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Let pugs wear wigs!!! - Gabr_ - 05-19-2024
As you may know, pugs CANNOT take the wig trait thus rendering them "bald". How is it that every other mutantrace can but not pugs? I heard it was because they "have fur" but so do cows. We need to correct this injustice toward pugs and allow them to take the wig trait from roundstart.
RE: Let pugs wear wigs!!! - Chasu - 05-19-2024
As long as it doesn't break the sprites, I don't see anything wrong with this.
Or we could add poodles with customizable hair
Edit: After reading Flabrorized's opinion, I agree with them that this wouldn't work very well
RE: Let pugs wear wigs!!! - Flaborized - 05-19-2024
We intentionally didn't let pugs spawn with wigs because both we didn't want pugs to blend in with humans too much (wigs were added a little bit before development on pug finished, we definitely wouldn't have let them spawn with Just Hair at the time) and because I personally don't like how they look on pugs very much (me having drawn the pug sprites being why my view in particular is relevant.)
I still don't really like the idea aesthetically for what it's worth. I recognize that pugs are light on customization compared to other mutantraces, and also that it's difficult to really add a lot since I want them to still look vaguely like pugs (ie: not be able to have arbitrary fur colors) and pugs IRL can be pretty same-y looking. To me, being able to wear fancy clothes and hats makes up for this, but I see the Want to have it at roundstart instantly and with the billion hairstyles. I'd vouch for adding some other form of customization in its place but I really struggle to think of something you'd put on pugs, since they don't really have frills or antennae like other species.
I don't really wanna stonewall the change if most other devs end up wanting it, but I really don't. If we do implement it, I'd like if they had like a funny little fur-less bald spot under the wig to keep with the Comedy angle pugs have though, since I think that would be a funny way to implement it.
RE: Let pugs wear wigs!!! - Glamurio - 05-19-2024
I was actually working on additional fur colors a few months ago and then got roadblocked by instead having to integrate the new TGUI Color picker. But technically, if we allowed you to pick more fur colors + patterns and simply limit the hues / colors you can choose from, that would already go a long way. Think any color ranging from black to white and brown to beige, or something along those lines.
I personally agree it looks bad, but cows also look bad with it. I don't think something looking bad is a good reason not to have it, ugly aesthetics are very much a big part of some character designs.