As far as building characters go, I remembered there were a couple of people on the CO forums that were good at building templates.
A template is a basic character without any accessories and minimal or skintight clothing that you can use as a base for building your character. The game provides you with templates at the beginning. But many City of Heroes players are put off by the basic proportions that the game provides you, and using the proportion sliders is a little difficult to get a feel for early on, especially coming off of another game that does it differently.
So what I thought was: How about I commission some templates made that more closely resemble the proportions of the character templates that City of Heroes provides you? You know - the basics, before you start tweaking with the sliders.
So, in City of Heroes, you have -
Male / Female / Huge
And although you have full control of the sliders, the game does provide you with some basic ideas. Within each gender category are basic settings -
Slim
Average
Athletic
Heavy
So I made screengrabs of the City of Heroes character builder at the basic proportions setting window.
I did this for all the type, making front, side and rear turnarounds for the CO forum to look at.
And asked in my post if someone could make CO templates based on those.
Bluhman posted later in the forum with the following:
Then go in-game and go to a tailor and open up the character creator (or create a new character). At the bottom of the character creator are buttons that say "Save" and "Load" much like what COH has.
Click load and you'll get a subscreen with a list. Find the above template images and call it up.
Now instead of the game's default proportions. You can have something closer to CIty of Heroes to start with (in theory).
Here's a few extra templates that aren't based on COX but that you may find useful nonetheless:
Templates
Bluhman is a good CO designer. Look for his posts and character archive in the costumes threads. He's got some really good ones.
I hope this helps you guys out.
A template is a basic character without any accessories and minimal or skintight clothing that you can use as a base for building your character. The game provides you with templates at the beginning. But many City of Heroes players are put off by the basic proportions that the game provides you, and using the proportion sliders is a little difficult to get a feel for early on, especially coming off of another game that does it differently.
So what I thought was: How about I commission some templates made that more closely resemble the proportions of the character templates that City of Heroes provides you? You know - the basics, before you start tweaking with the sliders.
So, in City of Heroes, you have -
Male / Female / Huge
And although you have full control of the sliders, the game does provide you with some basic ideas. Within each gender category are basic settings -
Slim
Average
Athletic
Heavy
So I made screengrabs of the City of Heroes character builder at the basic proportions setting window.
I did this for all the type, making front, side and rear turnarounds for the CO forum to look at.
And asked in my post if someone could make CO templates based on those.
Bluhman posted later in the forum with the following:
Quote:Males Females Huges A few comparisons/observations made between CoX and CO characters (as explained from the perspective of CoX):Copy the jpeg images found at the above set of links into your Champions Online screenshot folder.
- CO characters have comparatively much longer arms compared to CoX. Whereas a CO character's closed fist will likely reach about halfway down the thigh, CoX only reaches around the top of the leg/lower groin area.
- CO Characters also have very large hands and feet. Especially with feet, which have to be driven entirely down the slider to resemble anything from CoX.
- Related to that, CoX legs are more evenly sized as they go down the leg. In comparison, CO legs are much more curved. The same probably applies for arms, but if it does, it's not nearly as noticeable.
- The one thing that is completely unchangeable between the two games: The neck area of CO characters is much more curved. CoX characters (particularly males) have a much flatter shoulder line in comparison. There pretty much is nothing I can do about that.
Then go in-game and go to a tailor and open up the character creator (or create a new character). At the bottom of the character creator are buttons that say "Save" and "Load" much like what COH has.
Click load and you'll get a subscreen with a list. Find the above template images and call it up.
Now instead of the game's default proportions. You can have something closer to CIty of Heroes to start with (in theory).
Here's a few extra templates that aren't based on COX but that you may find useful nonetheless:
Templates
- Young Adult/Average - For the hero with a less-than-stellar physique. Good for agile heroes, young heroes, and citizen forms.
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11..._400403546.jpg
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11..._400403672.jpg - Child - Adapted from Smackwell's child templates from like 2 years back. Slight tweaks included, such as more realistic waist-hip ratios and whatnot.
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11..._400403771.jpg
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11..._400403808.jpg - Fatty - For the hero with a much less-than-stellar physique. Note that the female version of this one is highly experimental and I don't find it satisfactory.
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11..._400404350.jpg
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11..._400404600.jpg - Paragon - Tall, well-muscled, but still of a fairly balanced proportion. Good for the archtypical hero with super strength.
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11..._400403879.jpg
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11..._400403998.jpg - Androgynous - Female skeleton, more masculine proportions. Use it to create... Something.
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11..._400404136.jpg - Strongman - Kind of like the paragon, but with arms like hams.
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11..._381105434.jpg - Dwarf - If you want to play a comparatively short person from a fantasy realm, this should provide a worthy starting spot.
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11..._400405565.jpg
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11..._400405785.jpg
Bluhman is a good CO designer. Look for his posts and character archive in the costumes threads. He's got some really good ones.
I hope this helps you guys out.
