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Attn character artists: TOS Costume Fixes for Agents of Yesterday
dragonsbrethren
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/u/bardbrain over on r/sto posted a thread with some great feedback about the current TOS uniforms and what can be done to make them more screen accurate:
https://redd.it/4iiocj
https://redd.it/4iiocj
First, I want to say that I notice and appreciate the improved Klingon TOS uniforms and the more cloth-like texture of the Starfleet pants, as opposed to the glossy look on live servers now.
The Starfleet boots, however, need some love.
The men's boots had a 1" cuban heel (ie. not flat), were patent leather, and had a U-shaped stitching from the ball of the foot up over the ankle as well as a curve over the rear of the ankle. Also, the soles, excluding the heel were tan.
Also if we're getting technical:
The wrinkles baked into the fabric work for someone lanky like Bones but almost everyone else including Nimoy had wrinkles around the ribcage, highlighting pectorals.
The canon colors are not typically accessible to players, especially the green of the command tunic. Some review of the palette would be nice.
The costume of the first two seasons was a velour that looked nice under lights versus a polyester in the final year. What we have now is maybe a bit closer to the velour.
The shoulder stitching doesn't connect with the side stitching the way it does in game. It highlights the shoulders more in a U-shape around the arms and side stitching comes down more from the armpit and is less pronounced.
The rank stripes also have more of a vivid orange specular.
Given that Anovos has risen in popularity as an official costume supplier and that Cryptic will be marketing to TOS fans heavily, some fixes might not be a bad idea.
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And yes, the colors on the TOS shirt are a problem, since we can't have the really bright color that they have on the show.
The collar is wrong on the in game shirt as well, with it being tucked under the main part of the shirt, while the tunic on the show had the collar over. That and the overall texture of the shirt just annoys me when I look at it.
I'm hoping they'll do a pass at the shirt, since everything else is looking really authentic to the show styles with AoY.
Beyond the TOS fed uniform, there are MANY obvious problems with the Wrath of Khan era uniform as well. The main one is that the entire jacket looks like a pixelated hot mess, especially around the collar but also around the shoulder "rank" strap and piping around the seam on the chest. But the larger problem is that the whole jacket looks like it's been left in the dryer too long and it shrunk. The sleeves are too short looking, or too tight maybe, and the way that the folds and wrinkles work on the jacket are just unpleasant to look at. The waist looks fairly bad too, and the belt lays weird on the whole thing.
The artists on the game today are exceptional, and while I don't want to offend the artists (if any) that were around then, I don't know if it was due to rushing to make a deadline, but there were a lot of "Trek" things that were added to the game with tremendous flaw to them, while today, the stuff being produced is very accurate in my opinion.
Seeing as it appears that the TOS and WoK uniforms will be used heavily in the gameplay during Agents of Yesterday, I can only hope that some of these problems - even though they are largely cosmetic in nature - will be addressed before release.
http://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/startrekonline#/categories/gameplay-bug-reports
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