sorry if that sounded missleadnig ^
when we charge our weapons we get a sort of blue/yellow circle flashing by the weapon, when it is charging :
http://wiki.spiralknights.com/File:Charge_attack.png
the idea is that for those players who have auras, when they charge instead of having that animation ( ^ ) its replaced with the same design of there aura! ;D
basicly you will look badass, more reason to get a aura (:
p.s- i dont have a aura D:
@OP: What? Some auras aren't all that visible (Ghostly Aura comes to mind). How would you wish to portray this in order to show that someone's charging up an attack?
A more viable option would be to allow the aura glow colour to be prismatic (changing according to the user's current personal colour). That way, people can be kind of individual whilst still having the glow visible to other players.
@Luguiru ...oh god. I'm just glad that they didn't allow auras on Skolver because otherwise you would have an AURA x3 COMBO, which would be an absolute nightmare.
I kinda like the idea here. It's interesting, and gives you more reasons to get an aura and look fancy.
Dont think it's going to be too hard to make. All you'd have to do is a make a replacement animation for every aura and just have a small script run to check if you have an aura, and what kind, on and it will replace your Charge animation with the one for the aura.
Effects can be as follow :
Flame Aura - Fire gets stronger and larger untill the charge is full at wich point the flame has covered the entire Knight. On charge release you get something simular to the FoV charge attack's effect.
Twinkle Aura - Sparks get stronger and by the end of the charge are like a Skolver's glowing effect, but brighter.
Love Aura - Hearts strat to intensify and glow, fully charged the aura glows a strong pink/purple and has hearts orbiting around you (simular to the
Biohazard's projectiles). After releasing the charge heart projectiles (simular to the Love puppy's) fly a 1/2 block radius until vansiing.
Twilight Aura - Firefly's start to swarm around you creating a lighting effect around the knight (wich is prismatic due to the aura being prismatic too), when fully charged the large swarm of flies is glowing in your persional color. Uppon charge release the flies fly rapidly away, in random directions.
Unclean aura - Same as above, only using a normal light effecet and not a prismatic one.
Ghostly aura - Mist around the knight starts to intensify and is in a fog-ish blue/white color, when the charge is complete the fog has surrounded the knight and enveolped him/her completely. On charge release the fog rapidly disperses reveleaing the knight.
Sprinkle aura - Sprinkles begin to revolve around the knight, uppon full charge they form an orb around the knight. Once the charge is released they shower sprinkles in a 2x2 area around the knight.
Leafy Aura - Same as above but with leaves.
Sunshine Aura - I beleave the default charge animation already works nicely for the charge-up. Uppon release of the charge you get a bright light emmiting from the knight.
Snowfall Aura - A small blizard begins to form around the knight, snow and wind revolve around the knight in a bubble like area. On charge release the blizard is released and disperces sending snow in all directions.
We don't need yet more elitism in Spiral Knights. Sure it'd be badass if players had easier access to certain auras, but not all do.
if auras where more emphasized during a charge and shown a lot more intense would make getting an aura a lot more pleasurable to me then just having a boring old charge that every other players has. is you pay so much money to get an aura to match your player looks, why not make it look good during battle. its like i change my weapons, my armor and my aura and the only thing that gets too look good during battle is my weapons and my armor, why not my aura.
* side note, it would be awsome if we had a yellow dragon ball z aura.
I heard you like auras, so we put an aura in your aura while you use a charge attack so you can have an aura while you have an aura.