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Title: normal human armor screens
Post by: murasame on October 15, 2006, 05:02:55 am
ok so the game is still downloading, and im wondering what a couple of normal human (yilian or somthin) armors look like;
does anyone have a few screens of basic med and heavy armors?         ty in advance!
Title: Re: normal human armor screens
Post by: Karyuu on October 15, 2006, 05:13:01 am
Welcome to PlaneShift and the boards :]

You can buy two armor types at the moment:

Light Armor - Leather
(http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/264/ylianleathermq9.jpg)

Medium Armor - Chainmail
(http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/2629/ylianchainmailar9.jpg)

The last category that isn't fully available to players yet is platemail:
(http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/9534/01si8.jpg)
Title: Re: normal human armor screens
Post by: Kalika on October 15, 2006, 08:58:37 am
are all races going to get plate mail?
Title: Re: normal human armor screens
Post by: Karyuu on October 15, 2006, 08:59:35 am
All except the Klyros, whose skeletal structure cannot bear the weight. Chainmail is the most protection they can have.
Title: Re: normal human armor screens
Post by: Kalika on October 15, 2006, 09:01:13 am
 :thumbup:

sweeeet...well,

not for the klyros i suppose...

but still...sweeeeet

kalika drools thinking about how pretty she'll look in her plate armor
Title: Re: normal human armor screens
Post by: Parallo on October 15, 2006, 03:30:22 pm
Wow! Thats the first time I've seen the full chainmail and any plate. Keep up the good work. It looks great!  \\o//
Title: Re: normal human armor screens
Post by: Kezzik on October 15, 2006, 08:39:54 pm
The last category that isn't fully available to players yet is platemail:

player's don;t get to use a full set of chainmail yet ;) let alone see plate mail, the screenshot Karyuu put up of platemail is one of the Hydlaa guards at the north gatem to us mortals he's just wearing normal clothes ;)

I've only seen platemail torso on Darkmoon (see "screenshots!" thread)

though I'm fully aware a GM/dev with the right access can help themselves to a full set and various other goodies ^_^

it'd be nice to see some of this, as I'm sure it's going to turn up soon ;)
Title: Re: normal human armor screens
Post by: Karyuu on October 15, 2006, 08:42:53 pm
Isn't one of the guards in the Bronze Doors fortress wearing platemail?
Title: Re: normal human armor screens
Post by: Kezzik on October 15, 2006, 08:46:59 pm
I saw a guy there with it yeah, he also had a spikey shield (forgot it's proper name, it was the larger one GM's used to have) and a Galkard, but last time I looked around the fortress he was gone, a Dermorian and Ynnwn were standing in the place he was.
Title: Re: normal human armor screens
Post by: Akaye on October 15, 2006, 08:48:17 pm
Ohhhhh, the platemail looks friggin awesome!!!!!  :woot: This is my first viewing of it. I can't wait till it is implimented. Nice work Dev's.
Title: Re: normal human armor screens
Post by: Kalika on October 15, 2006, 08:53:16 pm
i dunnos if we can even get full chainmail yet...
Title: Re: normal human armor screens
Post by: Kezzik on October 15, 2006, 08:56:01 pm
we can't :] just the torso and arms (which for some races is unskinned still)

but you have to remember! there's no point wearing heavy armor if you're better at using light armor ;)
Title: Re: normal human armor screens
Post by: bilbous on October 15, 2006, 11:12:40 pm
It may be at some point in the future there will be tourneys with categories of competition based on equipment.
Title: Re: normal human armor screens
Post by: Uyaem on October 16, 2006, 08:18:17 am
Karyuu, please oh please can you make your graphics setup publically available? I've been fiddling with the settings a lot, but never could make it look good despite there's not that many combinations...
Title: Re: normal human armor screens
Post by: Karyuu on October 16, 2006, 08:50:35 am
I try to max a few things out for screenshots:

(http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/3214/0007pj2.gif)

It also helps to scale shots down from that initial large resolution, as it has a smoothing effect. Even without scaling down though the results are rather nice. #2 from below hasn't been scaled:

1 (http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/1752/01kq9.jpg)
2 (http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/6606/02nh8.jpg)
3 (http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/433/03rz8.jpg)
Title: Re: normal human armor screens
Post by: Uyaem on October 16, 2006, 10:41:19 am
Very nice :)
I once tried to run PS with 256x Anisotropy filtering when that was still possible to set, man that looked smooth - but playing felt more like a slide show then. ;)
Title: Re: normal human armor screens
Post by: Karyuu on October 16, 2006, 10:42:55 am
Well, with the supercomputers of the distant future.. (http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/6632/grinby0.gif)
Title: Re: normal human armor screens
Post by: murasame on October 16, 2006, 02:58:55 pm
so.... uh does that mean theres ONLY 3 types of armor? i thought there would be like 5 types of light med and heavy armor....... :( ???
Title: Re: normal human armor screens
Post by: Karyuu on October 16, 2006, 07:13:39 pm
I'm hoping there will be hundreds! (http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/4929/usedusedusedvi7.gif) This is only a beginning - we don't exactly have dozens of artists available at the moment.
Title: Re: normal human armor screens
Post by: murasame on October 16, 2006, 07:35:25 pm
are the colors of the armor customizable?

*edit*

well i got lots of ideas for armor and stuff, how bout traditional knight and samurai armor for heavy, katanas and naginatas lots of swords i got sketches out the a$$ of stuff yall could use just tell me where to send stuff to artists and i can help a lot
aim sn- monkeybanana552
Title: Re: normal human armor screens
Post by: Kiirani on October 16, 2006, 08:19:14 pm
I think the point is that there aren't enough artists to do all the art for these things, and the code for them ingame isn't really ready to support things like that yet ^_^

Yes, there's armour.. But of that many different types? How would they be distributed? Loot? Quests? Store? How expensive? How rare? Quests barely work, loot is unstable.. The whole lot of it's unstable really.

And I think it'd be better if the artists were spending their time on completing the models for characters without them instead of making extra decorative armour that will probably be removed/downgraded/wiped/replaced/whatever in the next major version.

Also, I don't expect to see knights and samurai around Yliakum anytime soon..
Title: Re: normal human armor screens
Post by: Kalika on October 16, 2006, 08:21:33 pm
i agree with kiirani

id much rather have the character models than extra goodies like "crazy kewl" armor.

start with the basic stuff and then go from there...
Title: Re: normal human armor screens
Post by: murasame on October 16, 2006, 08:35:14 pm
no im not sayin crazy kewl im sayin i can help with armor and swords to make it a bit more fun. a couple more designs would do some good and its pretty hard to disagree with that; but i'd like to help if i can...im full of ideas

*edit*

seriously man, IM me and tell me where to give some drawings to the artists they can make em 3d i just want to help w/ the games item development.
Title: Re: normal human armor screens
Post by: Karyuu on October 17, 2006, 04:13:42 am
Please don't post one message after another. Edit your first post to add more information.

We have a lot of ideas, us artists - what we don't have is time. We're balancing a lot of different art tasks at once.

*edit* Thanks Kalika! :)
Title: Re: normal human armor screens
Post by: Kalika on October 17, 2006, 06:23:24 am
 :offtopic:
i like your signature karyuu....very pretties

 :flowers:
Title: Re: normal human armor screens
Post by: Mordaan on October 18, 2006, 04:51:35 pm
Haha!  Those screenies look like a fashion show.  *Cue Right Said Fred*

"Iiiiiiii'm too sexy for my armuh..."    :lol:
Title: Re: normal human armor screens
Post by: Karyuu on October 18, 2006, 05:32:11 pm
xD We need a fashion video.

"Datruuuuuth..!"
Title: Re: normal human armor screens
Post by: peeg on October 18, 2006, 05:52:21 pm
At first we need all the fancy stuff ingame and available for players ;)
Title: Re: normal human armor screens
Post by: Kezzik on October 18, 2006, 08:13:44 pm
yeah!

we'll make cool videos but only if you give us the cool stuff! XP

mm blackmail of sorts? yummeh..
Title: Re: normal human armor screens
Post by: neko kyouran on October 19, 2006, 02:30:16 am
Haha!  Those screenies look like a fashion show.  *Cue Right Said Fred*

"Iiiiiiii'm too sexy for my armuh..."    :lol:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4694084009352879490&q=wow+too+sexy&hl=en

(wrong game I know, but meh)

oh and k's siggy has rabbit ears.  :P
Title: Re: normal human armor screens
Post by: Karyuu on October 19, 2006, 02:40:02 am
Karyuu is secretly a cross between a jackrabbit and a panther :P

The mesh-change-upon-equip system is a big step for customability, even if it does add a bit more work. What we need is a larger number of (rather good) modelers to speed up what everyone wants to see.
Title: Re: normal human armor screens
Post by: murasame on October 19, 2006, 11:54:58 pm
buy karyuu, can we expect things like knights and samurai/ katanas and other fabulous things in the future?
Title: Re: normal human armor screens
Post by: Kezzik on October 20, 2006, 12:12:27 am
What we need is a larger number of (rather good) modelers to speed up what everyone wants to see.

if only ^_^

buy karyuu, can we expect things like knights and samurai/ katanas and other fabulous things in the future?

I'd prefer to be castrated then see samurai swords and katana's in planeshift, maybe something remotely similar, but not blatant. these weapons are over hyped, and in some games over powered. too many wannabe ninjas

(no offense to Hart Sterr)
Title: Re: normal human armor screens
Post by: Kalika on October 20, 2006, 12:40:25 am
maybe im biased

but Hart sterr pulls it off very well :D
Title: Re: normal human armor screens
Post by: Karyuu on October 20, 2006, 12:57:57 am
buy karyuu, can we expect things like knights and samurai/ katanas and other fabulous things in the future?

Samurai and katanas are things of this world, not Yliakum. The cultures and histories of the PlaneShift races differ very much from the growth our own have experienced, so something that location- and time-specific isn't going to be found in the game. Knights however, since this is a medieval world, are bound to be found in one form or another - members of some honorary military rank, noble birth, etc.
Title: Re: normal human armor screens
Post by: Suno_Regin on October 20, 2006, 03:35:39 am
Only felt like reading the first page.

Why aren't all of the armors available to the public yet? Sheilds are available, along with a few glyphs like summon, but they don't even work. Could we just be provided all of the armor that's implimented and wait for them to be fixed or whatever and actually work? I hate having one half chainmail and the other half leather...on menkis it's disgusting looking.
Title: Re: normal human armor screens
Post by: murasame on October 20, 2006, 05:59:43 pm
(too many wanna be ninjas)
ignore ninjas and pirates i love samurai-i have a library dedicated to the history of the warring states, campaigns of samurai warlords, and the evolution of the mind im only talking to the ignorant fool who said too many wanna be ninjas;  :@#\DONT YOU EVER CONFUSE SAMURAI WITH NINJAS EVER AGAIN!!!!!! ninjas suck samurai kick a$$....but any way...to everyone else ya'll are cool, karyuu thanks for the help and for yall making a game in which we can expect many great things and i apologize to anyone who reads this and takes it the wrong way please disregard that idiots post.  we all look foward to seeing the new armors of planeshift. but something that resembles samurai armor might be a good visual armor with like 0 def....just puttin it out there ;)

Don't try to be clever and slip through the "cursing" radar ;P --Karyuu
Title: Re: normal human armor screens
Post by: Kalika on October 20, 2006, 06:41:24 pm
 :flowers:

ninjas and samurai are both lovely, here sit down ad have a cookie

anywho it doesnt matter which one is bestest :D
Title: Re: normal human armor screens
Post by: Croconil on October 20, 2006, 08:23:18 pm
Kary, will the platemail be available and show up on Krans?
Title: Re: normal human armor screens
Post by: Karyuu on October 21, 2006, 02:37:24 am
Kran will have platemail - the only race that just isn't able to wear anything that heavy/strong is the Klyros.

/me underlines "only" a couple of times. (http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/1001/meowea0.gif)
Title: Re: normal human armor screens
Post by: Croconil on October 21, 2006, 03:26:29 am
Ok, but will it show up on the krans? because not all chain mail does...
Title: Re: normal human armor screens
Post by: Karyuu on October 21, 2006, 03:27:11 am
It will show up when it's finished and when we put it in-game :] As will all chainmail.
Title: Re: normal human armor screens
Post by: Croconil on October 21, 2006, 03:37:26 am
Ah cool. Thanks Kary  :flowers:
Title: Re: normal human armor screens
Post by: murasame on October 21, 2006, 05:25:00 am
okey dokey *munches cookie  ::|  ....poisoned cookie
--------
100pirates=1ninja; 50ninjas=1samurai; 25samurai=an unstopable army that bones everyone \\o//

Ghaaa!!  :innocent: well uh... no more cookies
Title: Re: normal human armor screens
Post by: Kalika on October 21, 2006, 05:33:13 am
id never poison anyone...

me cries
Title: Re: normal human armor screens
Post by: murasame on October 22, 2006, 03:28:16 am
*twitches once then falls to the floor where he lies still and cold
damn cookie...