Cos' Guide to making Mecha - apolli-xi/ttoc-mecha GitHub Wiki

Design:

How to make a Mech a MECH and not a Transformer:

  • Remove or modify all the vehicles parts !
  • Try to add more articulations to the lower members. More animalistic render.
  • Make the shapes more round and less squarish.
  • Mechs are MADE for war. Build the weaponry in!
  • Add a lot of biolights because we are cool
  • Number are written with a red, Hi-Vis color.
  • We must see the joints - they're machines, not living organisms.
  • No face. Visor etc....we can see biolights that mimick eyes but NO EXPRESSIONS (They're still not alive!).

About the suit:

Eeerhhh....try something between a cyberpunk armor, a space suit and something military-ish. If your character got two very different designs (ex: Bayverse and G1 Bee or Orion and Optimus) you can play with it.

Logic behind numbers:

Lowers numbers mean you have a lot of experience, but also a lot of trauma. If you're a low number (sub 300) and still alive, you are very good at your job lol. The first generation would be 1 to 100 numbers. They are higly competent but also very traumatized and won't live to be too old (dont pay too much attention to this). Been in the area for like 10-15 years. Living legends.

100 to 400 are old too, but less considered like rat lab. Experiences were painful but getting better.
They are mostly extinct because they were decimated during a big attack. Higly respected and graded.

After that, 400 to 1000 pilots are more stable, but at this point, nobody care about you. You are not interesting enough to be an experimentation and If you die you die lol nobody cares. They are respected too.

Any more than 1000 you are just a soldier, raised by propaganda and else. Same as above where nobody cares about you except other pilots. You were either compatible military personnel or even a civilian in need of money or revenge. (The process is always PAINFUL AND TRAUMATIZING, REGARDLESS OF YOUR NUMBER and they do experimentation with all number categories, so. If you are unlucky you can still be traumatized. And you can invent your own trauma lol).

References:

Cockpit ref: https://www.tumblr.com/keferon/771062968277417984/oh-fuck-my-eyes-have-been-blessed