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Avatar upper body textures

Millie Thompson
Resident Moderator
Join date: 18 Dec 2002
Posts: 364
12-10-2003 14:30
Just a thought here, but here goes.

It would be nice to see changes to the upper body texure control for the avatars. So instead of both arms having the same sleeve or tattoo texture you could have a tattoo of a dragon on one arm, and on the other some kind of kanji character. And have seperate control sliders for each arm too. And if the lower body templates don't have the same features then that would be a good idea too.

As for the current textures depending on the current textures can mirror the currenly covered arm/leg section on the other arm/leg to compensate for the missing textures.
Julian Fate
80's Pop Star
Join date: 19 Oct 2003
Posts: 1,020
12-11-2003 15:26
Forgive me if you already know this. The problem with upper body tattoos is that the upperbody texture only provides for one arm. Whatever is on that arm is mirrored on the other side. This problem doesn't exist for the lower body tattoos since lower body textures provide space for a front/back right leg and a front/back left leg (but only one foot which is mirrored :)).

It would be lovely to have two arms available in the upper body texture though this would break every single upper body texture in the game. The texture just doesn't have room to add another arm without changing the existing one. The only solution I can think of is to give us the option of choosing which arm the texture is applied to and then not mirroring the texture to the other arm. Then you could create differing textures for each arm by using tattoos for one arm and an undershirt clothing item with only the arm details you want for the other arm.
Carnildo Greenacre
Flight Engineer
Join date: 15 Nov 2003
Posts: 1,044
12-11-2003 16:03
How about a slider to add a second arm to either side of the body? :D
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