"/me shrugs off her heavy jacket, hearing the soft thump and the jingling of zippers and buckles as it drops to the floor, her bare shoulders now gleaming in the moonlight, inviting her lover's gentle touch...."
Well, I might like to write something like that. Actually, taking that jacket off (never mind why, this is still Not That Sort of Blog) involved: right-click, select "Detach", select "Right Arm", select "R Upper Arm", right-click, select "Detach", select "Left Arm", select "L Upper Arm", right-click, select "Detach", select "Torso", brief moment of panic about what's in which slot, select "Spine", right-click, select "Take Off", select "Jacket", then wait for retexturing to occur and hope that there is no bake failure (or, if there is, that one's partner has a hitherto undisclosed cement fetish.)
The "Outfits" system in V2 and above is a genuine improvement on what went before... it enables you to mix and match parts of different clothing sets without disarranging the underlying folders, it does away with those awkward moments when you change outfits and forget that one item was no-copy and you had previously moved it to a different outfit folder and now you are standing around in public with no pants. (Not that this ever happened to me in my V1.23 days. Well, not more than once. Well, not more than twice.) Above all, it stopped my idiot friend who got me called "Glorf" from crowing about how outfits were done so much better in Kingdom of Loathing than in SL. But, just because it's a better system doesn't mean there's no room for improvement, and the fact is that in V1.23 you could have clothing grouped into particular item folders, and this would be a very good thing to have in the newer viewer.
As things stand, taking things off is a rather all-or-nothing proposition, and it would be more convenient, and more natural, if there were some intermediate levels of grouping - like, for instance, the sculpted sleeves, the sculpted jacket, and the underlying jacket layer all being one thing I could remove at one click. I could, of course, have hit "Detach All", for those prim components all to hit the ground at once... accompanied by my hair and my AO, thus giving the impression that I have acquired some bizarre neurological condition in the course of chemotherapy. Similarly, "Take Off All Clothes" strips you of such niceties as nail polish, tattoos and some makeup, which is nuder than some of us want to get.
It is one of those little things which would make SL just a bit nicer and more user-friendly (and, all right, would probably be a pain in the neck to write the code for... but there's no reason it shouldn't be feasible; items in outfit folders are already linked in the database to the originals they come from.) Of course there have been feature requests (my readership-at-very-small may spot a familiar name in the comments trail for this JIRA ), but whether they will come to anything, who knows? But it would be nice, I think, if taking that suede jacket off was no more complicated here than it is in RL.
Hm. I go into worn items... and just touch the relevant suede folder... and do a "take off"...? Seems to work?
ReplyDeleteObvious question: which viewer are you using? (I am in V3 - indeed, the very latest version of V3 I can lay my hands on, usually - and planning to stay that way!)
DeleteGlorf, I'm using Firestorm, but this appears to work everywhere.
ReplyDelete1. For complex items of clothing, create a "Wear Me" subfolder. Drop all the parts and clothing layers, or a copy thereof, that you actually wear in there. You can toss all the parts that came in the box that you DON'T wear into a "Spare Parts" subfolder.
2. You can still make Outfit folders. Just don't use them as the place to take things off. Only use them to completely change your outfit when you're in a hurry.
3. To drop the jacket, navigate to the actual folder where it is, not the Outfit folder. Either right click the main folder or the Wear Me subfolder and click Remove From Current Outfit. All the parts you are wearing will detach/remove.
Thanks, Lindal -I don't see any reason that wouldn't work in V3 (which does provide a "find original" option). Of course, with me, it means I'd have to reorganize my inventory! .... Can I use the word "reorganize"? That does imply that it was organized in some way to start with....
DeleteOh dear lord, the complexity. No wonder I wear shorts and tees, and am content to lie under a tree with my partners, and get my virtual hair brushed - or brush theirs, depending. The pursuit of complexity must be a hobgoblin of some sort of mind...
DeleteOne must suffer to be beautiful! Though the virtual hair-brushing does sound nice....
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