[Tohopekaliga]

Hey guys! I skipped last week because Thanksgiving, and, well, been not hugely productive this week, so I don't have any sweet new screenshots for you.

But, of course, there's always stuff to talk about!

I'm planning on putting out this week a page of the Item Viewer that will present you with a random item out of our selection of items, and ask you to tick everything that applies from a list of tags.

Why?

So the avatar editor, and item viewer, will have them available to sort and search by. That, and you'll get some aurum and such for helping. I think a bit of runes for helping out a lot, too. :)

I've mentioned this in past dev diaries, of course, but what I've been doing recently is actually setting up the data for tags.

We have tags (currently 40 of them) for color, type, and theme. An item can have any number of tags. Tags are sorted as well, so that you can find the tags themselves more easily. (and so can I.)


Now, there's lots of tagging I can do on my own just using the data I already have for items, and I'll have all of those sorted out shortly, and then I can concentrate on having the actual interface for users updating tags.


There are, in case you were unaware, 37 different "common color" sets. 36, plus the "flesh tones" of our default bases. But there are only 16 color tags. This is an intentional choice: The various common sets have many varieties, and have some color overlaps, as well. Galla & I went through all our color sets and established what colors should be set for each of those earlier today.

Commons are also already sorted as being tops, bottoms, shoes, etc, so it'll be easy enough to figure out those tags, but things get more complicated when we start looking at event items, RIG items, and donation items, which all get sorted as event, special, and donation no matter what's in them...

...Hence the need for "crowd sourcing" the tagging.




Once item tagging is all set up, and items start getting their tags (past those ones I can mass-do myself), then both Avatar Editor and Item Viewer will be one step closer to being complete.


The next step in the Editor, in case you're curious, is to set up the Closet.