rename translucent_*

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bipface

BUR #6573 has been rejected.

rename translucent_hair -> transparent_hair

we currently have two groups of tags for this concept: see-through_* for clothes and transparent_* covering everything else.
these three translucent_* tags are the odd ones out.

reminder of what 'translucency' is -- light is diffused as it passes through

if you browse through the translucent_* tags you'll find that very few of them actually depict translucency, and if you browse see-through you'll find plenty of instances which do show translucency (often white shirts).
so currently we don't have a real distinction between translucency and transparency, and i see no reason to try and establish one at this point.

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Unbreakable NNescio user 499293 nonamethanks Shinjidude Strobe Red
nonamethanks

Most of the examples under translucent hair are just that, translucent, not transparent. It's very different from clothing tags, because fully transparent hair are most times impossible to draw unless the artist is trying to make a bald joke.

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bipface

nonamethanks said:

Most of the examples under translucent hair are just that, translucent, not transparent. It's very different from clothing tags, because fully transparent hair are most times impossible to draw unless the artist is trying to make a bald joke.

look, here's transparent_skin: post #850402,
and here's transparent_hair: post #1154400
is that not an equivalent concept ?

as far as i can see, almost all the hair examples look to be showing this type of transparency

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bipface

nonamethanks said:

I created transparent skin during a late night, it didn't occur to me to call it translucent skin because I am ESL and was tired, and I don't see why we couldn't just rename it to that.

I don't think it makes sense to keep transparent/translucent separate, and I agree on utility aliases from one to the other, but I prefer the main name to be "translucent".

i went through the ~100 transparent_skin posts and only found 19 which appear to contain translucency:
id:4190318,4286557,3640859,4686150,4588352,3899705,4070710,4286558,4300968,4448832,4292903,4308445,3349034,3297986,2448831,2239396,3767810,4564836,4562920 status:any

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nonamethanks

BUR #6850 has been approved by @nonamethanks.

create alias translucent_sarong -> see-through_sarong
rename translucent_shirt -> see-through_shirt

And this is a separate BUR for the sarong ad shirt that I removed from the OP's so that it can be approved independently. Doesn't really matter in this case because we went with see-through* for every other clothing, so if we want to switch to another term everything else has to be changed too.

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