Viera and Hrothgar Megathread

[LuluLavender]

Whatever it is, it's not just the visual shape of the head, so I assume there's some kind of behind-the-scenes trickery involved to make it work that somehow makes hairstyles hard to implement.

It's clearly not about avoiding clipping and I don't know why they'd drag their feet on it if they could simply add the older hairstyles and make everyone happy.

As far as I am concerned, SE are completely obsessed with clipping. In a very weird way too, they seem to be really over the top about it in some ways, and then really lax about it in other ways. I really do believe the issues come down to clipping but the biggest issue is down to the distribution of resources, that we're not seeing any headway on this issue. They focus on things like making male viera which brings in new players, increasing the playerbase, and that's good for buisness. New features are good for buisness. Race hairstyles is primarily a concern of long term players, and fixing it is not really seen as important I believe, at least judging by the response. Which is why I stated I don't feel like they'll ever fix it. At the end of the day, they are a buisness here to make money, and they'll keep the resources on developing parts of the game that draw players in. Of course, there's also less resources available as a whole because of covid, and I acknowledge that may well have an effect.

I do have some experience with playing around with 3D modeling and assets, and I am by no means an expert in any way, but I really don't see what "behind-the-scenes" trickery could be at play. They're simple models and assets really. Happy to be proven otherwise.