Dress up NPC ext!

[unimatrixzero]

I was messing around with icons and images and came up with the idea of having an image of a figure that you can change items of clothing, accessories, hair and face by simply clicking on various parts of the image.

https://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd139/Unimatrixzero/th_vamp1.jpg (https://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd139/Unimatrixzero/vamp1.jpg)
https://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd139/Unimatrixzero/th_vamp2.jpg (https://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd139/Unimatrixzero/vamp2.jpg)
https://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd139/Unimatrixzero/th_vamp3.jpg (https://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd139/Unimatrixzero/vamp3.jpg)

I didn't know whether or not it would be a welcomed extension. What do you think? Alot of image work required but it could be helpful if you quickly need to create an NPC.

Regards
Uni

[Oberoten]

I was messing around with icons and images and came up with the idea of having an image of a figure that you can change items of clothing, accessories, hair and face by simply clicking on various parts of the image.

https://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd139/Unimatrixzero/th_vamp1.jpg (https://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd139/Unimatrixzero/vamp1.jpg)
https://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd139/Unimatrixzero/th_vamp2.jpg (https://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd139/Unimatrixzero/vamp2.jpg)
https://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd139/Unimatrixzero/th_vamp3.jpg (https://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd139/Unimatrixzero/vamp3.jpg)

I didn't know whether or not it would be a welcomed extension. What do you think? Alot of image work required but it could be helpful if you quickly need to create an NPC.

Regards
Uni


Well I imagine it'd be a fun toy at the least and useful for creating something to show off for the players. With a simple interface it could become REALLY useful if you limit the size of the base images to just a few K each.

- Obe

[PneumaPilot]

Interesting idea, but like you said, I think that ultimately the graphical workload will kill you.

[Sigurd]

It might work as a visual expression of health. Base image plus a rising red line to denote health.


Sigurd

[unimatrixzero]

Thanks guys.
I thought a number of sub-windows could be used for different genres of clothing. A few generic base figures of different races and sex would be available.

thinking about it...it is a little gimmicky....maybe for dedicated groups it could be used for character pics. I know several groups that do this sort of thing on pen and paper, updating their characters with the latest armour, weapons, etc that they find.

I am liking the health meter idea. could even do a kinda Pipboy style form Fallout that shows the state of each limb. hmmmm maybe I should get back to messing about with my Fallout ruleset. :)

Like most of you I have so many ideas for FG that I don't know which to concentrate on first.

Uni

[tdewitt274]

I know the thread is quite cold, but how was this done? This might be helpful for something like Aces & Eights, depending on how it was done.

[Unimatrixzer0]

This was done using the 'change icon state' function. A number of overlapping frames allows for numerous combinations.

I also put together a 3 x 3 grid of tiles that could be cycled thru to produce various maps from a basic tile set.
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To cycle- the GM simply right clicked on the edge of each tile to go forward and middle clicked to go back thru the various tiles.
I was going to code a couple of mini games ( a car combat game and a 'last night on earth' clone) that would utilize this function... but like so many projects real life got in the way. :s
Anyone know of any other ways this tiling effect could be achieved, perhaps using a drop down list to choose images to display in each frame? could this been set to be randomly generated to produce totally random maps? any ideas?
Regards Uni

[tdewitt274]

If you're able to move things around, this would be a good application of a tarot deck. If you can randomize a deck of cards and then move them into the appropriate place, you could click on them to reveal the card as well.