Laluzi
Skeletron
I apologize if this has been suggested before; I couldn't find anything, but I may have just been using the wrong search terms. I'm also not sure if this belongs here or in Equipment, because as it is, it kind of deals with both.
I really like the glasses in this game. They look sleek, they can give the sun some hip shades, they let you perfect that one cosplay. Unfortunately, I also really like headgear as a whole, and given the choice, I'm ninety-nine times out of a hundred going to pick the headgear. Crowns, hoods, hats, boss masks - there's just too much more variety on that side, and I think that's a large reason why we don't have more glasses/eyewear.
What I have in mind would be another armor slot, but one where no items that can be placed there offer any stat boosts. They're all vanity items, one way or another. Eyewear - all glasses and visors would go here, as well as Yoraiz0r's scowl and other items that color the face and nothing else (such as the Mime Mask). It also has the potential for contact lenses, items that could change a character's visible eye color (which is a feature we don't presently have). Also facial tattoos or markings, potentially - I'm not going to make any suggestions here, but it does open possibilities. I guess, given how vanity slots work, that there would be both an armor slot and a vanity slot, which has the potential of armored eyegear. (Goggles might already have +1 defense? Can't remember.) But that's possible to avoid, and not what I actually want out of this, which is the ability to combine headgear with glasses.
The immediate problem with this suggestion is that not all hat-eyewear combinations work - in fact, most don't. If you're wearing a Rain Hat or a Tiara, you could feasibly combine any of the game's glasses with it. An Adamantite Helmet or Skiphs' Bear Head, probably not. It's for this reason that I don't support making sunglasses and their variants accessories - Yoraiz0r's scowl gets away with this by being an intangible item, but glasses aren't, and as accessories are laid over armor... it'd become a problem, I think.
My solution is this - the existing headgear slot is always overlaid on top of the theoretical eyewear slot. If you're wearing something like a SWAT helmet, the glasses will get layered under it and nothing will be visible. It's possible that there could be a few pixels protruding with some combinations, so it's not perfect, but it's the best I was able to come up with that didn't involve checking each individual item for glasses compatibility, or worse, allowing every pair of glasses to be combined with every headgear for a new item. (Which isn't a perfect suggestion even ignoring the ridiculous number of items you'd get out of it, because you might want them different colors and dyeing won't accomplish that.)
Thoughts? It's a bit of a complex suggestion compared to the ones I like to make, but I really want to be able to wear glasses with my hat. (First time doing a poll, too, so I hope it was comprehensive.)
I really like the glasses in this game. They look sleek, they can give the sun some hip shades, they let you perfect that one cosplay. Unfortunately, I also really like headgear as a whole, and given the choice, I'm ninety-nine times out of a hundred going to pick the headgear. Crowns, hoods, hats, boss masks - there's just too much more variety on that side, and I think that's a large reason why we don't have more glasses/eyewear.
What I have in mind would be another armor slot, but one where no items that can be placed there offer any stat boosts. They're all vanity items, one way or another. Eyewear - all glasses and visors would go here, as well as Yoraiz0r's scowl and other items that color the face and nothing else (such as the Mime Mask). It also has the potential for contact lenses, items that could change a character's visible eye color (which is a feature we don't presently have). Also facial tattoos or markings, potentially - I'm not going to make any suggestions here, but it does open possibilities. I guess, given how vanity slots work, that there would be both an armor slot and a vanity slot, which has the potential of armored eyegear. (Goggles might already have +1 defense? Can't remember.) But that's possible to avoid, and not what I actually want out of this, which is the ability to combine headgear with glasses.
The immediate problem with this suggestion is that not all hat-eyewear combinations work - in fact, most don't. If you're wearing a Rain Hat or a Tiara, you could feasibly combine any of the game's glasses with it. An Adamantite Helmet or Skiphs' Bear Head, probably not. It's for this reason that I don't support making sunglasses and their variants accessories - Yoraiz0r's scowl gets away with this by being an intangible item, but glasses aren't, and as accessories are laid over armor... it'd become a problem, I think.
My solution is this - the existing headgear slot is always overlaid on top of the theoretical eyewear slot. If you're wearing something like a SWAT helmet, the glasses will get layered under it and nothing will be visible. It's possible that there could be a few pixels protruding with some combinations, so it's not perfect, but it's the best I was able to come up with that didn't involve checking each individual item for glasses compatibility, or worse, allowing every pair of glasses to be combined with every headgear for a new item. (Which isn't a perfect suggestion even ignoring the ridiculous number of items you'd get out of it, because you might want them different colors and dyeing won't accomplish that.)
Thoughts? It's a bit of a complex suggestion compared to the ones I like to make, but I really want to be able to wear glasses with my hat. (First time doing a poll, too, so I hope it was comprehensive.)
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