[To the Developers] Please give us the option to let other players see our head turn.

I am aware that SE made the "Head turn to camera" feature invisible to other players so that they cannot tell you are trying to take a screenshot and grief you, but as a roleplayer, I'd like the ability to turn my character's head in other ways (stare down, look up, look over my shoulder) and let the other players see it. It adds a lot of personality to the character.

I'm not saying to remove the option to make this invisible to other players, but I'd like the alternative to make it visible, a toggable option in Character Configuration would be very nice.

Problem is even this tiny feature would tax certain systems. Clientside it's fine, but...

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Originally Posted by Bluevann

I am aware that SE made the "Head turn to camera" feature invisible to other players so that they cannot tell you are trying to take a screenshot and grief you, but as a roleplayer, I'd like the ability to turn my character's head in other ways (stare down, look up, look over my shoulder) and let the other players see it. It adds a lot of personality to the character.

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That sounds like a ridiculous reason to not have head-to-camera turning visible to other players. Was head-turn-photo-op-griefing/photo-bombing really that much of an issue at some point, or is it just an excuse to keep this feature client-side?

Anyway, I too would like to be able to share positional information on my character's head, if the griefing excuse is really the only reason it isn't currently being shared.

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Originally Posted by Gyson

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That sounds like a ridiculous reason to not have head-to-camera turning visible to other players. Was head-turn-photo-op-griefing/photo-bombing really that much of an issue at some point, or is it just an excuse to keep this feature client-side?

Anyway, I too would like to be able to share positional information on my character's head, if the griefing excuse is really the only reason it isn't currently being shared.

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I don't know if it's the only reason, but it's the one that Yoshida gave in the live letter :/

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Originally Posted by Gyson

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That sounds like a ridiculous reason to not have head-to-camera turning visible to other players. Was head-turn-photo-op-griefing/photo-bombing really that much of an issue at some point, or is it just an excuse to keep this feature client-side?

Anyway, I too would like to be able to share positional information on my character's head, if the griefing excuse is really the only reason it isn't currently being shared.

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It was probably to keep the feature clientside, since the data that would have to be transmitted would be each and every player in a given area's target. Which would be...lag inducing

http://media.giphy.com/media/T5D3cMOARTEbu/giphy.gif

Like this ???

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Originally Posted by LionKing

Like this ???

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No (not like you can do that in-game anyway). But I'd like players to see where my character's head is turned to, because for roleplay it can change the feel of a scene a lot.

This is what you see:
http://cdn.guildwork.net/albums/imag...1810c8ea81.jpg

This is what I want you to see:
http://cdn.guildwork.net/albums/imag...1810c8eaa7.jpg

We'll never get every changepose for every mood we want to express in-game, and there's so many emotional states that can be showed simply by tilting our head in a certain way, I feel changing how this feature works (or giving us the option to change it) would save in the end a lot of time and character data space that the developers would maybe try to add to give us /changeposes to look defeated, abashed, annoyed, distracted, absent, etc. All stuff that can be emoted simply with a small head turn.

I don't know if they'd ever do it but I definitely support the idea. Body language is a very valuable way to tell your story.

Heck I would settle for persistent facial expressions/emotes before having this feature, but hey, why not both :p

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Originally Posted by DefendPopPunk

Heck I would settle for persistent facial expressions/emotes before having this feature, but hey, why not both :p

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I've made a thread about that, and sadly the Devs did respond...

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Originally Posted by Camate

Greetings,



Currently we do not have any plans to add a feature that would allow for persistent expressions.

While it won’t let you keep an expression permanently, if there are times when you just want to keep the expression for a bit longer than usual you can do so by making the following macro (I’ll use smile as an example):

　/smile motion <wait.5>
　/smile motion <wait.5>

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