This thread is about butts.

[Tupsi]

This so damn much. Getting bored seeing miqo'te girls who all have the same hair as me. Or Lightning's hair.

Get used to it, that's going to happen no matter the customization system if there's something people really like..specially with this Lightning Hairstyle which is beyond ironic considering how much this community states XIII is a horrible game and lightning a horrible character in every way.

[AmyNeudaiz]

I think we should have the devs revisit their response as many of us are still unhappy with their decision.


Ignore the deleted posts below

[o3o]

Couldn't help myself, Hildabrand is just striking the perfect pose for this thread, lol.

[saber_alter]

This so damn much. Getting bored seeing miqo'te girls who all have the same hair as me. Or Lightning's hair.

give it a few years.

[LlenCoram]

I'd just like for them to come up with a new excuse. As someone else pointed out, their "We can't do this because of all the problems with armour" excuse falls apart when you consider the boob slider does exactly the same damned thing.

[AmyNeudaiz]

I'd just like for them to come up with a new excuse. As someone else pointed out, their "We can't do this because of all the problems with armour" excuse falls apart when you consider the boob slider does exactly the same damned thing.

I would be very happy with just a new response. Best hopes are for change and some redesign

[Ninix]

I'd just like for them to come up with a new excuse. As someone else pointed out, their "We can't do this because of all the problems with armour" excuse falls apart when you consider the boob slider does exactly the same damned thing.

Except that the character models and skeletons were made with the bust slider in mind from the very start. When the armors were being designed or ported over from 1.0, they were rigged up to the skeleton used for the current character models, which only include slider support for boobs (since there's specific bones [nodes] in the skeleton attached to the just breast vertices, so moving the bust slider simply scales those bones and the vertices attached to them). There's no special "butt node" in the skeleton, so there's no way to increase the size of just the model's ass. The vertices making up your character's butt are presumably attached to the thigh/upper leg bone, so a butt slider would have to increase the size of your entire thigh.

If they went and added new bones to the character skeletons to allow for a butt slider, they would need to go through every single armor model in the game and adjust the rigging to accommodate it. This would be a ton of work (rigging is always a huge pain in the ass), wasting a ton of artist hours that could be much better spent creating NEW stuff instead of making asses bigger.

This was an awfully technical way to say "making your catgirl's ass bigger will be a lot more work than you think", but I guess my point is basically that if you have no idea how something works you probably shouldn't be so quick to dismiss their "excuse".

[saber_alter]

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it was a ton of work to change all of the larger-reared 1.0 models (which were perfectly sound) over to the 2.0 versions.

they can do it, they just have priorities that may or may not be more beneficial.

[Ninix]

it was a ton of work to change all of the larger-reared 1.0 models (which were perfectly sound) over to the 2.0 versions.

they can do it, they just have priorities that may or may not be more beneficial.

Yes, it was a lot of work, but it was work they would have had to do anyway because they wanted to: 1) reduce the detail of player character models so they wouldn't cause the game to run like shit, and 2) homogenize body types to make asset creation faster and easier. Whereas this would be a ton of work for no other reason than some players demanding "pls gib more butt".

Obviously yes, they could do it, but they seem to have placed "greater armor variety" above "bigger asses" on the list of things they believe will make more players happy.

[Malekzus]

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