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Redesigned Gunslinger Helmets! (WITH pictures!)

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Wed, 12/12/2012 - 21:08
Alpha-Stevo's picture
Alpha-Stevo

I'm most certainly not the first with this idea, but I AM the most recent one within a period of roughly four months! I think.

MOVING ON.

We need some more VARIETY in these hats, especially since they're pretty difficult to tell apart in a situation like Lockdown. On the sheet, I brought up simple recolors, fancy hat edits, and the like to make each gunslinger's hat stand out from the rest!

Look through them, and tell me which combinations match the best! Maybe it'll inspire OOO to take it so we won't need threads like these!.

Wed, 12/12/2012 - 21:24
#1
Severage's picture
Severage
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Pristine pixel art as always, Stevo.

Personally, the only one I'm not fond of is the first Deadshot's (White hat one) scarf. It's original and pretty creative, but I think the armor has enough skulls on it honestly. It's the only gunslinger set I own (I use it exclusively for FSC), and I wouldn't want mine to look like that.

I do like the black hat Deadshot though.

As for the others:

Gunslinger with plain, black hats (blue scarves) over other combos. A 3* set doesn't need a more ornate hat.

Sunset - I'm not sure about the colors for the designs on those hats. Maybe something that matches more like yellow or black? I love the very Sunset-oriented colors on his scarf and helmet, though.

Justifier - I like the white hat with black scarf.

Nameless - Well, not a lot of options on this one. Looks better than the one in-game. I like the gradient hat.

Shadowsun - Battle damage hat is pretty neat, I must say. I don't know though, battle damage might suit Nameless better. Just judging by their names. Pin stripes can stay on Shadowsun, those look cool.

~Sev

Thu, 12/13/2012 - 02:06
#2
Zopyros-Il's picture
Zopyros-Il
Beep Boop

Oooh! Very nice! /applaud

I agree with Sev on most of his points.
The Deadshot's color and design are nice, especially the black/white trim, but as he said, the skull element is repeated a lot throughout the armor already. It may do better with just a simple badge of some sort on the hat instead.
Though I really like that skull bandana...

Keep the Gunslinger simple design. Gives more room to work from.

I like the design you came up with on the Sunset, just tone down the brown's saturation a little bit. It pops out too much from the others.

With the Shadowsun, the battle damage is pretty cool, but I think it would have to extend to the armor as well to really fit. Gives it more of a feel of power and fighting, which the armor itself kinda promotes.

I'm working on my own armor redesigns so I'll definitely be taking some inspiration from your designs here.
Something I just thought of were adding tassels or something hanging from the hat... gonna sketch that out...
Also, am I the only one bothered with how high the hats sit on the Knight's head in the game? I think hey should be pulled down a little more, especially with Shadowsun and Nameless so they even cover their eyes a little bit.

Thu, 12/13/2012 - 14:52
#3
Severage's picture
Severage
@Zopyros:

Also, am I the only one bothered with how high the hats sit on the Knight's head in the game? I think hey should be pulled down a little more, especially with Shadowsun and Nameless so they even cover their eyes a little bit.

Maybe not even lowering them, just rotating the gunslinger lines' hats on the Z axis.

~Sev

Thu, 12/13/2012 - 14:53
#4
Canine-Vladmir's picture
Canine-Vladmir
:}

im just gonna tell you:
You sir, is awesome.

a real fan of that Deadshot Skull bandanna

Thu, 12/13/2012 - 15:08
#5
Severage's picture
Severage
@Canine:

I'm just gonna tell you:

You sir, is needing help in grammar.

lol :D

~Sev

Fri, 12/14/2012 - 04:49
#6
Juances's picture
Juances

You may hate this even more but instead of a skull you could put an undead icon to match it's ability.
http://wiki.spiralknights.com/File:Gate_Icon-Undead.png

Fri, 12/14/2012 - 12:33
#7
Alpha-Stevo's picture
Alpha-Stevo
TIME for some

TIME for some replyin'!

Firstly, I'm gonna go into a self-induced, self-centered drawl about my thoughts and reasons behind this. In a selfish manner.

SO all the gunslinger hats are basically one of two models. My intention was to introduce a more designs for the hats, making them match their respective armors AND are visually unique enough to be identifiable at a glance. The styles are:
Gunslinger - Cool
Sunset - Regal
Deadshot - Divine
Nameless - Prismatic
Justifier - Fancy
Shadowsun - Volcanic

BUT, just mere RECOLORS are boring, so I decided to give each hat a little FLAIR to it to make it interesting.

Gunslinger: ...Actually, this one's just a recolor. OOPS
Sunset: Add a little STAR BADGE ON IT, an idea I had gotten from another thread (credit goes to the guy behind the idea, though; I can't quite recall whom it was)
Deadshot: Adopted some designs from the armor, like the little spiral curls. I'd prefer it stay mostly white, as some people wear the white variant as a costume to match their (usually) divine armor. That way, you can still maintain the main appeal of the current white gunslinger hat. Skull bandana is to make it stand out more, still carrying the whole dead man look to it. The emblem on the helmet is inspired by Cobalt's mockup (http://i46.tinypic.com/29fw7yp.png)
Nameless: Made the hat a BIT more prismatic to make it more visually appealing, but left it black-grey for the most part. Maintains the appeal of the current black gunslinger helm
Justifier: I truly did not know which direction to go with this one; making it purple seemed too silly, but making it white seemed out of place. Kept the star, as I felt it 'belonged' to this hat in particular
Shadowsun: Gave it pinstripes to match the armor. The battle damage is inspired by the description, which states that you trade speed for power. With that in mind, I figured a hat like this would get shot a lot if you're a slow target; fast enough to dodge a lethal hit, but not fast enough to get out without your precious head-wear being roughed up. Could use an emblem, though...

@Severage
http://i50.tinypic.com/9qy16f.png
Lookin' better?

@Zop
http://i47.tinypic.com/b9ch83.png
The unsaturated brown is intended to be the same one used on the armor; I figured a brown hat looked far more natural than a yellow or a navy blue one.

@Juances
http://i50.tinypic.com/24mi22r.png
I couldn't resist.

Fri, 12/14/2012 - 12:47
#8
Melisan's picture
Melisan
@sev*With* grammar:P

I like them, but the skull is a bit much, maybe a crosshair on the deadshot?

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=crosshair&hl=en&safe=off&sa=X&tbo=d&biw...

sorry about that link

@sev

*With* grammar

:P

Fri, 12/14/2012 - 12:49
#9
Aureate's picture
Aureate
Processing Thoughts of You Always

Damn, now my Shadowsun actually looks like Volcanic-themed rather than Prismatic-themed and I'll have to switch my costume Ash Tail out for my Vog Cub. Nice going there.

But seriously, I appreciate the fact that not all of the helmets look exactly the same. Justifier could perhaps do with keeping its little star on the badge, but that's a minor thing...

+1 Love Puppy Approval Stamp

Fri, 12/14/2012 - 13:33
#10
Severage's picture
Severage
@Melisan:

Uh, if I were to not say that purposely incorrect, I would have said "You sir, need help with your grammar", there are multiple obvious mistakes in that sentence, lol.

@Stevo:

<3 Beautiful (PS: The Shadowsun center model looking to the right still has a battle-damage hat).

~Sev

Fri, 12/14/2012 - 14:06
#11
Alpha-Stevo's picture
Alpha-Stevo
@Severage

ACTUALLY, that's a golden button, like the ones on the armor set. Just a little something extra to make it match the armor more!

@Aureate
Actually, the Justifier set DOES keep it's star emblem. I never removed it at all! If anything, I added one on the Deadshot Chapeau, and I'm gonna update the OP with the crosshair idea by Melisan.

Fri, 12/14/2012 - 14:46
#12
Severage's picture
Severage
@Stevo:

Ohh, my bad. It looked white.

~Sev

Fri, 12/14/2012 - 14:58
#13
Doctorspacebar's picture
Doctorspacebar

Yes.

Must get.

Redesigns are great.

I like it. These are so good, I'm not even gonna mention the Thwack Hammer... oops, too late. Anyway, keep up the good work!

Fri, 12/14/2012 - 15:16
#14
Orangeo's picture
Orangeo
There aren't that many good,

There aren't that many good, noticeable differences from the current gear in there. I like the skull mouth on deadshot though, looks nice.

Fri, 12/14/2012 - 21:55
#15
Severage's picture
Severage
@Orangeo:

...wut

Not that many good noticeable differences? The ones he drew are almost all totally different colors. ._.

~Sev (Hi Rommil)

Sat, 12/15/2012 - 04:54
#16
Melisan's picture
Melisan
love the skull scarf on the

love the skull scarf on the deadshot, reminds me of ghost from CoD.

now do an aussie one with corks around the edge ;p

Sev, i was just messing :)

Sat, 12/15/2012 - 14:22
#17
Severage's picture
Severage
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reminds me of ghost from CoD.

Alright Stevo, no skull scarves. ._.

~Sev

Mon, 12/17/2012 - 11:07
#18
Kellnox's picture
Kellnox
+15426529EVERYTHING

I really like the second-take ones. ALTHOUGH. I really liked the teeth on the Deadshot! I know it's reminiscent of CoD, but maybe that's just one thing CoD did right! D:<

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