Every superhero worth her or his salt knows that it’s the costume that makes the hero. Well, that and a heapload of mutant powers, high-tech gadgetry, and billionaire funding. But it’s mostly the outfit.
That’s why City of Heroes spiritual successor City of Titans is putting in a lot of effort to create a spread of costumes for the game. In a new dev diary, the art team walks through the creation of a couple sets of tech armor, starting from sketches and progressing to full 3-D models.
The artist says that the assembly line may look weird, but that it all has purpose: “I know this looks like a pile of weird polygons, but trust me — all the helmet surfaces are here and that will help on baking our detailed mesh over this one. I personally think it has some kind of beauty. The more space used, the better the texture resolution.”
You can watch a pair of videos of the making of these costume pieces after the break!
