Image Designer Archive
Thread: Image Designers need a revamp, Bigger Muscles, Shorter and Taller people, more tat's, ect.
TechnoCan
Fri Mar 18, 2005 11:38 am
#14
These are some nice ideas so far, but as allready stated before such changes are not easy to implement for the devs. Changes to the Avatars have a bigger impact on the gamesystems as you might think. First every additional change needs to be done to clothing and armor as well. And there are alot of parts around that need to be changed.
Beside that you have to see, that even more detailed Avatars (and compared to other games we have VERY VERY detailed ones I think 
) will have to be loaded and displayed on every players client seeing them.... so more details lead to more data transfer needed and more data load on HD/memory and thus alower overall performance.
) will have to be loaded and displayed on every players client seeing them.... so more details lead to more data transfer needed and more data load on HD/memory and thus alower overall performance. The overall perfromance of this game has really improved over time allready and maybe will allow for even more detailed Avatars, but it's still a technical challange as I can imagine.
But we still shouldn't forget such ideas just because they might be out of the technical scope right now... seeing how the performance has allready been improved it might not be out of the scope in the future... it's simply nothing we will likely see in the near future.
masterim-doublea
Fri Mar 18, 2005 4:33 pm
#15
I see there could be problems, and i understend. yet other professions receve more "updates" than we imers do. Being in the profession we are we need tne most updates, our looks and images are always needing changing, we like to see new looks in our professoion. this is just a statment, im not mad. I did notice when i add fat to my person with comp armor on, (the weight slider) the armor just "streches." although this never happens with the muscle slider the clothing or armor never streches around the muscles but it does for the fat why??
masterim-doublea
Fri Mar 18, 2005 4:43 pm
#16
i did some searching, and i played the game for a few hours. i noticed 95% of males in the game were asking me to give them bigger muscles and make them taller.
i saddly had to turn them away and tell them "ur alredy at max" they say "darn" and leave. 
the other 5% come to me wanting to be shorter and to have smaller musles. yet again i have to turn them away.
it is not just me and the imers i noticer it is the whole intire player wrold that is looking for a im change. we are the profession that if u change us u will see our work running around the whole game. the imer profession can effect the whole entire game.
yes 95% want to be taller and have bigger muscles, mostly the muscles.
i saddly had to turn them away and tell them "ur alredy at max" they say "darn" and leave. the other 5% come to me wanting to be shorter and to have smaller musles. yet again i have to turn them away.
it is not just me and the imers i noticer it is the whole intire player wrold that is looking for a im change. we are the profession that if u change us u will see our work running around the whole game. the imer profession can effect the whole entire game.
yes 95% want to be taller and have bigger muscles, mostly the muscles.
masterim-doublea
Fri Mar 18, 2005 4:45 pm
#17
for females 99% want a bigger chest. 1% are normal. the biggest complaint i get for the female players is "my sholders are to wide"
masterim-doublea
Fri Mar 18, 2005 4:50 pm
#18
The changes i want would not have to be anymore detailed they would just have to be bigger or tallter or more choices. They are putting bigger newer guns out, so why can we have bigger muscles, taller people and more choices. just a thought, im not mad, i am picky and like to see changes. others get revemps so why cant we??
masterim-doublea
Sat Mar 19, 2005 2:33 pm
#19
Nouva wrote:
for females 99% want a bigger chest. 1% are normal.
And yet another amazing example which proves the theory that I must be one of 5 in my galaxy that plays a female and is a female in real life...
Message Edited by Nouva on 03-19-2005 03:41 PM
yes lol, it is nice to see some normals running around, but do u think the males in the game should be able to have bigger muscles??
Vash1789
Sat Mar 19, 2005 2:51 pm
#20
yes i agree that the options for image designers should be improved. Muscar tried to make me look buff but he coudlnt because i was at max on everything, and i still look really skinny.
masterim-doublea
Sun Mar 20, 2005 1:00 am
#22
See my first costomer of today asked if i could make him more buff, he was at max so there was nothing i could do. 
it is not just me it is everyone wanting aImage Designrevamp.
Like i said im not asking for more detailed body shapes just bigger or smaller or taller or shorter. The comp armor is more complex than the skin on the bodys. the comp armor is very detailed and has a much more complex 3d shape, dosent that cause more data transfer?? so if changing the bodys mins and maxes it would cause more data transfer than the system can take?? like i said coudent they just make the clothing streach around thebody like it does for the weight slider. like i have said before i am not mad, just picky. (but all others in the game are just being as picky as me.)
Nouva
Sun Mar 20, 2005 1:39 am
#23
for females 99% want a bigger chest. 1% are normal.
And yet another amazing example which proves the theory that I must be one of 5 in my galaxy that plays a female and is a female in real life...
Message Edited by Nouva on 03-19-2005 03:41 PM
Rrowann
Sun Mar 20, 2005 8:52 am
#24
Go pop in your Star Wars tapes / DVD's, watch them, and note that for the most part no one is really exaggerated in their body shape. Now look at superhero comics and compare the body types there to the body types in CoH. Part of it is just a genre difference in the MMORPGs.
Now also consider that about 90% of the people in game are at max height. If people could get taller, well, then those 90% would all be taller and they'd look around and everyone would be the same height.
I'd like tattoos, I'll agree to that. But I don't think Star Wars is the right place to try looking too bulked up.
NJ62
Sun Mar 20, 2005 9:53 am
#25
Yeah, nobody in SW is that bulked. I usually cry for joy when someone takes the time to say "well I'm profession X so I should probably look.. bla bla." Imagine that - looking a way that makes sense for your profession!
My swordswoman, for example, has a lot of muscle but not a lot of fat because it is supposed to look like she has a lot of upper body strength. My dancer has a bit less muscle, because big shoulders would be a bit inappropriate, but also a bit more fat, so her legs look a bit bigger and more appropriate for a dancer.
I think it makes sense for a swordsman to come in and ask for large muscles, fictionally speaking. But a rifleman... no, I don't think so.
My swordswoman, for example, has a lot of muscle but not a lot of fat because it is supposed to look like she has a lot of upper body strength. My dancer has a bit less muscle, because big shoulders would be a bit inappropriate, but also a bit more fat, so her legs look a bit bigger and more appropriate for a dancer.
I think it makes sense for a swordsman to come in and ask for large muscles, fictionally speaking. But a rifleman... no, I don't think so.
Ani_cul
Sun Mar 20, 2005 9:59 am
#26
I kind wish we had zones for muscle and fat individually instead of combined..
And definate height..and peircings..and horn removal for zabraks...
One day I hope to make ani the figure of her I slowly evolved wanting her to look like in my head...
will have to throw together a doll when think about it to post for the rest to see