Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[SoloWingMetatron]

Well, female viera are elezen body with hyur chest, and hrotgar are reskinned roegadyns.
Also I didnt mean exact same as elezen but something like with female viera (elezen body and slightly altered) which wouldn't cause that many clipping issues.
I don't really think that we shouldn't care about waiting 2 years to get something that was promised to us in the first place but that's just my personal opinion, and I do get your point but I wouldn't mind having them look like elezen personally

The female Viera body is a new variation on the female base mesh. Although they are of similar stature to Elezen, their proportions are different (Elezen have noticeably longer arms and necks) so it's not like they straight up took the Hyur/Elezan body types and just spliced them together (that would break the topology and geometry of the mesh) So it would have been a fresh edit on the base mesh.

Hrothgar are the same. They do appear very similar to Roe's in proportions. However the Hrothgar have a thinner waistline creating a more triangle look rather than a barrel or column that the Roe's sport. Hroth also have slight variations in muscle mass. Their calves appear more sculpted creating more shape to the legs.

[zeylos]

The female Viera body is anew variation on the female base mesh. Although they are of similar stature to Elezen, their proportion are different (Elezen have noticeably longer arms and necks) so it's not like they straight up took the Hyur/Elezan body types and just spliced them together (that would break the topology and geometry if the mesh. So it would have been a fresh edit on the base mesh.

Hrothgar are the same. They do appear very similar to Roe's in proportions. However the Hrothgar have a thinner waistline creating a more triangle look rather than a barrel or column that the Roe's sport. Hroth also have slight variations in muscle mass. Their calves appear more sculpted created more shape to the legs.

Sorry I forgot to mention that I would certainly change the neck from elezen body, which would be as much of a change as that of hrotgar (which was probably done in 2-3 months lets be honest here)

[SoloWingMetatron]

Sorry I forgot to mention that I would certainly change the neck from elezen body, which would be as much of a change as that of hrotgar (which was probably done in 2-3 months lets be honest here)

2-3 months dev time would be accurate if that was the artists sole project. However all artists in the dev team will have a number of projects on the go. Another common trend in the dev pipeline is to provide artists with a comprehensive list of all the assets they will need to create. The info on this list would include the type of asset, tri/poly limit (10% leeway usually), diffuse/specular/normal/displacement/height map size limit, as well as a deadline for each asset to be completed.

So when an artist has to work through this list they will have to prioritize, which unfortunately means male Viera would likely fall lower on their list. So with that being said, I believe it is unrealistic to put faith into seeing male Viera being implemented early in the 5.x cycle.

As much as I would love for them to appear on launch or by 5.1, I would much rather they took their time and made an asset that's of top quality and worthy to be a male Viera. I'm happy to wait till 6.0 if that's how long it would take to keep that level of quality. All I would like from the devs at this point is simply just confirmation that they are coming.