Accessory Bin Types
Strangel:
Oh, and one for "nails" as well...
I wish there were some way to make the item show up on the thumbnail when it's a non-head item..
PandaGirl:
That would explain why I've got earring that you can layer every single colour on at once. My OCD would love something that can let me organise things my way. Easily.
Sagana:
There needs to be lots of bins for facial piercings so you can layer them. And I'd say at least 3 for headgear - hats, hair deco like flowers and horns. Also all the kids school backpacks - it would really be nice if these were outerwear instead of accessories anyway. I like hats better as hair now too.
jfade:
Quote from: SaraMK on 2007 May 22, 03:48:53
Trying to coordinate anything in this community is like trying to teach worms to dance the Macarena.
Tell me about it. :P
Quote from: akatonbo on 2007 May 22, 04:14:32
I'm VERY much in favor of this -- at the very least, I would desperately love something that would let me organize my own downloads in a way that makes sense, even if very few creators actually sign on to the idea.
All the programs coming out now that actually let me manage my crap make me SO happy. I've been waiting for this kind of thing for two years, and I'm sure most of the community feels the same way. I've had the WTF Editor cacheing for, oh, hours now, and I can't wait to spend a ridiculous amount of time organizing files.
Possibly I should step up my accessory-wrangling (need to clone a bunch of things in Body Shop to give them tooltip text that explains what they are if they're not visible from the neck up) so I can contribute some more categories. Off the top of my head -- Hats, Wings, Facial Piercings, Apparel (like generalzoi's cape or trenchcoat), Earrings, Scarves, Hand-Held (guns and other weapons, and I have some others), maybe something for headwear other than hats (I have one particularly fabulous hair flower, possibly the best thing Peggy has ever made, plus some lesser ones from other creators and various other non-hat headgear).
Ohh, nifty, thanks for the additional ideas. :)
Quote from: SaraMK on 2007 May 22, 06:03:02
What I think needs to happen is to have a tool that changes the bin # easily and quickly. Rather than creators binning their accessories, this could become something that downloaders do themselves, much like we now use tools to change clothing categories and bin hair.
The tool, which could be similar to Theo's plugin, could have a short list of bins that a person could select from. For example (and these are not real bin numbers, of course): 001 = glasses, 002 = purse on shoulder, 003 = purse in hand, 004 = earring on upper ear, etc. This would help users select an appropriate bin for their stuff, without having to keep track of which bins they have used for other items, or needing to check which bin the item is already in.
Oh yeah, I don't expect to win at the creator level, but I can at least try to set a standard to begin with and maybe some will actually use it. :P The tool I'm making will have the ability to change the bin number to a Maxis default bin category, the suggested categories we're going to come up with, and also allow you to change the bin number to something totally different.
Quote from: Strangel on 2007 May 22, 06:56:25
Oh, and one for "nails" as well...
I wish there were some way to make the item show up on the thumbnail when it's a non-head item..
Noted the nails, and as for the thumbnails, I'm not sure that can be changed since I would assume that since all accessories are cloned from headwear (glasses or beards basically) that the game would, by default anyhow, get a thumbnail from that area. Perhaps there's a way to change this, but I don't know offhand and would have to experiment. We'll see what happens. :)
Quote from: sagana on 2007 May 22, 10:29:47
There needs to be lots of bins for facial piercings so you can layer them. And I'd say at least 3 for headgear - hats, hair deco like flowers and horns. Also all the kids school backpacks - it would really be nice if these were outerwear instead of accessories anyway. I like hats better as hair now too.
Thanks for the extra category ideas, keep them coming! :) As far as changing an accessory to act as something else once it's been made as such, I'm not sure that would be very easy/possible. You may be able to change the main Sub-type though, and have some accessories show up in a different area other than glasses, but I've not actually TRIED that yet to see if it would work. I guess there's some experimenting to be done with this tool once it's done! :P
nocomment:
This sounds like a great idea. Here's some more categories:
Wedding veils
Wedding bouquets
Shoes/slippers (such as the bunny slippers, tiger slippers, and swim flippers)
Shoulder sitters (parrots, pixies)
Also, some "misc" bins, such as:
Misc hand (already mentioned)
Misc head (like the swim snorkle)
And if it's not too rude to hijack things briefly, I wonder if anyone can tell me how to make an accessory work for nude only? I can make them PJs only, or formal only, etc., but can't seem to figure out nude only. Or is that just not possible?
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