Arasai + illusion + SOGA = oops!

[tracheaspider]

<p>So I got my little arasai illusionist up to level 20 and bought her two fun spells, human and half elf illusions.  While these look fine (if incredibly ugly) using the standard models, there's a little problem with the SOGA versions:</p><p>Human: <img src="http://home.comcast.net/~madiarin/surrele_humannormal.jpg" border="0"><img src="http://home.comcast.net/~madiarin/surrele_humansoga.jpg" border="0"></p><p>And half elf: <img src="http://home.comcast.net/~madiarin/surrele_halfnormal.jpg" border="0"><img src="http://home.comcast.net/~madiarin/surrele_halfsoga.jpg" border="0"></p><p>Also, when she casts her personae while using an illusion, instead of taking the illusion form, she gets a psycho version of her arasai self.  First one is her normal look, second is the mutated persona with its pale skin and white eyes.  I kind of like the effect, but the persona <i>should</i> take the illusion, too.</p><p><img src="http://home.comcast.net/~madiarin/surrele_basic.jpg" border="0"><img src="http://home.comcast.net/~madiarin/surrele_psychopersona.jpg" border="0"></p><p>I'm curious whether fae or any other race have this issue.</p>

[selch]

Good one, I needed to see how SOGA can be more ugly than it currently is <img src="/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Velsha]

That second version one is cool!

[Chay]

Looks like some of the illusion problems before EoF came out. Before EoF your personae would be randomized. The skin color issue is also a typical illusion issue but magnified because of the base skin color of the Arasai. As far as I can tell it has to deal with the color pallets they use for each race not matching. Its also why the hair and eye color go nuts. It would be nice if they did something to improve the look of illusions but really I think they just as soon remove illusions from the game because they sure did a marginal job of implementing them graphically and mechanically.

[McDohl]

I get a similar thing with my Iksar, so illusion problems arn't just from Arasai. I can use high elf, and I'd get my Iksar's pink-ish scales as an interesting hair colour. Use a drawf though, and I get a bald head, and the skin a disgustingly sickly darker pink, which looks reeeeally off. The OCD in me makes me want to be able to tweak my personal illusions to what -I- want them to look like, and this would fix most people's complaints. However I think the effort of making every playable character illusion to our choosing would be too lengthly for the devs to even consider.