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General / Character Build Generator
« on: July 30, 2023, 09:25:37 am »
I've been playing with a programme to parse Rebirth character data from your account page (https://www.cityofheroesrebirth.com/public/manage) and then spit out your characters build info as a bunch of html. There is still a lot to do, mostly missing icons and name translation. But if you are interested here is the data from my characters:
https://hero-id.co.uk/characters/

There is a Git Repo (https://github.com/Jaggeroth/cox-character-build) but its not really ready to share yet. You would have to run the HtmlIndex class for it to build the HTML.

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(Almost Tested) Bug Reporting / Flight Pose Feedback
« on: February 08, 2023, 05:51:22 am »
I have been testing mainly with a character with just Fly & Aerobatics. When using these on Test I find that Fly frequently breaks Flight pose in an annoying way. It seems to take a while to settle down into a flight pose and by a while I mean 20-30 seconds of straight flying.

Any use of the space bar to gain height also causes the character to break flight pose, which doesn't look right at all.

I've tried all the different pose ooptions and the behaviour is the same.

I've also tried setting a pose on Hover (even though I don't have Hover) and that hasn't changed anything.

Needless to say I do not see this behaviour on Live.

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General / Rebirth Costume Tool Beta 0.3
« on: April 19, 2022, 09:57:48 am »
Hello Costume Fanatics

With the release of Rebirth RI3 and with the help of Silver Age Fan I have been working on an updated version of the Rebirth Costume Tool v0.0.3. It is mainly aimed at files of male & female costumes that were broken by the introduction of asymmetrical chests. However it will make an attempt to correct all costumes, even old v1 files.

You can download the tool from here: https://hero-id.co.uk/rebirth/costume-tool.zip
  • Download Zip
  • Extract to a directory
  • Rename your costume files folder to something like "costumes_bck" and create a new empty "costumes" folder.
  • run the costume-tool.exe
  • Set the source folder to the folder with all your costume files in it.
  • Set the target folder to the "Cityofheroes/costumes" folder (where ever that is for you).
  • Press "Execute" a wait a moment.
  • Log in to City of Heroes TEST or LIVE and see how many have worked.
I have not had as much time to test the male files as I did with the updates to the female files, so I think you will find many examples that don't work. However I will continue to test and improve where I can, given time.

One more caveat, as before I am not able to sign this programme. So you will almost certainly be asked to trust it and the only thing you have to go on is that I have been around since the second week of public Rebirth. I totally understand if that isn't good enough for the security conscious amongst you :)

cheers

Jagged

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General Suggestions and Feedback / Team Inspiration Icon Size
« on: February 07, 2022, 05:01:56 pm »
I think team inspiration icons should be the same size as the comparable normal inspiration.
I have heard my team mates think they are worthless because the buff is so low.
But I think that's because the icon size gives them a misleading impression.


These two inspirations give the same bonus, but the group insp icon is larger, giving a false impression.

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General Suggestions and Feedback / Listing Fee for Newbies
« on: January 21, 2022, 09:38:01 am »
One of the easiest ways for a new player to make influence is by selling top tier salvage on the auction house.
But you often can't afford the listing fee required to sell something for <doctor-evil>one million</doctor-evil>

So I wondered if it might be possible to give newbies someway of bypassing the listing fee for a limited period?

Perhaps an account based ability granted at the first level of the paragon reward tree?

Good idea or more work than potential benefit?

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General / Rebirth Costume Tool Beta 0.2
« on: October 18, 2021, 05:07:24 pm »
Hello Costume Fanatics

With the help of Silver Age Fan I have been working on a little tool to help retrieve old costume files. It is mainly aimed at files of female costumes that were broken by the introduction of asymmetrical chests. However it will make an attempt to correct all costumes, even old v1 files.

You can download the tool from here: https://hero-id.co.uk/rebirth/costume-tool.zip
  • Download Zip
  • Extract to directory
  • Copy all your costume files into a separate folder, leaving your "Cityofheroes/costumes" folder empty
  • run the costume-tool.exe
  • Set the source folder to the folder with all your costume files in it.
  • Set the target folder to the "Cityofheroes/costumes" folder (where ever that is for you).
  • Press "Execute" a wait a moment.
  • Log in to City of Heroes TEST and see how many have worked.
My experience with the tool is that it will work successfully on most of the files, but by no means all. It is designed to work with the release thats currently on TEST (as at 18-Oct-2021) so if the file doesn't work on Live it may work on Test.

One more caveat, I am not able to sign this programme. So you will almost certainly be asked to trust it and the only thing you have to go on is that I have been around since the second week of public Rebirth. I totally understand if that isn't good enough for the security conscious amongst you :)

Developer Info
The tool works by creating a mapping of old costume elements to new and simply transposing the entries in a costume file. It does make a somewhat clumsy attempt at converting version 1 files into version 2, which seems to work more often that it should  :)
The tool is written in Java  :o and the code can be found here: https://github.com/Jaggeroth/costume-tool
However I have excluded the Rebirth configuration files needed to make it work as they are not mine to publicize.

cheers

Jagged

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General Suggestions and Feedback / Horns and Sunglasses
« on: May 28, 2021, 09:02:46 am »
Horns and Sunglasses

One of the things that allways seemed somewhat arbitary to me is the categorisation of head details.
You have "Details 1" which includes everything, masks, glasses, horms, neck-things etc. Few of which seem like they should be mutually exclusive.
Then you have "Details 2" which includes masks, helmets, whiskers and other neck-things. Few of which seem like they should be mutually exclusive.

This is a particular problem for Officer Morgan:


Poor Officer Morgan is the butt of all the other officer's jokes because she cannot wear sunglasses.
Forever left out of the David Caruso jokes, which is a serious impediment for a police officer.

Not sure exactly how this can corrected. I think the models in Detail 1 & 2 use different anchor points.
But it would be nice to see some extra head detail slots so Morgan can stop shielding her eyes from the sun :)


This image is a fake of course!

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