Image Designer Archive
Thread: Newsflash: ID Building (Tent) now on Test Center
Luti0n
Tue Apr 13, 2004 11:14 am
#27
Oh, and lets not forget: We should be able to use the abilities of the tents on ourselves instead of having to rely on another ID to make changes for us.
-Lution
Kwee
Tue Apr 13, 2004 11:17 am
#28
Btw, totally unrelated, but everytime I get a description on what the particle effects will look like I get more confused 
The latest I was told was that they look more like "holographic emotes" than hairstyle effects.
Guess we'll have to wait till we cansee screenshots hehe.
Kwee
Tue Apr 13, 2004 11:42 am
#29
Does motes mean movements?
Syzygy-Gorath wrote:
Kwee wrote:
Btw, totally unrelated, but everytime I get a description on what the particle effects will look like I get more confused
The latest I was told was that they look more like "holographic emotes" than hairstyle effects.
Guess we'll have to wait till we cansee screenshots hehe.
Are you sure they didn't mean "holographic motes"? That would make much more sense…
Message Edited by Kwee on 04-13-2004 02:43 PM
Korrack
Tue Apr 13, 2004 11:44 am
#30
Tent is cool as long as I can place it anywhere I want like a merchant tent and decorate it.Being able to register the tent would be good. If I have to be in the tent to do ID work, people are gonna pay a lot more for ID work if I have to meet up with them. All the ID work I do now, people have to come to me wherever I am. That will only work if I always stay in the tent.
Kwee
Tue Apr 13, 2004 11:47 am
#31
The tent will not be placeable by us.
It is only located in five cities (just got that confirmed by our dev):
Theed
Moenia
Bestine
Coronet (good thing I logged there, I couldn't find it for anything last night)
Vreni Island
Kwee
Tue Apr 13, 2004 11:48 am
#32
Vreni Island seems odd to me, is that a high traffic area? Other than for delivery missions?
Korrack
Tue Apr 13, 2004 11:54 am
#33
Do we have to be in a tent to ID? or are all the new additions tent only? Or what? That would just be stupid to force me back into the NPC city to do business. I work out of cantinas now. Was in Theed collecting music xp, now I live in my player city cantina. Please tell me it's just some silly bonus or something, or have they made me now work out of a tent of their choosing?
Kwee wrote:
The tent will not be placeable by us.
It is only located in five cities (just got that confirmed by our dev):
Theed
Moenia
Bestine
Coronet (good thing I logged there, I couldn't find it for anything last night)
Vreni Island
Syzygy-Gorath
Tue Apr 13, 2004 1:02 pm
#34
Kwee wrote:
Does motes mean movements?
Syzygy-Gorath wrote:
Kwee wrote:
Btw, totally unrelated, but everytime I get a description on what the particle effects will look like I get more confused
The latest I was told was that they look more like "holographic emotes" than hairstyle effects.
Guess we'll have to wait till we cansee screenshots hehe.
Are you sure they didn't mean "holographic motes"? That would make much more sense…
Message Edited by Kwee on 04-13-2004 02:43 PM
No…it's a little speck…like when the sun shines into an unfinished basement and you see all the dust motes floating lazilly around…
Korrack
Tue Apr 13, 2004 1:16 pm
#35
Kwee wrote:
Please read back up through the thread. Your questions have come up often
Sorry, I'm exhausted and have barely slept in over a week with my new baby, so I may just not be able to see it in your posts. Lemme see if I understand. We can still do our current ID anywhere as we do now without a problem. The DEVs are going to add NPC city ID tents where if we use the terminal or something, we get new ID features and bonuses or something. So I'm not being forced to go to the NPC city to ID, just to get the new content?
Sir_Voor
Tue Apr 13, 2004 1:17 pm
#36
Both holographic motes and emotes could make sense, the decoration by the door look something like a mote. and they could tie the motes to your /mood and emotes and have them change! something like
- /happy = bright color motes
- /love = red hart shape motes
- /mad = black skull shape motes
WOW! this could be really wild!
And no-one better talk back to me anymore, I'm now Sir_VoorCommunity Elder. ... LOL So you kids get off my lawn! 
Message Edited by Sir_Voor on 04-13-2004 03:23 PM
Kwee
Tue Apr 13, 2004 1:28 pm
#37
NEW INFO (paraphrased by me)from our dev, who has beenlurking in this thread, and said I could share this with you guys:
As I've said previously, the art for the tent was done very recently and the bare nature of the interiors is a direct result of our dev barely having enough time to place the tents and terminals before Publish 8 went to Test Center. He said we should consider Image Designers as being ina state of moving in to the tents and that they are still "under construction" He hopes to add furniture, decorations, and lighting, with each planet having a unique interior look. For example Tatooine might have candles versus lamps in keeping with their low tech culture. Oh and he said that although he wants to add lighting it's not because we will need it to ID, our new user interface will allow us to ID even in the dark if we want to SOE will not be adding new static content codeuntil Publish 9, so that is most likely when we would see the tent makeovers (oooo tent Image Design).
He hopes to add furniture, decorations, and lighting, with each planet having a unique interior look. For example Tatooine might have candles versus lamps in keeping with their low tech culture. Oh and he said that although he wants to add lighting it's not because we will need it to ID, our new user interface will allow us to ID even in the dark if we want to SOE will not be adding new static content codeuntil Publish 9, so that is most likely when we would see the tent makeovers (oooo tent Image Design). A big thank you to our dev for the update
*wants to keep our dev forevers*
Kwee
Tue Apr 13, 2004 1:33 pm
#38
Korrack wrote:
Kwee wrote:
Please read back up through the thread. Your questions have come up often
Sorry, I'm exhausted and have barely slept in over a week with my new baby, so I may just not be able to see it in your posts. Lemme see if I understand. We can still do our current ID anywhere as we do now without a problem. The DEVs are going to add NPC city ID tents where if we use the terminal or something, we get new ID features and bonuses or something. So I'm not being forced to go to the NPC city to ID, just to get the new content?
New baby!! Say no more, you poor sleep deprived, tortured person! /sympathy
Yeah I'm sorry my answers are a little nebulous at the moment. I have a query in with Thunderheart who's checking to see if I can reveal more info now that we're closing in on our MIni Publish. What I can share now:
- Old stuff, including our expanded color palettes will still be doable anywhere.
- The particle effects will be tied to the tent.
- There will be a benefit to working in the tent (details pending)
- The tent is public city only, but of course I am getting feedback from both customers and ID"ers that they would like to see it in player cities too, we'll see if we can twist some arms
Korrack
Tue Apr 13, 2004 1:40 pm
#39
I'm 6ft 240lbs. If you need help, I can turn anything into rubber when I apply the right movement to a joint.
Kwee wrote:
- The tent is public city only, but of course I am getting feedback from both customers and ID"ers that they would like to see it in player cities too, we'll see if we can twist some arms
Kwee wrote:
New baby!! Say no more, you poor sleep deprived, tortured person! /sympathy
My baby is 5 weeks old (was born 5 weeks preemie), but has been developing her lungs this last week. She likes to stay awake from 1am to 5am and keep us awake too. My wife has a cold so I have been doing double duty with the baby so my wife can get complete nights of sleep. I work 8am to 5pm, then come home and take over the baby and my wife goes to sleep. I live with the baby in the living room and my wife sleeps in the bedroom. Only been two days, hopefully one more of this and then we can share the baby at night again. And to think I used to be an insomniac, now my body wants to sleep and I can't 
But I love my baby more than anything. She is a darling. I wouldn't trade this for anything.