STATE OF THE ISSUE: RI3Hello everyone!
I'm writing to break the Rebirth team's recent silence regarding upcoming issues. We've been very busy behind the scenes! Something that doesn't always convey to the public. Firstly, the Rebirth team has invested in a lot of tool development over the past 6 months which will increase our ability to develop content and edit maps. I don't know the exact details, so I'll I'm going to quote one of our other team members.
QuoteWe re-engineered our entire development environment to gear up for major innovation and content updates. Not only will this allow us to produce and test updates faster but it also positions us for larger, more complex projects. We're focused on creating the best content possible which we began by steadily building up the tools in our arsenal. - SuperHero
Secondly, we are preparing PTS for a huge push of content for our next issue. Originally, we were treating this batch of content as an edition, having slated it as Rebirth Issue 2: Edition 4. But when we stopped and took stock of the over 800 new cosmetic items it includes, we realized that this gargantuan release was really
Rebirth Issue 3.
Here are some select details from this truly massive upcoming publish, designed specifically for costume lovers:
Over 800 new cosmetic options:Here's a preview of one of the premier costume pieces in this pack! List of cosmetic features[spoiler]
New Upper Body Details category for males, including: • Arm Wings, with and without armbands, in 2 distinct styles (Raptor & Songbird) in both metallic and natural finishes. Nearly a dozen different tinting patterns for each.
• Animated Freakshow derived pieces, including Regulator Tubes for the back of the head and neck
• Shoulder holsters, knives, fuzzy pompom clown buttons
• Scrapyarder derived parts including puffy vests, 16 different safety vests, and an overalls bib
• Many, many more new upper body details
All of the above have been retrofitted to work with female upper body details
Asymmetric chest and hip patterns for all Standard Male torso options: • All Ri2 asymmetric chest and hip patterns for females are now available for males in all geometry categories, including tights, baggy, armored, robotic arms, and under-all coats. Over 2 dozen unique new basic patterns.
New Textures for male models: • Metallic pants and shirt, derived from the female metallic dress & top/Ri2 female metallic pants, now available for standard male characters
• Hairy muscular and hairy smooth chest options now added to male chests
New Patterns for male and females: • Brand new asymmetric patterns for Ri3 including Bodkin chests (Left and Right), Anchor chests (left and right, 2 variants), and a full-body Zebra pattern (including a skirt, cape, glove, and boot options)—all available for male and female characters
Pants revamp for standard male models: • New pant models for males including flares and bell bottoms
• Many additional pant texture options, including conversions of business slacks to all relevant pant models
• Male pant libraries brought into parity with female Ri2 pant libraries, including the option for jumpsuits, catsuits, and speed suits via creative pant and chest tight pairings.
New golden age jodhpurs category for males: • Males now get their version of golden age jodhpurs, which debuted for female models with Ri2. Includes 3 unique base texture options as well as over a dozen options pulled from the legacy library to work with this unique retro-hip profile.
Integrated Tights for males and Integrated Tights 1.5 for females: • Expands upon the "Integrated Tights" options that debuted for females with Ri2.
• This option gives advanced costume makers unprecedented control as it allows players to layer up different tights, skin, and material options with specific skin-tight over garments.
• 9 new unique male chest profiles, 4 new unique male hips profiles
• Each integrated tights texture adds over 80 unique settings, when patterns are applied, the new combinations soar into the thousands!
• With integrated tights 1.5, you now have the option to put skin-tight clothing over multiple legacy base textures, including stone, chitin, monstrous fur, bioluminescence skin, and plant skin. These options have all been retrofitted to work with female integrated tights.
Neck ties as tights chest details for everyone! • Neckties commonly found under jackets have been modified to work clipping free with tight chests (and female single panel chests) for male, female, and huge characters
• Neck scarves commonly found under female shirts details have been modified and proliferated to male models' tight chests for that classic sailor look. Also made available for female tights upper bodies.
Two new cape patterns from new Rebirth contributing art developer Danaid. This is a teaser of Rebirth's Cape Pack 3, coming sometime soon in a future release! Danaid is the artist behind the full-body zebra skin and the anchors chest patterns. We're excited to have them on the team!
New asymmetric skirt patterns:Our new dev team artist Danaid has begun the process of converting SAF's asymmetric hip patterns to work with skirts. Issue 3 will include a preview of this effort, with a few basic new skirt patterns coming your way such as Split, Back Blend, Quadrants, and Racing Stripe Left and Right.[/spoiler]
Inherent Slots for Health and Stamina:Before closure, the Paragon dev team had publicly stated they understood that players "really wanted more slots" and they were exploring means to make this happen. With cross-server assistance with Ourodev, we have been able to bring this to reality. Our powers team wants to stress that while this represents some minor power creep, this sets the stage for a deep and considered revamp of the currently existing power pools.
Other Previews:Some new powers will be available soon
tm as well! Here is a preview of the FX of one of them.
All of this is in addition to the previous bug fixes and minor additions already on PTS.
This is not to say we haven't been busy with future content updates. Here are some snippets from what we've been working on for Ri4 and beyond.
We have a lot of exciting things in the works. The images immediately above are the only things I'm allowed to tease at this point from Ri4 and beyond!
But don't worry, Rebirth Fans! Issue 3 is right around the corner. It's coming to PTS within the next few weeks and includes the items outlined at the top of this post.
On behalf of myself and everyone on the Rebirth Staff, we thank you for your patience and hope you'll join us for Rebirth Issue 3 this April!
- El Bee
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