Hairstyle Concerns for The New Races

[Skivvy]

Where did they say it was going to work like that specifically? From what I saw of the Paris Fanfest, all they ever said was that they were designing versions of the hairstyles with and without bangs. Nothing about how they would be implemented.

A lot of the other races have multiple variations of a hairstyle listed as separate choices.

(Though what's the "right-click toggle" you're talking about? What else is it used for? I'm a PS4 player so I'm not familiar with mouse controls.)

At this time, the Viera hair options have a little icon on the bottom stating "Toggle Bangs On/Off" with the mouse button:


If you right-click on the styles, it puts that little marker on it, and then it also lets you click on the "Hide All Bangs" box up on top. But clicking the box just shows your marked hairstyles. It doesn't seem to do anything else.



As far as an official source on the fringe-toggle, I'd like to say this is something that had been mentioned back when they were talking about the expanded character creation for Viera, but at this point I'm struggling to find a source. My memory is quite horrible, so I'm not sure where I had heard it originally. If I find something, I'll post it It could very well be that they had just stated that styles would have the option of with or without bangs, and it morphed into it being an actual toggle. :3

[Iscah]

I'm noticing the palette on the left that usually maps to the hair color is instead mapped to the accents, while the less saturated colors on the right seem to be mapped to the main hair color:

That's how it's always laid out, though? The main hair colour palette (with more muted colours and stripes of 'grey') appears on the right side of the screen, then the highlights palette (with more bright colours) appears to the left.

From that screenshot they do have a more restricted range of "main" colours though. I assume it's different between the clans?

At this time, the Viera hair options have a little icon on the bottom stating "Toggle Bangs On/Off" with the mouse button:

If you right-click on the styles, it puts that little marker on it, and then it also lets you click on the "Hide All Bangs" box up on top. But clicking the box just shows your marked hairstyles. It doesn't seem to do anything else.

Ah, I didn't realise it was a new feature. That does sound like it's something they just haven't got fully coded yet.

That could also potentially explain the lack of normal hairstyles, if they've had to quickly "overwrite" some of the normal styles with duplicate ones?

It certainly sounds promising, and (if it's not making use of data that is used for other features in other races) it would be nice to see some of the shared styles get the same approach. Would be a great way to get more variety without them having to model entirely new hairstyles.

[Skivvy]

Ah, I didn't realise it was a new feature. That does sound like it's something they just haven't got fully coded yet.

That could also potentially explain the lack of normal hairstyles, if they've had to quickly "overwrite" some of the normal styles with duplicate ones?

It certainly sounds promising, and (if it's not making use of data that is used for other features in other races) it would be nice to see some of the shared styles get the same approach. Would be a great way to get more variety without them having to model entirely new hairstyles.

Well now I'm second guessing myself as I can't find anything, but then I'm struggling to find ANY conversation about the customization, and I know that existed at some point. D: Maybe someone else can come along and shed some light on this one. The internet does like to warp comments with time, so this could have been something that was misunderstood....but then those buttons DO exist. Tis a mystery for now :X

[Dalmacus]

It seems kinda illogical to create/implement hairstyles separately for hrothgar, viera and the rest of the races for each patch now. They are literally give themselves 3x the work whenever they introduce new hairstyles.

I mean if for some reason the 2 new races are limited to their own exclusive hairstyles then what's the point to even create new races if it can't be included together with the existing races. I think if for some reason we don't see them on release i would expect at least 5.1 if not i think we might have a problem.

[Alleo]

It seems kinda illogical to create/implement hairstyles separately for hrothgar, viera and the rest of the races for each patch now. They are literally give themselves 3x the work whenever they introduce new hairstyles.

I mean if for some reason the 2 new races are limited to their own exclusive hairstyles then what's the point to even create new races if it can't be included together with the existing races. I think if for some reason we don't see them on release i would expect at least 5.1 if not i think we might have a problem.

Not only that but they kinda have to create extra amount of hair/or fur pattern for them if they give out hairstyles as a reward, otherwise these races are completely left out. And imo there is nothing on the Viera that feels like they could not have the other hair. Also if they are limited why not tell us that? What if someone bought hairstyles but cant use them anymore?

Honestly if both are that limited then I truly wonder why to even bother with them. Why not create more customization options for existing races instead of that.

At this time, the Viera hair options have a little icon on the bottom stating "Toggle Bangs On/Off" with the mouse button:

As far as an official source on the fringe-toggle, I'd like to say this is something that had been mentioned back when they were talking about the expanded character creation for Viera, but at this point I'm struggling to find a source. My memory is quite horrible, so I'm not sure where I had heard it originally. If I find something, I'll post it It could very well be that they had just stated that styles would have the option of with or without bangs, and it morphed into it being an actual toggle. :3

This seems to be a wrong translation because in the german benchmark it says that you can right click to use a pin and then if you click on the box at the top only those will be shown that have a pin. So it seems that its simply a way to show only those hairstyles that you want.

[Skivvy]

This seems to be a wrong translation because in the german benchmark it says that you can right click to use a pin and then if you click on the box at the top only those will be shown that have a pin. So it seems that its simply a way to show only those hairstyles that you want.

Ahhh, well that makes a lot more sense!