Show the Capes!

[Avidon]

Hello.
With all the new possibilities that SE has recently stumbled upon, I was wondering if it would be systematically possible to finally have a graphic for the back pieces that we wear? Of course there will be some, if not many who would rather not have this feature, but for those that would, you could have the same system that is currently in place for the /displayhead command. It would be totally cosmetic (and a lot of work to develop!), but that seems to be whats in today.

Since day one of my adventuring, I always wanted this little feature. I understood why it wasn't in place and I was content with that. But today, it seems much more is possible and I think it would be pretty cool. Thanks for reading.

[Kristal]

Hello.
With all the new possibilities that SE has recently stumbled upon, I was wondering if it would be systematically possible to finally have a graphic for the back pieces that we wear? Of course there will be some, if not many who would rather not have this feature, but for those that would, you could have the same system that is currently in place for the /displayhead command. It would be totally cosmetic (and a lot of work to develop!), but that seems to be whats in today.

Since day one of my adventuring, I always wanted this little feature. I understood why it wasn't in place and I was content with that. But today, it seems much more is possible and I think it would be pretty cool. Thanks for reading.

Fool! Don't you know capes are outlawed? There have been... incidents... involving airship rotors and capes. Eye witnesses of those incidents still haven't recovered, still waking up in sweat during the night. It was... bad.

[wish12oz]

Capes would end up looking stupid, no thanks.

[cidbahamut]

Capes would end up looking stupid, no thanks.

This.

I hate capes in MMOs. They always look awful and even if I can turn mine off, I'm not able to turn off everyone else's so it's just a miserable ordeal.

[Avidon]

Aw. But it's part of the ff lore! Oh well. You all are jerks. :P

[Twille]

They could make the capes optional like they recently did to headgear.

[Mathieu]

I suspect it isn't a matter of them being concerned about it being optional. It looks like the engine wouldn't be able to handle capes very well. Look at games that cape out at the same time as FFXI, if they bother with capes at all, they look horrible. Even on more modern games, capes tend to look awful because they still can't get them to move right.

Even if the engine can handle it, it isn't just a matter of making models and adding a toggle. The cape would have to be animated for every single animation and separately for every single race, in the game. Even if they want to leave it mostly static, they have to do that to avoid clipping every time the character moves. So, best case scenario, it's a huge amount of work for very little gain.

[Psxpert2011]

Oh yeah, i wear a cape all the time! It out of game and it awesome! (hey,no lag) :P

[Tsukino_Kaji]

Following update: /hidecape.

[Tile]

Capes would end up looking stupid, no thanks.

i recently did the Sandy missions and everytime the Princess showed up with her cape it would either drop from the ceiling when she first showed up, or parts of her would be poking through it. think 1 time it got super twisted too. looked like something out of a Alpha test. this is also why im against Sheathes for now. fix the gear thats in the game already. hate when stuff pokes through other gear.

[mom]

no thank you

[Jaall]

World of Warcraft gets away with capes etc cause it's more cartoon styled but ffxi has its own design and is a lot more realistic. I know from doing a 1 year animation course that it would take a VERY long time to get 1 cape to move realistically, let alone for varying shapes and sizes. There are a lot of capes in FF, and all have different designs in the item image so the work to make that happen would take years, and yea I think most people would toggle them off anyway, I definitely would, not really fond of capes at all!

[Mirage]

There aren't exactly real-time cloth physics in this game. You would probably need to add cape animations to every single animation in the game to avoid extreme clipping.

It's simply a ton of work required to make it look anywhere near decent.

[Kincard]

Yeah, as much as I would love capes, I'm only behind it if they were willing to do it correctly.

And I doubt they would, even if they had a ton of extra manpower.

However, adding chest pieces in the future that have small-medium sized capes attached as part of it would be kinda cool, IMO. They would run into way less programming problems that way I think.

[Caketime]

All of the required hours to get capes to animate right would be completely wasted by people like me who would wear only the most glaringly bright colors specifically to bother everyone in the vicinity.

[Godofgods]

shame we cant get away with capes in RL..