A "hide tails" option for Miqo'te and Au'ra characters?

[ko_]

Waste of development time and effort. Everything clips in this game, with that logic - hide character/ clothes- would be a better option. I get that it's annoying to see, but it's honestly not that big of a deal. If they fix anything with clipping I want them to fix HAIR. THAT is far more noticable then the tails. And I only play miqo or au ra.

[Big-Isaac]

Waste of development time and effort. Everything clips in this game, with that logic - hide character/ clothes- would be a better option. I get that it's annoying to see, but it's honestly not that big of a deal. If they fix anything with clipping I want them to fix HAIR. THAT is far more noticable then the tails. And I only play miqo or au ra.

I refuse to believe that a "hide this particular part of the character model" button would take up a lot of time or resources.

Hair clipping is another problem, yes, but I'd argue it's a much easier one to circumvent. Changing to a different hairstyle costs 2000 gil, while changing your race costs real money and comes with a massive overall change to your character's look.

That said, why treat this as a zero sum game? Not being able to take the hairstyle you want because of clipping is annoying as well, so that's simply another thing that should be addressed

Step 1: Play a race that doesn't have a tail.

Step 2: Profit.

Which is what I'm doing. The problem is that Au'ra and Miqo'te are my favorite races in regards to facial options and animations, but I can't use them because the clipping drives me insane.

[Sigma-Astra]

Which is what I'm doing. The problem is that Au'ra and Miqo'te are my favorite races in regards to facial options and animations, but I can't use them because the clipping drives me insane.

Honestly, this sounds like a personal problem and nothing that SE needs to waste time for. If you can't play either race because of tails clipping through things, then you can't possibly play any race at all because clipping is bound to happen somewhere.

[Jijifli]

I refuse to believe that a "hide this particular part of the character model" button would take up a lot of time or resources.

We're talking about the game company that also needs to put 15 different limitations to every new thing in the game because otherwise it'll apparently make the servers implode.

Dresser's a nice example. They already said the reason that isn't able to apply glam everywhere is because of server stress. Yes. You can't do that because the servers can't handle you using it everywhere.

[Kuzulo]

We're talking about the game company that also needs to put 15 different limitations to every new thing in the game because otherwise it'll apparently make the servers implode.

Dresser's a nice example. They already said the reason that isn't able to apply glam everywhere is because of server stress. Yes. You can't do that because the servers can't handle you using it everywhere.

Coming from Wow, where you can transmog everywhere in the game (via your mount, if not another way), that makes no sense unless they did something wrong. If they did something wrong, they should fix THAT.

If I remember correctly, in Wow it is just a basic part of your character (everything you already have, to mog.)

So the only way it would make sense in FFXIV, that it cause more server stress, if instead such information is stored somewhere else and it is sending it back and forth. That would be a very silly, fundamentally incorrect way to do it.

[L-Lihzeh]

I refuse to believe that a "hide this particular part of the character model" button would take up a lot of time or resources.

and you should not believe that lol
Hi I remember seeing this topic a few years ago, and now I find myself looking back at this and thinking why has square not done this ?
I have gone to and graduated college with a video game design degree (yeah that is a thing) and I can say I have worked with Unreal, Unity and PS4 dev kits (cant say the real software due to NDA, that was part of a class though)

I know square has options, one thing to do would be to add an opacity map to the shader settings. This can help with other clipping as well. (any one ever notice that the palm of the hand can clip with punching gloves ?)
I spent a lot of time figuring out my own clipping issues, I know its a pain but I got suggestions square !

I'm willing to bet the tail is separate from the main skeleton given micropanther7 and Skivvy's screen shots, if so then it would be verry simple for them to set a hide setting.
One guy could add a toggle to the options in less than a day (if it is separate from the skeleton)
given the total number of items it would take a few days for one guy, but one guy cold still updated each item to hide it the way the snowman suit does just by setting a bool
(to the from admins this is a call to action for Square lol)

for the guy who mentioned hair clipping I have suggestions for that to but its less universal so I need to see the the "Crystal Tools" game runs on to know what is doable lol
fingers crossed for some improvements when DT drops.

can't spell when waking up lol