Suggestion - Snap on Clothing

[whoopsydaizy]

Here's a simple suggestion!

I have bad eye sight and often use mobile. Sometimes clothes are hard to get pixel perfect. So my suggestion is a little toggle besides eligible clothes: "snap on" which would automatically place the clothing where it's "supposed" to be! This would be completely optional, of course!

[*JACKAL*]

I like the idea of snap on clothing but that would stop us from using items for a wide range of purposes other than than those it's meant for.

So support for a snap on toggle switch. I don't think we'll be able to code both way though. ???

[arabella !!]

That would be easier, but like Jackal has said there are many purposes for items so it'll be great if it was optional if it can be coded.

[Shian]

This would be really helpful. Especially with clothing items that have a very specific area where it goes because of ear holes, leg holes, etc.


Dressing up 200 of these guys took forever and some of them aren't quite good enough because I'm trying to line it up with those two small tufts of hair.

It's especially difficult because when I first put the item on, it moves up a few pixels every single time. I have to remember to put the item on them, then re position it.

There's a bunch of other tricky things too like armbands.

If you're even a few pixels off, it does not look right. Lots of squinting and careful mouse movements.


These gauntlets are tricky. The capes too, especially. If they go too far up, you cover the mouth. If they go too far down, the armor or the back of the pet pokes through. I could keep going, but there's so many items I struggle with. Having a checkbox for snap like the rearrange mode we have now for these types of clothing where they have a specific place would be so nice.

[nickjr]

I want this too ;A; but I'm trying to imagine the coding for this and... I think we'd have to build something new and do a lot of manual tagging or something to make this work @___@ The easiest thing I can think of is to assign some sort of "anchor point" to every item* (some sort of shared point that many items have--e.g. those two tufts of hair that drive Shian up the wall could be an anchor point for wings, big scarves, the free store blankets, etc; armbands and bracelets of all sizes generally go to that one area of the legs; etc) and then put a default coordinate (x,y) for the anchor point according to species/lineart since I think most pets with the standard linearts are the exact same size (with a few exceptions like the "floating cats" from December 2010 lolol), which means people will have to manually put on items for pets that don't have the standard crop or have really... intense lineart edits lol

* would most likely have to be manually assigned because we have so many different items of all different sizes and stuff LOL

I don't know how our current dressup system works (although I can make a guess: the (x,y) coordinates of the centers of our items are saved) so I don't know if we have anything that would greatly assist the creation of such a system...

An alternative, maybe? would be to allow us to use the arrow keys on our keyboard to move our items 1px at a time

[whoopsydaizy]

Yes, as I said, my suggestion is optional! I happen to actually really like how it currently works... but sometimes with some obvious clothes items it's a little hard to get perfect, as Shian said. That's why I suggested a toggle! :^) I'm glad you guys like my suggestions. Thanks for the support!

nickjr, the one pixel at a time keyboard placement sounds pretty useful! Probably easier to code, so I support that. Thank you for the alternative suggestion!

[Lacuna]

I'm not positive, but I think it's very unlikely that the original suggestion would work because pets aren't cropped at a uniform size (I know Shian asked about this last week with some sitting cats, but it's the case with most pets even if it's not so obvious as that) and there are line edits of course, even just the standard ones of flop vs. upright ears, that would change the coordinates the items were supposed to be snapping to.

[whoopsydaizy]

That makes sense. I just wish I'd work, heh, sometimes it gets a little annoying.

Would nickjr's suggestion of arrow key pixel by pixel work?

[Lacuna]

Honestly, I can't say for sure on that, as I'm not familiar with how the items are positioned in the current system; I just know that sometimes they wiggle a little bit from where you left them so they may be trying to center themselves like someone suggested? I'm not sure if that would keep the pixel movement thing from working.

[whoopsydaizy]

Hmm. I wish I was familiar with it, so I could help make a better suggestion, but oh well! Thank you for your help, Lacuna.