Can we get some longer hairstyles please?

[Alestorm]

Compare PS4 hardware specs to FFXIV's minimum PC requirements and consider who's really holding the game back.

Consider a console is about mid/middle-high specs; PCs need a decent window for options. You can upgrade a PC at any time, a console will always have it's exact specs. Not really fair to say "PC's are weak!" when you take the cost of a new console to a PC build you can 9/10 make something considerably more powerful.

[Gemina]

Personally I'm rather conflicted on this. On one hand, some longer hairstyles would be nice. On the other I hate our cloth physics with a passion, as it handles anything longer than a buttcape pretty badly. Most of our clothes look like they were drenched in fabric hardener a bit too long. Very noticable on slender framed characters where the cloth is hanging in a weird wide angle, positioned away from the legs. Most noticable on open robes, or long coats.

For me, if its going to behave the same way, I wouldn't use the new hairs anyway =/

Proper hair physics is extraordinarily difficult to animate. While I know no one is asking for hair to flow that realistically, I just wanted point out that what we have is decent enough for an mmo considering the limitations of not only server strain, but also dev time.

It is definitely an issue that is exacerbated the longer the style is. However, improvisation is also a thing. Anyone who is way into housing will vouch for this as we use many glitches to obtain a desired result. I did it here using the Gyr Abanian Plait hairstyle in combination with a scouting headpiece to add length and create an image of my character just having a ton of hair:



While I am not saying SE should intentionally use glitches to give us better hairstyles, I am saying to be more creative with the tools they have available.

At this point, I don't even think we are asking for longer hairstyles. They already exist. We are asking for more of them. The devs don't have to deal with the clipping issue at all, as players find ways around it with their glamour choices. However fuller/voluminous hairstyles, ponytails, and updos have a tendency to negate clipping issues caused by collars. So long as we are not too bothered by the limited physics I say SE should start churning out longer hairstyles like sweet butter.

[Arrius]

Are you sure about that?
People have been wanting hair that long for awhile and are more than happy to say "I don't care about the clipping!" I'm just adding onto that pile that if they get the hair they want, they better not complain when they realise it has no bones (like Aloy's hair in Horizon. Hair in FFXIV will never flow as majesticly as Aloys' hair).

It's like that wide and long korean dress everyone was fawning about.
Was totally looking great and such, so it was a popular thing.

Until someone sat down.


I can imagine such long hair would equally make a mess on sitting down and other animations that makes the body turn or bend. Not to mention the clipping.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Consider a console is about mid/middle-high specs; PCs need a decent window for options. You can upgrade a PC at any time, a console will always have it's exact specs. Not really fair to say "PC's are weak!" when you take the cost of a new console to a PC build you can 9/10 make something considerably more powerful.

The point, though, is that there are people running closer to minimum PC specs, which are below PS4's capabilities. Anyone saying that PS4 is holding the game back is factually wrong.

[Duskane]

It's like that wide and long korean dress everyone was fawning about.
Was totally looking great and such, so it was a popular thing.

Until someone sat down.


I can imagine such long hair would equally make a mess on sitting down and other animations that makes the body turn or bend. Not to mention the clipping.

well hair can be worked around if clipping is such a issue that dress is just poorly made

it also help if so many damn pieces of gear didnt have some annoying collar that sticks up