I've compiled all your excellent suggestions regarding replacement prize items for contest winners who never told me what they wanted -- thank you all for the time and effort you put into the ideas!
I had to leave out a few for various reasons; either they were redundant, or I already had the item in question (there's already a set of jodhpurs in Legwear-Standard), or they weren't specific enough. In cases where you asked for more than one thing, I usually just took the first one from the list. If the person making the request provided a reference photo link, I added it to the choice -- just click on an image to expand it. If there was no reference provided, you'll just have to use your imagination.
So here's how this will work.
Vote for as many items in the following list as you would want to see in HeroMachine 3. At the end of a week, the top ten vote getters will become HeroMachine items (eventually)! It's so simple, even a bald hick like me could do it.
And so can you, so go do it already!
Come on rubber chicken!
There are a lot of great suggestions here. I think some of these should be added even if they don’t quite make the vote.
Wow, a lot of good suggestions.
WHIP SWORD FTW !!!
http://www.videogamegirlsdb.com/Images/Soul_Calibur/Ivy/Ivy_SCIII_Concept_01.jpg
The poll loads the options in a random order every time?
Nice touch.
Come on Jack O’ Lantern head!!! Oh baby please!!!
Also Jake has a point….
Why can’t I see the poll?
@Haxxx: I believe that you see the results only after you vote. You may have already discovered this for yourself.
I I can’t see the actual poll, at all. I can’t vote because it isn’t there
Oh! now I can
That “M26 Modular Accessory Shotgun System (MASS)” item is already in HM3. You just have to put the pieces together…
http://www.terpconnect.umd.edu/~mshute/m26.png
Uh-oh: Pope hat is beating yarmulke (4-3 as of this comment)! I’ll just assume that’s because it’s pretty darn easy to fake a yarmulke with a circle, whereas a pope hat has a little more to it.
I couldn’t see the pole at first either. I came here from FB, and you’ve to close the little bar at the top before the page’ll let you see the poll.
come on jack o lantern head and other maskes
I wondered about the MASS, I should’ve checked with you first, Mark. Sorry about that.
On the yarmulke, I honestly am not sure how I’d even draw that given the front-on view of the head. They rest on the back part of the skull, the most you’d see would be a tiny part of the front rim.
I’d happily forego all these items if we could just have that photo of Lynda Carter up on this site all the time.
Hey Jeff (14), I don’t really care if we get the yarmulke or not but if it wins here are a few links to ones that might show some merit. They are a little more detailed so there might be a little more substance to them.
http://www.judaica-mall.com/products/yarmulke-20032.jpg
http://worldhistoryatyhs.wikispaces.com/file/view/judaismjewishjudaictalmudyarmulkewithstarofdavid.jpg/32306673/judaismjewishjudaictalmudyarmulkewithstarofdavid.jpg
I’m with Spidercow2010. Maybe a rotating Lynda Carter (different picture every day), but YOWZA!!! She still looks HAWT today!
Definitely the wheelchair and any non-standing leg poses.
yes, mad love for the Columns and archways… plus other cool stuff
wheres the poll? i dont see it and im a bit of a computer ignorant
We can always use more differently-posed body parts. I especially like the suggestion of a sideways torso.
More mech parts, would be fine.
not too sound greedy but i want all of them plus straight jacket and toga
Actually the Kippa (or yarmulke, witch I can’t pronounce) can sit where you want. Those that MMI brought are designed to just sit on the back of the head (sort of snug-fit) while most knitted Kippas are placed on the side of the head with a simple hair clip.
Thou you probably couldn’t see the Kippa properly you could use thee half hemisphere Mask item to create one.
@Yarmulke “crowd”: I think what Jeff is saying is that the regular size modern yarmulke doesn’t appear when viewed from the front. Maybe what you want is something a little older like this:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Chisinau_jew.jpg
Now, if we’re still going for a modern look, here are a few ideas…. 😉 😛
http://www.yarmulkes.com/user/uploads/medium/baseball.jpg
http://www.yarmulkes.com/user/uploads/medium/basketball.jpg
http://www.yarmulkes.com/user/uploads/medium/embsmileyYellow.jpg
and lastly as I’m a DC fan I couldn’t leave these out:
http://www.yarmulkes.com/user/uploads/medium/DSCN2145.JPG
http://www.yarmulkes.com/user/uploads/medium/DSCN2144.JPG
I like the Creepy graveyard background idea. It can certainly be done with what items are currently available (see the link below) but its a lot of work.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6781672/MMI-Cemetery.jpg
The MASS was suggested for convenience purposes. I have difficulty finding most of the parts so, it’s a one button thing. Besides, the MASS could be included in parts as, it is able to be a standalone weapon. So, in parts it would follow to same route as the sawed off shotgun already in “rifles”; able to be a weapon on it’s own or be used as a shotgun attachment for another weapon. You were able to do the same thing with other weapons(make them out of various parts found in multiple categories) yet, those weapons were added all the same; I don’t see why that wouldn’t be the same with the MASS.
*couldn’t
MMI (24): Nicely done.
personal i would mind seeing a shapeshifter type weapon like clay face hammer hand
Thank you Myro (29), I appreciate your feedback.
@yarmulke
The irony regarding the yarmulke is that it only has 9 votes so far (far less than most other items) and it isn’t likely to matter as it won’t win out. All of our attention to it to this point is likely for not.
WOW!!!! MMI that looks freakin badass!!! How’d you do it?
That’d be way worth a thing showing how you did it! That was one of the coolest things I’ve seen. And nice touch with the “angel” guy in the BG. Very nice.
I love the rocketeer totally awesome and the fact that his flight jackets already there Go rocketeer helmet!!!!
I hope you meant a “World War I” Biplane!
There weren’t too many of those left by WWII…
Oh, and the Klingon beastie is a ‘Targ’ (with a G), and not a ‘Tarq’ (with a Q)!
Bulldog head for the 22nd time. Never understood why you didn’t have a rocketeer helmet and have the jacket. Good to see it on the list..
Thanks for those catches, WillyPete, I’ve updated the poll with the corrected info.
I can’t believe I watched every episode of ST:TNG and have no clue what a Targ is. I’m getting old, brain cells are dying off indiscriminately.
i think the sideways torso and Hand posed on gun forestock need to be added regardless what items wins
because sideways poses are desperately needed as well as hand poses such as the one on the forestock
I’ve noted something: 50 people-Skinny shirt; 36 people- Fat belly shirt. People just don’ like fat super heroes…
Yeah, that Lynda Carter poster is one of the all-time greats. It looks as good today as it did, what, 30 years ago? She’s just stunning.
Mmmm . . . Lynda Carter in a yarmulke . . . in a biplane . . . flying thru an archway . . .
BTW Mark, how’s it going with the big weapons?
Come on waistcoat, let my gentlemen heroes be properly dressed.
Okay all you sideways torso fans, Honest question; Why?
Wouldn’t Jeff then have to add a slew (sp?) of parts to go with the torso? Head, nose, ears, hair feet, etc? Not to mention clothes to fit it properly…..
It would be neat, but a ton of work. I’ve always used HM to design a character, not necessarily make a scene. Don’t get me wrong, I think that some of the members of this group have created some fantastic scenes, but I don’t see that as the primary function of the program.
Not wanting to start a rumble, just honestly curious if I have overlooked something that a sideways torso would be good for.
Jeff, I just wanted to say thanks so much for including the hookswords. Until I can buy a pair of my own, this will be the next best thing.
Gene’s totally right about the sideways torso, but if it gets voted to the top, I imagine creative folks’ll find a use for’t. And I’m so delighted everyone likes that Lynda Carter photo I picked for the under-bust-tied shirt.
Cormac (42): I have no less than 3 character ideas that can be made as soon as waistcoats get added to HM3, right from the top of my head. In retrospect, I actually like your suggestion better than mine for the Nova helmet, which will probably spawn only 1 character idea immediately.
Come on, give the Pumpkin more love here. It’s almost Halloween. We could really use it about right now.
Nicholas/GtaMythMaster43 (32) perhaps I’ll make up a recepe for the grave yard. Although I never saved it step by step so it will have to be done from scratch so it might look slightly different.
Come on? Really? Pumkin head should be there just because Halloween is just around the block! Seriously!!! Come on pumkin head get another 6 votes!!! Also Jeff the wheel chair (sorry if that is miss spelled) and the throne should be there regardless if the lose. We need those. Well….deffinatly the THRONE. I have a bunch of good ideas for it. (Like the others guys do I’m sure) Hope the Halo custom “robot” like heads win to. Got quite a few votes! YAY!!!! Also that female alien mass effect head if it wins I will be happy till the end of year if those things get in…..:D
MMI, oh please! That’d be soo awesome! I always wanted to know how to do something similiar and you did such a nice job with the look of the whole thing! 😀
I think it should have one of the contests!
Also Jeff, I think we need more seasonal stuff too….like Santa hats (DEFFINATLY the Graveyard and Pumpkin head) Or like a firework explosion or something like those….yah know? Just for the holidays?
Opps….Typo: *I think it should have won one of the contests…..ARRGGHHH.
Wow I didn’t know you could get Converses that big :O
Hakoon1 (52) there are even bigger available.
http://www.virtualshoemuseum.com/vsm/files/09558_converse_a-1.jpg
@everybody re: MM&I’s creepy graveyard (#26)– Do yourselves a favor and enlarge his image AMAP. There’s detail in there that gets lost, at least on my ancient steam-powered monitor, at smaller sizes. Press [Cntrl]+ multiple times (on a PC, anyway) to enlarge. ([Cntrl]- will reduce it again. Forgive me if the universal reaction to this advice is “Well, duh.”
While I’m being pedantic, listen, I know this isn’t something I should be all tightly wrapped about, but every time it happens I die a little inside: It’s spelled d-e-f-i-n-i-t-e. There’s no A in there. Add an -ly to spell definitely. There’s a FINITE number of ways to spell deFINITE.
I’m not picking on anyone in particular; I see this ALL THE TIME.
Thanks. I’ll shut the hell up and go away now.
@spidercow: My pet peeve is the ‘lose-loose’ crowd…
Spellcheck, y’all.
spidercow2010 (54) thank you for taking the time to take a closer look at my image. I tend to be very detail driven (my friends just call me anal retentive :)) and you will often find many small details on my images that are not initially predominant. Its good to know they are not lost on everybody.
All of these are pretty good. In a recent contest I had the need for a ‘gas attack’ in the item / energy section, like chlorine gas from a green dragon.
so today is the last day to vote right?
Um. I came back.
It’s Friday morning, and as things stand right now, the top 10 (in no particular order) are patchwork coat, male mouth with gritted teeth, hook swords, bandaged hands, mean eyes, Iron Man leg armor, lab coat, shirt tied under bust, waistcoat, and whip sword.
If you haven’t voted yet, ask yourself: how often will you actually USE the cool item that you have an idea for at the moment?
Are there safeguards in place to prevent multiple votes? I think it just let me vote again.
hurm, I was kinda hoping that the bandage head would also make the top ten too
Stegosaurus Companion! Thanks for the love voters. 🙂
Lots of good stuff. Some of these, I think you can manipulate HM enough to make on your own. But, it’d be nice if they were readily available.
@MMI: Thanks for the M26 and graveyard recipes.
I’m with a lot of posters, a “Welcome Back, Carter” section should be a regular feature. ;9
@ spidercow2010
Yes, there are some safeguards, but they are easy to dodge.
If there’s a sudden change in the poll, then most likely it would be somebody spaming votes.
The current state is:
Targ (the Klingon boar creature for STNG) companion 0.43% (29 votes)
High Tech Glove from HM2 (page 2) 1.6% (109 votes)
Nova’s helmet 1.7% (116 votes)
Sideways torso 1.31% (89 votes)
Harpoon gun from HM2.5 0.91% (62 votes)
Unicorn companion 0.71% (48 votes)
Modern bulletproof vest 1.82% (124 votes)
Waistcoat 2.41% (164 votes)
Asari head fringe 1.15% (78 votes)
Iron Man style leg armor 2.32% (158 votes)
Nehru jacket 1.59% (108 votes)
Mass Effect style recon hood 1.97% (134 votes)
Dancing pants 0.75% (51 votes)
Celestial helmet 1.28% (87 votes)
Bison head 0.85% (58 votes)
Jesse Quick visor 1.6% (109 votes)
M26 Modular Accessory Shotgun System (MASS) 1.15% (78 votes)
Rubber chicken 0.65% (44 votes)
Hovering Blackhawk helicopter companion 0.48% (33 votes)
Columns and archways 1.43% (97 votes)
Pumpkin/Jack’O’Lantern Head 1.98% (135 votes)
Robot Head 1.82% (124 votes)
Leather zipper pants 1.76% (120 votes)
WWI Biplane companion 0.48% (33 votes)
Stegosaurus companion 0.51% (35 votes)
Throne 1.2% (82 votes)
Legs in a crouching pose 1.95% (133 votes)
Big Afro 1.2% (82 votes)
Khopesh 2.44% (166 votes)
Mean eyes 2.13% (145 votes)
Kimono 1.78% (121 votes)
Modern soldier companion 0.93% (63 votes)
Lab coat 2.19% (149 votes)
Yarmulke 0.43% (29 votes)
Pope hat 0.48% (33 votes)
Rocketeer helmet 1.37% (93 votes)
Legs ending at the knee (as if kneeling down) 1.65% (112 votes)
Straight hanging shirt to fit the skinny body 1.01% (69 votes)
Plain shirt with fat belly fold 0.68% (46 votes)
Brick arch 1.28% (87 votes)
Jumpsuit 1.25% (85 votes)
Big long wild beard 1.87% (127 votes)
Raptor helmet 2.53% (172 votes)
Flight suit 1.45% (99 votes)
Singularity glove 1.7% (116 votes)
Converse boots 1.54% (105 votes)
Open-collar, button-down style shirt 1.56% (106 votes)
Pool leaf skimmer 0.32% (22 votes)
16th century cap 0.82% (56 votes)
Patchwork coat 2.28% (155 votes)
Creepy graveyard background 1.88% (128 votes)
Simple male mouth with gritted teeth 2.16% (147 votes)
Wheelchair with integrated seated legs 1.48% (101 votes)
Bandage hands 2% (136 votes)
Bandage head 1.6% (109 votes)
Speedboat companion 0.31% (21 votes)
Starship bridge background 1.32% (90 votes)
Facial wrinkles 1.94% (132 votes)
Gi 1.66% (113 votes)
War fan 1.44% (98 votes)
Phantom of the Opera style half mask 1.84% (125 votes)
Hook swords 2.66% (181 votes)
Hand posed on gun forestock 1.65% (112 votes)
Wrist rockets 1.41% (96 votes)
Mug shot background 1.45% (99 votes)
Shirt tied under bust 2.35% (160 votes)
Tail with a taper 1.75% (119 votes)
Whip Sword 2.38% (162 votes)
Total Votes: 6,805
Iron Man armor pic:
http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/photos/uncategorized/2008/05/06/ironman.jpg
Pretty sure most of you have seen this, but it can’t hurt.
The starship bridge background was my idea. Something I suggested/made actually made to the website! Yippee!
To all the trekkies on this forum, your welcome.
Unfortunately, my klingon forehead & cardassian neck frills didn’t. Oh well.
Half of this stuff should be in it regardless. I mean 20 of these seriously NEED to be! Please pumpkin and robot heads!!! PLEASE MAKE IT!!! VOTE GUYS VOTE!!! Please? 🙂
I would like to see TVs. Like the old Bulky ones & flat Screens
Most this high voted stuff is useless!!! Come on guys how much of the “cool” stuff do you REALLY want?
Wheelchair, Throne, Robot Heads, Pumpkin Head, Asari head type. Those are actually “useful”. Deffinatly the WheelChair, Throne, and Pumpkin head. (come on it’s halloween time, seriously…)
Et tu, Nicholas/GtaMythMaster43? Deffinatly?
right now the kopesh and waist coat are tied so are the gritted teeth and mean eyes. so i was wondering if they are still tied at the end of the poll does that men thats the top ten or will that let two more items slide in to ninth and tenth
i think we know which ones are going to win im ready for some new stuff
I think that we need that beard, from Hm2. I always used to make dwarf guys with it. Like this guy: http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/9044/jimlod.png
And him: http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/332/jimlod20.png
We also NEED those robot heads. Are they actually going to be from Halo?
Wait, one question. When do these go into HM3? And when does the poll end?
Poll ends today, items go in … whenever I get to them, I suppose. My track record so far on fulfilling prize requests has been dreadfully slow, I confess.
spidercow2010 (54) & Nicholas/GtaMythMaster43 (50)
At your request, I have sent Jeff a recipe for the Creepy Cemetery I posted previously (26). You will see why I said it was a lot of work.
oh thanks MMI!!
😀