Increase the variety of chest armor models

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Kalopsia
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Increase the variety of chest armor models

Post by Kalopsia »

Every player that's ever tried to make padded armor or studded leather armor look fine will agree with me on this: The three available armor models are very difficult to work with.

Before HAKs, it was impossible to allow chest models of different AC tiers to be used, as the base properties of armors are linked to them. Now, existing models could simply be copied and added as separate chest appearances for these different AC tiers, without item properties changing as a result.

What I'm thinking is:
  • Making all light armor models available for every light armor category
  • Making all medium armor models available for every medium armor category
  • Making all heavy armor models available for every heavy armor category
  • Possibly allowing clothes with 0AC to look like light armor models and light armors to look like clothes
That way, armors would still represent their respective categories, but there’d be a lot of different chest model options for each armor category.
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Re: Increase the variety of chest armor models

Post by Irongron »

I'm going to consider this one for longer.

I can see the advantages, definitely, but at the same time I don't want to remove one of the few visual cues NWN has to offer.
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Re: Increase the variety of chest armor models

Post by Irongron »

I discussed this with some team members and decided to approve it.

Approved!
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