Nocturne's Tail vs Aurelion Sol's Tail

BlakDynomite·7/4/2016, 6:17:57 PM·37 votes·2,423 views

Hey everyone, first thing I want to say is that I love League of Legends and its community.

So, I have played the game now for over three years and during those years I noticed how messed up Nocturne's tail looked. Back then I equated it to the fact that it was most likely difficult to create or program. Issues I see are such: doesn't properly follow his body, it looks clunky when he turns, its visuals seem outdated, it will become rigid out of nowhere.

When Aurelion Sol came out it seemed like RIOT had figured out the turning problem for tails since it works will with the dragons body. That was awhile ago now. I hope they are working on Nocturne's tail because it really needs some sort of update or fix. Maybe they are working on it but I just wanted to bring some more attention to it.

Thanks [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

12 Comments

Furor Nexis7/4/2016, 9:05:38 PM7 votes

Nocturne's tail isn't part of his model. All of the shadows on him are VFX, therefore it makes sense that the animations on it would appear choppy.

As shown here, this is Nocturne's base model. http://i.imgur.com/zoBrNDw.png

Aurelion Sol's tail is part of his base model. It's just that it's translucence is faded out. You can still make out his tail in his base model as shown here where you can see the phased out tail still shows up when looking at the model from behind http://i.imgur.com/PbTNF9b.png

VFX for trails and tails and stuff are hard to do when they don't have a base model to work off of. In Nocturne's case it's a shadow trail that doesn't follow anything so it made it difficult to do it from scratch. As you can see with Aurelion's tail, it was far easier since it was a part of his model before the VFX was added to it, therefore making it far easier to apply VFX to it.

kaltenashes7/5/2016, 1:02:07 AM2 votes

totally forgot about his 'tail' i also totally forgot noct was a champ

when will he get buffs or a vgu?

VoydHunter7/5/2016, 3:14:26 AM2 votes

They probably won't fix the tail until they do a vu for him. It's good that you bring this to their attention though. Riot might not have even considered him for a vu but if they see this post hopefully they'll consider it. He probably wont be high priority but as long as he makes the list for a vu I'm happy.

yamees7/5/2016, 3:54:08 AM1 votes

Aurelion Sol's tail is better. There's no competition there. [zombie-brand-facepalm]

DarkRitual7/5/2016, 11:41:37 AM1 votes

I'm hoping Riot gets the turn tech (Ahri, Hecarim, Arelion Sol) into other champs. I'd like to add that some Sona skins also have this. DJ Sona's hair is fine I think, but I played as Arcade last night (Skinergy with MF) and noticed that her ribbons would be a good place to add the turn tech. I haven't checked her other skins, but it's a good QoL that likely exists in a bunch of other places.