Let us cross match running/idle/jumping animation from any race

Ideally it isn't a lot (if any) rigging work needed.

• Class specific animations being non-customizable is understandable
• Example like using female Miqo'te's running animation on female Hyur would be amazing. (and probably bring in much more female hyur population)
• Even cross gender animations for running/idling, I'm sure they would be more than welcomed.

Things like that are part of the flavor. The animations and poses are part of what make a miqo'te a miqo'te rather than just a hyur with cat ears, etc. As much as I sometimes envy other racial/gendered animations at times, I'm kind of glad they exist.

It wouldn't be about the rigging, it would be about storing the data about your choices and transferring it to every other person who sees your character.

As much as I'd also like the choice, I can see why they wouldn't want to include it - and that if they had included it, it would have probably been at the expense of some other character customisation option.

Some of it is probably also about the way the animations are designed. Especially for the extremes (lalafell, roegadyn, auri males, hrothgar) there are some animations that just wouldn't work if you transferred them to others. For example, the lalafell dangling foot swinging pose only works because they're too short to reach the floor when sitting on a chair. It would look insane on anyone else.

I'm sure a lot of those are connected to the character models as said above, but I can't imagine it would be too difficult to open things up a little bit for characters with similar models. At least on default sit/stand poses. Miqo and Au'ra or Midlander, Elezen or Highlander and Viera, and Highlander and Roe for example would probably be relatively compatible. Sorry Lala folks... I have no idea what model would work with you lol. You're pretty unique. That might be a bit too fiddly though.

I don't know if other mmos have done this, but Aion lets you actually buy mix and match animations in game. You can change run/walk/sit/jump and idle stance to whatever you want. I personally favored the hover shoes.

I would rather see something entirely new over something we've seen a thousand times before.

Also, it's been stated on emote requests, they can't give everyone the same thing. How it works on a lala is different from a taller race. Imagine seeing a max height Roe running like a popoto.

I doubt we would ever get cross race animations.

BUT

I would be more likely to assume we'd have a better chance getting male/female cross animations for weapon stances and b/v poses.

For the love of god and everyone here give male characters the Dark Knight female idle pose. Posing like Cloud is cool, but posing with the sword in the ground like a total badass is something I desperately need.

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Originally Posted by Brightamethyst

Things like that are part of the flavor. The animations and poses are part of what make a miqo'te a miqo'te rather than just a hyur with cat ears, etc. As much as I sometimes envy other racial/gendered animations at times, I'm kind of glad they exist.

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I agree with this. It adds flavour to the world. More options isn’t always better.

Because this would happen:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/5f/94...3e914752e0.png

Then the horror cannot be unseen.

As much as I adore the male Miqo /aback animation (best emote in the game, and I was almost tempted to not racechange into a proper Au Ra), it is definitely going to look weird on everyone else. And as others have said, different races have their own flavors and that's part of the appeal. That and again with the weird factor, haha.