The Big Giant Icon Thread

[mikoroshi]

Titan Icon is *the* character creator we need, and none other.

But is it the character creator this City deserves?

[MisterMagpie]

A couple of pattern edits I have done on my end. The metallic pattern replaces the "checkers" pattern and the simple stripe pattern replaces "stars 1". This is really where I would like to be able to add to the choices rather than replace them. I love classic spandex options and if I could, I'd keep adding to the patterns as an idea came up. I really do not like replacing existing options.

Oh, those are NICE. I hope someone figures out how to add. I'd love to have those as an option when creating things.

[ArachnosCommander]

Thought: if there is a chance to add costume files, rather than replace, let's try to add our own category rather than mess with replacing original/legacy files.

Was thinking if there was a way to duplicate the Zombies! category in the client, we could just replace the items in the duplicate category, link them to a pre-existing frame, then we could make the character creator grow. Would be amazing what we could do especially with all of the talented artists we have in this community!

[Garble]

Hi everyone!

I wanted to thank Codewalker and others for doing the formerly thought impossible and giving us this awesome toy!

What kind of costumes are available for I24 that aren't available for the I23 client? I tried downloading the 24 from torrent (Mac) and after downloading it, it won't run. It doesn't give an error message or anything. It just acts like it's going to load then does nothing. I've tried running it both unmodified and with the changes for icon and either way it does nothing.
I had to download the I24 because I had only been invited to Beta back when COV started.

The I23 works fine, though and I'm really grateful for that. I'm just wondering what I'm missing.

[The Fifth Horseman]

Cybertech, Tech Knight ( I think), Post-Apocalyptic and Imperial Dynasty are ones I remember.

[Fennec]

Cybertech, Tech Knight ( I think), Post-Apocalyptic and Imperial Dynasty are ones I remember.

Imperial Dynasty is available in the I23 client.  You forgot Cosmic Corsair.  :)

[Mister Bison]

I have a question. Instead of having the whole game with all the (for now) useless pigg files like all the zones and NPCs, can't we just pack all the PC geometry and textures along with just everything else the character creator part needs ? That would be the "standalone" character creator everybody shouts to.

I think it just needs Icon also disabling the game's checking of some files' presence (namely, the ones it won't need).

[Felderburg]

I have a question. Instead of having the whole game with all the (for now) useless pigg files like all the zones and NPCs, can't we just pack all the PC geometry and textures along with just everything else the character creator part needs ? That would be the "standalone" character creator everybody shouts to.

I think it just needs Icon also disabling the game's checking of some files' presence (namely, the ones it won't need).

Something like this would be cool, and would be helpful as people move on to new PCs and such. Trimming the CoH client so that it was just the costume creator would save space and time.

[Arachnion]

Something like this would be cool, and would be helpful as people move on to new PCs and such. Trimming the CoH client so that it was just the costume creator would save space and time.

Codewalker would be better suited to look into this, but I might check it out myself sometime.

8)

[Codewalker]

I'm unlikely to do that, since one of the ulterior motives of writing Icon was to make sure that people held on to and didn't delete their COH files.

You know, just in case it might be useful to have the whole thing around at some point.

[Atlantea]

OK, I just built a new PC (Win 7), so I don't have CoX on it.  However, I still have my old files on my old PC (Win XP)

So, if I install the game using the old installer, the copy the last code-base over it from the old machine, should that give me access?  Or, is all that too much work, and all I have to do is copy the code from the XP machine to the Win 7 machine?  I mean I don't *need* the link from the desktop to my game code, right?  Is that all I would lose by just doing a straight copy rather than the install/copy over thing...

Oh, and BTW... If anybody is interested or cares, when looking through my saved install files to decide what to put on my new PC, I found the standalone character creator from the failed overseas launch.  Does anybody want it?   ;D

Have you considered simply installing the old drive in your new computer's extra drive bay? As long as you make sure the old drive is not being read as the primary drive, it should be safe to simply use it as extra memory. I think you could simply run COH from the old drive then.

[Mister Bison]

I'm unlikely to do that, since one of the ulterior motives of writing Icon was to make sure that people held on to and didn't delete their COH files.

You know, just in case it might be useful to have the whole thing around at some point.

You're talking to those who have the full game already, I was thinking of those that don't even have the game lying around anymore. Or not shapely (up to date) enough. Those only need the character creator.

[Arcana]

I have a question. Instead of having the whole game with all the (for now) useless pigg files like all the zones and NPCs, can't we just pack all the PC geometry and textures along with just everything else the character creator part needs ? That would be the "standalone" character creator everybody shouts to.

I think it just needs Icon also disabling the game's checking of some files' presence (namely, the ones it won't need).

If someone really wanted to investigate this (this would be way down on my list of things to do) I will point out that as of City of Heroes Freedom the client was designed to begin working while streaming down the needed files from an update server: the character creator was designed to work with just the first stage files.  In other words, the devs did most of the work necessary to make this happen already.

I would, however, strongly discourage people from deleting client files that have a long-term interest in the future of the game.

[Arcana]

Have you considered simply installing the old drive in your new computer's extra drive bay? As long as you make sure the old drive is not being read as the primary drive, it should be safe to simply use it as extra memory. I think you could simply run COH from the old drive then.

As long as all the required files are there, you can pretty much copy the game client anywhere and run it from any directory.  However, if you run it from a different place than it was originally installed or run it on a new PC where it has never run before all the game client settings will be reset to defaults.  Things like screen resolution, graphics and sound settings, windowed or full screen, chat logging, mouse inversion, etc.  But it will run.

[pewlagon]

Forgive me for being a newb, but (I own a PC) how do I install this? Sadly, I'm a step by step person here and the first post doesn't explain much.

[Arachnion]

Forgive me for being a newb, but (I own a PC) how do I install this? Sadly, I'm a step by step person here and the first post doesn't explain much.

1. Download icon.exe

2. Place icon.exe in the same folder as cityofheroes.exe

3. Run icon.exe

4. GOLD BABY GOLD :D

[pewlagon]

Thanks!

[pewlagon]

All I will say is, amazing. Enjoying this.

[WildThyme]

LockOn pointed this out to me. My stubborness to keep the game in my computer and hold onto those costume files has paid off. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you!

[Lichtfunke]

This is just so great *rubbing hands with glee*
It saved my day :)

Thank you Codewalker  :D