of getting an item. the money gets routed to a charity.
yes, PWE/cryptic doesn't get anything, except maybe thank yous from the recipients. Goodwill is an asset on a balance sheet.
I consider money spent on making others fell better, always well spent.
:redface: my idea for the costume contest was a...um .. fig leaf set.
spring/summer not a problem, autumn/winter... thats another matter
It was not a good day at work today
I have a lever arch file of designs from when I did a fashion design course, unfortunately most of them are single items, not sets. Also they are all for females, though a lot could be adjusted for males.
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no thanks, we bathe. that glow is from the luminescent bacteria growing on the males skin from not bathing enough
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Someone just needs to get up and enable the function. It's not like anything superprogramming needed, just click the Glow option On.
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I consider a costume set to be a themed set that all fits together, where as a pack is more individual parts with a theme. A good example would be Epic Samurai VS Wild Things. Both have a theme, while one is a complete set, the other is a pack of parts that don't necessarily all fit together.
I have so many ideas I want to put into a good pack because then it fits a broader theme, but it may be too much and needs to be focused on a singular themed costume set.
Just a bit of guidance would be great for this excited artist.
In the meanwhile, I do look forward to all the amazing ideas that will come out of this! :biggrin:
P.S. PLEASE let the costume include a sleeveless trench coat this could be the only chance
so much for having it up "before the contest begins"
EDIT: I am also designing for male, female and a couple unisex pieces too.
Which reminds me..... this isn't a "enter as often as you want" type thing, is it?
The post doesnt explicitly say, but I just assumed that it was a "one costume set per contestant" type deal....
LEGO would work, yep. The goal is to have something visual that we can use as inspiration, in any form - doesn't need to be modeled.
We'll be doing quality control by choosing the 5 finalists -- we'll make sure that all 5 are good ideas that we know we can deliver on, then let players choose from those.
It's worth noting that the ideas submitted will be used as inspiration. That gives us the freedom to tweak ideas to match programming needs. We're not exactly asking for a list of pieces and what categories they'd go into. :P
That said, if someone made a tail a key part of the set... :biggrin:
Z-Store is the plan.
Multiple entries are fine. The more creativity, the better.
All things serve the Beam.
We're open to interesting ideas, but the plan is one costume set.
Most of us get into the office at 10! :P
SPOILED! :P
for some of us who aren't as hip to the lingo... what's the difference between a "costume set" and a "costume pack"?
As in my previous post, a "costume set" would be like the Epic Samurai, a suit of ornate samurai armor. Where a "costume pack" would be more like Wild Things, a bunch of beast heads and a pair of bear hands.
One is a set that all forms together, the other is several pieces that don't necessarily form a whole. Hope that makes sense.
I have a couple of questions please if any admins / mods for this contest are available...
I have a costume theme idea but I am not sure if it is feasible coding wise and whether the rules would consider it a single costume set or multiple and thus barred from the contest.
My idea is to have a single uniform set called something like "The Mood Swing Set". In it would only be a couple items. A Full Head Mask, Tights for the Chest, Tights for the Legs, Gloves, Boots. Possibly some other accessories such as capes, belts, weapons, bracers, leg accessories, hip accessories, tails, etc. Each item by itself will look kind of bland when worn by itself. The 'magic' comes when enough pieces from the set are worn at once.
But the key would be that how they look would depend on what 'mood' the player had set. If they set the 'angry' mood those clothes would be morphed to look like one thing, if they chose 'happy' it would morph to look like a completely different thing. Etc. I've got some ideas of how to make the costumes 'fit' the moods without coming into conflict with already active costume pieces / sets.
So my questions are as follows...
First question is would this set I am conceiving be eligible for this contest, or would it be considered multiple sets not a single costume?
Second question is whether the coding required to make a clothes set change appearances based on the mood is even doable.
Third question, contingent on if this is even eligible and the coding is entirely possible, would it be further possible to make this set only change appearances if X number of pieces from the set were worn? Like let us suppose that I came up with 9 different possible parts to the set and made it so that in order to have 'any' of the costume pieces change appearance then a person needed to be wearing at least 6 of those pieces, but it didn't matter which 6. Could that be done?
Thank you for your time administrators or moderators, even if the answer to my question is that this concept will not be workable. ^^
This lack of information is putting me in a terrible position of not knowing where to put my efforts. Time is wasting and the deadline is approaching and I have already waited several days without any kind of a response.
let THEM decide whether it's doable or not..... you can post as often as you like, so just put your mind down on paper, so to speak.
Will it be rejected? Cuz for all I know, CO has perhaps the best costume-creation skills & technology I have ever seen!
"Good can be found in heights, even in the deepest pits of evil" but "The valleys of evil always exist in the mountains of good."
~me
I personally like it, but to be honest I can see how some folks would say 'I log in to CO to play at being something unrealistic, if I wanted to wear casual clothes and be fashionable I'd go into the real world'.
That being said, I think her hairstyles at least should have been considered in the future.