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Ship color customization

levelshiftlevelshift Member Posts: 0 Arc User
edited May 2013 in The Academy
Yesterday, I played one of my captains for the first time since LOR came out and noticed that the "glowy" parts of my ships's nacelles have changed from blue to a yellowish green. I want to change them back, but cannot find where to do this. I went to the ship tailor in ESD, but cannot find any setting for these colors. Where do I need to go to change these colors?

Thanks.
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  • erockererocker Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    What kind of shields are you running? You can disable the visuals by ticking the little eye icon next to it.
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  • captainmikeccaptainmikec Member Posts: 94 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    some ship gear like engines, shields and deflectors have their own custom colors and effects
    have u changed ur gear since u noticed it changed?
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  • levelshiftlevelshift Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Thanks for the suggestions. To be more clear on my issue, this is what I am seeing:

    GlowyEngines_zps83a10a72.jpg

    @erocker, I do not think shield can be the issue, since this is out of combat

    @captainmikec, I have not changed any gear since before LOR launched.

    Is there no where to change the engine colors?

    Thanks
  • mihari#1029 mihari
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    edited May 2013
    levelshift wrote: »
    Is there no where to change the engine colors?

    Thanks

    Have you tried right clicking on the impulse, shield, and deflector on your ship and trying to "Disable Visuals" to see if one of them is effecting it? They might have just added an effect in without publishing it in any of the notes.
  • qweeble#7491 qweeble
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    edited May 2013
    You appear to have the Breen set shields equipped. With the release of Legacy of Romulus, that item was given a visual -- that overlay you're seeing on your ship. If you navigate to your ship's items (The "U" key by default), you will see a small icon next to the shield item, it should appear like an eyeball. If you click it, it will toggle the visuals of the item, and restore your ship to its previous appearance. You can also right-click on the equipped item and click "Disable Visuals" to achieve the same.
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  • druhindruhin Member Posts: 7 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    No offense to the art team, but that Breen shield visual looks horrible. Green engines may be appropriate for a Borgified ship, but looks really bad as is.
  • toivatoiva Member Posts: 3,276 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Thanks for giving the Breen shield a visual of its own, was long overdue.

    It actually looks nice on Rom ships (noticed on leveling). But yes, on a Sovereign, looks somewhat strange. :P
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  • levelshiftlevelshift Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    @miharitan and @captjamjamz - thanks! Right clicking on the shields item and selecting "Disable Visuals" did the trick!

    That said, I do not see any eyeball icons either on, or next to, the shield item. I know what you mean and have seen them on the personnel equipment screens, but they do not show up on the ship screen for me. Happily, the context menu was provided to let me get the job done!

    Now I seem to have one problem remaining - the deflector is still showing in the yellowish-green color, and there is no "Disable Visuals" option for that item. I am 99% sure that it was blue before. Am I remembering this wrong, or is this a bug? FWIW, I have a Sovereign assault cruiser and the deflector is the Tachyon Beam Array.

    Thanks for the help.
  • trek21trek21 Member Posts: 2,246 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    druhin wrote: »
    No offense to the art team, but that Breen shield visual looks horrible. Green engines may be appropriate for a Borgified ship, but looks really bad as is.
    Different people have different tastes and ideas of 'horrible': I think it looks pretty cool :)

    But either way, it's not for everyone, hence the disable visuals option.
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  • framesplicerxframesplicerx Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Not to stray to far off topic, but if you guys are going to be adding more "ship visuals" to equipment (an idea I whole heartily applaud!!!)... PLEASE begin or push through some kind of "visuals" tab (very similar to how the MACO/OMEGA/HG ground outfits work) for ship appearance.

    I don't think I'm alone in the notion that having the ship look how we want, separate from stats and set bonuses, would be a HUGE boost to player "voice" and expression in this game, as well as continuing to add "choices" for the player to make and shoot for.

    Further, you could make them tied to accolades and earning gear for "costume" unlocks.

    You could start by only doing it for pieces with art tied to them currently, and perhaps eventually add "new" visuals (ala, veteran patterns for lockbox ships.)
  • toivatoiva Member Posts: 3,276 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    levelshift wrote: »
    Now I seem to have one problem remaining - the deflector is still showing in the yellowish-green color, and there is no "Disable Visuals" option for that item. I am 99% sure that it was blue before. Am I remembering this wrong, or is this a bug? FWIW, I have a Sovereign assault cruiser and the deflector is the Tachyon Beam Array.

    Thanks for the help.

    The Sovereign is supposed to have an orangeish deflector. As I understand it, the old model had it wrong and perhaps, if you zoom out far enough, the lower quality model still has it blue. Haven't tried for a while.
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  • symetreus69symetreus69 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    druhin wrote: »
    No offense to the art team, but that Breen shield visual looks horrible. Green engines may be appropriate for a Borgified ship, but looks really bad as is.

    To each his own. Personally I think the OMEGA space set it the fugliest thing ever. Breen just looks odd on a sovvy.
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  • hevachhevach Member Posts: 2,777 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    The point of the visual is to make your ship look Breen. If it weren't awkward and weird looking it wouldn't be doing its job.
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