The Big Giant Icon Thread

[Aggelakis]

This is my last post on the subject.  I hope next time I ask a question it goes like this.

Q: "Is this working right?  Is everyone's the same way?  Is there a fix?"
A: Probably not...  Yes, as far as I know....  Not that I know of...

Hmm......

Nothing wrong with yours. That's what the arms slider does.

Hmmm..............

[eabrace]

Enough e-peen comparing and posturing!

Indeed.  The e-peen slider is working properly.

[Codewalker]

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[The Fifth Horseman]

Noooo...  I said it had never done what it does in the costume creator in all the years I played City of Heroes.  That implies nothing.  It simply states nothing like that was EVER in the game.

There was, since issue 8 or thereabouts. http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Demo_Recording#Limitations_of_Demos

[damienray]

Wow...too bad there's not a temper slider....

[LightBlack]

Thanks Codewalker, when can we expect Icon to have an icon?  8)

Not the person this was addressed to, but you can set your own icon for Icon.exe. I personally have mine set to the original CoH icon. This is what I did using Windows 7. Instructions may vary for different OS's.

1) Create a shortcut on the desktop.
2) Right click on the shortcut.
3) Choose "Properties" on the dropdown menu. This will open a new window (A).
4) Select the "Shortcut" tab.
5) Click on the "Change Icon" button. For me this is in the middle of the bottom-third of the opened window. This will open a new window (B).
6) Find the folder that you have the City of Heroes program in (typically C://program Files (x86)/ City of Heroes).
7) Select the icon you wish to use.
8) Click "Okay" to close selection window A.
9) Click "Apply".
10) Click "Okay" to close selection window B.


Enjoy!

[corvus1970]

Wow...too bad there's not a temper slider....

Seriously!

[ThorsAssassin]

lol truth!

Now I want a body slider that works like the arm slider does :)

I was wondering as well why the costume pieces don't show up for Shadowhunter. I have wanted that bear hood since I first saw it!

Yes...I just quoted myself...

;D

[corvus1970]

Hey, self-referencing is an awesome way to show everyone that you actually remember the stuff you said online :)

[Risha]

Just FYI, my path always put COH in a folder under NCSoft.  When the game ended, I pulled it (and beta and whatever) out, deleted the NCSoft stuff.  But it would be /Program Files (86x)/NCSoft   for some of you.

[LightBlack]

Ah, good catch Risha! I forgot I did something similar :P .

[daveyfiacre]

I was wondering as well why the costume pieces don't show up for Shadowhunter. I have wanted that bear hood since I first saw it!

i too was wondering. but im guessing this falls into the same category as all the other costume pieces i really wanted to play with if given dev costume capabilities [snakes, tuatha, LRecluse]:

body funkiness.

i also wanted his staff :(

[Risha]

Well, I noticed some new tech-wear (if I recall rightly), before the end that I didn't have and didn't buy, and it's not on icon.

[ThorsAssassin]

Well, I noticed some new tech-wear (if I recall rightly), before the end that I didn't have and didn't buy, and it's not on icon.

You mean Tech Knight? It's in there. Should be anyways. Maybe it's only on the Beta client. Which client are ya using?

Oh and I am right there with ya Davey!

[Arachnion]

i too was wondering. but im guessing this falls into the same category as all the other costume pieces i really wanted to play with if given dev costume capabilities [snakes, tuatha, LRecluse]:

body funkiness.

i also wanted his staff :(

Apparently, Lord Recluse has an entire Geometry file for himself, which is all self-contained.

In other words, until someone figures out and or cracks the .GEO files, we can't mess with them directly.

We can however, slip some pieces into a demofile costume, apparently. It's tedious to do though.

In the mean time, you could always load an NPC model like Recluse in a demo, and see them.

I know it's not the same as editing them or having their individual parts, but eh.

@ThorsAssassin and Risha: You mean the below set?

Some Tech Knight Images
http://i.imgur.com/Im8Su.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/zijfL.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/7DdcJ.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Htaiq.jpg

[Codewalker]

Might also be referring to Cybertech (what the Cyberpunk set ended up getting renamed to), but that should be available as well, in both normal and NPC mode.

[Arcana]

This is my last post on the subject.  I hope next time I ask a question it goes like this.

Q: "Is this working right?  Is everyone's the same way?  Is there a fix?"
A: Probably not...  Yes, as far as I know....  Not that I know of...

How much simpler that would have been, true?

As a matter of fact:

Sorry if this has been covered, but I don't have the time at the moment to read all the pages of this thread.  My costume creator seems to be bugged.  In the body size sliders, the "Arms" slider doesn't make the arms thicker or thinner, but instead makes them huge or shrinks them down to almost nothing.  Do I have a bugged copy of the files?  Is this common?  If so, is there a fix?

Thanks for your help!

Nothing wrong with yours. That's what the arms slider does.

Well, that has NEVER been what it did in all the years I played CoH.  It makes the arms, from the elbows down, shrink to the relative size of finger bones or enlarges them until they're twice the size of the entire body.  That's NOT what it's supposed to do.

[MisterMagpie]

I can put up my badge icos if anyone would like them? Clothes horse and clubber, but was thinking of fashion designer

[The Fifth Horseman]

Please do. :)

[MREBoy]

So here's an idea/request:  Any possibility of an application or process to extract costume info from Sentinel+ XML dumps and convert them into *.costume files ?

While I did save all of my characters via dumps, I didn't save .costumes for many of them. If this is possible I would be very happy and could then fiddle with them, experiment with NPC bits & actually look at them outside of demorecords.