Multi-Ethnic Sprites

[GM-Pandora]

It is doable, but not easy. You see the thing is, the skin color of the body is part of the clothing palette, and the color of the face, is part of the hairstyle palette. This means making 1 dark tone body palette is easy, but then it needs to be made into a separate haircolor color for EACH hairstyle, so we have almost 100 hairstyles with male and female, x15 haircolor palette, 1 new skin tone would require a massive amount of files (1500!), not to mention the time required to make them, the space to add them to everyone's client, etc.

We've played around with skin tone a little in some clothing palettes, while still keeping them light enough to fit with the faces.

We could perhaps say that if you want a dark tone skin there is only 1 hairstyle available, and force it then not allow the stylist to change anything. That wouldn't be too bad. The dark skin tone could be a quest in umbala or something, where they "disguise" you like one of their tribe.