heya :)
yeah, getting to choose outfits would probably help with emersion in the game world and kinda personalize things a bit more. unfortunately, the actual execution of that can spin out of control very quickly because i'd have to render every single picture in the game with every possible combination of outfits. For example: if we only limited the choices to shirt and pants slots and offered 5 choices of each, I would have to render 25 different combinations of a picture of zack sitting on his bed with his mouth open talking. now if he smiles while talking, i'd have to render 25 more images with him smiling. that would also add 50 lines of new code to every single line of code in the game. The finished original version had over 50k lines so i'd be looking at 2.5 million lines of code just to do that version and the revamp is already going to be longer. right now in the revamped version of the game, the dorm setting has 335 images during the daytime. that could easily balloon to somehwere around 1,600 images in that scene alone just to add a few shirts and pants and we're only 5 updates in. i like the idea and i think it would be fun but the logistics when you're one person rendering all these things can get messy. i came to the conclusion that mario and link have worn the same clothes for decades and those are AAA studios so i had to sorta admit the clothing to be a losing battle. it would be fun tho :)