sleeve patches

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imagine pulling into an intergalactic gas station and they've got embroidered patches for sale right next to the cyber-vapes or something, idk

Following a brief "discussion" on Discord, I went out of my way to sprite shoulder-sleeve patches for (most) in-game countries, plus a few Earth-nations whose flags are highly pleasing. Quality might not be the best, but it is what it is. Two of them are novelty patches related to space exploration history.

They have equipped sprites, which are very small but (hopefully) distinctive enough to be told apart if you squint. They're meant to be attached to a jumpsuit. They're embroidered patches. The kind you buy at a gift shop. An interstellar gift shop in the year 2465 where everyone's speaking some kind of mish-mash of Chinese, German, and Spanish and there are aliens making weird noises at you.

If people are interested in these, I'll make more and go through the trouble of actually getting everything into a .dmi.

pre-emptive answer to a question

"why would someone wear a USA flag patch in 2465?" why would a japanese guy who doesn't speak english wear a t-shirt that has "FUCK ME THE GUY" on it? because it looks cool

[Zelmana]

I will not stand for this casual Martian revisionism

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6 minutes ago, Zelmana said:

I will not stand for this casual Martian revisionism

i wasn't sure if the martian flag on the wiki (whose emblem in the middle appears to have been squashed, lol) was current. what do you think about the rest, Zelmana?

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side-note but the strongest argument against the sol alliance is that the tiny little flag they put in the upper left corner of everything looks like shit

Edited September 24, 2023 by rrrrrr

[wowzewow]

We already have flagpatches that achieve the same thing. Apologies.

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2 minutes ago, wowzewow said:

We already have flagpatches that achieve the same thing. Apologies.

i was aware, i just don't like where flagpatches are. these go on the sleeve.

[wowzewow]

Ah. You don't really need to invent an entirely new item, then. (And I probably won't accept it since they're duplicates.)

 

You just need to make sprites for a shoulder/sleeve variant of the current flagpatches.

 

I can code a verb/toggle that makes it so you can change where you put said flagpatch, and a toggle in loadout on where you want it to spawn.

Edited September 24, 2023 by wowzewow

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1 hour ago, wowzewow said:

Ah. You don't really need to invent an entirely new item, then. (And I probably won't accept it since they're duplicates.)

 

You just need to make sprites for a shoulder/sleeve variant of the current flagpatches.

 

I can code a verb/toggle that makes it so you can change where you put said flagpatch, and a toggle in loadout on where you want it to spawn.

Sleeve patches already exist, I think, but you make a much better point. No need for these to be two separate items. I have shoulder-sleeve sprites for every flag pictured in the OP. May be missing some that are in the flagpatch selection, so I'll get to work on that.

[niennab]

The way we colour flag patches uses an overlay system as a heads up. Where the patch itself uses no shading but a multiply layer is overlayed onto the patch. If you open the flag patches or flag/banner dmi you can see it.

For consistency sake, these patches should use the same system.