Little personal pet peeve of mine was how most of the NX weapons are either obnoxiously large or have all sorts of particles, or otherwise don't really fit the aesthetic of the weapon (hammer for a sword, etc). So a while ago I mocked up these golden versions of 'low' level weapons (Minus knuckle because I apparently can't find that file). Also threw around an idea for shields/kanjar but never made any. Gold seemed appropriate because as far as I am aware this shouldn't clash with any existing weapons to avoid confusion, and because it's a staple in other games (Golden tools in Harvest Moon, Golden Gun from Golden Eye (etc), gilded armour/weapons from Runescape). I would post these in the "what NX item do you want" thread, but Matt specifically has list that doesn't include weapons (to anyone who asks about "custom" weapons, these don't actually exist but are a recolour, this is because the original weapons are already 'mapped' to the character for every pose/action, which is a nightmare to do from scratch).
Great idea, Still waiting on an Anvil or Anvil NPC. Would love to see forgotten or low-level weapons again
Anvil is unlikely to ever happen (there are old feedback on this) Im struggling with the knuckle for buccs tho, honestly most of the low level ones look awful.. For the shield in working on a stolen fence and will add that whenever I have a chance to finish it.
Color of skills to be adjusted to gold when using these NX. Such as a yellow crusher or golden blizzard. Only obtainable from suprise RP box with 5% chance 3rp/box and Untradeable. dollar sinks
coloring the icons is one thing, editing all the weapon animations is another btw, in terms of a dagger, i think a golden field dagger would look cooler than a fruit knife
Apparently, there is a way to take them all and use a slider and change the colour. I just used mspaint. I have the 2h axe done, so i know the struggle of doing it by hand though.
Add a mechanic that automatically colours a weapon gold if it has reached its maximum possible attack stat (i.e. 146w.att Stonetooth becomes Gold Stonetooth)
I like the idea, though I don't know if that would be excessive or not. If accepted, maybe not automatic, but people could then pay a premium in mesos to change the color to gold. Pushing that idea further, you could make it something you can pay to change / return. Or it could be made something that's a 1 time decision, and permanently changes the item. Both options would require different premiums to pay, which could be decided by. Not me haha. Just throwing out ideas.
Im open to changing the swing animation that changes with mastery to gold if these are used, if thats even possible, but my goal is just NX covers, as these fill a gap in an otherwise somewhat good weapon selection. Not looking to change what happens when you scroll weapons. But nice feedback all the same.
in photoshop, you can select and mask an area by its color, then change that area's hue. but that's not always a perfect solution, and there would need to be fixes applied to most frames by the devs. making costume weapons in royals is a pain in the ass, making 16 is a big yikes
I was then, and still am now, willing to do this to free up "dev" time, even though this could easily be done by Joel in a fraction of the time it took me (and most people) leaving Kevin to focus on other stuff. Im just posting here to 1) gather feedback and because 2) i can no longer bring things directly to the staff discord. That said, this is just a suggestion. Cant imagine it would take too long either way, compared to some of the stuff thats been released and the amount of hand tweaking that was done, for example, the larger resolution, is staggering and would not be unusual for updates if that was the case here as well. My point is there is little reason to believe this would delay say, autoban or something in any meaningful way.
We actually talked about this exact topic recently, apparently it does require a tremendous amount of labor and unfortunately is not something the Devs will likely consider at this time. Spoiler: [posting from staff discord purely out of laziness]
"We have no tools to find the coordinates used to offset the spirtes" Oh god So every time, you gotta insert an offest coordinate, and hope it lands in the right spot, or you just have to re-adjust? that's disgusting
Unless something changed.... the whole point of recolouring existing weapons was to bypass this. If you rip the images from the files, only change the colour, and reinsert them you dont have to adjust anything. Edit: nevermind, i pm'd sen. staff can see the edit if they care to see what was said before lol
How about they sell them at the shop for 1b mesos and make them untradeable. I wouldn't mind a meso sink for some cool skin items.
