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Paperdoll

The paperdoll is the head-to-toe portrait of your character that appears when you double-click yourself. It is not a single image: the client composites it on the fly from a nude body picture plus one picture per equipped item, so that whatever you wear shows up worn. This page explains how that compositing works and shows the result for a range of armor and clothing.

How a paperdoll is built

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The client follows a fixed recipe (verified in ClassicUO’s PaperDollInteractable.cs and Game/Constants.cs):

  1. Draw the body. A semi-nude body gump goes down first at the top-left corner: gump 0x000C for a human male, 0x000D for a human female.

  2. Find each item’s gump. Every wearable carries an AnimID in the client’s tiledata.mul. Its paperdoll picture is the gump whose id is AnimID + 50000 for a male doll, or AnimID + 60000 for a female doll. If a female-specific gump doesn’t exist, the client falls back to the male one.

  3. Layer the equipment over the body. Each equipment gump is drawn at the same top-left corner — the art itself already carries the correct position on the doll — and composited with transparency. They are drawn back-to-front in a fixed layer order:

    Cloak, Shirt, Pants, Shoes, Legs, Arms, Torso, Tunic, Ring, Bracelet, Face, Gloves, Skirt, Robe, Waist, Necklace, Hair, Beard, Earrings, Helmet, One-Handed, Two-Handed, Talisman

    This ordering is why a breastplate covers the leather underneath it, and why a helmet draws on top of hair.

  4. Tint by hue. Armor and clothing art is grayscale; the item’s hue is applied last, remapping that gray ramp through the hue palette so a dyed robe or a colored-metal suit shows its color.

The images below were generated by compositing those exact gumps, so they match what the in-game paperdoll renders.

The nude bodies

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These are the base body gumps every paperdoll starts from. The art is grayscale; the client tints it with the character’s skin hue (ServUO rolls one from the RandomSkinHue range, game hues 1002–1058). The figures below are tinted with a representative human skin tone (hue 1024) so they read as flesh rather than the raw gray of the gump.

Skin-toned male human body paperdoll (gump 0x000C) Skin-toned female human body paperdoll (gump 0x000D)

Male body 0x000C (left) and female body 0x000D (right), tinted with skin hue 1024.

Armor by material

Section titled “Armor by material”

Each suit below is the skin-toned male body layered with the standard pieces for that material (chest, arms, legs, gloves, gorget/helm — whichever the material has), drawn in slot order and tinted by each piece’s own hue. Browse the full set in the armor catalog; shields have their own shield catalog.

Leather

Section titled “Leather”
Full leather armor worn on a male body

Chest, arms, legs, gloves, gorget, and cap.

Studded leather

Section titled “Studded leather”
Full studded leather armor worn on a male body

Chest, arms, legs, gloves, and gorget.

Bone

Section titled “Bone”
Full bone armor worn on a male body

Chest, arms, legs, gloves, and helm — in its pale bone tone.

Ringmail

Section titled “Ringmail”
Full ringmail armor worn on a male body

Chest, arms, legs, and gloves.

Chainmail

Section titled “Chainmail”
Full chainmail armor worn on a male body

Chest, legs, and coif.

Platemail

Section titled “Platemail”
Full plate armor worn on a male body

Chest, arms, legs, gloves, gorget, and helm — the classic full plate.

Dragon scale

Section titled “Dragon scale”
Full dragon-scale armor worn on a male body

Chest, arms, legs, gloves, and helm — carrying dragon scale’s baked hue.

Hide

Section titled “Hide”
Full hide armor worn on a male body

Chest, pauldrons (arms), pants, gloves, and gorget.

Woodland

Section titled “Woodland”
Full woodland armor worn on a male body

Chest, arms, legs, gloves, and gorget — the elven heartwood set.

Gargish leather

Section titled “Gargish leather”
Full gargish leather armor worn on a male body

Chest, arms, legs, and kilt.

Gargish plate

Section titled “Gargish plate”
Full gargish plate armor worn on a male body

Chest, arms, legs, and kilt.

Gargish stone

Section titled “Gargish stone”
Full gargish stone armor worn on a male body

Chest, arms, legs, and kilt — in its carved-stone tone.

Samurai plate

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Full samurai plate armor worn on a male body

Do (chest), haidate (thigh guards), suneate (leg guards), mempo (face), and a plate kabuto helm.

Plate with a shield

Section titled “Plate with a shield”
Full plate armor with a metal shield worn on a male body

A full plate suit carrying a metal shield in the off-hand — shields draw on the one-handed layer.

Clothing outfits

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Cloth pieces use the same compositing — here a plain robe, a fancy shirt with long pants, and a robe-and-hat wizard look. See the clothing catalog for the full range.

A robe worn on a male body A fancy shirt and long pants worn on a male body A robe and wizard's hat worn on a male body

Robe, Fancy shirt + long pants, and a wizard look (robe + wizard’s hat).

Single equipped items

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To see one piece at a time, here is the body with a single item equipped. The last three show the same base art tinted by different hues.

A plate chest worn on a male body A dragon helm worn on a male body A bone chest worn on a male body

Plate chest, Dragon helm, Bone chest.

A blue-dyed robe worn on a male body A red-dyed robe worn on a male body A green-dyed wizard's hat worn on a male body

The same robe in blue and red, and a green wizard’s hat — illustrating how one grayscale gump becomes any color through its hue.