Viera Updates

[MsQi]

Didn't the hat with the new shop outfit work for viera?

I think everyone should be barefoot when they are barefoot.

[wereotter]

I think everyone should be barefoot when they are barefoot.

They've actually come out and explained why we aren't. Basically it came down to either your character will sink into the floor, visually, whenever you're wearing shoes, or your character will levitate when barefoot without the sandals because of where the character model is rendered in relation to the floor.

Honestly it's more coding that it would be worth to let people be literally barefoot since it would mean that not only would the game have to look for that if you have no foot gear on, but it would have to adjust that to make you not directly on the floor if you're wearing some of the ARR armor pieces where the leg and foot pieces are combined, and would have to lower your down to the ground whenever you have the emperor's new shoes glamored regardless of what you have equipped.

[MsQi]

They've actually come out and explained why we aren't. Basically it came down to either your character will sink into the floor, visually, whenever you're wearing shoes, or your character will levitate when barefoot without the sandals because of where the character model is rendered in relation to the floor.

That was an overly literal joke that people took as a real answer. If they just removed the sandal from the model without doing anything else the character would be floating. But that's not how things are done. The sandal is part of the default foot modal. All shoes are just replacement foot models which are all designed to reach to the floor when standing still. The apparent foot shape and leg length is changed constantly.

[Zol_blade]

Exactly this, and I don't like it.