Skeletal Revamp

[Volkov545]

What exactly do we know about this so far? Is it going to involve new skins or just posture/movement changes?

[Deadrus]

We know that the Sarnak will be the first race to implement it when RoK comes out. It shouldnt change the posture of rasces though it could. What I read from a dev said that the Skeletal Revamp will mostly be a behind the senes change whereby the devs can make a biger variety of armor and clothing so that it will automaticly fit to the races instead of haveing to craft the same peice of armor over and over and over agian for every race in normal and soga models. Anothing thing is that there is said to be a new unified model comeing out for the races as well. So there wont be a normal model and soga model they will all be this new model. We dont konw when this is comeing out but I would assume this would come out the same time as when the revamp the skeletons because the whole point of the revamp is to reduce the number of the same peices of armor they have to make so makeing it so ther is only 1 model for every race would make it that much easier.

[Volkov545]

if they are worried about making more model armor, it seems to suggest that RoK graphics are already being planned around this skeletal revamp to save a lot of effort in creating the expansion... I wonder if this means the skeletal revamp is before RoK.... or if RoK will simply not introduce new armor designs until the revamp is complete..

[Deadrus]

Id LOVE to see the skeletal revamp come before RoK comes out. But acroding to what ive read about fan fair they said the sarnak will be the FIRST to have the skeletal revamp because they are a brand new race and all for player characters. So if they are the first i wouldn't expect it to come out before ROK. (but it would be AWESOME if it did) But I wouldnt expect the skeletal revamp to be done on all the character for like 3-6 months after ROK. (just being realistic but it would be nice if im way off and they come out sooner then that)

[Josgar]

Character Model/Skeleton Revamp As of Fan Faire 2007 (May not remain the same way): Not all models will be based off the human model (Frogloks would look weird then eh?) Byebye alternate models... instead there will be one Standard model on which you can choose the Regular head or alternate model head Armor is going to fit better and not be stretched in certain areas Fingers, Toes, Belly Buttons, and such will be added Say good bye to oven mitt gloves. Ummmm...? The models will probabbly look slightly better because of the graphical additions Character models are getting undergarments... (In case that bug where armor disappears shows up again...)

[Volkov545]

I wonder if they will find a way for iksar's tails to fit on mounts... probably not

[Suprchik407]

All I know is it better not look like human bodies wearing animal heads (hint Vanguard) - that looked completely weird and turned me off immediatly. The sarnak model being shown is definatly not in that vein but I hope my ratonga still looks like a rat and not a little boy with a rat mask on. I also hope that with this revamp we will see a better body for the human females and more facial customizations, in addition to fur and hair patterns.  And lastly for petes sake please make available the pink peasent dresses I see around town, npcs have them but not us grrr.

[miliskel]

they better keep soga ! i hate the original apearance on everything except ogres..

[Geinoch]

I'm agree with you on some points Miliskel, I prefer SOGA models on everything except Ogre... But I'm for a completly new merged model because I hate the ******* EMO style of SOGA

[DanaDark]

Geinoch wrote:

I'm agree with you on some points Miliskel, I prefer SOGA models on everything except Ogre... But I'm for a completly new merged model because I hate the ******* EMO style of SOGA

EmoQuest...

[Geinoch]

EmoQuest...

You know it DanaDark =D, my toon is always in a dark corner with his black /showhood on, writing in his diary some poems about his beloved girl who stab his heart, his feelings and future suicide projects...

(sorry for my english)

[DanaDark]

Geinoch wrote:

EmoQuest...

You know it DanaDark =D, my toon is always in a dark corner with his black /showhood on, writing in his diary some poems about his beloved girl who stab his heart, his feelings and future suicide projects...

(sorry for my english)

SOGA High Elf Male = The epitome of Emo.

[miliskel]

Romero@Mistmoore wrote:

Geinoch wrote:

EmoQuest...

You know it DanaDark =D, my toon is always in a dark corner with his black /showhood on, writing in his diary some poems about his beloved girl who stab his heart, his feelings and future suicide projects...

(sorry for my english)

SOGA High Elf Male = The epitome of Emo.

faes and arasai and emo! us high elves aernt that emo..are we?

[DanaDark]

OMG the Fairies all have the best emo hairs ever! <3 <3 <3 lol

[Guy De Alsace]

I hope they dont "japanify" the game by making the character models lean just a little too far towards Anime "styles". If they are going to introduce more diversity in how models appear then they should keep the more natural style instead of the exaggerated style of SOGA. I welcome oriental looking toons provided they are based on actual oriental people and not oriental cartoons.

My own toon is Oriental (Tsientsin) but I choose original models over SOGA because I can make a reasonable stab at a realistically oriental face in the original model. I cant do it in SOGA at all, i've tried.

[Mirander_1]

*shrugs* I just want the new models to look normal, especially in the face.  SOGA is a tad too stylized (and a tad emo) and limited in customization (plus, ya know, the women being all skeletal and such), and the original models, by and large, tend to look playdoh-y and often quite ugly (really, I defy anyone to make a good looking human male with the original models, especially with no facial hair). Hopefully the new models will bring in changes that will make the majority of the playerbase able to stand looking at them .