Unique gear appearance

[Amagad]

Hello! First of all I really enjoy ToME and I plan on playing it for quite some time. One thing that kind of bugs me though is when I get a unique weapon or armor, and it looks really cool and different in the inventory, but upon equipping it I am disappointed to find it has no unique look when on a character (Except for shields!)

I was wondering how difficult it would be to make items, when equipped, appear as they do in the inventory. Is this already a work in progress? I have noticed some items (like shields) do have the appropriate appearance when equipped, but I have yet to see any weapons that look unique when equipped. I would be willing to help out with this if it just requires some kind of pixel art, but that is as far as my knowledge goes when creating a game.

Thanks!
-Amagad

[darkgod]

Yes indeed this is a long task, as it requires a new image for each race :/
Rexo is doing them hen he has time

As for help, sure thing, you can hop in on #tome on irc.rizon.net to chat with us. Also you can showcase what you can do, jsut take any artifact that lacks visuals and make one to see how it ends up

Thanks

[Sradac]

Make the Skin of Many

[Amagad]

Once I realized how the sprites were set up I made this quickly to see what it would look like. I picked my favorite sword: Wintertide!
Oh and I just did it for human male, but I could probably knock out 1 weapon for all races in about an hour. Let me know what you think!



*edit* Just noticed something I forgot to do; there is a couple of black pixels near the hilt that I was going to smooth out, but I can easily do it some other time

[Amagad]

Hehe, I am just testing how to adjust things and see how it looks. Here is your Skin of Many

[Suslik]

Hmm, that pretty much works! If you could do it for all weapons/races, that'd be awesome!