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Is there currently a var or similar flag for clothing/wearable items that is used to designate that it can be only worn by a certain type of mob?

Example: Plasmaman suits only fit plasmamen.

I haven't looked yet but I presume that the special lizard feet use an exclusion instead of an allowance for shoes.

slope

cedarbridge wrote: Example: Plasmaman suits only fit plasmamen.

NOT OKAY

I once killed a plasma man target as traitor, stole his suit
And equipped a voice changer and impersonated him the entire round... untill I accidently blew up chemistry and died, but none the less. This idea would ruin great situations like this.

EDIT: shit sorry realized this wasn't the ideas forum, move along

PKPenguin321 wrote:slope

poor traction

nothing currently exists afaik

There is a system I highly discourage using for making sprites look different on specific races (look at boxing shorts) but nothing that locks clothing to a race.

I really discourage that kind of mechanic though.

PKPenguin321 wrote:slope

I asked a coding question and gave an example of how it would work. I didn't say the example is what I'm doing. Cripes.

this man fucks birds

oranges wrote:this man fucks birds

Fake news

Alternative is that if you wear a piece of clothing not intended for your characters species that you get a message in your text screen telling you how uncomfortable the suit/whatever is, and you suffer a minor movement slow down.

Otherwise, I disagree with restricting clothing options to race.

it's hard enough to imitate certain races as it is

cedarbridge wrote:

PKPenguin321 wrote:slope

I asked a coding question and gave an example of how it would work. I didn't say the example is what I'm doing. Cripes.

Pay attention, this is the coding forum, not ideas. This thread is not about an idea it's a question about how to do a code thing.

Thunder11 wrote:

cedarbridge wrote:

PKPenguin321 wrote:slope

I asked a coding question and gave an example of how it would work. I didn't say the example is what I'm doing. Cripes.

Pay attention, this is the coding forum, not ideas. This thread is not about an idea it's a question about how to do a code thing.

It's getting annoying how no one is reading these posts, this isn't "should we add race specific clothing?"

It's "is there a method in the code for race specific clothing?"

Possibly a flag or list var in each species datum with clothing they can wear. Such as FIT_LIZARD flag that would be given to both Ashwalkers and station lizards. FIT_PLASMAMAN for plasmamen, etc. Clothing would have this same var. So, if someone wants to wear a certain suit, you check that the mob's fitting flag matches at least one flag on the item. Example: For a miner suit: fittings = FIT_HUMAN|FIT_LIZARD would let lizards and humans wear it, but NOT any species lacking a FIT_HUMAN or FIT_LIZARD flag. You can also do a list, such as fittings = list("human", "lizard").

Gun Hog wrote:Possibly a flag or list var in each species datum with clothing they can wear. Such as FIT_LIZARD flag that would be given to both Ashwalkers and station lizards. FIT_PLASMAMAN for plasmamen, etc. Clothing would have this same var. So, if someone wants to wear a certain suit, you check that the mob's fitting flag matches at least one flag on the item. Example: For a miner suit: fittings = FIT_HUMAN|FIT_LIZARD would let lizards and humans wear it, but NOT any species lacking a FIT_HUMAN or FIT_LIZARD flag. You can also do a list, such as fittings = list("human", "lizard").

/vg/ uses a VOX_SHAPED and GREY_SHAPED in roughly the same way as that.

Alternatively to excluding equips by those lacking the flag, I'd think it might be interesting to make a two part notice. "The strange suit doesn't fit you very well!" and "<name>'s suit doesn't seem to fit poorly." It still lets you wear the disguise, but (like real disguises made up on the spot) its imperfect. I presume something like that could also be done with the same flags?