It happened to me quite a few times now that I got different “background” apparel pieces (like trees, or columns, not actual backgrounds) that would work great for the outfit I’m trying to make, but that ended up layering over each other, because they are all in the same place.

This meant that not only, couldn’t I use the pieces I wanted together, but I also ended up with a big blank space on one side, because everything is only ever made to fill the other side.

The latest example is Robin here:

I’ve waited for about a month to finally get the Moon apparel in my Mole Market, just to be disappointed with how much it overlays with the column, despite the fact that there is a perfect place on the other part of the canvas, where it would look perfect!

So my suggestion is that SOME of the “extra detail” type of apparels (trees, columns, paw tracks, dirt, etc.) should be flip-able, so the player can more effectively use them in their outfits.
I’m specifying the type of apparel, because for obvious reasons, for most clothing items, this feature would be useless (although it might still be fun, just to make some completely broken outfits).

Now it would also be fun, of course if you could move items like that to wherever you want on the canvas, but that seems like way more work on the part of the dev-team, than it would be worth.

I made some mock-ups, what it could look like, if you could flip stuff:

flipped Moon

flipped Skull

flipped paw prints

In my mind, a player would be able to just tick a box in the “dress-room”, when putting on apparel.
Items that can be flipped could just have an extra line in their description, like “(flip-able!)”, or maybe an extra icon underneath the apparel icon, or something like that.

Support! Support! Support! Support!

Hesitant yes. I think it’s a good idea, and would be appreciated, but would likely require making new image versions for all of the flipped items that go behind the wolf, because if it’s anything like custom apparel it’s technically not “behind” the wolf, the wolf is just carved out of it. That would be a lot of images, especially as new breeds are added.

ok first of, YES. 100% support I'm so sad that the spirit boon items can all be on one wolf and visible, but the same is not given to the aerofins or the pipplins or the columns and trees like initially mentioned!

This suggestion is reminisce of Gaia Online where some apparel items had different locations and poses for a single item. It made the rare items that much more worth it and unique. Yeah it might take some coding but it might not be as taxing as one would think. I have seen my friends who are beautiful and talented artists flip and adjust accessories or items on their work with relative ease. Yeah there's a couple poses and breeds and it will only get larger but I feel that would be a really good way to have people collecting and buying these items more!

Please I'm begging to have flying fish (aerofins) literally everywhere on my wolf.