Is a less humanoid race impossible?

[Zojha]

It's not entirely impossible - The difference in body shape between a male Roegadyn, Au Ra and Lalafell is preeeetty big, but armors can be refitted nevertheless. Plus, Au Ra prove that textures can be a thing as well.

I wager whenever an armor cannot be easily re-fitted by simply de-forming it, it'll provide an issue. I had lattice presets in blender for my skyrim modding which allowed me to conveniently re-fit armors modeled for one body to other bodies and I'd not be surprised if SE uses a similar procedure - model a base armor, then deform it with preset deformation patterns for the races and do some fine-tuning if things look off. Just a guess, tho.

[DracotheDragon]

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see this is what i think as well, lets us say the next race have digigrade legs e.g that bend back between the paw and the knee where the ancle is. a simple deformation on most of the armour will fix this, plus before anyone says that some armours have to be completely redeisnged such as head gear, the snouts/ muzzles of the race could easily just go though the helmet simmilar to the miqote' ears and au ra horns, tails could easily go though the chest peice armour, any real changes to the torso as long as it is human/anthropamorphic would just need to be 'deformed' slightly to match the body and animations, granted yes it would be some work, but adding in a new race is already alot of work, and people seem to think that they would stop at the half way point. plus once they have designed the deforming program, they would most likely use it as a means to deform future making work much easier for not only playable beast races but for NPC ones as well. plus if the paws or burmecian's rat like feet are making you guys worry just remember really big shoes to cover it up :P

edit: oh and the proportions of a roe male is much bigger in the shoulders and the back to the other races while lalas have a much wider hips and more rounder shape so they do use defmoration touls to change the shape of the amour so adding in a simple 'hump' as most people think the beast race would have would seem like a simple addition.