Au Ra, Horn Change/Scale Colors.

I would love these options for Au'Ra, there are so many things you could/should be able to do!

Not enough memory Excuse:
Simply add an option by skin (or hair, or even hair highlights!) color to make that color also affect scales. That is two textures (one for male and one for female), little to no memory that just turns off the alpha texture for color so your skin color also affects your scales. That way you can make darker/lighter scales.
((Memory added: 2 textures. Woot! That can't be too much.))


Adding Horn Options:
Horns are a lot more aesthetically changing then tail options which you only see some times. I would rather the tail be connected to the horns you choose and the ability to choose horns instead.
((So instead of the ability to change your tail type, you can change your horn type instead. A much better change in my opinion. This would take exactly the same amount of memory since your just removing an option and adding the same thing but different.))

Adding the ability to change horns would give you a LOT more unique of an appearance then tails would.

Pretty sure the community reps have already responded to one of the other 10 threads about this...

Pretty sure it was also talked about in either an interview or Live Letter, I can't remember which.

"would if we could, ps3 limitations, blah blah blah"
the usual reasons

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Originally Posted by Ashkendor

Pretty sure the community reps have already responded to one of the other 10 threads about this...

Pretty sure it was also talked about in either an interview or Live Letter, I can't remember which.

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Bla bla bla so little options. I would rather have horns tied to tails and the ability to change horns since its on your face. A lot of that is hogwash and can be easily worked around by adding a click option.

It's to do with memory or something, they said they cannot add anymore options as it's already at capacity. We don't work for them so it's easy for us to say "oh you can just do x, y or z to make it work", we don't know if it is actually that easy/even possible or if they are making up excuses. :3 I fail to see why they wouldn't have implemented this already if it were easy however, given the number of times it has been asked for.

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Originally Posted by Kaelah

It's to do with memory or something, they said they cannot add anymore options as it's already at capacity. We don't work for them so it's easy for us to say "oh you can just do x, y or z to make it work", we don't know if it is actually that easy/even possible or if they are making up excuses. :3 I fail to see why they wouldn't have implemented this already if it were easy however, given the number of times it has been asked for.

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I've worked with textures before in many games. There is one texture that basicly says "Skin Color can't work here" that is why your scales don't get colored when you choose your skin color. Simply removing the white from that (adding another texture that is all black, barely any memory involved) will allow your skin color to also modify the color of your scales. Sound simple?

http://i.imgur.com/BOJTzSu.png

Here is an even simpler explanation.

For the scales, since they are the defining physical trait that separates the Au Ra clans, I don't think they would change that, particularly since they tend to be careful about anything that might step on existing lore.

As for Horns, I believe they said memory capacity or something limits any further customisation options for now.

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Originally Posted by Belhi

For the scales, since they are the defining physical trait that separates the Au Ra clans, I don't think they would change that, particularly since they tend to be careful about anything that might step on existing lore.

As for Horns, I believe they said memory capacity or something limits any further customisation options for now.

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You can take the tail options away and add horn options. I think tails being linked to faces is better.

Also, the xaela scales would still be darker, and Au ra ones lighter. It would just allow minor changes in the color. However minor changes can be huge in CC.

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Originally Posted by Ashkendor

Pretty sure the community reps have already responded to one of the other 10 threads about this...

Pretty sure it was also talked about in either an interview or Live Letter, I can't remember which.

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Was a huge thread discussing the separation of horns and faces here: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...faces+separate

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Originally Posted by Nektulos-Tuor

You can take the tail options away and add horn options. I think tails being linked to faces is better.

Also, the xaela scales would still be darker, and Au ra ones lighter. It would just allow minor changes in the color. However minor changes can be huge in CC.

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I don't think so. If this goes through, you will make lots of current Au Ra's unhappy.

I have an Au Ra alt, I have face 1 and tail 1 on her. I chose face 1 because of the horns and scales. If face 4 had face 1 horns and lesser scales I would have chosen that one.
But I only like tail 1, all the other tails annoy me, especially tail 2 and 3.

If SE changes this, then according to your idea people with face 4 are stuck with tail 4 etc. I don't think that Au Ra's would be happy to see their tail is changed when they log into the game after the update.

I would rather have everything seperate so people have more options to choose from, and nothing is tied together.

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Originally Posted by BunnyHop

I don't think so. If this goes through, you will make lots of current Au Ra's unhappy.

I have an Au Ra alt, I have face 1 and tail 1 on her. I chose face 1 because of the horns and scales. If face 4 had face 1 horns and lesser scales I would have chosen that one.
But I only like tail 1, all the other tails annoy me, especially tail 2 and 3.

If SE changes this, then according to your idea people with face 4 are stuck with tail 4 etc. I don't think that Au Ra's would be happy to see their tail is changed when they log into the game after the update.

I would rather have everything seperate so people have more options to choose from, and nothing is tied together.

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I would love a vote on who cares more about horns and tail. I agree, but maybe changing some unpopular tails to look better would also fix that issue as well. People would be happy yes, but I bet 80% more will be happy they can change their horns now.

A lot of people care about their tail seeing how a majority of the Au Ra population picked tail 4, with tail 1 coming in second, while 2 and 3 being very unpopular and rare.

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Originally Posted by Zumi

A lot of people care about their tail seeing how a majority of the Au Ra population picked tail 4, with tail 1 coming in second, while 2 and 3 being very unpopular and rare.

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I think most would love the choice of face/horn being unlinked but it's been discussed to death and apparently it's not an option according to the developers from what I understood. Tail choices are fine the way they are although more options for them would be nice.

The answer was No and will be No to everything we ask for deeper and richer character customization. Memory limitations, recourse limitations, budget and time limitations, consoles. No matter how many times we ask for more options they always answer a flat No to all.

Gotta love a thread where the first counter response is responded to with "Blah blah blah". Locking horns to faces, or tails to horns is equally dumb. Therefore just leave it as is.

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Originally Posted by Ilitsa

Gotta love a thread where the first counter response is responded to with "Blah blah blah". Locking horns to faces, or tails to horns is equally dumb. Therefore just leave it as is.

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OP basically just likes rehashing old threads for attention anyway, so no big loss.

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Originally Posted by Nektulos-Tuor

You can take the tail options away and add horn options. I think tails being linked to faces is better.

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I like the tail option. I don't want my tail linked to my face, because I want to pick a pretty face for others to look at and a pretty tail for me to look at since 90% of the time, I see the back of my character.
So no, thanks.

Awesome, another thread for the mods to delete because this was answered soooooo many times now.

Personally I think tail 1 looks pretty which i picked. I think its cool when i see other Au Ra around with tail 1 its like we are part of the non spiky tail club because we are so outnumbered by the people who picked spiky tail #4.