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It annoys me how hidden a lot of these features are and it's something we've spoken about recently. Ideally all of these customisation elements would be available in Lumbridge as it is where everyone starts... but I'm not sure that's realistic. At the very least, a redesign of the UIs is needed, especially for the hairstyles as they've been added to without much consideration with how crowded the UI has become. More bracer and feet varieties would be nice too (like a barefoot option!)
Thanks for putting this together, it helps a lot having all this info in one place :)
just wear spiked manacles
I created spiked manacles for that exact reason but I feel an option less edgy might still be a nice thing to have. Makes fashionscaping easier, for instance.
At the same time, I think there's a bit of charm to having them so spread out. When I was younger, hearing tales of the make over mage, and going off on an adventure to find them, was a fun miniature gameplay experience. Perhaps instead of directly dropping in npcs to do the function, some kind of high class snob npc bragging about where they got their things and mocking you for your own appearance choices would be an interesting compromise. It offers guidance to where the services might be, while also keeping the incentive to explore a little. And it adds some spite, always a good motivator to get people playing.
You have a point although I think the make-over mage might be the exception to the rule. At the very least, allowing f2p to change their boots and bracers should probably be addressed ;)
It could be incorporated into the world in interesting ways too, say there's a travelling barber who offers fewer options than the full shop in falador. Might be worth making them a bit more affordable too and... perhaps a little more pricing consistency between the genders... Kinda feels strange in retrospect that there are so few clothing shops that offer outfit services and how there is only a single barber in the entirety of Gielinor...
the ui change would be good, though i dont think this would be good to just stuff in lumbridge.
I like that you actually have to go out to the hairdresser to change your hair, or the tailor to change clothes. Makes the world feel more like a world. I also think a starter town with everything in it just takes away a lot of the need to explore, which i think is a huge draw to rs.
Hmm, maybe there could be barbers in most towns/cities who offer different hairstyles? It seems strange that there is only a single hairdressers in the entirety of Gielinor. I agree that putting everything in one town is a little flat and reduces the need to explore, hence my hesitation :)
found the jmod whos into feet
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Is t there also a thing where shoe colour effect the colour of some kind of shield? How did that happen
Ah yes, it was an accident but we left it in as it was a funny way to customise the shield. How it happened... well, the colourspace in OSRS is incredibly small and the least amount of depth is within the lower end of saturation and luminosity, this is why a lot of older items are quite bright and colourful. This means if we're using these darker, more desaturated colours there's a high chance for overlap. In this case the base shield colours just happened to overlap with the boot slot base colour.
The way recolours work in script is they're fed a colour to look for and a colour for replacement, with most things there isn't much chance of finding something you didn't want recoloured to be recoloured. Not the case with player-kit! All the default outfits (think of the tan and green seen in the default character) have a colour which will be recoloured based on whatever the player has chosen. If that colour exists on an item it too will be recoloured.
It has occurred to me that we could make an outfit that has entirely customisable colours, although the default would look quite garish...
Wandering barber is a great idea. To add some old school charm, maybe make one of the wandering barbers be "evil" and he shaves your head while giving you (male or female) a moustache.
Charlie Choppin' or something like that.
I love it ^.^