Guild Wars 2

I wanna know what armor skin is that, and if its in-game. We couple we a few extra revealing heavy armor.

love the bright colors and the shoulder pad, this is relevant to my interests so i will bump

like it but feather skirt is horribly modeled.
The idea is great but being hard to model in 3d it has issues.

Pretty sure its another NPC only Armor… there are a lot of them. You will be able to enjoy your giant cog armor next month, but this armor is too good for players..

LordByron.8369:

like it but feather skirt is horribly modeled.
The idea is great but being hard to model in 3d it has issues.

As a professional character artist I desist. It’s extremely easy to model what you want in 3D. You have complete control over how it looks in the initial modeling phase and only slightly less control when you import the base mesh into Mudbox or zBrush. The skirt should be exactly how it was intended had the character artists done their jobs properly, and judging by their pay grade in order to live in the Seattle/Bellevue area I’d say they do a pretty kitten good job at what they do since losing their jobs wouldn’t exactly let them live in the area long.

The issue I see is in extracting the diffuse and normal maps, and how ArenaNet likes to use flat surfaces that they smush their UVs onto, resulting in distortions from the original design. (Although by simply tweaking verticies you can achieve the original affect quite nicely with little effort).

All in all, if the armor isn’t how it was intended to look, it was rushed. Plain and simple.

On second viewing, it doesn’t even look like they modeled a high poly mesh in order to get this armor done. The lack of normal mapping and flat diffuse textures infers that they simply photoshopped their own rendition of the concept artist’s texture onto the flat polygon surfaces rather than doing it the long way to achieve an accomplished result.

Maybe it was intended to show off the long sock armor.

Kasmeer. <3

I really like her. Very nice character. Also, sexy, pretty but not cheap at all. Instead, always has that classy/noble touch… but without looking arrogant or snobbish or anything. Beautiful. Very well done.

^^

I hope they have the tools ready to start churning out armor at an increased pace.

SundayTrash.9562:

I wanna know what armor skin is that, and if its in-game. We couple we a few extra revealing heavy armor.

Lucky us; it’s in game now! My Sylvari Necro, Gabrielle of Vesper, is the lucky character wearing this armour, and it’s GORGEOUS! 800 gems in the gem store. The Aetherblade armour is unattractive, but this piece is wonderful.

Dante.1508:

Pretty sure its another NPC only Armor… there are a lot of them. You will be able to enjoy your giant cog armor next month, but this armor is too good for players..

Well, they added Braham’s armor. Which is ironically heavy only, even though it’s 95% cloth and could pass better as Light and Medium before being considered Heavy. /sigh.

Wtb Asura support.