Is it just me, or does it seem like the devs, no matter which company owns DDO, have twisted sense of humor when it comes to armor art design? I mean, some of the color combinations and look of gear with good stats are eye burning stomach turning garbage. So many things have pastels and lavender with green, or brown with brown accents, or purple with bright yellow... the list goes on endlessly. Either they're colorblind or are laughing at players and trying to see who can make the ugliest and best stated items in game. Heavy armor looks like a leotard at of the time and NOT armor. So many armors have the impractical bare midriff sexy look on female characters as well. It's just dumb. There are some items that look cool and some that are ok... but in general, the art design for a most of the armor is just crap. Can they please get someone that has some knowledge of real armor and also even some fantasy style stuff with an eye for color and nice looking design and art? Is that too much to ask or am I wrong? DDO isn't the only game that does this, but it seems to be one of the worst.
Devs having a cruel sense of humor?
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Enoach
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It was this type of complaint that helped to launch the armor cosmetics and has gotten us to what we have today.
At this time our best option is to cosmetic something we like to cover up the gear we like that we don't like the look of.
It would be nice if we had a way to "color" the armor as part of that as well.
At this time our best option is to cosmetic something we like to cover up the gear we like that we don't like the look of.
It would be nice if we had a way to "color" the armor as part of that as well.
FaustianBargain
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There is only one Lord of the Ring’s armor designer, only one who can bend the tools to his will, and he does not share designs.What is really frustrating is that in LoTRO armours and clothing look so much better than the eyesores we have in DDO.
They could do it here too
droid327
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I dont mind some of the more fantastic color palettes - people have different aesthetics and some want to go for the more fairy looking outfits, so if you want a teal and pink heavy armor, that's fine...just as long as there's black and gold and steel ones for me too
What really bothers me is the stubborn refusal to incorporate symmetry. Every single GD armor has to have wonky pauldrons, an asymmetrical girdle, etc. How hard is it to just copy, paste, and invert the right side elements onto the left? Save yourself some work
That being said, I'm sure they're limited by the very old engine: there's only so many channels of color, the armor has to look right on the animation rig, etc.
What really bothers me is the stubborn refusal to incorporate symmetry. Every single GD armor has to have wonky pauldrons, an asymmetrical girdle, etc. How hard is it to just copy, paste, and invert the right side elements onto the left? Save yourself some work
That being said, I'm sure they're limited by the very old engine: there's only so many channels of color, the armor has to look right on the animation rig, etc.
Oliphant
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Some more symmetrical designs would be nice but copying a half and pasting an inverted version creates those symmetry lines which then lead eye to figure out the pixels are all mirror, a not very good result. Needs to be symmetrical(ish) but not a perfect pixel reflection; that just looks fake and particularly bad along that center line of symmetry that forms.