Great idea this business with the black armor
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Join Date: 2003-03-13 Member: 14462Members, Constellation
Join Date: 2003-03-13 Member: 14462Members, Constellation
<div class="IPBDescription">... Let's discuss how it could be done for the Kharaa</div>First off, I thought the Constie icon thing was a brilliant idea. Seriously, if people always received this kind of public recognition there'd be more good deeds in the world.
And now, a <b>stonking great</b> idea to let people actually CHOOSE how much to pay! Going the extra mile on the recognition with the black armor was a very sweet touch too. It will be cool to be able to tell who the dedicated fans are.
But how to do it for the aliens?
Multiple different lifeforms obviously means a greater cost to customizing the textures themselves, but I thought... maybe their <i>eyes</i> could glow in a different color? Would that be doable?
Or something else? Please share your opinions and ideas :)
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I'm now swayed against the glowing eyes idea... a darker and/or "more weathered" texture for the aliens seems like the way to go.
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And now, a <b>stonking great</b> idea to let people actually CHOOSE how much to pay! Going the extra mile on the recognition with the black armor was a very sweet touch too. It will be cool to be able to tell who the dedicated fans are.
But how to do it for the aliens?
Multiple different lifeforms obviously means a greater cost to customizing the textures themselves, but I thought... maybe their <i>eyes</i> could glow in a different color? Would that be doable?
Or something else? Please share your opinions and ideas :)
<i>**EDIT*********************
I'm now swayed against the glowing eyes idea... a darker and/or "more weathered" texture for the aliens seems like the way to go.
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And now, a stonking great idea to let people actually CHOOSE how much to pay! Going the extra mile on the recognition with the black armor was a very sweet touch too. It will be cool to be able to tell who the dedicated fans are.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Haha, don't you think this is a slightly ostentatious and vain viewpoint?
Anyway, would love to see what they have in store for the aliens. The glowing eyes is a nice idea.
actually i dont even believe that the kharaa eyes will glow at all,
im afraid you have to think about somthing else. Like
changing the skin color maybe? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" />
for example green skin for standard, brown / orange SE. you would not even have to
change the textures, only some lines of code in the graphics engine.
That way they'd just have to change a *part* of each texture...
That way they'd just have to change a *part* of each texture...<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I'm not sure having aliens emerge from their eggs with scars on them is the best idea.
I'd go with a (bit) darker Texture for Aliens as well, just lay a Black Layer over the Textures and modify the Transparency, it's easy as that. At least in Paint.net telling by the Texturemaps I've seen to Date (that Papercuts that are wrapped around the Modell).
Total black Aliens would be sure as hell have an Impact on Gameplay - noone should have an advantage because they had some more spare Bucks than others, that's why I wasn't sure about ordering the SE at first.
Ah, what the hell. I have my SE Code, so I don't care realy <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />
Well now, they do keep their memories, so it's not completely out of the realm of possibilites that they could "ask the hivemind" to retain such battle marks.
I'd like to see just a different color carapace, or perhaps different sounds/noises be emitted. maybe different colored blood.
part of having a certain colored carapace is blending into your environment so, I'd really want a color that looked like it matched the rest of the hive.. to be indistinguishable.
having different noises, or different colors sounds like a good idea to me.
And I guess it doesn't change much with hivesight, but by when hivesight was introduced, I just almost always kept it on as alien (note that I used "correct" gamma, with the nifty high tech calibration executable given with NS, which means that players were invisible in dark tunnels)
Excessive drooling... Wild Beasts of the Space, yeah!
That way they'd just have to change a *part* of each texture...<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I like this one.
(would be optional to use of course, since the black armor is also optional to display, I believe)
(would be optional to use of course, since the black armor is also optional to display, I believe)<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
[Plausible back-story for story continuity]
Yeah, it'd be like a cattle brand left by the marines back when we herded onii, milked gorges, collected lerk eggs, farmed hives, and set the skulks loose on the rats in the loft of the barn. Those were the good old days.
ROFL.. nice
...but maybe a custom egg skin would be ok too...
Now thats an interesting concept!!