This was probably poorly worded, sorry.
Aside from the 3d method to create a model for my characters and then wrap a material around the characters "chest" item, is there any tk2d way to pull this kind of thing off? If you have a Human, Giant, Gnome, etc all needing to equip "Platemail Chest" item, currently I'm having to make a new Platemail Chest sprite for every single race in my game.. does this sound incorrect?