I am just wondering if there has been any feedback from the devs on this issue. They look perfectly fine when you wear robes or havy armor, but anything tight or skinny (even normal pants) make them look completely weird.
Will this be fixed or are they just supposed to look like half their tail is missing at the start?
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07-12-2015, 12:42 AMIsegrimAu'Ra tails
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07-12-2015, 12:47 AMHistoire
they also need different animations from bloody cat tails.
i can't imagine the skeleton of a dragon tail functioning the same as a cat, but apparently they do.
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07-12-2015, 12:53 AMChiramuMy big thick tail moves pretty differently to my old Miqo'te one. I always have short tails though, maybe it is different when you have a long thin tail.Quote:
Originally Posted by Histoire
But the question to you people is, what sort of animation would you give the Au Ra to look completely different to the Miqo'te tail animation? -
07-12-2015, 01:01 AMZumi
Which tail do you have? I have tail 1 and it looks fine in everything I have.
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07-12-2015, 01:12 AMZenakuThey do a lot of copy/paste to save on resources. Why you think Au'ra face pretty much look like a hume,elf.cat face? From the live letter we had it seem Au'ra hit the limit of resources pretty early on with just the horns/scales. It seem SE learn noting from FFXI/FFXIV 1.0 and keep on setting limit i'm pretty sure this have to due to cost of up keep on the servers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Histoire
But really the fact that they can't even separate horn from the face of the Au'ra due to this limit. Make this awesome game very lame when they can't do half of the things that most MMO can do out there. Housing i bet take up a lot of resources and they keep adding more wards for something that a lot of people only use maybe a one hour or so a day or none at all. I only use the FC housing for a quick repair or to check the market board or meet up with FC members.
Sadly i hope they can't find a way out of this limit where they can't do A because X,Y,Z is taking the most resources so A,B,C get f**k over. -
07-12-2015, 01:15 AMSelliSome of the animations are different (excluding the Ball Dance) my boyfriend went Au Ra and I stayed Miqo'te and we did several emotes together. His tail definitely moved around a lot less.Quote:
Originally Posted by Histoire
[EDIT] And if you've ever seen/held a young iguana, you will know that they have very thin fast tails that they will literally whip people with if not trained properly. So not all scaly tails are slow and clunky. -
07-12-2015, 01:30 AMGreven
I was at the GC the other night and there was an Au Ra next to me. There I started checking our tails.. It's not similar at all: Miqo'te tail are rounded up and mostly only move the second half, in cpose it moves even less, which is bad, it should be always moving. The Au Ra tail moves as if it's a singular big piece and it keeps moving a tiny bit in every cpose in what looks like a lightly vibrant pattern. Dunno if changes from tail to tail though..
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07-12-2015, 01:40 AMIsegrim
I have got exactly the same one as in this this picture:
https://imgur.com/gallery/bCbjKW5
Sadly i didn't look much at the tail and only realized after my character had already been created :(
The animations look fine to me but that gap is like a constant itch that you try to ignore... -
07-12-2015, 01:49 AMZumiYeah that is the only tail that looks like that. The other 3 don't have that issue. Probably just a unique feature of that tail.Quote:
Originally Posted by Isegrim
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07-12-2015, 01:51 AMEtikenAw cmon you've never seen a dragon before, how would you know. XDQuote:
Originally Posted by Histoire
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07-12-2015, 02:12 AMOdeda
The gap is there because where the tail is attached is the default size of all tails. Actually making a big, thick tail completely different from the rest would've been pretty difficult when combining with female Au Ra physique. I guess it's also to prevent some clipping.
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07-12-2015, 02:14 AMElHeggunteThe gap looks intentional. It's not at all uncommon for certain species of reptiles to have a tail a little thicker than its base. Maybe not that extreme, but that's probably the appearance SE was shooting for. Plus, to accommodate a tail of that size on a body of that shape it would require having it start higher up the back or have the bottom of the tail meld with your buttcheeks. I'm pretty sure you'd prefer it as is.Quote:
Originally Posted by Isegrim
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07-12-2015, 02:17 AMTeleste
My "tail 4" seems to appear fine with all my gear. I'd love to see horns as a separate option from faces in character creation, however :)
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07-12-2015, 02:27 AMVejjiegirl
I noticed that if you wear Evenstar Coat your tail turns into a Miqo'te tail (except its stiff and pointed up)
http://i.imgur.com/m20LM6o.png
Since my tail is so thick it must really hurt to compress it this small!
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07-12-2015, 04:03 AMNadirahIt's so the tail sticks out the tail hole in armor designed for Miqo tails.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zumi
In anything that has flaps over the butt like most tunics and poofy robes, it's not noticeable. -
07-12-2015, 04:22 AMCeodoreOMG! That looks like a major oversight!Quote:
Originally Posted by Vejjiegirl
I just wanted longer tails... like to my ankles... -
07-12-2015, 04:42 AMMhikailhttp://i.imgur.com/lP028eQ.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by Chiramu
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07-12-2015, 09:54 AMseidaQuote:
Originally Posted by Ceodore
I doubt it's an oversight - more like, it wasn't worth the time and manpower to go back and alter every single piece of old gear to accommodate new tails. And gear from HW on will be designed with au ra tails in mind. -
07-12-2015, 10:03 AMCalypsx
the /changepose for weapons are the only thing the tails look weird on, they just kind of freeze, stick far out and have no movement at all.
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07-12-2015, 10:21 AMNatsuno
DRG AF2. If you check out the HW benchmark, the tails get replaced on that too. Although it does look better than the evenstar boner tail.
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07-12-2015, 04:24 PMSamcaesarI mean, it does the same thing with the guy's body too. I just really wish the tail didn't look so dumb with that one, like the tails clip a ton anyways, why not make it so the one tail that looks really different doesn't look also awkward as heck with the base?Quote:
Originally Posted by Odeda
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07-13-2015, 01:12 AMOdedaI'm guessing because with some gear gets a tail window when equipped by a Miqote or Aura and it's fitted for thinner tails. From developer point of view it wouldn't make sense to add a bigger window on all that gear just for 1 tail.Quote:
Originally Posted by Samcaesar
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07-13-2015, 01:16 AMSamcaesarShrugs, I dunno, isn't there a lot of gear that's modified for Miqo'te tails, but not Au Ra tails? I mean, I remember seeing a post showing off that sorta issue, and at that point it's like "If you're gonna clip, why not make it so this one tail doesn't look stupidly awkward when it's not clipping?".Quote:
Originally Posted by Odeda