Bone helmets cause a commotion

**Tabbitha** · 15th July 2006, 12:44 AM

source taken from a player upset in a change to bone helmets

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Forgive me if this has been mentioned, but since when and why were bone helmet graphics changed? When will whoever makes these changes understand to LEAVE THE OLD GRAPHICS ALONE? IE Graphics existing Pre-LBR?

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dont see folks have huge cows over the fact the male wraith form is different than the female version... plenty of different things.... yes its a shock of sorts but...heck...... its not the end of the world and it actually looks more fem which makes a fem wearing bone a bit more sexy... now if they could make a fem bone chest to match....woot!

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Check yer paper doll... the bone helmet graphic looks a bit different.

Not bad, just different.

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I was curious so I took a look, and I haven't noticed any change what so ever in the bone helmet. Seriously what changed, because I frankly don't see it, and if it was one whole pixel, you got issues above and beyond anything I have ever imagined.

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He is correct, the art for the bone helm on female chars was changed a while back.

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old skull > new skull

please stop messing with the genius of the original uo dev team with your new crap.

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Yea, I am right!! I don't personally like the new look at all, what about others? Why the need to change? I mean sure, if there is a reason.. SOMEONE changed it, someone felt it needed to be, i'm interested into the opinion of why? I think that the "big" look of the old one was true to the nature of a bone helmet (a huge skull).

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dont see folks have huge cows over the fact the male wraith form is different than the female version... plenty of different things.... yes its a shock of sorts but...heck...... its not the end of the world and it actually looks more fem which makes a fem wearing bone a bit more sexy... now if they could make a fem bone chest to match....woot!

Actually as i recall i did also change the bone chest, leggings and gauntlets with the bone helm about 7 or 8 months ago (Novemberish) - but not for such dramatic difference or sexy - but more of just the 'fit' as she was wearing the male clothing and it hung on her like a barrel and often poked out where it shouldn't and yeah - we had complaints on that too - offical bug lists n stuff on a lot of things done in that pass.. Some old badly done legacy female stuff some SE stuff that needed technical fixes and ill fits.

As for the Helm - the helm faced one way and her head faced the other. So the old one kind of hung on her like a bobbly headed ornament for a dashboard with the added bonus that she looked like she took a whack to the face with it spun around to the side slightly. Not good. So it got rotated to fit her head's slightly turned direction and scaled down to be a better fit - and even had the "black" around it re-designed with her hair styles in mind so they would flow out of it a little better.

A lot of the female armor and stuff isn't quite as bulky in the 2d paperdoll - some of it a lot, some by mere pixels - but pixels are important sometimes - a lot of this is done due to the overlapping/layering of some of the "female only" outfits and her body and the whole thing. The totality of the stuff was taken into consideration. I think maybe 2 or 3 dozen various outfits 2d Paperdolls were tinkered with last year.

Hmm - thats pretty much the revision history of it.

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