Actual holo-shell

[Killerhurtz]

I know, I know - it was a LUXURY that someone decided to show up and code the wonderful implementation of IPCs we have now.

But I dig the idea of giving an actual holo-shell. Would look like the AI's images overlaid over a standard IPC frame, complete with translucence.

I mean - to me it doesn't sound complex since it seems like the tech is there (since the AI can adopt the image of a crewmember, AND we have the new tech to make IPC shells happen) but I don't know.

I just want a holo-skinned IPC.

[jackfractal]

Err... I think it would look really weird if you just put a translucent sprite over a normal sprite. Do you have an example of what you'd expect it to look like?

[Lord Lag]

This would pose a few problems in game. For instance, killing a holographic image doesn't strike me as something that can be done very well, and from an in game standpoint, a hologram that isn't networked to the stations systems cannon do anything other than ram its projector into buttons (somehow) and such, which would be an extremely inefficient worker.

[jackfractal]

I think the idea is that the hologram is over a robot. Like the robot is projecting a hologram to use as their clothing kind of?

[Killerhurtz]

That's exactly it. I suggested having it be literally the skin of the character - with a "naked" IPC frame underneath.

As for what it looks like - I'll try to arrange a screenshot.