Accessory system ideas#413

Some ideas to how the accessory system may work, [not to suggest actual accessories], you can find those in #314 [Armor accessory ideas] and #316 [Weapon accessory ideas].

One idea which is especially appealing is for the accessories to use a X, Y and Z size adjuster, this would give accessories more possibilities when it comes to stuff like additional armor plates or full on custom weapons. To make it even better would be to include the R and P [we already have H] rotation axis when it comes to accessory manipulation, even more possibilities! This would be greatly complimented by said axis sphere being able to be manipulated with the cursor for both size adjustments and rotations.

Another was to allow accessories to be placed on top of other accessories, this also ties in with the possibillities of custom weapons and armor. I would also like to see decals to be able to be placed on accessories too in order to give them more detail, a need for more decal slots may be needed though #255 [More Decal Slots!].

When it comes to painting accessories, I wish for it to be like decals where you get to pick what color it is and possibly into custom styles like armor and weapon parts in the future when the game is more optimised to handle it. I say this mainly due to my dislike of the ‘’link paint sub element’’ feature which forces the accessories to use the same color as the armor it is placed upon.

I do understand that they are doing this for optimisation reasons but I do hope they change it now or in the future when is more optimised.

Extensive scaling for both very large and small accessories, this would enable us to make even more unique designs, custom armor and weapons. This would be especially dynamic if we did a get advanced manipulation of them like the idea above.

In future, I do hope we can place accessories on top of each other as this would allow for even more customisation potential. Gives the ability to make much more diverse Mass, more so than any new armor set. Especially when combined with weapon mount accessories and any accessories that have any animations or unique features.