are all heroes going to be right handed or will there be options for left handed heroes as well? or ambidextrous heroes? it seemed to me that in most mmos all I see is right hand dominate heroes, so I personally would like to see a choice if possible.
Wed, 10/23/2013 - 20:42
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left handed heroes?
I would like it also, but my understanding is that it would require making double the animation for each set of powers so I don't think it will be done.
If I understand what you're after correctly, then the first half of [url=http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/missingworldsmedia/the-phoenix-project-city-of-titans/posts/625583]Update 12[/url] from the Kickstarter should answer your question.
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This new game may allow you to choose what body part your death-ray beams come from, but it might not be specific enough to be from the "right hand" or "left hand". If you choose "hands" for that it still might be something that'll default to the right hand.
You'd think that they'd eventually be able to do "handedness" animation where they could just make everything a left-handed character might do be a simple mirror image of anything a right-handed character would do. I can only assume you can't just push a button in a software tool to create "mirror image" animation like that.
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It would sure help me make a toon after/for my 4-year-old (she'll be 6 when the game launches, that's totally old enough to play, right? :) )
Ya know I think a lot of video game characters are actually left handed. Even Link was left handed until the Wii. Then he was changed to right handed due to the design of wiimote and nunchuck. But I would like for the left handed heroes to be shown some love. Can't show all the love to us right handers.
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As a southpaw myself just the option would be nice.
Or perhaps in the universe of CoT, society never accepted being left handed and wold force lefties to use their right hands.
I'm joking, I would be more than ok with a left handed option, it should just be a matter of flipping the animations. But I only have to go back 2 generations with my grandfather having his left hand tied behind his back at school to force him to write with his right hand. On the plus side, that trained him to be ambidextrous.
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My mother had this when she was at school... which explains why she writes left handed normally (they never could break her of that trait), but right handed when writing on a white board>
Although being right handed for a white board is a *definite* advantage, as you are far far far less likely to accidentally wipe clear what you have just written.
Me, I am 100% left handed for writing, although there are cases where I am right handed (eating, batting in cricket, mouse usage etc).
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really it may be pressing more than one button, and coding a way for the game to save your preference, but in terms of meticulously going over the animation, it's motion, fluidity, etc. yeah, all of that can just be duped & mirrored easily.
There's a question of whether you want to do that on the avatar level or the animation level though. I'm not sure how the two are intimately tied together. Ideally you'd want it to mirror the animation only, but it might be simpler to mirror the whole avatar (possibly reversing your insignia, robotic right thumb, preferred cigar smoking side, etc).