Hair crisis! - Cowls and Headgear in 2.0

[Albela_Killingifritcom]

im surprised ffxiv have this worthlessness when not even ffxi had it.

[Fiosha_Maureiba]

On another note, cowls prevent you from using head slot materia, because they take up two equipment slots.

[Mychael]

Truth to be told this is likely a limitation due to this being an MMO. Rather than animate the entire hair imagine they deal with it as if it were a single... Block. Something which the hat sprites overwrite. Were this a single-player game they could probably deal with putting some more detailed animation on the hair to have each bunch of strands as a different active object and let the physics engine deal with the headgear, but an MMO kind of cannot handle that sort of stress, see wherever the previous comment about capes was.

A solution would make a different set of graphics for each combination of headgear/hairstyle... Which would probably take a halfway through forever to implement or, if not, a sizeable chunk of infinity in storage space.

In fact, they wouldn't really need to animate anything, at least beyond what they already have. An immobile tuft of hair would be better than the inexplicable baldness that accompanies most headgear. At least it would be an overcomplicated copy/edit, rather than creating from scratch.

[Griss]

One word. Clipping.

[Answa]

I'm pretty sure there's a dev quote on lowering your cowl and opening your helmet. I just will not be bothered to look for it.

[Babydoll]

Yeah it looks groce my character always look bald im like wtf :S

At the very least it could show our characters bangs or something...since I main healer im stuck wearing that fugly tunic with healing potency lol

[AmandaHuggenkiss]

On another note, cowls prevent you from using head slot materia, because they take up two equipment slots.

For this reason alone I will never use one.

I'm pretty sure there's a dev quote on lowering your cowl and opening your helmet. I just will not be bothered to look for it.

That was in reference to the AF gear.

[Deli]

weird
good thing galka doesn't have hair lose problem. I got all my hair with 3/4 crowns...

[Eruantien]

well hopefully in the you will be able to lower the hood, similar to the af gear they said in 2.0 you have the option of raising and lowering the whm af or the mask of the war.

[Rukkirii]

Hey everyone! We asked the dev. team about cowls and other head-wear hiding your gorgeous locks and they let us know that your hair will show with these types of equipment in version 2.0.