Redlynne wrote:

Brings new meaning to the notion of "A Good Sound Thrashing" ...

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Superpersonage wrote:

Please, no. I've had enough of WOW and Combat Arms and their high-end weapons that looked like anything but weapons, including battle axes and assault rifles that looked like electric guitars. If you want to play "Brutal Legend", then go play that game. I really don't want the devs wasting their time on something like this when there are so many powers that actually appear in comic books that will be difficult or impossible to implement, like density/size change and stretching powers which people have been asking for since CoX issue 8, and which have yet to be implemented in any superhero game to date. There are no comic book superheroes who use guitars as the basis for superpowers.

While I have nothing against having "density/size changing and stretching powers" in CoT the simple matter of fact is that it would be relatively easy to "re-skin" battle axes and assault rifles to look like electric guitars. I'm not saying that because I'm more in favor of one of these ideas over the other. I'm just saying from the narrow point of view of "what would be easier to implement in software" I'd have to say that getting electric guitar "skins" would be far, far easier (and thus far, far more likely) than size/shape altering powers. As you point out yourself there's a reason why no computer-based superhero game has yet to produce Mister Fantastic like powersets and that reason is NOT because the Devs don't want to create them.

Superpersonage wrote:

Please, no. I've had enough of WOW and Combat Arms and their high-end weapons that looked like anything but weapons, including battle axes and assault rifles that looked like electric guitars. If you want to play "Brutal Legend", then go play that game. I really don't want the devs wasting their time on something like this when there are so many powers that actually appear in comic books that will be difficult or impossible to implement, like density/size change and stretching powers which people have been asking for since CoX issue 8, and which have yet to be implemented in any superhero game to date. There are no comic book superheroes who use guitars as the basis for superpowers.

Hmmmm... Mr. Fantastic stretchy ness?
Bilinear or Trilinear texture filtering... and every time the procedural Mesh gets stretchier... the Mip Map level switches to show a higher resolution texture version. Might not even have to use Unique Verts to tile the UV maps to make it look better even. ;)

All in theory. No clue if this would work out / look good... at all. :P
That's a toughie! :[

Lothic wrote:

Izzy wrote: Hmmmm... Mr. Fantastic stretchy ness?
Bilinear or Trilinear texture filtering... and every time the procedural Mesh gets stretchier... the Mip Map level switches to show a higher resolution texture version. Might not even have to use Unique Verts to tile the UV maps to make it look better even. ;)
All in theory. No clue if this would work out / look good... at all. :P
That's a toughie! :[The animations/graphics involved wouldn't technically be the hardest part of this. The problem is how'd you control where the hands/feet go in terms of what they grab or where they step not to mention how the limbs could/should wrap around other objects.
There would have to be a lot of approximations for movement and people wouldn't necessarily be able to do a fraction of what would actually make this kind of power cool. It's the linkage between what the player would want to do and how the player controls that with a standard keyboard or console controller that's the issue here.
Solve that and the proverbial "nut" would be cracked on this challenge.

Ohh.. i guess I assumed the player would be Rooted while stretching.
Or if its a Lunge type of attack, player would attach to [url=https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/Content/Types/SkeletalMeshes/Sockets/index.html]SkeletalMeshSockets[/url] (UE4)
As the Morph Targets change (UI sliders), the Socket might be moved to Match a specific Vertex point on the mesh, so its always Outside of the body. :[

Superpersonage wrote:

Please, no. I've had enough of WOW and Combat Arms and their high-end weapons that looked like anything but weapons, including battle axes and assault rifles that looked like electric guitars. If you want to play "Brutal Legend", then go play that game. I really don't want the devs wasting their time on something like this when there are so many powers that actually appear in comic books that will be difficult or impossible to implement, like density/size change and stretching powers which people have been asking for since CoX issue 8, and which have yet to be implemented in any superhero game to date. There are no comic book superheroes who use guitars as the basis for superpowers.

[url=http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9Tzk8RGijsA/UGDRauh5zGI/AAAAAAAAANI/wgFOagI4dfE/s1600/A-+Kiss+.jpg]This[/url] appeared in a comic book.

Okay, an instrument, like a flute, guitar, drum, or sexyphone would definitely make an interesting 'power animation' for ranged powers. My EQ Bard would approve!

*plays a quick melody to Charm the Sand Giant into attacking my enemy*
*plays another melody to Run Away Faster!*

Be Well!
Fireheart

Nyxz wrote:

I like the flute, but the sexyphone had me confused at first. Why not an uglyphone. Phones are just so annoying. Then duh ... I'm assuming its a saxophone.

We'll have to watch this, and also those fiddles over there. Folks are always complaining about there being too much sax and violins in video games....

Foradain wrote:

Folks are always complaining about there being too much sax and violins in video games.

+10 ;D

Superpersonage wrote:

Please, no. I've had enough of WOW and Combat Arms and their high-end weapons that looked like anything but weapons, including battle axes and assault rifles that looked like electric guitars. If you want to play "Brutal Legend", then go play that game. I really don't want the devs wasting their time on something like this when there are so many powers that actually appear in comic books that will be difficult or impossible to implement, like density/size change and stretching powers which people have been asking for since CoX issue 8, and which have yet to be implemented in any superhero game to date. There are no comic book superheroes who use guitars as the basis for superpowers.

If I understand the OP correctly then this is not using a musical instrument as a physical weapon (like your WoW example) but rather using sound produced from an instrument to manifest and/or invoke something. That I can fully see as appropriate in a superhero game, especially when you want to do a bard type hero/villain.

I don't see how any of it would actually be "wasted" since most of it could be re-used for variations (like different instruments) or even completely different categories of weapons or emanation points. Also, why the heck should we limit us to only the things that are actually used in superhero comics?

[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48VDrGhtLMA]/airguitar9000[/url]

Looks like the forum scrub removed the capability to embed youtube videos into posts.