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What would the players want most from the Art Department?

New areas.
Fixes to old areas.
Expansion of existing areas.
New Mobs. (domestic/pets/monsters)
The rest of the player races.
More animations for the existing player races.
New Items. (icons/models/textures)
Updating old races.
New guildhouse interiors.
Furniture for guildhouses.
Scenery (trees, bushes, fence, etc)
Clothing.

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Re: Art Dept Poll
« Reply #15 on: May 21, 2008, 01:56:31 am »
Female Klyros!
me too! if it was for devs Klyros now will be extincted ;D
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« Reply #16 on: May 21, 2008, 02:23:41 am »

Eye glasses
Clothes
New shoes or boots
jewerly - rings and necklaces
even walking sticks for the blind and elderly
(children need toys to play with also)



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Re: Art Dept Poll
« Reply #17 on: May 21, 2008, 04:38:42 am »
Har. This is a vote for options that are slated to be worked on sooner than later, not offer suggestions that are not thread. Focus, peoples.

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Re: Art Dept Poll
« Reply #18 on: May 21, 2008, 04:48:45 am »
Diaboli!

I second that.
You know what, don't even worry about the other races. Just do the Diaboli, they are the only ones worth caring about anyways  :P
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« Reply #19 on: May 21, 2008, 04:51:57 am »
Forgive me but I would like to see a few Ylian women around, The demorian are beautiful but....

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« Reply #20 on: May 21, 2008, 09:21:39 am »
Looks like we hardly ever had such an obvious result... But race models are hard to make, they require a remarkable level of quality, and hardly any developer is able to provide it - yet.

But there may be some undiscovered talents for the other issues. Especially, I think about "Fixes to old areas"... I am certain that you could avoid almost all invisible walls in heightfield maps, by correctly using the heightfield features. I was ... well, at least surprised, to see that you re-used an existing heightfield for the Gugrontid map. And banned half of the area, unnecessarily.

Before the expansion beyond the existing **road maps continues, I really hope that you will consider using the existing unused halves of the maps. Making and editing heightfields is simple when you understood the limits and features. I made a whole map with matching texture layer alpha maps, I just still wait for any kind of feedback about it.

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Re: Art Dept Poll
« Reply #21 on: May 21, 2008, 05:11:40 pm »
The poll is not only to guage the public's interest but to possibly guide how we focus our attention moving forward where possible.

The models can get done a bit faster, on thing we need is more animators of high caliber in 3dsmax, if you are learning how to model now in order to help with ps concentrate effort on making realistic animations. While the models are difficult we do have a few people who can do them (unfortunately those folks are also very much in demand elsewhere in life as they are brilliant in other ways also) but animators are still very much needed.

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Re: Art Dept Poll
« Reply #22 on: May 22, 2008, 01:05:17 am »
concentrate effort on making realistic animations.

I also believe that this is the hardest part. I am wondering how the existing animations were made, most of them do, indeed, look great. Breathing, bouncing of the hair while running, etc.  Maybe with some additional hardware? hmm,.. motion capturing would be a great thing.

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« Reply #23 on: May 22, 2008, 02:27:09 am »
I also believe that this is the hardest part. I am wondering how the existing animations were made, most of them do, indeed, look great. Breathing, bouncing of the hair while running, etc.  Maybe with some additional hardware? hmm,.. motion capturing would be a great thing.

Yes arerano.. certainly. Motion capture would be excellent..

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Re: Art Dept Poll
« Reply #24 on: May 23, 2008, 01:47:50 am »
I think th animations are fine as they are. The thing that i think is needed most is definitely to have the races filled in.
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« Reply #25 on: May 23, 2008, 05:23:25 am »
I think th animations are fine as they are. The thing that i think is needed most is definitely to have the races filled in.

You don't understand. Each race has its own set of animations. There's no universal animation used for all the models. They're all animated separately. And if we don't have the animations, we're not just gonna put in motionless hovering races. :)

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« Reply #26 on: May 23, 2008, 08:22:29 am »
That reminds me ... some races may also need a little tweaking of the speed at least. Like, male Dermorians are somehow far-jumping runners. But that bugreport exisits.

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Re: Art Dept Poll
« Reply #27 on: May 23, 2008, 10:14:00 am »
i voted for Fixes to old areas since there is still a lot todo (light, fix happening black areas, etc)

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Re: Art Dept Poll
« Reply #28 on: May 23, 2008, 01:16:08 pm »
I think th animations are fine as they are. The thing that i think is needed most is definitely to have the races filled in.

You don't understand. Each race has its own set of animations. There's no universal animation used for all the models. They're all animated separately. And if we don't have the animations, we're not just gonna put in motionless hovering races. :)

What i meant is that the current races' animations are fine, we don't need any more for the current races.

+1 vote for hovering race! :D
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« Reply #29 on: May 23, 2008, 02:05:02 pm »
After you've seen a dwarf swimming, you will want to have it in game... ;)

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