Please let us take off head gear for Paladin's Darklight Armor.

[Velhart]

It's a helmet. It's shown quite clearly with the joint on the neck. If you think something like that can be worn without having the helmet separate in some way, I'm afraid you don't know how plate armor works.

Official artwork

[Abriael]

Official artwork

And it looks really, really cool.

[Alhanelem]

And it looks really, really cool.

Totally only becuase the helmet's not there /sarcasm

As cool as it might look to be fighting with your hair flying around andhow sexy that roe female looks in mid axe swing, in terms of actual practice, fighters in the middle ages typically cared not for looks and would protect whatever parts of their body they could afford to protect.

not possible bla bla bla

It is not possible. They would have to redo/modify the model significantly, and that's not going to happen. In fact it rarely happens in general in the industry for such art assets to be significantly modified except to fix bugs like inverted triangles.

If you'd like, replace "not possible" with "not practical" or whatever synonym you like for "existing art assets pretty much never get modified after release". It's not a programming/technical issue its an issue with the art asset.

[Abriael]

Totally only becuase the helmet's not there /sarcasm

Yes, totally.

As cool as it might look to be fighting with your hair flying around andhow sexy that roe female looks in mid axe swing, in terms of actual practice, fighters in the middle ages typically cared not for looks and would protect whatever parts of their body they could afford to protect.

Moot point. This is a FANTASY game, which already has an option to hide helmets. You simply don't have a point.

It is not possible. They would have to redo/modify the model significantly, and that's not going to happen. In fact it rarely happens in general in the industry for such art assets to be significantly modified except to fix bugs like inverted triangles.

If you'd like, replace "not possible" with "not practical" or whatever synonym you like for "existing art assets pretty much never get modified after release". It's not a programming/technical issue its an issue with the art asset.

You lack the slightest idea on 3D modeling. The 3D model can be modified in several relatively easy ways. The relevant part can be made transparent via textures. It can be removed and added as a second model that swaps in, hell, if they want to do a lazy job they can just drag the vertices inside the neck and the helmet will become perfectly invisible.

It's neither impossible or impractical. It's as possible and as practical as the visor toggle, which has in fact been implemented.

[Reiterpallasch]

in terms of actual practice, fighters in the middle ages typically cared not for looks and would protect whatever parts of their body they could afford to protect.

And they did this while casting magic and fighting dragons, right?

[APilgrim]

And they did this while casting magic and fighting dragons, right?

Don't be silly. Only nobility in the Middle Ages could afford the penta-melded helmets required to survive fights with dragons. And my character is poor, therefor I should be able to go helmet-less like a serf in the Middle Ages.

[Nica]

If you'd like, replace "not possible" with "not practical" or whatever synonym you like for "existing art assets pretty much never get modified after release". It's not a programming/technical issue its an issue with the art asset.

I would like to point you to Eve Online, where not only has the entire art asset in the whole game been modified(quite heavily I may add), many have been multiple times, including complete model change.