The six garments

PigWars has six base garments. Each one is cut from the pig's own body, so it fits, bends with every animation and never pokes through the belly. A skin is a texture for one of them. This is what each garment is, what it covers and what that means for a design. All six are free to every player; the studio works on any of them.

T-shirt

Covers: the upper body, with short sleeves and a round neck.

The easy first choice. The front and the back are big, flat and visible from the side of the battlefield, so a logo or a slogan reads well. The sleeves are short and small: put a pattern on them, not a picture.

Pants

Covers: the legs from the waist to the ankles, with a gap for the tail.

Long and thin, and mostly seen from the front. Patterns are the thing here: camouflage, stripes, dots. A picture on a leg is about the size of a playing card, so keep it simple.

Shorts

Covers: from the waist down part of the way along the legs, leaving the lower legs bare, with a gap for the tail.

Not much surface, which is the point: one bold image on the front and one on the back is a whole design. Bright colours work because most of the pig around them is pink.

Dress

Covers: the upper body and the legs in one piece: short sleeves on top, a flared skirt below.

A dress counts as a top and as a bottom at the same time, so it takes the place of a t-shirt and of pants. The skirt is a long uninterrupted surface, which suits gradients that run from top to bottom and wide repeating patterns.

Short coat

Covers: an outer layer from the hips to the neck, with long sleeves, open at the front.

The front is two halves with a gap between them, so a single image in the middle gets cut in two. Put the picture on the back instead, and use the front for a pattern. Because it is an outer layer, it goes over a t-shirt or pants rather than replacing them.

Long coat

Covers: an outer layer from the neck almost to the ground, with long sleeves, open at the front and flared like a skirt.

The largest garment and the one with the biggest back. Tartan, stripes and a big image across the shoulders all work. Like the short coat it is an outer layer, so what the pig wears underneath shows at the opening.

Which garments go together

A pig wears at most one garment on each layer: the top, the bottom and the outer layer. If you put on a second garment on a layer that is taken, the last one you chose replaces the other.

Garment	Layer	Can be worn with
T-shirt	Top	Pants or shorts, and one coat
Pants	Bottom	A t-shirt, and one coat
Shorts	Bottom	A t-shirt, and one coat
Dress	Top and bottom	One coat only
Short coat	Outer	Anything except the long coat
Long coat	Outer	Anything except the short coat

That means a skin is seen next to others. A dark coat hides the t-shirt under it; a bright pair of shorts looks louder under a plain t-shirt. Design the garment, then look at it in the wardrobe with the rest of the outfit, which the wardrobe guide explains.

Plain colours are free

Every garment comes in six plain colours that cost nothing. A community skin is for when a colour is not enough.