craft your own weapon and armor skins?
Can you elaborate on what you want and/or how it would work? You certainly couldn’t allow players to upload their own custom meshes and textures (since someone would almost immediately create “nude” skins and then the feature would have to be shelved).
You might be able to get away with something like the mix-and-match armor customization from Neverwinter Nights, wherein everything was modular and players could switch between different pauldrons, forearms, gloves, leggings, skirts, boots, etc (and similarly – different handles, crossguards, and blades for their weapons). The problem with that kind of system is that it’s either very restrictive for the 3d artists (limits their creativity, forces everything to be similar), or it leads to a lot of clipping when the wrong components are matched together.
Im not sure how to implament it. But lets say you wanted to make a costum sword. You could design the sword how you want it to look, etchings, hilt, ect. than when you have got your drawing completed in game. you go to the crafting station and craft it. maybe there could be a desk in your house, when they add it. and when you go to your desk there could be tools, that would allow you to customize item skins. or completely make your own, under some fixed parameters. after you have completed it you go to crafting table with the required mats and make the item.
It does sound complex, but no other mmo has a way to costome design your own equipment. example lets say i want a shield. I pick from a bunch of shapes, and some patterns. Or maybe I draw my own patterns, and add it to the shield. Than the i pick a design or draw some cool looking design to put on the shield. Next if I want to add some glow or special effects there is another list of things I could add to it. The stats on the shield would be what they normally would if you crafted it, but the look would be your own ideas.
Maybe they should release themes for guild armour.
Don’t mess with Ascalon!
you can already this you can craft a lot of skins on lower lvl that you can transmute to the higher lvl you craft.
I would love to have more control over appearance skins. It would make sense to have crafters be given some choices as to the skins of their products, instead of having to burn transmutation stones every time we update out gear. There already are racial skins available. Open options for crafters to choose the skin of of their product, or, parts of their products.
thats not easy at all, you are practically asking they let us to develop/design our own skins inside the implemented lines (game)
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thats not easy at all, you are practically asking they let us to develop/design our own skins inside the implemented lines (game)
Im not saying it is easy. look anet made a great game with a lot of features not seen in any mmos past. But it will not be long now before a comapny developes a completely individualized game. One with costume everything, and freedome beyound anything we have seen. Its all about who gets there first.
As far as it being easy or hard, I dont care much Im not looking for problems, just solutions. Blizzard has been working on a new mmo for a few years now, and Im sure there are a lot of idease they are throwing inbto the pot. Gw2 is great but I dont get why they do some things and not others. No matter what happens anet will always keeep the game feeling like there are limitations. I did not like WOW that much, but one thing it had was a feeling of freedom.
Anet even said it in a press confrence, " we want the gamer to play the game we made the way we made it" the problem is no one wants to play a game with rules, gamers want the freedom to do what they want in game just like in real life. GW 1 was great but with the obvious limitations, WOW was good for an hour than it was all the same. GW2 is complettely diffrent, but where are we going with it???