Dancer Archive
Thread: Art team request in swg discussion, please add ideas :)
Clothes, jewelry, tatoos, and more 
http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=Development&message.id=410321
More clothes for male dancers (including shirtless)!
- Vaadu Vun, Master Dancer, Bria
Allow for tattoos and hair colors and even skin colors in non natural colors like neons, allow for painted or temporary patterns, stripes, polkadots
Allow for feathered head dresses or show costumes (only wearable by entertainers perhaps or master entertainers or novice dancers/musicians
Dancing with props and accessories: Fan dancing from peko peko feathers, veils, canes, chairs, poles the only thing we really can dance with out is a weapon.
More dancing in place with fancy hand movements or foot work
More male clothing that looks good to dance in
Tattoos for everyone but a wookie give them...I don't know ribboned braids or something (j/k)
Masks
Hair extensions and wigs
Allow couple dancing with an accept command so that if the people can dance the same level of dance they enter a mirrored set where bandflourishes can be done for them and matched. Right now its excactly the same you step forward he/she steps forward but it should be like Astaire and Rogers, you step forward he/she steps back, your moves are complimentary.
Give dancers a bandflourish changedance command like the musicians changemusic (which is currently broken I've heard) Let us BE choreographers! if a band is doing synchronized formal (which is a pain...) the band leader should be able to switch to lyrical and back and all other dances chosen. Make it a command switch on and off. For musicians this is because they all HAVE to play the same music and dancers don't have to dance the same dance. But give it to us as a choreography tool and let us switch it on and off.
The ability to wear HATS without our hair being shoved up under them and becoming invisible. Hats can add a touch of flair to a lot of outfits but when your long hair disappears up under them as soon as you put them on REGARDLES of the type of hat its a non-starter.
More Dancing props!!
Dancing Lyrical or even Poplock with flourishes and a sword makes a very effective performance. A staff works about as well. But there is a sad dearth of items that can be USED as dancing props. Right now it pretty well comes down to a sword or a staff. Not much else is usable. Some items that would be totally useless to other professions but would look good when used as dance props would be a godsend.
My male Twi'lek definitely needs some cute clothes to dance in. Especially with the nature of the dances. He looks so silly in most of the clothes he can wear.
And I'm still annoyed that he can't smile or laugh. But I haven't read anywhere that they're not supposed to be able to. 
can they really not? or is it just me? He won't make a very effective dancer if he looks so indifferent.
FlawedDiamond wrote:
Hats!!
The ability to wear HATS without our hair being shoved up under them and becoming invisible. Hats can add a touch of flair to a lot of outfits but when your long hair disappears up under them as soon as you put them on REGARDLES of the type of hat its a non-starter.
(Hums Joe Cocker, "You Can Leave Your Hat On")
Dancing Lyrical or even Poplock with flourishes and a sword makes a very effective performance. A staff works about as well. But there is a sad dearth of items that can be USED as dancing props. Right now it pretty well comes down to a sword or a staff. Not much else is usable. Some items that would be totally useless to other professions but would look good when used as dance props would be a godsend.
Flaming sword effects for dancers! Or usable torches! Giant equipable pythons! LOL
No more culturally narrow-minded popular dances - virtually every civilization in Mankind's history has had folk dancing, why settle for poplock or breakdancing? I'd rather do River Dancing than Poplock
Personally I'm just happy to hear this bit myself. But yes.. more options and cloths for the guys! Flaming swords sound like fun too. 
By the way- entertainers- a while back you noticed that we put new dance flourishes in.These were to compliment the flourishes that already existed, however they were hand animated instead of motion captured like the original flourishes. This made some of you grumpy. I understand - and well, sorry about that. We will be replacing all of the hand animated flourishes with new, motion captured animations, and we're working hard on some all new ideas for dances as well. We haven't captured the motion yet, so it will be a while before it is in, but I wanted you to know it is in the works. We also plan to make some nice new outfits for you to entertain in.
Jake Rodgers Art Director
Yes! Definitely! It would totallymake me ecstaticif people could dance together. Musicians can play together, dancers should be able to perform in pairs or groups as well.
I was just thinking tomyself yesterday it would be SO hilarious if we set up a"stage" with a musician that had one of those drum-sounding instruments on a song that's upbeat, a lead dancer, 4-5 dancers as backup, we'llall shake our groove thangwhile our music guy puts on a light show
Dunno if it can be done, but it'd be the bees knees. 
I'm trying to figure out how to add "singing" to that without it just spamming all over the place and hiding the backup dancers...
Oh, and Vaadu, you forgot to request nipple rings, I *know* you want one!
- Javier
Thank you to all who have posted in swg discussion, the thread has been on the front page for 24 hours now! If only there wasa way to know if anyone in the art team has seen it Please keep it alive
We do need more cute clothes, and more distinguished, formal clothes! And definitely more provocative clothes! Male dancers want to be eye candy too!
And I have to say it again - I don't like the pale, yellowy sheen on my face! Why is it there? Were male twi'lek's cursed somewhere along the way? I'd like the option to get rid of it, and have a normal colored face like the females. I'll pay an image designer well for it!
I haven't noticed a problem with smiling or laughing, but then again I usually have the camera behind rather than in front (don't want to look at that face
). I'll try and do some testing later on.- Vaadu Vun, Master Dancer, Bria