Difference between revisions of "Costume"

Navigation

Click on the costume name or visual example to navigate to individual costume pages with more information about how to get them and other useful things.

If the costume has an icon in the "name" column, you will be directed to a page with more information about that single costume. If the name doesn't have an icon, then there are more color variations of that costume than shown, with the "visual" column displaying an example (some bending of this organization explained below) and you will be directed to a page with a list of variations.

Finding Things

This table is generally sorted by Order of Release. Other color variations released "later" do not factor into the DoR order - only the first form made available does. For example: "hunter" and "surge" Fur Caps just fall under "Fur Cap," and Fur Cap stays where it is in the list according to the first date of release (Hunter's), even though the Surge and others were released after Hunter.

Within-groups, items are listed helmet first, then armor, so that the table sort of shows them as a "set" when sorted with the Group column. These sets may or may not be official sets. Many costume sets are "implied" sets, so the costume list might seem ambiguous for many items. Individual pages will have set visuals if the items are confirmed to be in a set. For a rudimentary list of costumes in sets, check out this list. This does not currently include recolors.

Several costumes have multiple color variations. Including all of these variations in the list would make the page very long, inefficient, and not as useful. Individual costume pages will usually have all available color visuals.

If the sorting seems to be behaving oddly after you've sorted multiple columns, that's normal. The table is attempting to remember your previous sorting, but this can be weird sometimes. Simply refresh the page to reset the table.

About the Columns:

Terms used in the Type, Group, and Notes column are semi-official at best. They are not really part of gameplay, being mostly derived from colloquial use, naming convention, and popular effects.

"Slot" column:

"Helmet" means "helmet costume" and "Armor" means "armor costume." Costumes cannot be equipped as actual gear, but gear can be equipped as costumes.

"Type" column:

"Type" (a.k.a "shape" or "form" etc.) is what the item looks like compared to other costume items. This allows users to find things that look similar for costume designing, collecting, or other purposes. "(Subtype)" further clusters more similar types together when sorted.

"Group" column:

"Group" is roughly based on when and/or where the item comes from, and is often named after a relevant event or Prize Box. This allows users to find things that have a similar theme, are in a collection, and so on. "(Subgroup)" further clusters distinct groups-within-groups.

Group and Type can sometimes repeat in each others' columns, this facilitates sorting and searching.

"Notes" column:

Notes are phrased using as many of these terms that apply, so they can act as a sort of "tag" that CTRL+F can find, as well as sort relatively okay in the notes column, but they read like a description (instead of just being a pile of tags). This is much like the accessory list in function. Unlike accessories, costumes have their own official descriptions, but the content in the "notes" column describes the physical aspects of the item in a sort of "faux" user description, while official developer descriptions usually provide tidbits of game lore.

Organization

To whom it may concern (this section is mostly for editors):

A costume will get its own slot in this list as well as its own page if it qualifies for all three of the following:

1) It has its own description that is even slightly different than other descriptions of similar costumes

2) It has a different type (a.k.a form, shape) and/or unusual coloration and/or unusual texture compared to other similar costumes

3) It is in a very distinct Group and/or Subgroup

Otherwise, it is slotted into a relevant list on the relevant page.

The current exception to this is the Jack o' Bombhead Mask, because the rest of the bombhead masks considered together make #2 difficult to keep consistent. All bombhead masks have slightly different shapes and textures than each other.

An example of this process in action:

The [[Serene Brigandine]]:

1) it has its own description compared to other "Brigandine" costumes
2) it has unusual coloration (ancient) compared to other "Brigandine" costumes, even considering that the Serene Brigandine shares naming convention and its icon uses "recolor" format
3) it is in a very distinct group/subgroup, "Ancient"/"Serene"

=It gets its own slot in this list as well as its own page.

If a costume seems "unique" in form and/or group, say it's unique. There needs to be more than one kind of that sort of categorization to warrant a group or form to be sortable:

Costumes only have a type if they are not Unique - this means they come in more than one color, and/or are very close to another item, and/or are a sort of combination of other items (like the Polar Wolf Coat comes in Day/Night/Twilight and is a sort of combination of a plate mail and a fur coat). You'll have to decide if such a combination is more of one thing or the other and label it as such. Be sure to include the "other parts" in the notes column so CTRL+F can find it.

Costumes only have a group if there is more than one item in that group.

This makes this list different than other lists like the Accessory list, but that's fine - different types of items have different properties with lots of different kinds of associated information. Accessories don't have as much information in-game as costumes and other items do, so it's easier to put more accessories onto a single page. This isn't prudent when an item has more information.