Hair crisis! - Cowls and Headgear in 2.0

Yo! I suffer from narcissism in this game and I LOVE looking at my character and his beautiful and stylish hair! However~ There's just one teeny, tiny little problem... Whenever I wear a cowl or headgear my character becomes almost, if not completely bald! All I have to say is...

WWWWWWHHHHHYYYY!!?!?

Anyways, I understand that in 2.0 we're getting a design and graphics overhaul. That is all fine and dandy -but- will we still suffer the effects of partial or complete hair loss when wearing cowls and headgear? If one of you amazing devs can get back to us on this... Well, That would just make my day!~

Till then, tootles! *Fixs hair in the mirror*

You could always /display head off
I do agree on more head gear with hair poking through though :>

^ That doesn't work with Cowls though does it?

I've wondered about that too. For me, it's really interesting, because it almost looks like my character gets a haircut when I put on a hat. >.> And /display head off is kind of lame. I'd rather have the pointy wizard hat, but with more coming out. It looks like I stick my hair up inside the hat or something, based on what's showing before/after. >.>;

Man, that'd be some crazy hat hair... If it kept the shape of the pointy wizard hat...

That annoys me as well, one of the reason I've never liked wearing a cowl.

Here's hope, I've noticed them changing the amount of hair displayed for female lalafell with the pigtails. When wearing hats the fringe is actually shown now since last patch which wasn't before that. Unfortunately I can't provide screenshots D:

I hope they'll make similiar changes to cowls :)

I agree with this.

I played swtor for a bit and on their cowls, you also lose hair when wearing them. Makes me mad :<

It'd be nice to show even the slightest bang or ponytail on the side ;-;

If worst comes to worst, bust out the Eorzean Rogaine >_>

This is the reason why I never wear cowls and my headgear is always turned off. Hopefully they'll fix it, but I doubt they will.

I don't like pot helms or skull caps either, although my Miqu'ote sisters can pull the latter off quite well.

Truth to be told this is likely a limitation due to this being an MMO. Rather than animate the entire hair imagine they deal with it as if it were a single... Block. Something which the hat sprites overwrite. Were this a single-player game they could probably deal with putting some more detailed animation on the hair to have each bunch of strands as a different active object and let the physics engine deal with the headgear, but an MMO kind of cannot handle that sort of stress, see wherever the previous comment about capes was.

A solution would make a different set of graphics for each combination of headgear/hairstyle... Which would probably take a halfway through forever to implement or, if not, a sizeable chunk of infinity in storage space.

im surprised ffxiv have this worthlessness when not even ffxi had it.

On another note, cowls prevent you from using head slot materia, because they take up two equipment slots.

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Originally Posted by Skies

Truth to be told this is likely a limitation due to this being an MMO. Rather than animate the entire hair imagine they deal with it as if it were a single... Block. Something which the hat sprites overwrite. Were this a single-player game they could probably deal with putting some more detailed animation on the hair to have each bunch of strands as a different active object and let the physics engine deal with the headgear, but an MMO kind of cannot handle that sort of stress, see wherever the previous comment about capes was.

A solution would make a different set of graphics for each combination of headgear/hairstyle... Which would probably take a halfway through forever to implement or, if not, a sizeable chunk of infinity in storage space.

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In fact, they wouldn't really need to animate anything, at least beyond what they already have. An immobile tuft of hair would be better than the inexplicable baldness that accompanies most headgear. At least it would be an overcomplicated copy/edit, rather than creating from scratch.

One word. Clipping.

I'm pretty sure there's a dev quote on lowering your cowl and opening your helmet. I just will not be bothered to look for it. :)

Yeah it looks groce :( my character always look bald im like wtf :S

At the very least it could show our characters bangs or something...since I main healer im stuck wearing that fugly tunic with healing potency lol

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Originally Posted by Fiosha_Maureiba

On another note, cowls prevent you from using head slot materia, because they take up two equipment slots.

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For this reason alone I will never use one.

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I'm pretty sure there's a dev quote on lowering your cowl and opening your helmet. I just will not be bothered to look for it. :)

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That was in reference to the AF gear.

weird
good thing galka doesn't have hair lose problem. I got all my hair with 3/4 crowns...

well hopefully in the you will be able to lower the hood, similar to the af gear they said in 2.0 you have the option of raising and lowering the whm af or the mask of the war.

Hey everyone! We asked the dev. team about cowls and other head-wear hiding your gorgeous locks and they let us know that your hair will show with these types of equipment in version 2.0. :cool:

Oh is gun b fabulous now

*slow motion flowing hair release... fans may be blowing hair*

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Originally Posted by Rukkirii

Hey everyone! We asked the dev. team about cowls and other head-wear hiding your gorgeous locks and they let us know that your hair will show with these types of equipment in version 2.0. :cool:

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You have just made my day and I love you for this.

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Originally Posted by Fiosha_Maureiba

Oh is gun b fabulous now

*slow motion flowing hair release... fans may be blowing hair*

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LMAO.
/char 10

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Originally Posted by Rukkirii

Hey everyone! We asked the dev. team about cowls and other head-wear hiding your gorgeous locks and they let us know that your hair will show with these types of equipment in version 2.0. :cool:

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This is quite possibly the most fabulous post I've ever seen by our CRs. Thank you Rukkirii!

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Originally Posted by Rukkirii

Hey everyone! We asked the dev. team about cowls and other head-wear hiding your gorgeous locks and they let us know that your hair will show with these types of equipment in version 2.0. :cool:

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They say that for everything. Are you sure its not just an automated e-mail response?

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Originally Posted by Rukkirii

Hey everyone! We asked the dev. team about cowls and other head-wear hiding your gorgeous locks and they let us know that your hair will show with these types of equipment in version 2.0. :cool:

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Please tell the dev. team that they are FABULOUS. Just like that. All caps. If you feel like writing it, use lots of glitter.

Seriously, thanks for the good news. :D

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Originally Posted by Rukkirii

Hey everyone! We asked the dev. team about cowls and other head-wear hiding your gorgeous locks and they let us know that your hair will show with these types of equipment in version 2.0. :cool:

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Whoooo, thank you. I am tired of looking like I am bald. ;-;

haha... same problem here lol

Postulate that the hair is removed to prevent it from going out of the hood. To keep hair a 2nd hair mesh for hood is required and this changes probably the base code for the character object(like adding mask under hood) = dev time = may or may not come out for 2.0. All else being equal though would wear both hair and eyepatch under cowl if i only could.

edit: i now read the dev response. good so the hair will be in. so that leaves the question if the masks/eye wear under cowl has a chance.

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Originally Posted by Rukkirii

Hey everyone! We asked the dev. team about cowls and other head-wear hiding your gorgeous locks and they let us know that your hair will show with these types of equipment in version 2.0. :cool:

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OMG YES! this was something that kinda bummed me out from the start, its just a little detail but it will make that items look so much nicer