Graphical avatars (split from accessibility of interface)

[Tetro]

Why not add a small picture man or woman in the form of description, for which they were to demonstrate clothes that we wear? It probably was not that much work?

[marol]

Why not add a small picture man or woman in the form of description, for which they were to demonstrate clothes that we wear? It probably was not that much work?

I'll add it as soon as you deliver images for all pieces of cloth.

[SekoETC]

In other words it would be a lot of work. Besides, there are some people who have said they would quit if Cantr became graphical. So it should be possible to disable the avatars and they should start off as disabled in order not to offend any people. The biggest problem I see is that the images would have to overlap in order to make it look natural. I could provide the graphics if there was really some way of making it work without using Flash.

[marol]

Overlapping images is trivial with HTML + CSS.

[SekoETC]

Hmm, okay. It never worked when I tried it... If this is really gonna get implemented then first there should be a base human "dummy", maybe separate ones for male and female and it should probably be green to avoid people complaining about racism. How tall should it be?

[marol]

Fine to me.

[*Wiro]

Don't like it. That way everyone with a hide dress on looks the same. So people would base what they see on that picture.

[SekoETC]

You can disable it if you don't like it. And it wouldn't have facial features or muscles or anything.

[Dudel]

It would be like the avatars on the men's and women's restroom cept green. Wire structures would be good too. (Wire not solid form of person eithor male or female)

[Piscator]

People with hide dresses already look all the same. So what is the problem?

Perhaps it could be mentioned that the dummy is only supposed to give an impression of how an character could look like, not how he actually appears. On the other hand, facial features could be personalized easily too. At least to some extent.

[*Wiro]

I'm talking about how others would respond to it. If there's a set image of how someone looks, everyone will know it and use it.

If you can at least change some things in your character's appearance (skinny, fat, tall, short etc) and you will see them on the picture, then I'm fine with it.

@Piscator - The hide dress looks the same, but the way the person in it looks is what I'm talking about.

[UloDeTero]

I think having some way to differentiate characters would be good. A graphical view of clothing rather than a big list of text would be an ideal start. As far as I'm aware <DIV> tags can be used to layer images on top ofeach other. I don't know much more about it, though.

[Piscator]

If you can at least change some things in your character's appearance (skinny, fat, tall, short etc) and you will see them on the picture, then I'm fine with it.

That would be quite difficult unless the clothes graphics could be automatically resized. (Otherwise there would have to a separate clothes set for every shape.) Personalizing the face and hairdo should be comparably easy though.

[SekoETC]

I'll try to make the figure vague enough not to ruin people's imagination. If there is no or very little shadowing, it will be harder to tell the person's weight. In fact it could be more like in South Park, except that I would prefer it to be anatomically more like real humans.

[*Wiro]

Thanks. ^^ If this is implented I'd greatly appreciate that line of text Piscator mentioned to be added as well.

"This picture is only meant to give an impression of what this character could look like, not what he or she actually looks like."