Aye true, Black wasn\'t the best choice for the base material, it would  have looked better on the white fenki fur. Even the slightest RGB shift to lighten the material looked v.odd (a really muted flat grey) As to the sharpen filter on the 2nd image, I only had a crummy 3rd hand .jpg of the image remaining [Courtesy of Veromen] so wanted to increase the details that a few decent .bmp external screengrabs would have picked up on. As I\'m sure you know the MB fenki model had a vile way of twisting and distorting huge areas of the skin making any deviation from the offical skins clothed areas (with any form of detail) impossible eg. The thighs, shoulders & lower back.  Not sure how the new CB models handle it but maybe the seperate limb .png\'s have made it a little more custom skin friendly I\'ll have a bash at a Snow Leopard with a more PS themed tribal dress sense some time.

What am I saying! I hate Leopard print

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I managed to track down a final version .PNG (Thanks Pogo) Click on the Thumbnail for a larger version (364KB).

I love it, I love it! 3D modelling & neat illustrations... Is there anything you can\'t do!? Well done Cherppow *hugs*

/me makes a mental note to cut down on the pouts

This is just a little something I was working on during the MB days that kind of got misplaced during a system format. Never did get it finished though... This was a test screenshot I took hence the grids on the shoulders and wrists. At this point it was a totally (almost) redone skin from the base one including fur, the only thing I had left to work on was the head/face.

Oh well maybe if I\'m feeling Masochistic I\'ll re-do it from scratch for CB.

Heh if pickpocking is implimented how unrealistic would it be to have boundries to using the skill? ...as to annoying players , losing items is annoying but heh you don\'t play an Evil character to help old ladies across the road and open a soup kitchen . People shouting that their items have been stolen; the system message would say \"You\'ve been pickpocket & lost $item #\" so there would be no confusion as to where the item had gone. And even if they did find something had dissapeared a few /shout\'s about a pickpocket in the crowd would be cool!

Hummm at the moment there\'s not much scope to be \'evil\' in PS... well least not in a game mechanics sense. Here are two idea that i think would be easy to impliment and add quite a bit of gameplay!

1.) pickpocketing skill; chuck in an NPC Zak stylee that train\'s in pickpocking. R-click icon or target /pickpocket or something another player runs some /roll type deal and based and your skill & roll it takes an item of a equivelant value off a player e.g. max pick = 25 tria max items x2 so the thief would take say 2x rat hides or 25 tria. A check could be made against say... erm target\'s agility and if the thief fails to pickpocket the target would recieve a message saying \"$target attemps to pickpocket you and fails\" then a challenge is automatically made and accepted by the thief with no possibility to /yield. Would this work? I think so! an alternate source of income & a possiblity to use a thieving skill!

2.) Highway robbery; it would be groovy if you could decide to attack a player outside /challenge. E.g you see a fellow heading to Hydlaa or Akkaio to sell ore and you and a few other\'s jump out and attack. the target would have no choice but to ether engage in combat or /yield. Should the attacked person lose then they would drop a random item/items & be shunted off to the death realm... if they /yield a random item is given to the attackers  (or divded between them if grouped) ala monster kill style.

3.) Sneak attack; a charged attack (like spell casting) that leaves you open to attack? (drops defense) but allows the thief to hit the head for say x2 regular damage...

   Anyway just a few things that would probably go horribly wrong in the current climate (?) but would be nice to see in future updates.... PS needs crime (but in a good way)!

Ya this kinda hurts my head too!

   Atm I\'m a thief (I screwed my char gen big-time) and killed some defenseless rat beasts for two progress points. I then went to the magic shoppe and bought two skills in \'the dark way\'. my green bar moved up slightly (but only a very small bit) into the yellow but I didn\'t level up. Was this a silly thing to do? is it impossible (or at least v.hard to become a semi-magic user type spellsword?)

can you advance in skills without training? I.e advance in the sword skills just by fighting monsters alone?

On a comic note I got killed by the Carkcass (sp?) in the death realm for 3890 hit points

Oh btw I\'m settin\' up shop selling potions in dsar Akkaio if anyone wants to drop by...

EDIT: OMG! that sounds complicated Demar! /me pouts

Yep i\'m all for removing them entirely! (realism and all that jazz) after all how would you know anything if you\'d not met that person before name/guild etc. But at the moment with only one skin per race/gender you\'d never recognise anyone Not entirely sure what I\'m trying to get at with this suggestion... humm O.o something... definatley something