Greetment. This is my first post on the board (had I seen an introduction topic, I would have posted there.), and I regret that it is a help request.

I'm currently working on a Steampunk/WW1-themed mod, and to go along with the trench bunker modules I've been working on, I'd like to make some soldiers in trenchcoats.

The problem is, I'm having trouble setting up the leg sprites to look like a coat, instead of seperate pant legs.

Heres a look at what I've done so far for the test soldier, and two of the trench module sprites I've done so far.


(Please disregard the wonky rifle offsets on the ingame-screenshot on the right, That was an earlier picture before I fixed the offsets.)

Any ideas on how I would get the coat right?

Edit: I now wonder whether I would just have to edit the 'background' leg to have a wider sprite?

Erase the top outline on his foreground leg, maybe? If it works just right, the leg sprite will blend into the body. As is it just looks like he's wearing bell bottoms with his gas mask, which is a major fashion faux-pas.

Also, having the leg curve at the front but lie straight at the back looks really weird. Even if he could stand with his centre of gravity so far back, would the coat grip onto his legs like that?

I was talking about filling in the gap between his legs while he's walking.

You're absolutely right about the curving in the front not matching the back though.

They look like Hellgas. : o

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NVC had good looking trenchcoat things.

While I don't recommend you copy theirs without first asking, you should take a look at the general idea and shape of his leg sprites.

Of course. Thank you very much.

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For good treanch coats, I think you have to make the coat an untouchable attachable (By setting GetsHitByMOs to 0) and mess with the offsets of the attachables to make them overlap each other.

Ok, the way I'd do it is to have 2 attachables, an FG Coat and a BG Coat. the BG Coat sprite is the inside of the coat, and is behind the bg leg.
the fg sprite is much smaller, as it's the small amount of outer coat you'd see. It's before the FG.