Tattoos on Dead Bodies

[Scarecrow]

Heya all.
Just the friendly neighbourhood Scarecrow throwing out a code idea here.
Make it so when you look at the corpse of someone who has tattoos, you can see the tattoos on them.
For instance:

Look body
The human male before you is tall and muscular. He kinda looks pretty average and you reckon his name is, well, probably Amos.
<left shoulder> A tattoo of a Templar spanking another Templar.

[Spoon]

As far as I understand it, dead bodies are objects. It would be cool if somehow they could be idle mobs, so everything was kept in place (scars, tattoos, clothing).

[Sam]

Maybe they could turn into something like a sparring dummy.

You can attack it as much as you want and it doesn't fight back.

[Sokotra]

I'm pretty sure they are planning on doing something like this in Arm 2... not sure about the current version.

I know I suggested, years ago, the idea of having the types of wounds be left on the dead body as well... slash wounds, signs of bludgeoning, bite and claw marks, etc... 

[Sam]

Well, for that. Couldn't the NPC have a command added to it along the lines of 'arrange body The organs being ripped out by a pincered animal, ~ is chewed upon."

[Synthesis]

Maybe they could turn into something like a sparring dummy.

You can attack it as much as you want and it doesn't fight back.

Ha, and you thought magickers summoning things and using them for spell practice was bad.

With that, they could just kill a tregil or something and spam-cast on its sparring-dummy-like carcass.

[Twilight]

I can think of one situation that would have been a whole pile of awesome as people figured something out from that tattooes on a corpse.

Oh well.

[Sokotra]

I can think of one situation that would have been a whole pile of awesome as people figured something out from that tattooes on a corpse.

Oh well.

It's still a good idea, just not the "sparring dummy" idea.  Just need to have the body retain many of its outward characteristics when it turns into an inanimate object.  It would also be nice if it would have wear locations, like it was an unconscious character... keeping everything in place.  Then also add a command that would allow you to put things in the wear locations of an unconscious/dead target, and not just remove them.  Good way to setup a fake murder scene or whatever...

[a strange shadow]

It's still a good idea, just not the "sparring dummy" idea.  Just need to have the body retain many of its outward characteristics when it turns into an inanimate object.  It would also be nice if it would have wear locations, like it was an unconscious character... keeping everything in place.  Then also add a command that would allow you to put things in the wear locations of an unconscious/dead target, and not just remove them.  Good way to setup a fake murder scene or whatever...

This, absolutely.

[brytta.leofa]

Something that would work for Just Tattoos: when the corpse object is created, add the tattoos to the mdesc text with fake wear locations:

> look body
Angular eyes whose dull color is difficult to distinguish are set in this
male's smooth, almost hairless face.  His skin, though appearing healthy and
supple, is of a dusky grey color, covering a strong, wiry frame.  Slightly
pointed ears hint at a trace of mixed blood, but his musculature seems far
too heavy to allow a near elven ancestor. 

<back>  a fierce tattoo of a running raptor

It's not an actual NPC with an actual wear location; you've just "burned in" the tattoo descriptions to look like it.

[Reiloth]

Something that would work for Just Tattoos: when the corpse object is created, add the tattoos to the mdesc text with fake wear locations:

> look body
Angular eyes whose dull color is difficult to distinguish are set in this
male's smooth, almost hairless face.  His skin, though appearing healthy and
supple, is of a dusky grey color, covering a strong, wiry frame.  Slightly
pointed ears hint at a trace of mixed blood, but his musculature seems far
too heavy to allow a near elven ancestor. 

<back>  a fierce tattoo of a running raptor

It's not an actual NPC with an actual wear location; you've just "burned in" the tattoo descriptions to look like it.

Using the Tdesc command!

[brytta.leofa]

Using the Tdesc command!

But objects don't have tdescs.

[Reiloth]

Using the Tdesc command!

But objects don't have tdescs.

Fuck. Foiled again.