If you're going to make the NS1 models for NS2 just remember to make the skins look the same, try do a HD version even if you have to re-do it, i have replaced alot of them for marines on my own server but they're buggy because i cannot for the life of me get animation graph working correctly for myself.
These are all very good skin ideas!
And @remi while you're at it ask @Kouji_San if the upcomming "primal fade" could be used?
Also imagen a rusty and torn deluxe armour!
Also some previous mod skin items like the black deluxe armour would be great for old supporters!
And if you add knifes/katana's/ns1 rifles.
Make sure they also have the kodiak/tundra skins!!
I'm all for any good looking community made skins, we've got some amazing skins on the workshop already. However first they have to get that memory consumption issue addressed, for that to even be considered... 32bits app hmm
Or maybe alternate weapon skins like this one for Ice's knife model? #nsgo
I definitely like the black plated with gold skin, I was working on making my black plates ones also have the golden TSF logo.But then with the aquamarine lights. Come to think of it, maybe we need to be able to change the color of the marine lights
material_illum.dds, it's not a shader so that would ALSO require materials, memory consumption++
I think some of the skins they have on the DMD server are pretty sweet.. Especially the orange one (i think it had the Half-Life logo on it too)
They could really go all out with the different color combinations they could do... It does kind of suck that you can ONLY buy them with your steam wallet (only reason I don't have the tundra pack yet) but oh well...minor inconvenience..
Now I just hope they quickly fix the bugs they introduced (server list in browser scrambling servers while it populates (the biggest problem imo) crashing on map change and when closing the game, fixing it so we get the "server full" message again instead of a "you may have been banned" message when joining a server with reserved slots...etc)
Seems like the consensus is that although many are OK with Black Armor being available in the store, it does go against what UWE has said to its earliest supporters. What I'm considering doing now is to just grant the Black Armor as an item to those that own it (for consistency sake, so all customization items are visible in inventory), but not have it be tradable or marketable.
We should look to the future / adding other stuff, rather than continue to dwell on the Black Armor. What other items do you guys want to see?
Also, this was my conception, not Hugh's; so if you want someone to be mad at, be mad at me.
I still don't understand why reinforced items and world cup shoulder badges are tradeable then. They have been "exclusive" too, so where is the difference?
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Back in the early days, there was mass outrage when an accident occurred that lead to maptesters getting Black Armor. The reply from Max that Kouji_San posted was the upshot of that fallout.
Basically UWE realised the importance of keeping the Black Armor limited as promised. They advised that if you didn't purchase in the pre-order, you would not be able to get your hands on it at all.
We have never had that kind of situation occur with reinforced, so there is no precedent with which to hold UWE up against and say, look, one of the Founders said this is the way it will always be.
All reinforced stuff generally comes through news posts. I don't trust the news..
. Come to think of it, maybe we need to be able to change the color of the marine lights
material_illum.dds, it's not a shader so that would ALSO require materials, memory consumption++
That's definitely something I want to do. Palette swapping the illum texture is very easy to do in shader and wouldn't cause a lot of extra memory consumption. The problem is that the glow of the lights are actually part of the diffuse texture as well.
Other models for the Axe would be sweet. As long as they all did the same stuff, it wouldn't make any difference game-wise. Some Rifle Bayonets would be pretty badass too. Rather than simply rifle-butting those pesky aliens, you could stab em in their beady eyeballs.
One thing I would like to be sure of is that no DLC breaks the theme of the game. Santa hats, purple bile bomb, gorge heart heal spray, etc should not be official.
I'm not keen on allowing black armor to be tradable, but adding it to the inventory as "Not Tradable" would be nice. (à la Subnautica special edition hull plates)
I still don't understand why reinforced items and world cup shoulder badges are tradeable then. They have been "exclusive" too, so where is the difference?
If you knew how, it was actually possible to buy the shoulder patches from steam long after the world cup ended.
I'm not keen on allowing black armor to be tradable, but adding it to the inventory as "Not Tradable" would be nice. (à la Subnautica special edition hull plates)
This would be nice so we could show it off in our steam profile.
It's painful to see the Shadow tier items below 20$ *sigh*...
See it as an opportunity..
Buy all the skins below the minimum price you think they should be sold for, then put all yours on sale at the price you think they should be. That way, you get your wish, and if anyone actually wants to buy them, you'll also get some cash
After @Saffron_baker got extremely excited when he thought a graphical glitch was a new skin, I am inclined to believe that commander skins would be extremely popular.
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I'm all for any good looking community made skins, we've got some amazing skins on the workshop already. However first they have to get that memory consumption issue addressed, for that to even be considered... 32bits app hmm
I definitely like the black plated with gold skin, I was working on making my black plates ones also have the golden TSF logo.But then with the aquamarine lights. Come to think of it, maybe we need to be able to change the color of the marine lights
material_illum.dds, it's not a shader so that would ALSO require materials, memory consumption++
They could really go all out with the different color combinations they could do... It does kind of suck that you can ONLY buy them with your steam wallet (only reason I don't have the tundra pack yet) but oh well...minor inconvenience..
Now I just hope they quickly fix the bugs they introduced (server list in browser scrambling servers while it populates (the biggest problem imo) crashing on map change and when closing the game, fixing it so we get the "server full" message again instead of a "you may have been banned" message when joining a server with reserved slots...etc)
I still don't understand why reinforced items and world cup shoulder badges are tradeable then. They have been "exclusive" too, so where is the difference?
Basically UWE realised the importance of keeping the Black Armor limited as promised. They advised that if you didn't purchase in the pre-order, you would not be able to get your hands on it at all.
We have never had that kind of situation occur with reinforced, so there is no precedent with which to hold UWE up against and say, look, one of the Founders said this is the way it will always be.
All reinforced stuff generally comes through news posts. I don't trust the news..
That's definitely something I want to do. Palette swapping the illum texture is very easy to do in shader and wouldn't cause a lot of extra memory consumption. The problem is that the glow of the lights are actually part of the diffuse texture as well.
Other models for the Axe would be sweet. As long as they all did the same stuff, it wouldn't make any difference game-wise. Some Rifle Bayonets would be pretty badass too. Rather than simply rifle-butting those pesky aliens, you could stab em in their beady eyeballs.
Something about Nostalgia Aliens hmm
As much as I like your recolors, I hope if they do anything ns1 related it is straight up new models based on the old stuff.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=120855757&searchtext=fade
He still needs to be black!
Brown, Beige, Grey, Black, Red. THAT IS NS, not this purple character killing nonsense
Like rocket league. Dollar signs and slime!
Mirror skins would fall in that category
This would be nice so we could show it off in our steam profile.
Supply and demand, if the game gains more popularity and has a higher average playercount the items will raise back up in price.
Basically if your personal value of the items is higher than the market value, you shouldn't sell them.
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See it as an opportunity..
Buy all the skins below the minimum price you think they should be sold for, then put all yours on sale at the price you think they should be. That way, you get your wish, and if anyone actually wants to buy them, you'll also get some cash
Win/Win
I've been saying this for a while now...