The Big Giant Icon Thread

[Bronze Knight]

We can get in game now? You guys are so COOL!

Seeing as I lost my characters I'm working on sculpting them from clay; this is going to help a lot with that! I Can get all those angles I was missing!

THANKYOU SO MUCH.

[Little David]

Oh ... oh man.

I'M HOME AGAIN.

Codewalker, you are amazing. I don't know how else ot put it. But being able to roam the Cities again is just ... it's wonderful!

https://i.imgur.com/zIwsaDT.jpg

Atlas Park 33, how I missed thee. DING DONG I'M HOME

Wait. Wait.

So you're the guy everyone's been talking about?

You're the guy in this gif? Holy crap!

[Shenku]

It doesn't save my creations..I have to make a new one each time

You can save your hero's costume to save some time, but you'll have to reload it and rechoose everything else, but it's better than nothing, which is what NCSoft left us with. :(

Oh, and I was messing around with that "ID glitch/trick", loaded up Pocket D, switched over to Atlas, and then popped into Outbreak with some interesting results of all 3 zones fused together... Trying to go into Nerva crashed the client though, so I guess it can only handle so many maps being loaded at once...

[Tyger]

A great step forward. Had to stop for a bit as I wandered round an empty city...

Making a hero grants those options. Make a villain and a Praetorian for the other options.

Currently:
•Freedom: Tutorial - Outbreak
•Freedom: Hero - Atlas Park 33
•Freedom: Villain - Nerva Archipelago
•Going Rogue: Tutorial - Pocket D (Ski Chalet)
•Going Rogue: Loyalist - Nova Praetoria
•Going Rogue: Resistance - Imperial City

You can save your hero's costume to save some time, but you'll have to reload it and rechoose everything else, but it's better than nothing, which is what NCSoft left us with. :(

Oh, and I was messing around with that "ID glitch/trick", loaded up Pocket D, switched over to Atlas, and then popped into Outbreak with some interesting results of all 3 zones fused together... Trying to go into Nerva crashed the client though, so I guess it can only handle so many maps being loaded at once...

ID glitch/trick?

[HeatSpike1]

Let's save OUR city!

What can we players do to help out with the #saveCoH cause, Codewalker/Tony?

The more the merrier, let us know! 

[Rotten Luck]

*loads up Icon... makes Rotten luck... Cries hearing the Atlas park song and looking at the statue*

Well it been months sense the force evacuation, It's still home. 

[Defiant Target]

Amazing, Thank You !! 8)

[Lavena]

Codewalker, you are the best. This is so fantastic, cried tears of joy yesterday when I finally flew around Atlas Park again.

Make me wonder how many people would fly around if you could see everyone that's checking out Atlas Park again.  :'(

[Ice Trix]

Thank you. This is too awesome for words.

[Ice Trix]

Also, fantastic work giving the ski chalet to us. I'll happily ski with daughter for hours now.

(despite the lift jumps etc not enabled)

So very happy.

[TonyV]

What can we players do to help out with the #saveCoH cause, Codewalker/Tony?

The more the merrier, let us know!

Well, speaking for myself (I'll let Codewalker pipe up on his own if he needs any help), the main thing I want is for 1) people to keep the hope alive, and 2) when someone comes along saying, "You people are fooling yourselves, City of Heroes is gone and dead forever," that you either ignore them or politely remind them that there are still people working on this, and that they are making progress.

Because as cool as this is, it's still not our ultimate goal, and we're still continually working on one-upping our own efforts.

[Lightslinger]

Well, speaking for myself (I'll let Codewalker pipe up on his own if he needs any help), the main thing I want is for 1) people to keep the hope alive, and 2) when someone comes along saying, "You people are fooling yourselves, City of Heroes is gone and dead forever," that you either ignore them or politely remind them that there are still people working on this, and that they are making progress.

Because as cool as this is, it's still not our ultimate goal, and we're still continually working on one-upping our own efforts.

This x1,000,000.

People like Codewalker, TonyV, anyone else involved with projects like this, they'll get us back 100% in-game one day. I have complete faith that people like that in our community won't stop until we're home again.

I've got a 4 year old son that grew up playing CoH with me. He was just getting old enough to have fun running around by himself when the game shut down. When I loaded the new Icon yesterday he said "The superheroes are back!" For him as much as for myself, I'll help to get City of Heroes back however I can.

I can't code, but if any of these efforts ever needed a tester, an admin, or any kind of financial help I would help out as much as I could. Just let me know :)

[grouchybeast]

Thank you so much for all the hard work that's going into this.

[Codewalker]

I know the doors are missing because they're summoned npcs.  However when I back away from a doorway far enough (across a 6 lane street) the doors appear. I guess when you're far enough away it fills in the holes with temp doors.

A lot of the building models have low-detail door geometry for viewing from a distance (i.e. farther than the entity view distance). The door entities fade in once you get closer, and the low-detail models are set up to disappear once you're close enough that the real doors should be covering them up. The LOD doors aren't animated or anything; they're just for looks.

Lol, I entered Praetoria, then went to the menu and selected "I.D." which brings me to the final page of the character creation screen... click next and it asks if I want to enter the tutorial, I say no, and BAM.

Ah, okay. There's a global "in character creation" flag that I don't think ever gets cleared, it probably normally happens as part of the server connection procedure.

Does demo record work in this as well.  At least that would let me walk about and record paths.

I don't think it does. My understanding of demo recording is that what it saves is more or less the stream of instructions straight from the server. It probably doesn't save the local motion prediction, which is supported by people reporting slight discrepancies between what they saw while recording and the authoritative sequence of events that the server sent back and got saved. I haven't actually tried it to see, though.

It doesn't save my creations..I have to make a new one each time

Yes, it doesn't save them. At its heart Icon is and will always be an offline character creator -- it simply grew the ability to take those creations out for a spin. You can save and load .costume files if you have any.

There are some related things in the works that may eventually allow for Sentinel+ imports to be used in so-called offline mode. It's a bit of a back burner issue though -- as I said while doing this sort of client side hack was a quick shortcut for having something to show "right now", it's not really the best way to go long term. I'm certain those efforts will continue progressing as well.

[tommyboytrd]

Oh ... oh man.

I'M HOME AGAIN.

Codewalker, you are amazing. I don't know how else ot put it. But being able to roam the Cities again is just ... it's wonderful!

Wait. Wait.

So you're the guy everyone's been talking about?

You're the guy in this gif? Holy crap!

I have no clue if I've been talked about, but yeah, that's me and I loves the drums.

Also, I didn't make that gif. Wasn't even my idea. I just squeed at the idea to help make it.

[Shenku]

ID glitch/trick?

Lol, I entered Praetoria, then went to the menu and selected "I.D." which brings me to the final page of the character creation screen... click next and it asks if I want to enter the tutorial, I say no, and BAM.

I just got a mix of outbreak and Nerva doing it again with a non-Praetorian.

Essentially, when you load up in a map, go to your ID from the game's menu (pops you back into the character creation screen) and change your alignment or whether or not you're entering the tutorial, and when you hit accept it'll load the new map without unloading the first one. Basically it results in both maps being present at the same time, essentially "fusing" the two maps together. I was able to get three maps up at a time before the client crashed on me, but others might be able to do more possibly (didn't have time to test it further last night)...

I kind of hope this glitch works with the other maps when the ability to load them is added. Can you imagine merging something like The Chantry with Atlas Park? Gotta be interesting to see... :P

[xXHalfSliceXx]

While i just opened the Icon, I am at the first character creator screen, i cannot click on anything. my mouse is there, but nothing highlights.

[BenshowSly]

As people can see, I'm not quite a huge writer on this forum (first post in fact) but I visit often. I would like to thank you everyone who could make all this possible. I thought I wouldn't go in it, thinking it is more painful than anything but I ended up going and... well, I won't go describing how it felt... I think we all know how it went...

Now I know many people asked lot of things for the next time something can be done. All those requests are good and I would like them as well. Though, I might have one that is different (unless someone did mention it and I forgot, I'm sorry). I will let you decide if it is doable or not.

I think that even if we can't use powers or anything, it would be good to have citizens walking around in the areas. I like to travel around but... I feel like I am in a ghost city and while it is great to visit, it makes me sad to see no one around. For example, it's hurtful to see Ms Liberty not standing at her usual spot in Atlas Park. Even if we can't talk or interact with anyone, at least, the city would feel alive again in a way...

Just a suggestion though and know that I'm very grateful for the work you guys have done :)

Thank you!

[Arachnion]

I too am looking forward to loading any other map.

Codewalker, you just friggin rule, man!

:)

[peachypeach]

Oh WOW!! Hello, fellow coh-ers :) I'm having issues with the mac client.....it's so involved......if anyone can help pls message meh!!!! :o