Anoohilator wrote:
mercurius wrote:
At first I thought it would be impossible. They have to draw every possible clothes combination on every possible color and pose. But
http://www.gaiaonline.com does it somehow. So, there must be a way.
I think because they only have to draw each item in about 10 styles or so and also because they started doing it from the beginning, so it's easier...
That's why they are able to do clothes on their pets/humans (sorry! I've never visited Gaia before until now). Also, if you look at the image URLs of their characters, they're PHP images, meaning that those images are generated, which is fantastically easy to do if all your characters have 1 basic pose and all of the clothing is made for/matches that 1 pose. There isn't an image file for every single possible pose of hair color, eyes, clothes, etc. They're all generated by PHP which creates a "temporary" image you could say.
Since we have 50 Neopets, and most of them are completely different in build/body structure, it'd be much more difficult to do such a project. You can't really compare Neopets clothes to Gaia poses, because they're very different. Same with that doll maker that someone posted. It's all 1 body type, and all the clothing is made for that particular body type.
Would you really want TNT to sacrifice a year or two making clothes for every Neopet body type instead of working on a new plot or new features?