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City of Heroes: “Inventing Wings” Developer Journal

StraddenStradden Managing EditorMember CommonPosts: 6,696
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Jay Doherty is a Character artist who is currently working on Cryptic Studios' City of Heroes / City of Villains. Today, he writes this developer journal about designing the costume piece wings that are available in the game.


Hey, I'm Jay Doherty, and I am a character artist for City of Heroes. One of my specialties is inventing wings for City of Heroes and Villains, and I am here to tell you how it all goes down.

With each new content update that has come out over the recent years, I always saw players making their own threads on costume pieces what they wanted, so I decided to start a thread on the City of Heroes several months back asking players what they most wanted. Within about two weeks 10,000 requests were made. So I started chipping away at the ever-growing requests. Obviously one of the cool aspects of City of Heroes is the ability for characters to fly, and not surprisingly one of the biggest requests was that players wanted wings. So wings are what they got.

Read the whole article here.

Cheers,
Jon Wood
Managing Editor
MMORPG.com

Comments

  • mastervalekmastervalek Member Posts: 2
    cool, fairy and butterfly wings.... oh i kinda like the way that the broken angel wings look too, maybe i can make baxter from the ninja turtles or something... they sorta look like they could be fly wings
  • mooshimmooshim Member Posts: 1

    Awesome work!!  Its really cool seeing a little glimpse of what goes into making the characters and their differents aspects. Honestly I would like to see more!

    Looking forward to playing again!

  • geldonyetichgeldonyetich Member Posts: 1,340
    I'm looking forward to Tech wings, myself.  I'm not holdig my breath on easily obtaining them as they're likely going to be hot items on the auction house.
  • DAMNIROCKASSDAMNIROCKASS Member Posts: 1
    I just have a question about the new wings. I know you can invent them but can you invent them even if you don't have the 15 month badge? I don't have the 15 month badge yet and I just wanted to know if you have to be playing for 15 months before you can make the wings or you can make them right when Issue 9 comes out?
  • LumynousLumynous Member Posts: 8

    Inventable wings do not require the veteran reward. The Veteran Reward Wings were intended as a preview of the larger range of wings thats coming in Issue Nine. Of course, the drop rate for the recipe needed to make the wings is very, very, low, so don't get too excited about these.

  • JadetoothJadetooth Member UncommonPosts: 372

    But with the cross-server auction houses, i don't think it'll be that hard to get some of the new wings.

    Nice preview of the new wings, i cant wait to get some tech-wings for some of my bots :D

    Now we just need the fame-system!

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  • VallenarVallenar Member Posts: 124

    Unfortunatley I have never played this game but kind of admired this from afar.

    This addition though looks really cool.

  • Arson1cArson1c Member Posts: 21
    This article is a perfert example of how the devs of CoX listen to their community.  For once I would like to commend the development community on such an excellent addition to the game.  Great work guys, please keep it up on behalf of your fans!
  • XxjagoxXXxjagoxX Member Posts: 148
    Originally posted by Arson1c

    This article is a perfert example of how the devs of CoX listen to their community.  For once I would like to commend the development community on such an excellent addition to the game.  Great work guys, please keep it up on behalf of your fans!
    They Listen? HAHA! If they Listen, Rather then bull craping around with costume stuff, they would  install lvl 50 unlockable epic toons for cov by now and IOP's "Items of power" already.... these 2 things alone people have been crying for months now!! at least a year or so.. i just stop playing cox about 2 months ago because i  was tired of waiting for them, thats after playing for 2 years off and on...

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  • SkullZero1SkullZero1 Member Posts: 3
    So, anyone else notice that the undead guy with the bone wings has what appears to be a Statesman Helmet?

    City of Heroes FTW!

  • dalevi1dalevi1 Member Posts: 829
    This is an interesting article on 'dev' development. I actually enjoy reading little snips from artists, programmers, producers, and developers on their internal processes. It's sick I know, but it really gives the playerbase a feeling that they don't sit around all day drinking coffee until the bell whistles.



    I liked the art concept photos as well. Overall a high rating on this article.



    BTW, we made wings by the dozens in SL 3 years ago!

    Played (more than a month): SWG, Second Life, Tabula Rasa, Lineage 2, Everquest 2, EvE, MxO, Ryzom.

    Tried: WoW, Shadowbane, Anarchy Online, Everquest, WWII Online, Planetside

    Beta: Lotro, Tabula Rasa, WAR.

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    Have CoX got an auction house and items now? or what? what did i miss? if this is true maybe i'll give it a try again.

  • JadetoothJadetooth Member UncommonPosts: 372

    Originally posted by Nitrius
    Have CoX got an auction house and items now? or what? what did i miss? if this is true maybe i'll give it a try again.


    Nope still no real items, still only enhancements.

    But in the upcoming issue 9, there will be salvage and recipes for crafting new costume parts, temp-powers and Invention orgin enhancements. There will also be an cross-server Auction house , where you can sell your enhancements and recipes.

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  • TheKrakenTheKraken Member Posts: 154
    Only problem with wings is that they are so awesome, that all my characters without them now look drab by comparison.  I have only two characters that wings worked for thematically, and they are lots of fun to see move around.  I keep trying to think of story reasons to give all my other characters a pair, just because they are so well-done.
  • PneulemenPneulemen Member Posts: 1
    Although i must admit the wings are well done when moving, i find it too stiff when your just standing there... even when your just walking or running, the wings are too stagnant, it needs to animate, during idle poses and walk cycles as secondary animation to truly complete the wings

     

    The only time wings animate is when your off the ground, by either jumping or flying ... otherwise your stuck with this cardboard thing on your back that cant even pose itself along with the rest of the appendages. Consider and observe the toon when hes just standing there. Random animations of stance shifting and arm folding happens... you could at least allow the wings to stretch themselves on their own or let it flutter a bit...



    Also perhaps you could fold the wings more compact if your going to make it so stiff.. a smaller folded state of the wings that doesnt take up too much , i mean really fold it and tuck it in ... otherwise please give the wings some animation during the toons idle and walk times.
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