Mannequins in Home
by FEMAELSTROM, HSM team writer
(Author’s preface: I would like to thank my friend, Bobsfed, for the invite that spawned this article, and for setting up the row of plush guys.)
Okay. So, the other day, I requested to visit a friend. After I hit my request button, I got the invite and blurred on over. He was in the “Go Fishing” apartment when I popped in. I looked around and saw him on the dock. He greeted me with a “Hello.” As I walked over, I saw a figure behind the tiki bar. I stopped my camera as I did not know that we had someone else there. When I got a closer look, I had to laugh:
It was the Sony Human Plush that sells for $.49 in the furniture store under Originals, in the Ornaments section.
I stood there and rotated the camera a little bit; then the “Wishlist” idea hit me like a pack of wild elephants.
What if a developer were to come up with a Home mannequin? A Home-aquin?
Here’s the grand idea that trickled like slobber out of a hound’s mouth when it’s looking at a hot dog. (I had a basset hound, and trust me, I know that look well.)
This mannequin won’t come to life!
Imagine that a Home developer actually made an active item in the shape of a person, one for each gender, and you could actually move its different parts to position it like a real mannequin. The user could seat their mannequin at a piano and move the arms so they stretched out to the keys. The user could stand one up at an arcade cabinet to give a place the feel of being occupied. Machinimists could use them to fill rooms or backgrounds that may require a few “extras” that won’t balk at standing around in any given scene. I had seen where this very same friend had placed this plush at his Cutteridge estate, outside the house to further the “scary” effect of having a random “dead” body strewn on the premises. It was a great idea, but the plush is just so static. All it could do was lie there in the one position that it comes in.
It would be great if, like an action figure, the user could “play” with the mannequin and access the arms, moving each one as desired individually to a specific pose. It would also be a great idea to be able to rotate the neck and waist to further the desired effect.
I had thought that it would also be a great idea to be able to place a Home-aquin in something like a chair, or let it hold an item from your private ornaments set. Think of it, people: he could be dressed as a butler and carrying a tray of champagne! He could be sitting behind a computer in a suit like in an office! Eating at a restaurant you design! A bouncer at a club you made. Girls, on a yacht you own.
But wait, there’s more! Imagine a female Home-aquin? You could have a whole bunch of… well anything you wanted! Let’s keep it clean, of course. You want a troupe of ninja lady assassins? Done. Women working on your NASCAR styled car? Done and done. Men and women cleaning your house or grounds? Triple done.
Maybe a bit more detail than this?
“What ever will they wear?” You ask. Well, maybe this is stretching it a bit — okay, a lot — but what about the clothes from the user’s wardrobe?
Yes, I know this idea is crazy. It’s more feasible to pre-program an active item with a preset series of choices, such as the default clothing every user account comes with. But bear with me. The idea would be this: when you put out a Home-aquin, you could access your own wardrobe and add any attire that is there. Do you want a male to be a bouncer or doorman? Check. Do you want a bunch of lady “Abyss” troopers from Lockwood? Check and check. You could be twins with your Home-aquin. This is an idea that I have had for a long time, ever since I long ago bought the Tycoon Penthouse and desired a doorman or butler for a particular spot in the home.
There would be a real plus for the developers in Home too. Imagine that we could use the costumes that we own. If someone does not use alternate gender avatars, but only comes on Home as their own gender, it would prompt them to buy clothes for the opposite gender if they buy the opposite gender Home-aquin, or the pack of both. Or, the developer that comes up with this could have a long sales life with a line of stuff just for the Home-aquins — a full line of clothes, just for them. A full line of ornaments, just for them. The idea runs like a roach in the newly flicked-on lights of my brain.
There could be a million things to do as well. The idea of the user making the face and body as they desire could be a great tool, and if the developers could keep the memory down, it would allow for the use of a few Home-aquins in the same space.
Ahhh, my minions, I mean my friends.
Yes, there is always the band of people out there that will do the dirty stuff and the bad somehow. It’s inevitable. Man can make the finest of ideas, and one will find a way to nasty it up or make it bad. But this article is set in the mind frame of the innocent and fun. I love this idea, and I would love to see it come to pass. Then I could have my legions of minions all saluting at me, honoring me, and serving my every need towards global domination…er, I mean, have fun.
June 1st, 2013 by FEMAELSTROM | 5 comments
FEMAELSTROM came to Home in June 2011 and never wanted to leave, even at weekly maintenance when he usually gets booted. The sand box environment appeals to the explorer in him and often is out and about as he ‘geeks’ out dressed like some sort of sci-fi character, while he people watches in popular public spaces. An artist and writer, FEMAELSTROM loves making friends and meeting people. He loves sci-fi and decorating Home estates and loves to respond “here” when people ask “where are you from?” in public places.
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I like the “cardboard” Granzella drive-in peoples. Three that sit and two serve food. More of these and SONY can claim user number. Me bad
This is a very fun idea. I think that giving people the option to buy clothing sets for the “Home-aquin” is a good one as it would monetize it more for the developer who creates one. The only issue might be the memory they use, though I have seen some amazing things done in Home lately with small slots use. Nice idea Strom.
Excellent idea!
Yeah that one cardboard sit it by Granzella I call, Dick Cheney. Oh the conversations I have with that guy. LOOL
Well, I bought a car and it would be nice if I could drive it outside my Hollywood Hills Mansion, have a creepy drive through Moonstruck Space, and a nice little Rodeo Drive ride outside the Mansion….just saying….lol
They have mannequins in skyrim that you can put your prized armour on, it would be a great way to show off those reward outfits we wouldn’t wear but spent our time obtaining,