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Author:  Captain Xavious [ Fri Aug 15, 2008 12:13 pm ]
Post subject:  Custom Skins for BW
Anyone up for the idea of letting you define and choose custom sins for the BW arms and weapons? I know I would love to change the arm skins, and considering its pretty standard for BW weapons (and mine as well) to have the first skin slot be used for the arm, that should be pretty convenient.

It'd probably have to have an INI to configure which packages to look in, as well as defining what each texture is for (if for arms, M290, SkrithRifleSkinA, SkrithRifleSkinB, etc) then just give a simply Mutator interface to define what you want to use.

Unfortunately, I know very little about coding, and even less about mutators...

But this would be a nice thing to see sometime, methins, especially with all these talented texture artists around. :)
Author:  zer0 [ Sat Aug 16, 2008 12:36 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Custom Skins for BW
Oh Yeah! I'm up for it! :yahoo:

I also know little about coding an mutators. :confused:

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Ive got an idea, but it may be really difficult to achieve. What if we made a simple generic character (simple enough) with nothing really special about them, THEN you make attachments that can be applied onto their bodies; helmets, gloves, robes, capes, antennas, angel halo, glasses, facial hair... the list goes on!!! Also the arms can be retextured and the first person arms will have a texture to match, i think that something like this could be good for those who like the awesome power of customisation!!! Whew, ive got to take a breather...

Im guessing something like this requires alot of coding, modelling, animating and texturing, so ut couldn't be done by a single person, a group effort, a MAJOR group effort would be required... ;)

Also... this could come back to your idea about the armor that you mentioned in your to-do list... Cpt.X...
Author:  Glosmostinex [ Fri Jan 09, 2009 1:46 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Custom Skins for BW
hey, sorry for bumping it, but Zer0 idea is quite intelligent. not only customization is cool, but it can allow 3rd person animations!
so basically we could do 2 "default" characters(a human and a skrith) and each could have it's own bones and etc,allowing 3rd person anims, and you could customize it's look by putting helmets, boots, etc. It is possible, i think, since RS can put backpack behind characters, so why we couldn't put a helmet in the head? you could also change the texture of the human/alien, so that it don't look so repetitive.
the only problem with 3rd person animations is reloading, since the magazine in 3rd person is part of the weapon model, unlike the 1st person view.
Author:  zer0 [ Sat Jan 10, 2009 1:24 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Custom Skins for BW
i completely forgot about this idea, like one of my first posts i made here... but what you said was pretty much what i was getting at, although, there should be more than 2 basic characters, there has to be a female of human and a skrith... something (female i guess)

also, maybe just to simplify the 3rd person animtions, just make the player take the gun and move their arms around it as if they are doing something to it... and also a prone animation where needed
Author:  Glosmostinex [ Sat Jan 10, 2009 10:33 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Custom Skins for BW
oh yes prone animation would be much kickass for mounted weapons!
and to sniping too!
Author:  OCAdam [ Sat Jan 10, 2009 7:12 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Custom Skins for BW
I'd say to only make a generic human male and female. Reason for this is because the Skrith are RS's alien race that hasn't had any shown concept art for the public. So really we'd be making something that would probably be totally different from actual Skrith. Oh, and I'm merging that post zer0.
Author:  Dumorah [ Sun Jan 11, 2009 12:35 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Custom Skins for BW
i always think of the skirth as another name of the skaar lol, it seems they have the same wrist blades =/
Author:  zer0 [ Sun Jan 11, 2009 6:32 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Custom Skins for BW
yeah, i guess you're right about the skrith thing, being RS's idea and all, but i think that it would be fun to have more species at a letaer stage if this ever got made. also, textures should be a custom optiat way the characters aren't too similar to each other, i hate that in games, too many of the same exact person. BTW, is there anyone here who actually knows how to create a character?
Author:  Dumorah [ Sun Jan 11, 2009 10:18 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Custom Skins for BW
well one thing that would be quite cool is armour to protect specific body parts (like shin guards, helmets, etc etc). With items like this you could easily customize any character. Maybe what you could do is just make a bunch of random items that can be attached to certain parts of the body with no effects? Just make them there for visual appearances.

Like maybe a cape? lol that would be sweet
Author:  zer0 [ Sun Jan 11, 2009 8:19 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Custom Skins for BW
maybe also, make some items that are completely random: clown costumes, animal costumes, pirates, Hallowe'en costumes, sant clause, knoghts armor, coonskin caps, business suits, the list goes on...
Author:  Dumorah [ Sun Jan 11, 2009 9:35 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Custom Skins for BW
you gotta have the matrix suit though, thats mandatory =P
Author:  zer0 [ Sun Jan 11, 2009 10:25 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Custom Skins for BW
you would also need some slick shades to go with
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