Image Designer Archive

Hello all. I think its already time to start the wishlist for Image Designers. This profession is interesting, and improved significantly at the end of beta, but i'm sure there are lots of wishlist items out there. Here, I will post my own, feel free to reply with anything you can think of.

For reference, at the time of this posting, I am an Expert Hairstylist on Radiant (ID:HS4). Most of the rest of the image designer tree is empty. So I will comment primarily on general systems and Hairstyling, and in no particular order.

1. More hair colors! We currently get only the starting (limited) selection of haircolors. A much larger variety, including a more true black/white would be nice.


2. More hair effects! Instead of one solid color, highlights would be great, as well as things such as shinyness (reflection map strength).


3. More hair styles! At all levels, a larger number of styles would be great. Difficult, I know.


4. Wigs. Let us create false hair items that can be used to change a hairstyle for a period of time... we could trade these / sell them on the bazaar.


5. Hairstyle names. We can do this ourselves, but it would be nice if there were official ones that we could refer to.


6. Fix the bug where haircolor reverts to brown when hairstyles change.


7. Fix the bug (hopefully its a bug) where even a master hairstylist can't shave a clients head bald.


8. Shared preview window. We should be able to let the client actively participate in our image design actions, so we don't have to do a frustrating "How about this? no.... how about this?" process. The shared preview should be an option that requires both parties' consent, and allows the client to see selections done by the ID. The selections can be changed by the ID if the player says no without having to restart the entire ID action.


9. Secure service trade. The accept window should have a preview option, and a cash/item entry window that allows a client to pay fora service. If both the ID and the client accept the trade, the change is made. Otherwise, the action is cancelled. (A similar process would be useful for medics as well)


10. A secure trade-window like function for Imagedesigning outside of a group. This could work well with an option like #8. ID sends request, player accepts request, ID chooses change, Player accepts change, ID accepts payment.


11. A tangible benefit would be great for ID. The eyecandy is nice, but for a long term profession your services must be desired greatly. Perhaps disguises, entertainer makeup (adds xp for a limited time while performing with a costume), Battle Scar patching (scars given by combat could be removed.)


12. NPC ID missions. Good for a little quick cash, but requires the ability to ID willing NPCs. May be difficult. Eg.: Joebob (a scientist) says, "I love han solo's hairstyle. go take a look at him, come back and give me his look!". You then go and look at han solo, determine what hairstyle he has, and come back and give it to Joebob. Perhaps an mission item could be used with the NPC as a target to allow the image to be changed.

Anyone else have any thoughts?

Wish list

- Allow ID'ers to provide disguises, making people covert for say 30 mins per 24 hrs if they receive two changes to their face

- Allow ID'ers to make people friendly to all mobs temporarily with one change to their face, for wimpy artisans or entertainers with no combat experience who have to run around outside of town

- Make changes given by Master Image Designers be permanent, from non Master Image Designers be temporary, say one week.

- Unnatural hair colors, pure white, raven black, carrot red...

- Add content to existing char creation options, available only to ID'ers - more fur patterns, tattoos, hairstyles, lekku patterns, etc.

- Add content not currently in game - bindis, body tattoos, eyeliner, blush, belly gems, hair accessories - perhaps have these luxe items require crafting - available only to Master ID's

- Ability to craft little lipsticks and eyeshadows for one time use

- Light source - so hard to see nuances in color

- Missions for entertainers - perform for so and so, change so and so's hair

Issues

- Not possible to perma place ID windows where we want them. When you do a new action, the Hair-Markings-Face-Body window defaults to its original position

- Windows default pop up smack on your customer's face, so annoying to have to move them every time

- Move hair dyeing to Image Design IV (or if unnatural colors are put in allow SOME to be available at Image Design IV).

- Fix hair color defaulting to brown, and hair color changes not being visible until person logs and comes back

- Add a numbering system to sliders for cheeks, nose, etc. This way we could tell customers: this is chin #4

- Provide a color palette instead of sliders for eye color, skin color, lipstick, eyeshadow, etc colors

As it is now, Image Designer is not a true stand alone profession, and certainly has none of the profession interdependency that makes SWG unique.

Thanks for reading,

Kwee - Starsider

• Everything in the previous two posts


• Provide a way to zoom in on the customers face. Trying to chane eye color is a joke right now.


• For all options that have sliders, a small box with the preview of the color, or item shape with a name/id associated with it so we can reproduce it.


• Give a temporary boost to mind or health etc to the recipient. Nothing like a new hair do to make you feel good.

I haven't read much about ID's.. but I think if this is a skill in the game they need to make it more useful.

I agree with your posts as they offer some really great ideas for making a skill useful.

Blue hair. I have wanted blue or green hair forever now. I am an entertainer and as such I feel such a color would not be totally unsusual. If they implemented odd hair dolors I might even consider going back to image design, which was my original first profession plan.

Give us more colors!

Farbo Median

Hmmm well hopefully that non-zabrak tattoos are planned for sometime in the future. I gained Markings 4 yesterday which brought with it the "Tattoo Artist" title. It'd be pretty silly if that was in reference to the zabrak tattoos only.

I agree so much with most of these ideas! I would love to post some of my own...

1) Make all charactors start with no makeup..

2) Make all makeup wear off in aprox 1-3 days..

3) Make all hair styles wear off in a week (reverts to origonal style & color)

4) Make it so that entertainers who only get up to Image Design IV only have the BASICS of what image designer can do.. for example.. Hair Color at Image Design IV but only a few basic (and none of the better) colors.. and makeup should be hard for them.. and only get a few colors and shades until they get higher as an image designer.

5) Make all plastic surgery perminant.. until changed again (breast implants and weight changes should always be perminant)

6) Make a real-time update design system.. for example.. when you are styling someone's hair their style will change as you click on different buttons in the style window.. as click through the styles their hair will update for you and that person to see.. and when they are happy with one they can accpet.. and you can put your price in.. once they accept to paying that and click confirm it is completed and they pay you. Should work the same with makeup and hair color changes.. as well as plastic surgery changes.. I just hate it when someone tells me (bigger, smaller, no bigger again, nope too big.. need it smaller, perfect.. after tons of clicks its annoying would be great for them to see what im doing)

7) ability to /examine someone's face without shadow effects and lighting effects so you can see exactly what you are doing.

Basically what I want to do.. is not ripoff the entertainers that cant train image designer.. however I want to provide a steady business for image designers from those entertainers that want to look special etc.. would love for this to happen!

-Make it so image designers do not get the confirmation popup when using /imagedesign on themselves. You already know what you're doing to yourself, that step can be skipped.

-Allow the /imagedesign skill togo directly to the image designingsubmenus if passed a parameter, such as /imagedesign hair, or /imagedesign eyes.

-Perhaps give a temporary mind bonus after an image design, like what is given by food. This will give everyone a reason to seek out an image designer on an ongoing basis, ratherthan just once to get the hairstyle they like. Have higher level image designers or more drastic changes give a bigger/longer lasting bonus. This may lead to the odd effect of heavy sniper 'head shot' activitybeing responded to bya rashof perming.

-I'll reiterate the need for a colour pad or r/g/b sliders instead of the single slider as it is now. Make it display like character creation, where there's a single pad with all the available colours, you can see them all, and click the one you like. Having to click once to scroll through the list is very labour intensive, especially since you can't see the colour until you select it, and it may not be readily visible on the target once you do.

I see alot of great Ideas here.. lets try and keep this going and get loud about it! if we dont do it then we will just be overlooked like always.. and they will just ignore our requests to make us a unique and needed profession in the game!

I would love to be able to paint nails.

Dev's please can you give us a quick response. Is there any chance you can implement any of our suggestions. Is an upgrade to the Image Design professionin the works. Please any feedback would be appreciated.

lol, it's not like the guys in charge of SWG are really gonna change the game for us, even though some of the idea's are pretty good. Personally though, I would like to see more hair colors.

Actually Daniel, they've said they have a commitment to adding new content for more than just the combat classes. Image Design is a great idea and there's alot they can do to keep things fresh.