Assorted dev screenshots

You would think that when they created the UI they would have fixed it to where it would have fit heh

Never noticed that before tbh

MatrixRefugee wrote:

Rarebit wrote:

This one's worthy of a Community Caption Contest entry, but I'm giggling too much to think of a caption...

"Fans were unimpressed with McG's original vision of 'Terminator: Salvation'"

Croesis wrote:

Griffo wrote:

You should've come to Mara C, we were partying with Virrago, that's probably where the cat in the screenshot came from

I don't think so. Virrago was using his apply mask ability to turn people's RSI into a Cat. That cat isn't an RSI, it's a world object. It's still there and unless Rarebit can remove it manually, it'll go next Thursday.

It was probably placed by Rarebit who could have been looking into Vista clothing issues on the game server.. or he was just having a laugh.

Ah right! I didn't realize it was a glitch kitty, I thought it was just someone with the cat model.

Going through and trying to check that my mass changes to the NPC models fixed all the Vista stuff. Still running into a few stray things here and there. For instance, the construct samurai chicks caused some trouble with their unique models

I fixed the surface stuff, but they'd still make your screen go blank if you got more than ~60m away. ;| Finally just had to shut off their further LODs, so now if you can spot them that far off, you'll just see their hands, floating around. But at least you can see.

Spot the lone neighborhood mission contact who was demanding special treatment for Vista fixing:

I'm impressed that the vista fixes seem to be working, though im still curious if we can expect any sort of additional content outside of the new textures and missions.

And if you've noticed the like... i dunno 1 or 2 people who still want live events, i don't think there's many of them anymore.

Nicely done with the textures though, it'll be nice to not have a blank screen while sitting in camon and doing nothing.

~Darminian

So how much will these changes affect people using XP?

Considering XP users weren't glitching out hopefully we won't see anything out of the ordinary, perhaps a few cleaned up textures maybe?

Then again, whats the bets that graphics will look horribly wrong for XP users because of the Vista fixes?

For the most part the changes should be literally transparent for XP users. The construct samurai ("Warrior") NPCs disappearing past 60 yards is the most overt change you should see, and I'm not too happy about having to resort to that. Other things you'll notice if you look really hard will be:

- NPCs that had shiny surface effects on their gloves (polished leather, etc) will no longer have that shiny effect, for the most part

- Antediluvian simulacra will still be shiny, but it'll be a slightly different shine, 'cause I had to rebuild it using a new surface type (Vista didn't care for the old one)

- added an armband to male Hel Club Guards who have the purple caps (this magically fixed their rendering problem)

- if you go into Stealth while disguised as a female Hel Club Guard, you'll see tiny little strips (magic Vista band-aids!) floating next to your hands

- if you go into Stealth as a small male RSI with no coat on, you'll see a couple tiny little strips floating around your RSI

- with some female shirts (or naked torso) where you could just barely see your chest tattoo around the edge of the shirt while wearing the shirt + coat, as well as with some dresses that similarly partially hid the tattoo, that bit of the tattoo will now not be visible in that clothing combination

That's about it so far. I'm also throwing in fixes for clothing combination problems with male Boucher/Winter coats that were not Vista-specific.

Rarebit wrote:

Hey...what's that on the ground in front of NPC19?

Rarebit wrote:

Spot the lone neighborhood mission contact who was demanding special treatment for Vista fixing:

I'm going to take a stab in the dark here and guess the one that has the ghost effect going all the time whose name I can't remember and sure as heck can't read.

The Bag Lady also looks kind of strange... perhaps her?

Cervacius wrote:

I'm going to take a stab in the dark here and guess the one that has the ghost effect going all the time whose name I can't remember and sure as heck can't read.

The Bag Lady also looks kind of strange... perhaps her?

The first one you mean is Cerulean, and no, she's all right.

It was indeed The Bag Lady, and the strange part would be that her hair wasn't rendering. Also, although you can't really tell from that screenshot, her coat is all weird and shiny; it's all something to do with the combination of her open collar shirt, that belted coat, and probably also the gloves she's wearing. Fortunately, that combination is pretty rare among NPCs, so I only had to go in and fix a few by hand (her and Ms. Boots).

Ms. Boots?

Aye.

That didn't very much clarify who she is but ok. When is it that you plan to have this out to us? Wondering when I should finally upgrade to vista.

Mrs. Boots is one of the thugs who protects Argon (I think) in one of the PB missions. There's a whole crew of characters there, like Pixie Licious and that guy who's name is a Shakespearean word for a cat. I think Mrs. Boots is the slightly gothy/dressed in all black one.

OHHH that mission where you fight like someone from every tree the grey mkt, the white dressed ma, the orange duelist I remember now. I should redo it, it was fun, except one or two seemed to always walk out on me.

Ra2za wrote:

That's alot of paces 

haha that's what I was gonna say

I miss Veil

Rarebit wrote:

LtCmdr_Tsusai wrote:

Rarebit wrote:

LtCmdr_Tsusai wrote:

Any word on figuring out the face pseudo-model issue?

Say what now?

The vista face lighting issue.  (I don't consider the face to be a model because modellighting doesn't really affect it)

No, as I said somewhere at the start of this, I'm only able to fix the material (texture) issues. It'll take smart people who can add Cs to correct stuff like child model (hand and face) lighting, black full-screen screenshots, and annoying repeating game launcher sounds.

Okay, NOW I fully understand, heh

Rarebit wrote:

Hmm. The shiny belt buckle isn't present on normal black plain slacks... and those look a tad lighter/ more detailed... could these be the System Slacks?

Rarebit wrote:

Our prayers have been answered!

I hope the black headgear is added to the old corrupted farming or else the white headgear will be worthless.

jl10899 wrote:

I hope the black headgear is added to the old corrupted farming or else the white headgear will be worthless.

I hope it's not, because that grind is a female dog.

Well in the screen it does say fly virus immunity...

I would hope that white could be traded for black.

WTB

hopefully it could be a veteran reward eh!

ZaneZavin wrote:

I would hope that white could be traded for black.

That'd be exploitable with broken items trading to full purity. Nothing allows that except Elite Commando Gear which only trades Male to Female and not both ways. However, as it stands currently, the headgear is the biggest grind in game that I can think of.. much longer to get than Pink Gi, GM items, or anything else. And the buffs aren't even that much worthwhile. /shrug

Hmm. Industrial fedora hat .txa, sakura bandana .txa, apply to head gear components. 30 seconds of work. Ez?

Obligatory4tonyjaaaaa: Now about that guardian of the Oracle's coat?

I wantz a black headgear. I have a full stability headgear right now, and I'd gladly change it for a black one. But Bay is right, people with non-full headgears would also make the trade.

I hope we can trade the bloody white one for it, i farmed mine solo and the whole time just wanted a black one.

OMG!! TY!!!

SampleNow wrote:

Cowboy hat and bandana combo please!!!!

THIS

So is this talk of a black head gear just that talk or is it to be part of the game and if so is there a pic of it as yet ..

Yay bring on the black

Rarebit wrote:

Fantomas?

More uberness for the spy tree?  Can the Proxy and Utility Masters get some love?

posting on behalf of odj

Rarebit wrote:

Those aren't player abilities, just old admin stuff.

Can barely tell I 'shopped it, can you? >_>

looks like a PB/Sati Box beam ? or am i going insane.

Are you acctually going to go back through the old content and update  with new stuff? Cause if you are then I agree with you sir, Black HeadGear, something I've wanted since before the white 1 came out. But really, you should update the old content, like make a new quest in 01 for a white Area k, or put void shades with good buffs as a farm item in 01. Also, more boxes  in sati's playground, if your going to do it do it right, pls kthx update this game and make it pwn again, gimmie a date so I can know when to expect all this nice new stuff, though I'm probly going on for nothing, gg on increasing the hipe again, if only for a minute Rare.

Rarebit wrote:

All these screens are cool as hell.

My god talking about some old school shots! Pretty cool... would like to see more!

O_O very interesting... how long did that idea last before it was cut?

Whats the admin tab? Private chat for... admins?

I think you need to run 11.3 Zion missions then.  It all happened then.

NeoVII wrote:

Croesis wrote:

Personally, those LA layouts look far better then the current ones we have.

I concure.

I also concure. Seriously.

Rarebit wrote:

I want that chest Tattoo.