The Unofficial Character Creation Suggestion Thread

separate bangs from back hair

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Originally Posted by Theodric

A bulge slider.

Games such as Overwatch and Soul Calibur 6 aren't ignoring the existence of male anatomy so there's no reason why FFXIV has to.

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I'd +1 this 100 times if I could.

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Originally Posted by Mimilu

If you see an idea/suggestion you like, give it a like.

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I'd just like to reiterate this, its how the japanese do it and how we were told to do it (in the myriad of fashion threads)
So if you really want something, make sure you like that post.

What makes this unofficial?
I mean this is no less important than any other suggestion.

Separate hair color and tail color for miqote.

More horn options for Au Ra.
More scale options for arms/legs/torso.

I'd like to see an ear shape/style option for miqo'te similar to how elezen have.

I'd also like horn styles to no longer be locked to faces for au ra.

Separate face from other details like horns, facial markings, nose type, etc.

There are a couple Au Ra hair Styles that have horns built in. Instead of that you should be able to add extra horns regardless of hairstyle and choose their shape and color.

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Originally Posted by Canadane

What makes this unofficial?
I mean this is no less important than any other suggestion.

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I guess "official" would mean a community manager would've posted it.

Anyway, more current race-locked hairstyles to have those locks removed.

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Originally Posted by Canadane

What makes this unofficial?
I mean this is no less important than any other suggestion.

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People like to use "official" in titles to say "hey let's put all our ideas in this one and not start a million different threads." However, it's likely to get deleted because it's not from devs or moderators. So people use "unofficial" to say the same thing without stepping on the mods' toes.

I didn't read all this thread and I don't know if it was saying before but here is my opinion/suggestion:

• Musculature slider.

• Separate horns/faces or have more choice of horns/faces selection.

• Add an option to select the color of horns, scales and tails. Let me explain:

1. First, to have colors of base for the 2 races: Light colors for the Raen and Dark colors for the Xaela. For example:
   • White, beige, yellow, gold and the tones related for the Raen;
   • Black, brown, blue, purple and the tones related for the Xaela.
2. Possibility to choose a second color (like for the hair) on horns, scales and tails. For the tail, I'll see much a line of color on top and on the length, and for the horns and scales, splashes of colors. The colors could be the same as the ones for the hair/skin.
3. This option of colors would be unique. That means that it would apply one time (not individually) on the horns, scales and tails. Otherwise at least the horns indeed the tail.

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Originally Posted by Imhokh

I didn't read all this thread and I don't know if it was saying before but here is my opinion/suggestion:

• Musculature slider.

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Well, you should read them, so you can just like the suggestion instead of repeating it, making the feedback gathering more effective. Forum etiquette.

I would love to be able to make my character left handed.

yeeeeee <3

limb length & width slider/adjustments, as in,
wider or narrower shoulders and hips
longer or shorter arms, legs, torso

AND PLS
A NUB TAIL FOR MIQO'TE
A LITTLE TINY FLOOF

layering of face paints has been mentioned but also idrk but the tattoo selection is basically useless for nearly everything as there's no more than three different options i think for any race so they might as well be in "face paint" with layering ??

breast sliders given the closer to the same range on all/most (lol lalafell sry) races!! the tol ladies can be easily noticeably larger than the midlander/au'ra/miqo'te ;;
& they could affect males too, as in, the size of their pectoral muscles. u know, lanky geek kid vs WWE wrestler lol

tying into that, muscle thickness and not just definition (replacement even) adjustments /options!! i'm so done with my monk (& others with heavy weapons i'm sure) having scrawny arms and thighs-- lol

sry i just make one post ok

More facial features. Why we have only option for make up? Give more options to the people.

And why I have to only pick 1 face paint? Let me use 2 at least.

I would like to see body presets too. More variety among the races. But that can be hard. So I don't have hope for it.

Vibrant hair colors (or an RGB hair/highlight color slider) especially for red hair you go from "dark pink" to "dark red" there is no "red" color

Freckles and Face paint should be two different things. I want face paint but I'd have to give up my freckles.

Hair slider for length and/or actual long hairstyles to waist.

Something different to all the character design requests..... easier access to the detailed naming lore information that a new player is otherwise unlikely know until well after they've created their character.

Obviously not everyone will care about it, but have it visible for those that do. Particularly since some of the naming conventions actually affect information about the character - Moon Keeper family name patterns for example.


Making the random name generator more prominent would also be helpful - as would a review of the names on the lists, since some are used for important NPCs.

I'd like more hairstyles that take Miqo'te ears into consideration. Most of the newer hairstyles just have the ears kinda glued on top.

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Originally Posted by Cerbolt

I'd like more hairstyles that take Miqo'te ears into consideration. Most of the newer hairstyles just have the ears kinda glued on top.

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^ or they do things like the bun hairstyle and move the buns to the side of the head.... which just ends up looking stupid...

topics never die

Can we get a lipstick option that keeps the texture of our lips, like a lip stain?

Age slider... to make our characters from young adults to grisled veterans...

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Originally Posted by Zathurain

^ or they do things like the bun hairstyle and move the buns to the side of the head.... which just ends up looking stupid...

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The extra-weird thing with that bun hairstyle is that there's already a precedent in-game for simply not including the buns on the Miqo'te version of a hairstyle - specifically the one used for both Y'mhitra (at Apkallu Falls) and Momodi (Ul'dah Adventurers Guild).

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Originally Posted by Darkplanet

Hair slider for length and/or actual long hairstyles to waist.

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Wish I could like this comment 1000 times. Would be great if they could add this or like 2-3 hair lengths.

Btw to people asking for sliders..it won't work, they create one clothing that fits all races the same way so sliders do nothing. This is the real reason they haven't made butt slider.
Basically they would have to make every leg gear race specific and the server will explode if that happens.

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Originally Posted by Ghastly

Btw to people asking for sliders..it won't work, they create one clothing that fits all races the same way so sliders do nothing. This is the real reason they haven't made butt slider.
Basically they would have to make every leg gear race specific and the server will explode if that happens.

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I don't think that can be right. Already some characters have very different proportions (eg. male Roegadyn versus 'standard human' shape) so if there is only one model of the clothing there is already a lot of scaling going on. However, regardless of whether there's one model or multiple ones, it might require *rebuilding* those models to make them affected by hypothetical new customisation settings.

The one clothing-affecting slider currently in the game is the bust setting for female characters, and that does make a visible difference to gear. (And not only the race-specific starter gear and hempen camise, as I've seen suggested elsewhere at some point.)


Also personally I have no desire to see a butt slider added because I don't want to have to make an actual decision about that.

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Originally Posted by DreadRabbit

Really going to have to agree with more facial options if we have to use preset faces. For sake of space and time I focused only on female faces, but if anyone would like to do the same for the male faces that would be great! (warning: long post)

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Roegadyn:
https://i.imgur.com/AKYLUuJ.png

- The Roegadyn are a harder call for me. The differences in their faces are rather subtle, but they're definitely there. When I look at them together I do see 4 different women, but they seem to suffer the same issue that Highlanders do: they're all in the same aesthetic. It's hard to make anything other than a sultry Roegadamme. Which there's nothing wrong with that: they're gorgeous.

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I think the default face on the upper-left has a different look to it, at least - younger and 'sweeter' looking, for lack of a better word.

Something that does bug me with the face options for female Roegadyn is that they all have pink/red lipstick by default - and it must be lipstick because the male designs have lips matching their skin colour. It just seems odd to me that a green-skinned race would be using makeup in colours intended for human skintones.

Could new players get an opportunity to select their clothing colour? Would allow for a little more initial customisation when you don’t get proper access to dyes immediately.

I'm kind of surprised that scars aren't a universal option like face paint is.

Folk like the Miqo'te and Xaela Au Ra who live the tribal life out in the wilds would logically get pretty scuffed up from having to contend with wild beasts and/or each other on a regular basis.

- give fem elezen normal unique hair options
there are like 4 identical hair styles with the only difference being bobby pin colors

- body sliders
fem elezen and roe proportions are a bit weird and it would be nice if we can fix them .___.

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Originally Posted by mellori

- give fem elezen normal unique hair options
there are like 4 identical hair styles with the only difference being bobby pin colors

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They already do have some hairstyles that are either unique or not-universally-available. And there are other races that also have ‘colour variants’ of a chosen style.

The entire problem with the character creator presently, is that it evolved from V1.0's

The game engine is capable of more (see FFXV) but the more complexity you let it do, the less you get. That's why you can make 100 different sliders for the face, but the shape of the head never changes (even the shape of the jaw never moves that much), so all gear still fits.

When you start adding sliders for customizing the length or girth of things like ears, horns, hair, arms, legs, gear will start looking wrong, and thus we get less of it. It would not be out of the question to make race-specific gear if we wanted that additional customization, but I think more people would rather ALL gear be available for all races, and genders, and not have the limitations of other MMO's that lock gear to race/gender/job.

What I'd like to see is some body "girth" type of slider to at least make characters more lean, muscular, or more fat, because that's one of the bizarre things about characters in FFXIV. Everyone is super-fit, except for male Roe's and Lalafells. Male Roe's just look bulky, while lalafells lack any body definition at all (both male and female lalafells may as well be the same body model.)

Glowing eyes for Dark Knight, similar to the one time in the lv50 Dark Knight quest. That just looked awesome. Make it optional and active only during Darkside if necessary.

I'm sure there are other class-specific customization ideas too, nothing wrong with classes having defining features.

I'm necrothreading this thread to ask for some of the hairstyles we already have in game to be made usable by Viera.

Also, give Hrothgar a better hairstyle system.
I know it would take a lot of work and probably won't happen til at least the next expansion at the very earliest, but I just want to put it out there. :B

Would be nice to have muscle sliders and scars for the other races. Lets have that Aura from the steppe with cool scars across his face or thigh definition on that viera, give me a buff cat lass. These are meant to be warrior races but they look to pretty and pristine XD