ArenaNet talk:Art bugs

Issue: There are two long gaps in the male Elite Dragon Armor helmet model on top of it, easily seen from a zoomed out above angle.
How to fix: Fill in the gaps in the model.
Additional info: None

Issue: Both hands of the warrior are not attached at all to the forearms' protections, you can see-through in the space between. Sometimes they are off-centered too. It's even more obvious when the character is seated or performing an emote.
How to fix: Fill in the gaps in the model.
Additional info: None

Issue: As you can see in the links provided, there seems to be some quality issues on the legs. I have marked in red around the areas that seems to be medium or low quality even though I have my game set to high. In the second link there is also a blue box showing how much the quality changes on the model even in an adjacent rendering triangle. Lastly, there's also a very interesting bug with the shadows on this model. I have provided a full screen image of the shadow of myself. I am running the KSMod to show all models in town at full quality, all shadows are working fine except for mine. The skin seems to be the only part of my character casting a shadow. (i.e. where armor should cast a shadow, there is nothing). I have a full -image, never seen either of these bugs before. No other characters or shadows appear this way.
How to fix: Leggings may have a miscalculation in the texture to polygon mapping thus distorting the quality on parts of the legs. Shadow issue... Har, I don't know that much, but the calculations seem to be skipping the armor.
Additional info: Only this armor does the shadow thing, no other characters. Happens in all towns.

Issue: Male's pelvis *ahem* pops through the leggings.
How to fix: Put their thing back where it came from; fix clippings.
Additional info: None

Issue: The leg portion of the armor appears to be angled awkwardly at the hip, where the upper and lower body armor pieces meet (on the left side of the character). This causes an incredibly ugly appearance on an otherwise beautiful armor. The awkward hip looks terrible while standing still, and juts around in funky manners during some emotes (such as dancing), while running, and during combat.
How to fix: Perhaps adjust the angle that the leg armor meets with body armor at the hip? Tilt it slightly so that it is nearly even as with the other armors? Maybe some fixing to the way the armor attaches itself to the character skeleton? Not sure HOW entirely, just know WHAT needs fixed, sorry.
Additional info: None

Issue: Low Quality Texture
How to fix: Increase texture quality/redo
Additional info: Even with all the graphics options set to max the problem can be seen. its very noticeable especially compared to any other armor. lots of compression artifacts, small resolution texture

How to fix: Raise to cover eyes
Additional info: Compared to the two screenshots on Tinted Spectacles, they ride really low on my ranger's face, only covering his eyes at all when looking from an angle low enough to look up his nostrils.

Issue: The Geometry of the arms and hands become twisted and bizarre when doing emotes.
How to fix: My guess would be that the model's rigging needs to be fixed, But I haven't done any 3D work so I'm not totally certain.
Additional info: I know the issue affects female rangers, I'm unsure if it affects male rangers as well. The hands become crushed to a point, the arm rotated around, the fingers stretched and splayed. Most easily seen while doing /guitar and /violin, but it is apparent for nearly all emotes.

Issue: The Highlander Woad doesn't work correct on my rangers face.
How to fix: The blue field right on top of the right white field, should be on the other side.
Additional info: Normaly it should work like this Highlander Woad.

Issue: The tail of the coat clips through Norn boots while in battle stance
How to fix: Lift up the tail by a bit
Additional info: None

Issue: Ranger hair is disappearing when under water.
How to fix: Make sure the characters hair is also rendered under water.
Additional info: Only seems to work on (at least) one hair model, my other ranger does not has this problem. If my character is equipped with a festival hat, it does render the hat.

Issue: The chest area looks like the flesh is fighting with the clothes, so the skin sort of peeks through.
How to fix: Not sure. :(
Additional info: It seems to be worse if the character is facing towards any light.

Issue: Guild Cape severely clips through the armor right under the shoulder blades
How to fix: Correct clipping errors
Additional info: The severity of the clipping depends on the ranger height: shortest is most severe, while tallest model does not seem to have any

Issue: During some animations, such as dancing or a select few casting animations, the male monk kurzick pants create a sort of gap around the knee area.
How to fix: Extend this part of the pants up a bit more to cover it? Or make the pant leg come outward a bit further to cover the leg? It's sort of hard for me to tell which is the issue, the leg clipping through the pant or the pant itself.
Additional info: As far as I am aware it only occurs on the male monk pants, but may possibly also occur on female pants?

Issue: The female skirt has an issue on the front, It is annoying because it is exactly "there", so it looks like she had "an accident"
How to fix: dunno
Additional info: This issue was not there before, I am not sure when it was introduced

Issue: The female skirt (at least) has a blinking line on it.
How to fix: Most likely a modelling issue.
Additional info: None

Issue: Basically, when you wear the arm design for either of the aforementioned sets, there are pieces that cut off. These pieces are part of the chest design, though when the chest design isn't worn (or a different chest piece is worn), these small triangles cut off and look ridiculous.
How to fix: Either eliminate the patches that would be joined with the chest piece, or move those pieces to the chest piece itself.
Additional info: I did not test this with any other sets besides the Dragon and Labyrinthine sets. I like mixing and matching armor sets, and as you can see by the images attached, I use only the Arm design from the Labyrinthine Set, and I use the Chest and Leggings from the Elite Saintly.

Issue: The guild cape has severe clipping issues. When standing still, there are gaps at the neckline and the left and right sides of the back (mostly the left side). When moving, a severe gap appears periodically, almost showing half of the back.
How to fix: Maybe make the cape float higher on the armor
Additional info: I haven't tested this on female monks

Issue: There is a huge gap in the elbow of the male obsidian armor when wearing with a Glacial Gauntlets.
How to fix: Fill in the gaps
Additional info: As you can see there are similar problems with the Necromancer Elite Profane armor and with the Necromancer Profane armor while wearing them with Glacial Gauntlets.

Issue: In the female version of the armor, the back of the boots appear to slightly clip through the bottom of the skirt when running
How to fix: Raise the line of the skirt a little
Additional info: None

Issue: Right shoulder is twisted when standing still, pointing almost directly backwards.
How to fix: Many chiropracter sessions?
Additional info: Not limited to Fanatic Armor or even to necromancer, happens on many female models. Does not happen on the login screen.

Issue: The skirt has a little 'belt' which attaches to the chestpiece, if you want to use this lovely Vabbian skirt for other armor combinations, you have to put up with a silly little belt which looks odd.
How to fix: Remove the 'belt' above the top of the Vabbian leggings and attach it the chestpiece part.
Additional info: Would be very much appreciated by all female necromancers!

Issue: The armor has a red tint when seen some distance away. The result is that under any dye other than red, it looks somewhat weird unless you are very zoomed in on the character.
How to fix: Remove the red tint?
Additional info: The screenshot below (beware, it's a huge file) shows the tint on one chest piece dyed white. The first is a zoomed in image, in which the tint is invisible. The second one is a zoomed out image, in which the tint is clear (just in case, the third is a copy of the previous image marking some areas where the tint is seen). The fourth image shows how the tint is visible outside the Dye Preview window.

Issue: Collar on male eye part is same collar as dye total
How to fix: dye the eye of male just as female piece wich hasnt the bug
Additional info: no clue

Issue: The armor has an odd red shine, especially when viewing from distance
How to fix: Replace texture or fix the distance view
Additional info: Armor is dyed grey

Issue: Some hair styles clip with the collar on the female monument armor
How to fix: Reduce the collar size and move the collar closer to the neck.
Additional info: Hair clips similarly, but a lesser extent on the Necromancer Elite Kurzick armor.

Issue: the Female version can be dyed, yet the male cannot
How to fix: make dye also affects the male version
Additional info: no need to add a bikini to the male version, so that they can also dye two parts of their armor, simply making the pants dyeable would be fine ;)

Issue: As the Tunic hides a part of the head, it overlaps with several headgears: the Scarecrow Mask, the Mummy Mask, the Mask of the Mo Zing and likely the Dread Mask.
How to fix: Make the Tunic cloaks the Headgears.
Additional info: I've only seen it on a male Necromancer, but I suppose this problem also appears on female Necs. As the standard version of this Armor also has a similiar shape, i suppose the issue could also appear there. The Scarecrow Mask has also clipping issues without armor on (see picture 1)

Issue: The female leggings use a lower-res texture than the rest of the armor, or other prestige armors for that matter. It's a rather noticeable difference in the quality of the pieces.
How to fix: Replace texture with one that matches the rest of the armor.
Additional info: None.

Issue: Female leggings clip when carrying certain bundle items (Item spells, seeds). They also clip terribly when walking/running while holding the item.
How to fix: Somehow adjust the positioning of the Leggings so that they stay aligned with the legs themselves. It would actually look much better if the whole legging wasn't a solid piece, or if it were shorter like the regular Profane leggings.
Additional info: Not affected by items such as the Repair Kit and Flag on the Nameless Island.

Issue: The Female version of this armor is transparent (the tunic is actaully)
How to fix: ...
Additional info:

Issue: The Female version of this armor does a weird thing wen your character dies, I have the gloves on my armor and in this image it shows what happens when you die with these gloves on.
How to fix: Reduce the amount of dark space, it is an eyesore.
Additional info:

Issue: With this particoular male mesmer hairstyle and hair color, one lens of the spectacles is trasparent while the other is dark.
How to fix: Dont let hairs interfere with spectacles
Additional info: -

Issue: The bottom section of the Attire has dissappeared
How to fix: Put it back!
Additional info: Seems to have happened since 29th Aug Update

Issue: The skirt has a "tear" in the back, and the torso does not fully connect
How to fix: Correct the placing of the torso and leggings
Additional info: None

Issue: The right strap of the dress clips into the shoulder when the character is idle ingame but strangely enough, not in the character select screen.
How to fix: Move the strap out slightly perhaps...
Additional info: None

Issue: hands clip into/under skirt when sitting, and hose is visible
How to fix: change hands or let skirt flow over legs more natural when sitting
Additional info: have only seen it on this armor, never before

Issue: The armor has a little `hole` like glitch on the right hand hip
How to fix: Either make the inside hose/hip a little less popped out or make the coat/top a little thicker
Additional info: Happens to all mesmers.. not just mine.

Issue: I was showing off my armor, and examining the glitch of Monument armor and when I was looking at it while at /attention, i noticed that turning my camera from straight behind my character, to about 1/2way to the side made the left leg suddenly rotate after getting to a certain point, and this rotation happens at several points during a full rotation.
How to fix: Make the leg not rotate
Additional info: I tried this with several armor sets, and several characters. It seems that only (female) mesmers have this issue to my noticing.

Issue: The mask clips trough the hair of female mesmers (Factions - hairstyle 1)
How to fix: Maybe hide the clipping part of the mask, or make the hair float a little more to the left.
Additional info: Supposedly happens to a all female mesmers with this hairstyle.

Issue: The lace that is part of the armpieces and skirt seems to have disappeared
How to fix: Find out what's causing it to not display and fix it
Additional info: This may just happen when the armor is viewed by others whilst still displaying corectly to the owner of the armor. However I know that it did once display correctly in both cases. I've also tried changing detail levels, but that didn't seem to affect it.

Issue: There is a lightning glitch at the bottom of the torso of this armor as an horizontal band centered around the belly button is always lighted/glowing. It's even more obvious in dark places and happens on both the front and the back of the character
How to fix: Change lightning of the model.
Additional info: None

Issue: Some part doesn't dye right.
How to fix: Either make it the dyed color or standard black.
Additional info: Happend after the grey dye upgrade.

Issue: There's a hole in the Elite imperial guise for male assassins. It is located on the back; on the right side's armpit.
How to fix: Close the hole
Additional info: Easily seen while moving.

Issue: There seems to be a wierd windowing effect for seitung gear, allows you to see through capes and grass objects.
How to fix: erase the extra parts on the models?
Additional info: Easily seen whilst taking screenshots, looks real shoddy

Issue: The skirt of the female armor is filled with clipping issues. Whether its when conjuring spirits, attacking, casting spells, battle stance, dancing, the legs always clip through the skirt. Also, the top piece, when dancing, the shoulders becomes all weird and deformed compared to other armors.
How to fix: Correct clipping errors
Additional info: None

Issue: The right gauntlet of the female 15k Kurzick armor clips through the hand.
How to fix: Either revert the way the Ritualist hands sit at a standing position or change the way the armor ends at the hands.
Additional info: None

Issue: When you zoom out on a character wearing this armor, the shoulder component disappsears.
How to fix: Adjust the LOD Clipping to include the shoulder armor when zoomed out.
Additional info: Image is a comparison with zoomed in on the left and zoomed out on the right.

Issue: The shoulder pads display a clipping issue while sitting.
How to fix: Resolve clipping issue.
Additional info: None

Issue: The female head piece has a minor clipping issue; the nose pokes out of it and part of the cheek shows.
How to fix: Correct visor's clipping.
Additional info: The issue may be linked to a particular face model...

Issue: When the character is seated or performing a gesture, the left shoulder is deformed. No such thing happen on the right shoulder
How to fix: May need to fix a texturing issue or to add some more vertices to the model.
Additional info: None

Issue: There is some space between the collar of the armor and the neck of the character, you can see-through in the space between (it's not dependant of the current emote)
How to fix: Fill in the gaps in the model.
Additional info: None

Issue: The collar on male elonian chest paragon armor clips when moving.
How to fix: Bend the collar in a slight angle so it wont clip.
Additional info: none

Issue: Winglets on the shoulders disappear when the character is viewed from behind (the default view when playing)
How to fix: Add missing texture or reverse normal vectors on those polygons so the winglets are displayed when the character is viewed from behind too
Additional info: None

Issue: I noticed this in an outpost when hovering my mouse over a paragon. The wireframes of the characrter show on the places where the characters skin should be visible.
How to fix: ...
Additional info: None

Issue: The gloves of the Male Ancient Paragon Armor turn invisible when the char gets selected.
How to fix: Fix highlighting so that the gloves are still visible when the character is selected.
Additional info: The wearer himself does not see this glitch.

Issue: The leggings dye incorrectly. These Leggings, when dyed, also dye the 'leather' looking parts and results in a faded look on the belt and hanging straps.
How to fix: Use dx9, not dx8
Additional info: This may be a result of me running in -dx8 or not.

Issue: top clips with neck/shoulder
How to fix: make the "cirkel" wider or something like that.
Additional info: None

Issue: When wearing any of the special gloves from EotN a floating black line appears above the mask.
How to fix: Remove the Black line.
Additional info: Happens with all professions. Only happens when wearing the Dragon Mask AND EotN special gloves. Like Destroyer, Chaos, and Dragon Gauntlets.

Issue: The Hammer clips through the Warriors Hand
How to fix: Move the hammer diagonally left a couple of pixels.
Additional info: Also occurs with Zodiac Hammers, Happens without any Gloves.

Issue: The offhand clips into the leg
How to fix: Make it hang straight down, or away from the body
Additional info: With the bulky armor ritualists have, offhands on males very easilly clips into the body. Especially if using a large one like a Channeling Focus that even visibly clips into the leg when naked.

Issue: Amethyst Aegis does not shows correctly on mesmers... what is REALLY disapointing
How to fix: None
Additional info: None

Issue: The spear clips the hand.
How to fix: Move the location of the spear downward (and perhaps a bit towards the character's torso)
Additional info: Not sure if it matters, but this happens with female monks.