New Hairstyles and Clipping Issues

[Rennah]

Just gonna throw my two cents in, that I'd rather have clipping than a hairstyle change when I have a collar. I played L2 for years, and it also put hair up rather than clip it, and I never did like the up-style nearly as well as the long. I've got a femroe with one of the longest styles in the game right now, and it'd just ruin it if it magically went into a bun/high ponytail whenever she put on certain gear.

[Lithera]

Just gonna throw my two cents in, that I'd rather have clipping than a hairstyle change when I have a collar. I played L2 for years, and it also put hair up rather than clip it, and I never did like the up-style nearly as well as the long. I've got a femroe with one of the longest styles in the game right now, and it'd just ruin it if it magically went into a bun/high ponytail whenever she put on certain gear.

I wouldn't be 100% against harstyles switching with certain gear since in some cases it makes sense. I mean really...if you have a huge axe or polearm strapped to your back you're going to tie your hair up otherwise you're risking catching it when you draw your weapon. The middle image in the TERA images however would upset a lot of people like yourself and it doesn't entirely make sense unless the hair brushing against the collar was really annoying the character lol

[Khaoticsuccubus]

do it like Tera, problem solved

Too often I was stuck with some crappy hairstyle I didn't like instead of my chosen one in that game because my armor dictated it so. Especially when Tera had so damn little variation between player characters anyways. So yeah... pass.

[Malamasala]

do it like Tera, problem solved

No thanks. 25% of the reason I didn't buy TERA was the way they ignored your chosen hairstyle to avoid clipping. (25% was because of censorship, and 50% because the staff was idiots)

[Rjain]

Devising a better standard is in fact, not very difficult.

"If viable, so & so piece should not occupy X-Y-Z space on character model".

Oh look, I just solved 80% of clipping issues via creating a standard for gear-rigging.

If anything, they don't have to go back on old gear, but could just begin now with all gear here-forward.

You don't seem to understand just how silly you sound. You are coming off like someone who took two classes in basic rigging with absolutely no background on the technical elements when it comes to executing that rig into something like this. I'm sure if it was an easy fix they would have gone ahead and done it, or at least someone else in the industry would have. Every MMO I've encountered has had myriad rigging issues.

They said they plan on improving the graphics and technical elements to the engine over time. Perhaps one day you will have your silly rig fix.

[Naunet]

Too often I was stuck with some crappy hairstyle I didn't like instead of my chosen one in that game because my armor dictated it so. Especially when Tera had so damn little variation between player characters anyways. So yeah... pass.

It's a toggle now. Problem solved.

[kukurumei]

You don't seem to understand just how silly you sound. You are coming off like someone who took two classes in basic rigging with absolutely no background on the technical elements when it comes to executing that rig into something like this. I'm sure if it was an easy fix they would have gone ahead and done it, or at least someone else in the industry would have. Every MMO I've encountered has had myriad rigging issues.

They said they plan on improving the graphics and technical elements to the engine over time. Perhaps one day you will have your silly rig fix.

Even redesigning the engine it's still incredibly hard to make it not clip. It's a matter of power. The amount of CPU processing is crazy to even after you have the modeling and designers on board.

The add on hair physics alone would add an entirely different layer onto it.

It's very niche until someone release middleware tools that developers can turn on and off without costing them time and effort.

[Dano]

No thanks. 25% of the reason I didn't buy TERA was the way they ignored your chosen hairstyle to avoid clipping. (25% was because of censorship, and 50% because the staff was idiots)

you can toggle the feature thank you

[abzoluut]

It's funny how people "defend" saying it's so difficult and from a marketing point of view it's intelligent bla bla bla. This may all be true but it does not take away the fact that they come off incredibly lazy. 90% of the community don't know how coding works. To expect them to just think of this being the reason it isn't done is rather ignorant.

The dev team needs to give an honest statement as to why they chose to not work on it. Saying that they rather release more hairstyles is a good one. It's not when for example male Mi'qote got 1 (or 2?) hairstyles in roughly 9 months. This feels like they're hiding behind a glass door...

It's not only hairstyles. I think people just want more options to create a look. The glamour system is great. Too bad gear gets copy pasted over and over again (<-- incredibly lazy). Not only do they repeat the gear designs, they also make sure some pieces have almost the exact same design ignoring the fact that they're meant for different jobs (<-- beyond incredibly lazy).

I could go on with examples. Point is that these elements of this game, which is a great game, could get a QoL upgrade or a clear statement why certain choices were made. They don't, so people (like me) discuss this on the forum hoping they'll change one thing or another.

[Vejjiegirl]

Would bald spots in the new hairstyles be the same as clipping issues?
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-spots-in-hair