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[That Dawg]

DifferentFish, on 19 March 2013 - 07:55 AM, said:

If What's-his-name has enough knowledge of ancient Chinese mythology to know who Yen-Lo-Wang is, then it's reasonable to assume he'd know that the Rising Sun symbol isn't Chinese.

oh SNAP!

but, ah, yeah, Wang is a chinese name, not japanese, rising sun is more current than Yen-Lo's time frame too

[Steel Raven]

Lord Sevenous, on 21 March 2013 - 11:43 AM, said:

I like the paint job but with this paint job it would no longer be the Yen!!

Again, Yen-Lo Wang had more than that one paint job.
Here is one Yen-Lo Wang mini painted to match the description in first few chapters of BoK
Lethal Heritage, page 49.
"..painted in a mottled brown and black pattern, with some blue near the faceplate, mimicking the coloration of a falcon."


What he used as a reference

Edited by Steel Raven, 22 March 2013 - 08:02 PM.

[Jerod Drekmor]

Cool paint, but its stupid to be offended/annoyed/ect by fluff of game about gigant robots in future..... It would be same stupid as me geting annoyed cuz GW(GamesWorkshop) put some horse riders stylized on Polish husaria under the command of Tsar....BS, Its game.....be adult, get over it & enjoy shootin lazors.

[Alilua]

DifferentFish, on 19 March 2013 - 07:37 AM, said:

I finally got around to fixing my biggest pet peeve (at least visually) about MWO. This is by far the most complex texture I've ever done, and the first time I tried a design crossing multiple UV shells (the dragon.) I'm really pleased with the results.

Detail shots of the dragon:

Very nice, they should contact you for a job.

I would love to see this in game as a sort of secondary skin option.

[imdrunkontea]

I love your re-texture. As a Chinese guy, I'm not really offended by the YLW's in-game skin (it is the canon, after all - not PGI's fault) but I think this simply looks bad-freaking-a$$.

[Tennex]

thanks for righting a wrong

[S3dition]

Yen-lo-wang is not supposed to be culturally accurate. But the Devs did say that there would be custom hero textures, and I approve of yours. Perhaps they would be wiling to use it.

[Dirus Nigh]

Thats a kick *** skin for the centurion. A mech that is named after an officer in the Roman Legion, painted like a Japanese naval pennant, piloted by a mostly chines man, who is loyal to a British style house, and had a super star career as a WWE wrestler in a giant robot.

I would love to see that on a dragon.

You should make more skins. That is a great skin.

[Tennex]

maybe give it the claws it was supposed to haev ?

[DifferentFish]

S3dition, on 07 April 2013 - 12:15 AM, said:

Yen-lo-wang is not supposed to be culturally accurate. But the Devs did say that there would be custom hero textures, and I approve of yours. Perhaps they would be wiling to use it.

I would honestly be willing to sign over all rights to it just to see it replace the one they have now. Though I'd have to redo the dragons' head and claws since I pulled the from random pics on the interwebs.

[Hex Pallett]

As an actual Chinese I approve this image. Will definitely buy it if it becomes a skin. I'm not saying I'm offended by the original but come on, it's a 'mech with a Chinese name piloted by a Chinese named person, and it's got a giant Japanese navy flag painted all over it.

Also this one just looks plainly better.

Edited by Helmstif, 15 April 2014 - 01:23 PM.

[Chiasson Brinker]

Has anyone considered that for anyone who survived the second Sino-Japanese war, the rising sun emblem would be the living embodiment of death?

[Bishop Steiner]

Aidan Kell, on 15 April 2014 - 06:16 PM, said:

Has anyone considered that for anyone who survived the second Sino-Japanese war, the rising sun emblem would be the living embodiment of death?

Has anyone considered we don't have accurate representations of things from the present, and that history is more best guess than hard fact. Thus, after 1000 years of diaspora, and endless war, anyone consider that knowledge of Terran History of the20th Century might be just a tad cloudy?

[Mahws]

imdrunkontea, on 02 April 2013 - 04:50 PM, said:

I love your re-texture. As a Chinese guy, I'm not really offended by the YLW's in-game skin (it is the canon, after all - not PGI's fault) but I think this simply looks bad-freaking-a$$.

Actually it is PGI's fault and it's not canon. This is the Len Yo Wang's canon paint scheme from that era:


Or from Camospecs:


Neither of which are the Japanese Imperial Navy flag.

Edited by Mahws, 15 April 2014 - 07:26 PM.

[Iqfish]

This makes the beautiful 'mech Centurion even more sexy.

Really well done!

[WonderSparks]

I don't know why an argument got started over this thing, but I personally like this paint scheme more than the current one because it is more unique.
There's a lot more intricacy in your skin, perhaps something that would get in the way should PGI want to use it. O:

[El Bandito]

DifferentFish, on 19 March 2013 - 07:37 AM, said:

I finally got around to fixing my biggest pet peeve (at least visually) about MWO. This is by far the most complex texture I've ever done, and the first time I tried a design crossing multiple UV shells (the dragon.) I'm really pleased with the results.

What does Dragon have anything to do with the King of the Underworld?

[BARBAR0SSA]

Don't forget that to some cultures, mainly China and South Korea, the Rising Sun flag is a symbol like the Swastika for Israel :/

Plus the whole fact the history of the YLW has Liao at then end of the owners names....I always wondered if he was Confused.


Very badass paintjob though!

Edited by shad0w4life, 16 April 2014 - 06:29 AM.

[TygerLily]

The repaint is dope! Maybe PGI should start offering each hero with a default scheme and after 5,000 matches you unlock an alternate scheme.

[Magna Canus]

Looks great. I am sure Justin Xiang-Allard would have liked that paint job for Yen-Lo-Wang. Unfortunately the original was just a mod of a standard Centurion (LRM10/AC10) done hastily after his first match on Solaris. His son Kai might have had the time to have it painted like this though. In any case, I would prefer this paint job to the one we have now in game.