About the wardrobe

What the menu should look like:

Head
Hair
Hats



Tops
Shirts
Vest
Dress


Bottoms
Pants
Skirt
Underwear


Feet
Shoes
Socks

Miscellaneous
Face -
          Makeup
          Accessories
Jewellery
Hand Items
Skins -
           Body Modifications
           Overlays (ex. VP has skins to put on the avatar. That would fall under this category)
Backgrounds -

it could always start off small first,
e.g. - only animated backgrounds or something? 

Yes! Saving looks would be so great!!

Well, do we want it simple, or do we want it in-depth?



Simple would mean very few categories. That would perhaps boil down to a cleaner look but not necessarily better navigation, as it would make certain things harder to find. A more in-depth wardrobe would be very helpful when the items starts to pile up.


A layer navigator like on gsm would be helpful. It could be situated to the left (vertically) or horizontally at the bottom. There could be boxes displaying the items which you could drag and drop, putting them down where you wanted them. Double click to remove from your outfit, perhaps. Or a cross in the corner.


Background items for clothing are a hassle on vp. One solution would be, together with the previous suggestion: If a clothing item has a background, you can check a box in the item's display window when wearing it to show it. An idea would be that the background would then be put all the way back - through not behind non-clothing backgrounds - without getting its own box, being an otherwise invisible item. Or it could get its own box, with both it and the corresponding item getting a matching change in color to their layer navigation windows (or a link symbol beneath/above).



For the categories corresponding with the avatar base, I for one would very much prefer the pick-and-choose system of gsm and recolor.me over the vp one. Sure, it creates less freedom for designers, but much more for the users. I very much like the system that recolor.me has around creating skins. You start by choosing a skin color, as well as boobs/no boobs (perhaps you could automatically sort shirts and jackets to show only what matches the skin?). The skin will lack a face, which you will also get to pick out. Either through doing so with each piece individually (nose, eyebrows, eyes etc) or as singular item (the whole face, like gsm). I believe that these would be far nicer than trying to find the perfect skin on vp through pages and pages. It would also be easier to design to as skins wouldn't be required. This is another matter but in my opinion, perhaps the skin tones should be almost entirely up to the designers.


Sorting options are fantastic. Would also be neat if they could stack.
There could be a menu which goes into checklists if you click on a category, like this:
-Designer > Default: All designers. Other options: Designer (perhaps branching into more options), Non-designer

-Colors* > Default: All colors. Other options: [Every basic color]
, Multi-colored (always checked, if not unchecked)
-Relevancy > Default: Newest to oldest. Other options: Oldest to newest, Rare to Common, Common to Rare, Favorites first** (always checked, if not unchecked)
-Pattern* (?) > Default: All patterns. Other options: Plain, stripes, dots, checked, print, other.

*Stacks within itself. Blue as well as red items, plain as well as dotted items, for example.

**A favorites system would be fantastic. You could for example favorite items through a box beside the preview window mentioned before. After that it could be either that they always show up first in your wardrobe with a different color background to their windows or only when you checked a box for them to be there temporarily. OR they could have their own category. Just a thought. There do tend to be items that you use quite often, after all.

I don't like too many under categories
Like on love nikke with the accessories, thats just so annoying

I'm also down with making less categories and merging some of them together. Like khilu stated, it's frustrating to have too many categories. I understand some people want to have everything organized as separate categories, but it might lead to some categories having very little items and therefore being useless.

I, for one, think makeup and tattoos should be in the same category (in short, all the bodypaint).
I agree hands could be separate, though we only have one visible hand in our so-far-official base.
Backgrounds should strictly be backgrounds, like parts of items that are supposed to be on the back, wings, tails, or proper "wallpapers" for your avatar. Therefore there shouldn't be a problem between the "other" and "background" categories (in vp the background category is full of stuff that doesn't seem like background to me). I think it becomes too crazy if we categorize everything separately, like animals, sportsgear, fantasy stuff, flying objects, floral stuff, glitter, bags, belts, weapons, you name it.

Looking gooooood

I like this ^^

i look fly