New Forum Layout

[SpawnShooter]

Hi all. its quite exciting isnt it I cant wait until we all get used to it, but in the mean time I thought we should have a thread to talk about it (no complaining) and if anyone notices any featuers that are extra special you can post them here so eveyone knows! ^_^ (i hope that smiley worked!)

I also thought this would be a good place to ask about anything were not too sure on, as the Staff have a lot of work at the moment (which they are doing fantasticly I might add!) it would save us having to bother them

So what does everyone think? I like it.

 

[Osaka]

Wooh! Everything looks larger, but it's looking good. =]

 

[cheezMcNASTY]

i'm a fan. steve did an excellent job of putting it in without looking too much like the Fable site. i like how the background is just a banner, and the color scheme works nicely.

PRO TIP: click on "Help" and then trophies to see the achievements that are available to unlock. trophy points, combined with "likes" make up the rep system.

 

[Meg]

What is "Like" exactly? Is just like on Facebook?

Overall I like the look. Great job Mr. Steve!

 

[DreadnoughtDT]

Wow, I'm really liking the new design...

Shame about the social groups, but meh. I can live without.

EDIT: Grah! Spoiler tags no longer exist... Great, I have to get rid of a couple of my sigs now...

 

[lorddemolatron]

I also liking this new layout

 

[SpawnShooter]

PRO TIP: click on "Help" and then trophies to see the achievements that are available to unlock. trophy points, combined with "likes" make up the rep system.

^This was gonna be something i wanted to find out cheers cheez!

 

[cheezMcNASTY]

What is "Like" exactly? Is just like on Facebook?

more or less, yes it's exactly like facebook. you can both "like" and "unlike" a post, and who has "liked" a post is viewable by everyone, so there's no secrecy involved. your total likes are displayed, along with your post count and trophy points, under your avatar in every post.

 

[Meg]

Thanks, Cheez! That makes sense. So its the Facebook version of Rep basically. XD
Here, I liked your reply as thanks.

 

[SpawnShooter]

Another thing, it seems that someone has to be following you to be able to post on their profile page, is it the same with anyone else or am i just being silly?

 

[cheezMcNASTY]

I've got a degree in visual design, and I am a freelance 3D artist (mostly for games), so I actually do know a great deal about this kind of thing. To be honest, the area where the cloak overlaps near Vergil's neck is a bit poorly done. That's simply not how cloth looks when it's bunched up to any considerable degree, but it likely has something to do with how they're planning to animate it (no need to mesh a bunched up area if the cloth needs to look fairly loose when it's thrown off, for example).

Also, as an artist, I do question the incredibly low contrast in the scene on the whole. I think what they're trying to do is undersell it a bit for the grand reveal, but altogether the color composition is lacking compared to what we've seen in the original game. It's just a tiny teaser, though, and I don't have the whole picture so I'm not too worried about it. I'm sure they'll pick up the slack when a full trailer is released, but I will admit that it pumped up my anticipation. Perhaps it's a good thing, since Vergil is an understated character until he needs to take action, so you could really argue for it either way.

I always wanted to get into 3D computer models for videogames and I'm amazed at what people can do with Rhino, Maya and other programs that render, textures, skin tones and what I've seen from Naughty Dog and what they're doing right now with Uncharted 4 just blows my mind. And I looked at a tech demo of how they've build the world of Uncharted 4 and the techniques they used to bring the world to life is astonishing! And you're right about the Special Edition being an early development, and they're just retouching and finishing up before they launch the game during this summer, so it's understandable that the clothes look brighter instead of what Vergil's clothes looked like on this photo...And as you said it takes time to render clothing properly and animating it is just as tricky, but it's going to be worth the wait.

And I believe that Vergil will look like this when the game comes out, and I really can't wait to see him in action...for goodness sakes I idolized him in college, and copied his hairstyle.

Out of all what I'm hoping to see in the end result is seeing Vergil's Devil Trigger and his true DarkSlayer fighting style in action, because it's been horrible seeing Dante trying to imitate his brother in vanilla DMC4 such as his body posture just doesn't look at all properly proportionate to how Vergil strikes with Yamato...and as I posted before I really miss using the summoned swords properly, and I hope we see something similar to Gilgamesh gauntlets and greaves but with an added kick...but above all else!? I just want to be able to express Vergil's creativity in a manner that shows respect to him.

Okay here's what i think. The possibility that Vergil's carrying baby Nero, I do like the idea, but I think I'd prefer if it was set some time after DMC4, like I said build up for DMC5. Also it looks like it has both eyes to me

Baby Nero seems a little bit of a cliche if you put it in the way you wrote it...not like the theory is wrong but it just comes of as too simple, and lacking a bit of creativity.

 

[cheezMcNASTY]

Another thing, it seems that someone has to be following you to be able to post on their profile page, is it the same with anyone else or am i just being silly?

this is likely part of the integration of vBulletin. rather than have a two way friendship, you choosing to "follow" someone does not obligate them to return the favor. i imagine it's due to people having their profiles set to private, so they may need to follow you in return or vice versa in order to allow for profile messaging. but on the other hand, you can now hold private message "conversations" with more than one person, so the feature is less necessary.

 

[LordOfDarkness]

I'm thoroughly enjoying the changes so far. I like how you can like And I also like how when you quote something, it has a little up arrow after it says "So and so said..." And if you click it, it takes you directly to the comment you quoted.

 

[SpawnShooter]

anyone up for starting a "private conversation"? we can see how many people can join the party and try it out ^_^

 

[Dark Drakan]

EDIT: Grah! Spoiler tags no longer exist... Great, I have to get rid of a couple of my sigs now...

They will return soon but for now people will have to exercise some courtesy for those that tire of having to scroll down through many sigs.

 

[Vergil'sBitch]

Great new layout. I'll have to cut down my signature.
I'm finding it all a tad confusing though (10 minutes to try and work out where the login was... geez, what an iiiiiidiot.)
I has trophies Its just like being on the PS3
This is gonna take some getting used to.

 

[Dark Drakan]

If anyone has any questions etc dont hesitate to ask us.

 

[Haven]

It's going to take a while to get used to, but I like it . The trophy idea is different.

 

[ToCool74]

Yea just saw the new forum layout on REN and as i said there it looks good.

 

[The crazy demon]

I really like this new layout .