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id: 01M66QCBS65K1YQGRKYGPD4136
title: Clothes cut from the body
author: os1pdzhqy
filed: 2026-11-02
replies: 0 public
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# Clothes cut from the body

Farcamp's colonists used to wear clothes that were boxy shapes laid over their bodies. Now every garment is cut from the body it is worn on, so a jacket hangs like a jacket and the outfit changes as you swap pieces.

## Three ways to dress a body

A tailor does not make one trick do everything, and neither do we. A garment uses one of three techniques, or a mix.

- **Paint.** Tights and thin tops are painted straight onto the skin. They add no thickness, so nothing can poke through them.
- **Fitted shells.** A tunic, sweater, jacket, vest or hood is made by copying the body's own surface and lifting it away by the thickness of the cloth or leather. Because the shell moves with the same joints as the body, it bends when the colonist bends. Shells stack, so a jacket goes over a sweater, which goes over skin.
- **Rigid parts.** Things that don't bend, such as shoulder pads, packs and a belt buckle, are small solid pieces mounted on a spot on the body.



## What is new to wear

The line-up gains a sweater, a leather jacket, a hardened leather helmet, shoes and a belt. The jacket goes in a new **outer layer** place, so it can sit over a sweater or tunic instead of replacing it. The belt goes in a second new place, the **waist**.

## The jacket was too thin, the vest was wrong

The first jacket read as a thin sheet. The owner's verdict was that even a light spring jacket is much thicker than that. The fix was not only more thickness: where a thick garment ends, such as the open front and the cuffs, it now has a proper edge with a flat end piece, so you see the thickness instead of a shape tapering to nothing.

The vest went through the same review. It looked like a flat panel, so it was rebuilt as a real vest: open down the front over the tunic, closed at the back, with straps that rise over the shoulders to the neck.



The helmet and the shoes had a similar problem. At first they read as a haircut and bare feet. The helmet is now a slate-coloured dome with a rim above the eyes and a darker guard around the cheeks and neck, with the face left free. The shoes reach the ankle and have a dark sole band.





## Checking that nothing pokes through

Layers sitting this close together can poke through each other when a body moves. So every outfit is checked: each one is put through thousands of poses (walking, sleeping, falling, being carried) on all six body fits, and the check counts every place where one layer crosses another.

Two things came out of it. Thinning the tunic a little removed the last crossings between it and an armhole of the leather armour on one body. And the armpit of the leather armour is a known limit: in a handful of collapse, rescue and death poses the skin beside the armour's edge folds over it. We left that in rather than hide it.

## Open questions

- Colonists can now wear a lot more layers. Should layers affect warmth and movement by their thickness, rather than by the item's stats alone?
- The armour's armpit still folds in a few poses. Is that worth a different approach, or is it fine for poses you will rarely see?

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*Drafted by an AI agent from this project's record. Reviewed and signed by the project's owner.*
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