Armor Display Dummies

[Kill4Free]

I know we have display cases, but are there dummies (for display purposes only) where you can equip armor onto?  As it would be pretty neat to make a shop, and mount various suites of armor onto them for customers to look at in their full glory.

[UnderSeven]

This could be a neat idea, you should play a salarr or something and implement it.

[Kill4Free]

Ill ask Imms once I get enough different suites, although I can codedly see how it would be hard to get the dummy to wear stuff, but since almost all the display cases are too small to hold more then a few pieces of armor, the idea has merit.

[wizturbo]

Actually wouldn't be hard at all to code i think.  If they just made the dummy an NPC, and all it could do is wear stuff.

[Larrath]

Clothing dummies exist, so I don't think it should be very difficult to get an armor dummy made.
In fact, it might only need a change of its descriptions and keep the same coding bits.

[Agent_137]

That'd be neat to see.

[Anonymous]

It is a good idea to add some flavor to Salarr and Kadian selling shops.  And the way to do it has already been pointed out, just an NPC with a description of being a dummy (har har).  And you don't have to worry about additional code to deal with situations when someone tries to grab the dummy's pants and run.

[sacac]

I would expect them in almsot all tailor shops and armor shops..

[Lazloth]

(Of course, some schmuck will kill it one day for giggles.)

Anyway, nifty suggestion.  Such in a pain in the ass to resize the crap so the elfling you had captured as a fashion model can actually wear those bracers..

[Kill4Free]

Hmm, if the dummies had a display case around them with a lock, so no one could steal it, it wouldnt need constant supervision.

[Angela Christine]

There are two things wanted here, and both of them are fairly easy.

1.  A display manniquin for shops.  This doesn't have to be an NPC, and it doesn't really have to be "wearing" the clothing or armor.  A simply object with the description showing it wearing an outfit would work fine.  The equipment list format isn't a very good way of describing what an outfit looks like together, because you have to look at the descriptions of each item in the list, and it is a pain in the ass.  "A manniquin in shining scrab platemail" with a description showing what a whole _set_ of scrab platemail looks like would be superior to an NPC wearing various pieces of scrab platemail.  

2. A place to display and preserve your armor at home.  A frame or dummy that keeps your armor in its natural shape may be better for the armor and make it easier to maintain than shoving it all in a chest.  A dummy NPC could work here, but I think that an NPC might be unnecesarily complex.  An NPC has to be set to react, or not, when attacked -- you don't want them being used as sparring dummies, I suppose giving it 1 hit point could fix that, but then instead of a broken dummy you'd have the body of a dead dummy, which would be silly.  You can't get an NPC, to move it you'd have to subdue the thing.  You also have to make sure it doesn't start walking around (something sparring dummies have been known to do).  Plus it has to accept commands to wear, remove and give you things, but presumably not obey orders from justy anyone.  An NPC is a lot of bother.

Instead I'd suggest an object like a table or coat rack, re-described as a dummy.  You put the armor "on" the table/dummy (unlike container objects, that you put stuff "in").  There are a couple problems: the equipment won't be listed from head to toe (unless you were really careful about what order you put items on the dummy) and you'd have to trust people not do dumb things like putting two helmets and three pairs of gauntlets on the dummy.


That is all.


Angela Christine

[sjanimal (nli)]

Neat idea, I like.