[opensource-dev] Open Development project: extendingavatar wearables

[Dzonatas Sol]

Kitty wrote:
> If someone sells a full-top + high pants combination they wouldn't have to
> struggle with defining which shirt layer goes on top of which other one by
> messing with numbers - since those will still result in conflicts with what
> it's being worn in combination with - but you just leave it up to the user.
> If they want the bottom of the top tucked into the pants then they just
> arrange the top under the pants. Or vice versa.
>
> It also solves the issue where you're limited to what the creator felt like
> providing you with and working with clothing items is much more natural than
> working with clothing layers that only clumsily map to what they represent.
>   


This is where I think a outfit list should be hierarchal  to allows 
someone to wear multiple outfit (lists).

For example, let's say this outfit list is already being "worn":

Outfit "Worn":
* Upper-body
** Shirt
** Undershirt
* Lower-body
** Underpants
** lower-tattoos

Here is another outfit list (as Kitty suggested):

Outfit "Kitty's":
* Upper-body
** full-top
* Lower-body
** high-pants


If we take Kitty's outfit and 'add to' the worn outfit (with default 
order), we get:

Outfit "Worn":
* Outfit "Kitty's":
** Upper-body
*** full-top
** Lower-body
*** high-pants
* Upper-body
** Shirt
** Undershirt
* Lower-body
** Underpants
** lower-tattoos

No priority numbers had to be given in the above lists to see that 
layers near the top of the list appear as the outer-most layers to bake. 
With the lists above, *both* the creator of the outfit and the wearer of 
the outfit have full flexibility to change the priority of the layers, 
with mod or no-mod. Keywords, like "Upper-body" slots, can appear 
anywhere in the hierarchies multiple times.

With the list hierarchy like above, the program that bakes the layers 
only needs to start at the bottom of the list to bake the first layer, 
and step up the list to bake the next layer, until it reaches the top. 
The keywords like "lower-body" and "upper-body" only denote where (or 
how) the textures (in sub-lists from that keyword) are baked onto the 
avatar.