13 replies to this topic

[jss78]

The decal system has a lot of potential, but I feel we're missing some VERY basic decal options. These would help make more lore-friendly and subtle mech designs.

I'm sure much of this is already in the works, but I'll list some ideas below nonetheless. Others add below if you have great ideas?

- Numbers: 01, 02, 03 ... etc at least up to 20? Maybe in a couple different typefaces, colourable.

- Kill marks: colourable silhouettes of a few mech, tank, fighter, etc. designs.

- Monochrome, colourable versions of the faction logos. The current full-colour versions are a bit garish, especially if laid on a subtle camo.

[Jiyu Mononoke]

Unit decals ... pinup girls

[APF]

I'm sorely missing a tactical decal which automatically designates lance and mech. So if you're f. ex. Mech #2 in beta lance the tactical might look like

B-2

or something like that.

[Doctor Dinosaur]

If we are talking generic decals then I'd like to have the player name, too. But I guess this (and even Mechnummer) won't be possible because of framework reasons.

[Hotthedd]

Rank insignia would be cool. (chevrons, oak clusters, etc.)
Just get rid of the emojis.

[Nullmancer]

a Cameron Star and also band-aid, bandages and stitch marks would also be cool

Edited by Nullmancer, 20 July 2016 - 10:25 AM.

[Will9761]

I have some decal suggestions:

[Daemonhunter]

Please condider adding a decal that displays the shorthand tag of your unit.

I'd love to be able to decorate my mechs with a "KoN" decal (Knights of Nerdhaven [KoN]). I accept this could be done DIY-style with individual letters, if they're eventually added to the decal pool, but a unit tag decal would be tidier, easier, and would only take up 1 decal slot instead of 3 or 4.

It might be a little tricky to develop this kind of "dynamic decal", but conveniently there are already constraints on the character length and content of unit tags. This means you wouldn't need to change the aspect ratio of the decal, and there shouldn't be any unit tags which spell out anything highly inappropriate (I can't say I've seen any dodgy unit tags, so I assume enforcement of the CoC is working in this regard).

[Franckii]

Where is the shark mouth?

Edited by Franckii, 20 July 2016 - 11:37 PM.

[Daemonhunter]

I'm sure PGI's got plenty more planned already, but I have to throw out a few more decal ideas to add to the unit tag suggested above:

• National flags
  
• National icons (e.g. silver fern for NZ, maple leaf for Canada, harp for Ireland)
  
• Basic geometric shapes (e.g. circle, hexagon) - good base layers for creating more complex designs
  
• Heraldic devices (stylised/silhouetted iconography as seen in coats of arms)
  
  • Creatures (e.g. dog, lion, griffin, dragon)
    
  • Weapons (e.g. sword, axe, bow, caltrop)
    
  • Miscellaneous (e.g. fleur-de-lis, chevron, wings, book)

Faction rank icon - another dynamic decal (like my unit tag idea) which reflects your current rank (though this might require a lot of design work if there were to be a unique icon for each rank in each faction).

Badges as decals - this would be nice since most badge designs do not fare well at the minuscule scale used beside players' names on the match prep/score screen (at that size the complex designs become blurry messes and the 'Mech silhouette-based badges are difficult to distinguish from each other).

Player loyalty insignia - i.e. when the next MWO anniversary rolls around, along with the obligatory cupcake players could be awarded with a logo containing a styled number to show how long they've been playing. This could be limited to player's who've purchased packs, like the Loyalty-variant bonus 'Mechs have been.

Regarding decal distribution, it'd be nice to have a few added to the faction loyalty point rank rewards and the Achievement rewards.

Edited by Daemonhunter, 20 July 2016 - 11:54 PM.

[Amardez]

I think the Clan dagger, star league as well as say Com stars logo need to be added and frankly should have been in the first wave deployment but hey they were bound to miss somethings ...

[Alienik]

Someone above mentioned pin-up girls. This, along with other WW2 (and later conflicts) plane nose-arts style decals could be an interesting idea. And perhaps allowing people to submit fan-made decals to PGI (in some pre-definded format) could also enrich the decals database ?

[FilipinoThunder]

I would also like to suggest the basic ability to rotate Decals so that they face the same direction on either side of the mech. Currently if you equip the clan wolf or other non-symmetric decals on both sides of a mech, one is oriented backwards. There is no way to fix this currently as the decal can only be rotated left and right, but not flipped. A feature to flip decals would be very nice.

[Omaha]

There is a pinned topic about suggesting decals, maybe a mod can merge this one?

http://mwomercs.com/...al-suggestions/

Always nice to have more options, in this case.