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i get pinged on these so ill see them and if there's something i can respond to ill try :)

for community skins, i dont think we'd ever just take something thats made by the community, but its very possible at some point in time we would make something with the community. League did a similar thing where they had a tristana skin that the community voted on and it was basically made with the community's input.

for the twitch drops and such im not sure on that one since thats a strategy well beyond my realm. we're always down to support content being made for events or new methods of acquisition but its up to the folks who actually run that to handle that part of the planning of it

we use substance painter, but its a mix. probably around 80-90% of the textures are procedural using our own existing smart materials. lots of mask editors using position, curvature, and worldspace normal to just get some color and gradient variety. most of our general surface detail is also just tiling stylized splotch textures, and then we go in to do that last little bit by hand to hand place alphas and such along edges or in certain areas of interest to create variation

It is very unlikely that turning on mouse macro software will be the trigger for a ban.

If a player is cheating (with mouse macros or whatever) we'll flag them for a ban and depending on our current strategy / specific cheat the ban will take effect some time later. Fast bans are usually a few minutes and slow bans are hours (or days in some cases).

So if a player does something and then is immediately banned it is very likely to be a coincidence.

If Vanguard is blocking software (and not the game) you should let me know because we disabled that feature during beta.

Mixwell was never banned, he just saw an error message that required the client to restart.

yeah ideally at some point when there's enough we've talked about splitting up or making a collections filter to categorize them that way. also at some point that carousel is generally gonna get too big anyway :P

nah elderflame is its own thing made separate from Reaver. there are always going to be some similarities between skin animations for key points of contact on the guns.

the melees are still something that we've never really explicitly talked about but the way we internally think about them is sort of in an archetypal format. in the same way a skin like the luxe vandal or aristocrat ares adheres to the base animations and vfx, traditionally a melee would do the same unless we built it to do something it wasnt meant to do.. sort of how we take the Prime Vandal and give it a transforming reload animation.

rather than limit ourselves to using the same 1 melee slot and finding different ways to fit new shapes and features into the same motions, we created archetypes to fit into new versions of a melee so that some can feel like a fresh take. this way we dont have to make everything from scratch every single time. like i mentioned with the guns, we do redesign the shapes...

It's the Prime Classic!

i posted in another thread but ill copy my response here

This is 100% my fault - im sorry.

Context: The lv1 Elderflame Vandal has a pose that makes it so you dont end up clipping the magazine through the arms on reload. In the collections page it looks kind of weird, like this odd T-Rex choking itself kind of thing :P

I wanted to default the pose to something more neutral, but in this case that pose broke where the buddy should be (its on the plates on his mid section behind the arm). It does position itself correctly when in game, its just on the collections view for lv1 and 2 that it is misplaced.

Ill fix this in the next patch

Driving permit? That's awesome, good luck!

Yay! I hope you like the Frenzy. He's a cutie.

i posted in another thread but ill copy my response here

This is 100% my fault - im sorry.

Context: The lv1 Elderflame Vandal has a pose that makes it so you dont end up clipping the magazine through the arms on reload. In the collections page it looks kind of weird, like this odd T-Rex choking itself kind of thing :P

I wanted to default the pose to something more neutral, but in this case that pose broke where the buddy should be (its on the plates on his mid section behind the arm). It does position itself correctly when in game, its just on the collections view for lv1 and 2 that it is misplaced.

Ill fix this in the next patch

This is 100% my fault - im sorry.

The lv1 Elderflame Vandal has a pose that makes it so you dont end up clipping the magazine through the arms on reload. In the collections page it looks kind of weird, like this odd T-Rex choking itself kind of thing :P I wanted to default the pose to something more neutral, but in this case that pose broke where the buddy should be (its on the plates on his mid section behind the arm).

Ill fix this in the next patch

I'm just saying engaging with people trying to troll is never going to end well. It'll just get you more upset.

I don't think calling something out as inappropriate in chat is worthy of punishment. I do think there are constructive comments and unconstructive comments. I also think people often think their comments are innocuous or constructive when they're not.

I've played league for 11 years with all chat on and have thusfar avoided restrictions and, last i checked, any reports. My approach in comms is i'm saying something tactical/useful for team info or calling out positive moments in the game for teammates. If the chat's not helping the team with valuable info or not lifting someone up, it's probably not worth typing.

Sorry! It works in the game. It's broken in Collections, though. We didn't catch this bug until it was too late to fix. :(

Hi! That's a bug in the Collections screen. It works in-game. We didn't catch the bug until the build had already been cut, so it was too late to fix. :(

It works in-game. It's just broken in the Collection view. :(

We found this bug too late to catch it in time for the build. :'(

I appreciated the Cat Empire track, awesome edit!

very cool! all the bolts and rivets and such add a really nice touch to this - the main blitzcrank chest piece thats on the side is really well incorporated. you're definitely getting the blitzcrank vibe from this and the modeled in lightning is a great add!

one thing to note when it comes to the valorant style of texturing is that we dont rely so much on grunge maps or and such to give this overly detailed look. a lot of the work we do in texture focuses more of softer gradients going across the weapon from front to back or top to bottom, using your AO as a color mask to add some variety (like some purples, blues, and greens mixed in!!) and really focus on highlighting the main forms and shapes of the weapon, with occasional larger roughness hits or edge markups.