Body Accessory system

[tigercat2000]

This commit adds a new system to character setup: Custom, selectable tails. body accessories. This means that anyone can select a tail body accessory if it is available to their race, and it will properly show up. Important note: If no tail body accessory is selected, the species default tail body accessory will be used.

Oh. Right. Going to point out this needs an SQL update if it's merged.

OUTDATED INFO:

There are currently only testing-tails, so DNM until sprites.
Included tails as of now:

• Tajaran tail for all mobs
• Restricted Tajaran tail for tajarans
• Body class, Snake body

Pictures

Updated:
All species with tails now use a tail datum. The testing tails for humans have been removed, and normal players will see an empty menu.

Other things:

• Added more creepy-body sprites
  • @Earthdivine @ZomgPonies Made them admin-only; Only admins with R_ADMIN will be able to select them.
• Species now use the tail datum system as well.
• Removed tail_wagging flag, because it shouldn't really matter if the species supports it; the important part is if the tail has an animated state.

Picture:

Well the maintainers are boring. So this is now just a tail datum system. No fancy bodies or anything.

[Fox-McCloud]

Ok, first things first....

• (1) Absolutely no snake people or other such things; this PR should be limited to tails only
• (2) Tails should be restricted to their respective mobs and that's it; absolutely no cross-species with non-species tails or out of species tails/etc.
• (3) All current species with tails (Vulpkanin/Unathi/Tajarans) should utilize this system for future customization if so desired.
• (4) I strongly recommend moving all tail related sprites into their own .dmi so that it's far easier to maintain.

[tigercat2000]

@Fox-McCloud Alrighty, will fix as soon as I wake up.

[Earthdivine]

I was honestly like the snake tails kept in as admin stuff for now, sounds like a fun thing for us to mess with.

[ZomgPonies]

I like the idea of weird, admin-event tails like the snake tail that could be linked to special/custom bodyparts/external organs, but that should probably go in a separate PR.

[TheDZD]

The sprites for the snake, horse, and spider body parts look pretty bad. Wait a minute... My god these are Vorestation sprites.

[Spacemanspark]

Uhhhh what.

[FreeStylaLT]

yes please

I want my lamia booty

[Aurorablade]

adminbus or viruses....CAN I MAKE THEM VIRUSES?!

[Fox-McCloud]

Save the "body sprites" for a separate PR where they can be debated, separately. Most of the sprites look like absolute trash and are creepy as hell; again, this should be a tail only PR if you want to get this merged.

[tigercat2000]

@Fox-McCloud I don't see why you would want this to be a tail only PR. Isn't the entire point customization? The system has been designed from the ground up to work with literally any icon you define, and now the body sprites are for adminabuse-only as @Earthdivine, @FreeStylaLT, and @ZomgPonies expressed interest in.

[Fox-McCloud]

Yes, and he expressly stated that it should be a separate PR, as well and didn't see how gosh damn awful those sprites are.

We're not vorestation and THAT kind of customization isn't something we should be utilizing here on Paradise; there's a stark difference between being able to just customize your own tail, and gluing on a horrendously blended "body" overlay to the bottom part of your sprite.

[tigercat2000]

@Fox-McCloud I don't see a single bit of difference between letting all the tailed-races have custom tail sprites and letting admins have abuse sprites for creepy events.

[Fox-McCloud]

@tigercat2000

Save it for another PR--likewise, it should be on a whole separate layer from tails, otherwise its going conflict with tail wagging and also cut short use of potential non-awful body customized sprites.

IF this is going to be a "thing" it should:

• (1) Be in a separate PR where it can be debated separately
• (2) Not be on the same layer as tails

There's a world of difference; it's fairly natural for those species to have tails---having horrifying glued on bodies of other animals that are horrendously blended is a whole different story.

[tigercat2000]

Requesting @TheDZD's input, might as well get all the maintainers.

And @Fox-McCloud, I see your point.

[TheDZD]

👍 to the datum-based tail system.
👎 to the weird animal bodies, partly because they look weird being glued on to a species, and partly because the sprites are low quality.

[KasparoVy]

Woah woah what the deuce
spooked me a little bit actually with some of those pictures. big ups for putting an armalis in there lmao

IDK what to say this is pretty cool bruh. Sounds like the tail bit and the possible customization associated with it in future implementation would be absolutely bomb 👍

"Added more creepy-body sprites @Earthdivine @ZomgPonies Made them admin-only; Only admins with R_ADMIN will be able to select them."

Sounds like all is as it should be to me

[Aurorablade]

Tarajan/Vulpakanin/Unathi/Vox Tail jewelery? EH EH?!

[KasparoVy]

^^^^

Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.
Vox tail quills ;)

[Fox-McCloud]

Just a few more suggestions:

• rename it from body accessory to tail (in the character creation anyway)
• move all tail related sprites to a singular.dmi please. Hair accessories follow this pattern; so should tails.
• is the commented out code for "if no tail is found, do this" necessary anymore?

[tigercat2000]

I'm closing this. I don't really want to continue any work on it, and there are more reasons that I don't particularly want to elaborate on.

[KasparoVy]

Quite a few people'd love to have atleast the tail bit/framework in for customization at the very least. Is it worth axing the whole thing just because one part was disagreed with?

[tigercat2000]

@KasparoVy It wasn't closed for just that reason.

[KasparoVy]

@tigercat2000 Either way, I'm going to miss this PR :(
Quite sorry it didn't work out