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Friday with Means - April 9th, 2010 - New faces, Old faces
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http://forums.anarchy-online.com/showthread.php?t=572997
Friday with Means - April 9th, 2010 - New faces, Old faces
Work continued this week on putting more polish on the Daily Missions. As of last week everything pretty much "worked" but there were still some issues that provided "inconvenient" or "annoying" moments...and these need to go before hitting the Live dimensions. The team is doing a great job of ironing out any remaining issues so we have high hopes of seeing this one out "soon". I can't wait to see the first groups die horribly in the new instance. Ouch. I think this is the most challenging chain of encounters we have ever produced.
I had hoped *ahem* many weeks ago to be putting together a video of the new engine...but things are just not where I would like them to be. With the artists focusing their efforts on supporting the art team in Beijing with the production of the new heads/bodies it hasn't been a good time to bother people about making me grass. Fortunately the longer we wait in getting the video started...the more features will be in and complete. I am sorry about the much longer wait than anticipated. We all look forward to witty "vaporware" jokes....but it won't stop us from working on it....even link the word "vaporware" to Wikipedia if you like. Funny stuff.
Speaking of the new heads...part of the work in preparing to make the new heads was determining which heads were actually in use. The results were both suprising and NOT surprising. Heads 1,3,7 and 8 are unsurprisingly the default choices for Atrox, Solitus Male, Nanomage Male and Opifex Male. Surprising were the rest of the "Top 10" which only included two female character heads. The first Nanomage Female head does not make an appearance until 19th on the most popular list. The winner of the "undesirable" contest...with only 51 uses in the entire almost 10 year collection of data can be seen below...
I have also included some images of the new heads "in progress" from the Beijing office. This work began on Monday and it is always amazing to see the work unfold.
Have a great weekend!
Attached Images
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10.jpg http://forums.anarchy-online.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3860&d=1270826439
19 - Nanomage Female.jpg http://forums.anarchy-online.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3861&d=1270826443
Least Used.jpg http://forums.anarchy-online.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3862&d=1270826447
Nanomage Male Head http://forums.anarchy-online.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3863&d=1270826454
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Nanomage Female.jpg http://forums.anarchy-online.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3865&d=1270826467
Atrox.jpg http://forums.anarchy-online.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3866&d=1270826473
Solitus Female.jpg http://forums.anarchy-online.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3867&d=1270826482
Opifex female.jpg http://forums.anarchy-online.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3868&d=1270826496
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Comments
I thought they weren't messing with the bodies?
If were getting body redesigns that would be awesome!
Playing: Rift, LotRO
Waiting on: GW2, BP
Bodies are getting 'smoothed-out' - not sure they will look that much different.
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Smoothed out is good. Some of the models are a bit pointy at the shoulders and a bit blocky at the chest and waist.
Smoothing the edges will help the heads mesh better.
I thought they were just going to toss 2010 heads on nine year old bodies, im glad their doing something with them.
Playing: Rift, LotRO
Waiting on: GW2, BP
I'd like to see them do some reduction on the ass wriggling while running on the male avatars. It just ain't right!
They might as well just redo the entire graphical assets of the game and relaunch it. They just need the staff. AoC looks fantastic with this engine why not allow AO to achieve the same level? So it takes a while- the pay off is worth it.