Heraldic/colored armor petition. vote and sign.

[Soldier_of_God]

Below are a number of threads that somehow or another allude to what many of us have been dying for: colored and/or heraldic armors. im putting this up here because its been requested ad nausium, and I'm tired of threads like these being drowned by everything and forgotten.

resource for colored armor http://forum.meleegaming.com/suggestions-corner/colored-armors/

resource for heraldic armor http://www.mbrepository.com/file.php?id=2039

This thread is assuming that only CERTAIN ITEMS will be able to change color or have heraldry, not ALL of them, as that would be too tedious and frankly, quite rediculous. heraldic wedding dresses anyone?

all these models exist on the taleworld forums in some shape or fashion, and can be easily intergrated. above are some options for this to be added. if you agree with this, sign below, petition style. perhaps now we can finally get these in.

http://forum.meleegaming.com/suggestions-corner/heraldic-horse-armor/

http://forum.meleegaming.com/suggestions-corner/colored-armors/

http://forum.meleegaming.com/suggestions-corner/armor-idea/msg678099/#msg678099

http://forum.meleegaming.com/suggestions-corner/new-and-more-light-items-choice/

http://forum.meleegaming.com/suggestions-corner/white-coat-of-plates/msg688098/#msg688098

http://forum.meleegaming.com/general-discussion/purple-surcoat-over-mail/msg486907/#msg486907

http://forum.meleegaming.com/suggestions-corner/heraldic-tabard/msg496938/#msg496938

Sincerely,
               Sir_Edward_Astralis

Edit: added another option: add but do not replace current armors

[Joseph Porta]

Suggestion corner?

[Miwiw]

Do not talk about replacement!

[Haboe]

And what lazy prick makes an "add items" topic without pictures!

I WANT PICTURES, IM TOO LAZY TO READ AND CLICK LINKS!

[Panos]

OP I suggest you use the search button first..

http://forum.meleegaming.com/general-discussion/and-yet-one-more-thread-about-new-armors/

[zagibu]

I can make a better heraldic brigandine than the one in that link. I even might, if I had any hope of getting it ingame any time soon. But it takes the devs forever to implement new items, so I can't bring up the motivation to do any work.

[Soldier_of_God]

humpety bumpety.

[Tanken]

Would like to see this happen. I'd love for someone to make a light-weight armor for archers that still shows their heraldic tabard. There's nothing like that, and it's been asked for many times (in game I know of, on forums, not sure).

[Casimir]

hi

its signed

i can only approved

casimir

[Soldier_of_God]

bump

[SirCymro_Crusader]

Suggestion corner?

It's not a suggestion....it's a demand

[zagibu]

I have a bit of progress to show:

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This requires that banners are solid color (exact same color as chosen in background color script) + symbol. As you can see on the screenies, it doesn't work well if the banner includes large areas with different color than background color. This is not something that can be changed, unfortunately. You can still do multi-color backgrounds, but it will look probably better if you only do it in a square area around the symbol, and not over the whole banner. I can whip something up later if this is a concern.

Unfortunately, this is not all that is needed to fix the current heraldic mail armors. We need a texture artist that can paint some cloth background into those textures (preferably grayscale). This is the fault of TW that created horrible blurry undetailed backgrounds on those armors. That said, the mail with surcoat depicted here could also need a bit more details...it's a bit plain IMO.

I think that around 15 armors we have currently in cRPG could be turned into a heraldic version with this method.

[zagibu]

Just an update: cmp has mentioned in IRC that he doesn't like heraldics on brigandine and other armors that don't have a proper area to display the banner.

[Casimir]

that's a shame, they look real nice

[Inglorious]

I have a bit of progress to show:

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This requires that banners are solid color (exact same color as chosen in background color script) + symbol. As you can see on the screenies, it doesn't work well if the banner includes large areas with different color than background color. This is not something that can be changed, unfortunately. You can still do multi-color backgrounds, but it will look probably better if you only do it in a square area around the symbol, and not over the whole banner. I can whip something up later if this is a concern.

Unfortunately, this is not all that is needed to fix the current heraldic mail armors. We need a texture artist that can paint some cloth background into those textures (preferably grayscale). This is the fault of TW that created horrible blurry undetailed backgrounds on those armors. That said, the mail with surcoat depicted here could also need a bit more details...it's a bit plain IMO.

I think that around 15 armors we have currently in cRPG could be turned into a heraldic version with this method.

Amazing work sir, as always

Do you ever think you could release a pack, or perhaps step by step info on how to do this yourself? I play alot of native so I would love to see some of this in my game play.