Body Hair for males.

Adding chest hair is difficult. I laughed, hard.
Oh well, I am not surprised for this response.
The person who made the topic about the Miqote nose being an option to be darker like the Mithra's...
we got some whacky excuse there too.

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Originally Posted by Grekumah

We're looking into this, but body hair would be a completely new element, and there is a possibility that it would affect some gear designs. We expect adding body hair will take a lot of work, so for now we'd like to prioritize adding new hairstyles that are being requested.

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Just as long as it doesn't look painted on, I'm good.~
And hopefully there would be new gear that would put emphesis on the chest.

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Originally Posted by Silverharp

Just as long as it doesn't look painted on, I'm good.~
And hopefully there would be new gear that would put emphesis on the chest.

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A treasure trail would be nice, even if we never get to see where it leads, yea know? Especially on my Roe.

I have a feeling it'll look painted on and not quite like folks have in mind. See the picture a few pages back. Either way, its nice to have more options

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Originally Posted by Folsom

A treasure trail would be nice, even if we never get to see where it leads, yea know? Especially on my Roe.

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Wow, I'm ashamed that I completely forgot about treasure trails...

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Originally Posted by Mugiawara

Adding chest hair is difficult. I laughed, hard.
Oh well, I am not surprised for this response.
The person who made the topic about the Miqote nose being an option to be darker like the Mithra's...
we got some whacky excuse there too.

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It is actually difficult.

They're having to add either another layer of geometry like hair and or add in new skin texture maps.


It's not as simple as "Today I'll make some body hair, it'l be easy as pie".


It's as much a creative process as making any other piece of gear, it takes time, adjustment and effort.

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Originally Posted by Mugiawara

So adding a bit of hair to the chest area is actually as hard to do as making a piece of gear.
Hmm, the more you know. I agree though, I don't think it'll be all nice and neat like our head hair.
It'll be painted probably...don't get mad if that happens because SE likes to be lazy lol.
I can imagine the under arm hair will be all odd looking LOL!

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Well /technically/ it's painted, but that doesn't mean it's an easy task. Any art takes time and effort.
I'm not saying that you're disagreeing that it takes time, I thought I'd just explain why.

Essentially it'll be three layers of texture maps (usually), sometimes other maps such as displacement maps are used.

Diffuse = "Painted Colours"
Specular = "Shiny/Wet Effect"
Normal/Bump = "Fake 3D effect, to give the illusion of a highly detailed 3D object"

A normal map being where you can apply a texture that takes into account the lights in the scene to create the illusion, the geometry is completely unchanged but it gives the appearance of a highly detailed 3D object.

http://www.independentdeveloper.com/...rmalmapper.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_usouUbAJKE...malMapping.jpg

So adding a bit of hair to the chest area is actually as hard to do as making a piece of gear.
Hmm, the more you know. I agree though, I don't think it'll be all nice and neat like our head hair.
It'll be painted probably...don't get mad if that happens because SE likes to be lazy lol.
I can imagine the under arm hair will be all odd looking LOL!

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Originally Posted by Grekumah

We're looking into this, but body hair would be a completely new element, and there is a possibility that it would affect some gear designs. We expect adding body hair will take a lot of work, so for now we'd like to prioritize adding new hairstyles that are being requested.

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I might grudgingly accept that if there are more good short hair options for Roegadyn that aren't top knots. You know, better buzz cuts, slightly longer than buzz, maybe with some styling on the front.

But still, body hair, because the chances of getting a good hairstyle for Roe is practically nil when all of them come out looking like Fabio or... weird. Except the Faux-hawk. That one is ok.

i eagerly await for the day that my roe can come home from a long day of adventuring rip of his clothes expose his hairy chest walk over to his bed and pass the fudge out in a single falling forward motion

on that not i would love to have the /doze animation that roes do when logging off in an INN. epic face plant into pillow

I think chest body hair would be a awesome option to have for our male players!! :)