New hrothgar hairstyles are really bad.

[Skyborne]

Saw this posted as one of those expectations vs what we got things, made me chuckle (bitterly):

Gigachad Thundermane Lion-Man
vs.
The Virgin Lionboi

[Jason_Ashford]

Gigachad Thundermane Lion-Man
vs.
The Virgin Lionboi

the sad thing is that hairstyle actually would be too complicated to add without massive clipping issues. but it would look so damn cool

[Retrisar]

the sad thing is that hairstyle actually would be too complicated to add without massive clipping issues. but it would look so damn cool

Well it would give you a good reason to run without shirt .

[SeverianLyonesse]

the sad thing is that hairstyle actually would be too complicated to add without massive clipping issues. but it would look so damn cool

I feel like after they complete the first graphics update, one of the most important changes they could make to the longevity of the game is fixing hair/cape clipping on character models. That is something that will heavily date this game if it survives long enough.

Also, butt slider.

[ZaleGallant]

I wouldn't mind this so much if they hadn't removed the ears just so we'd get hairstyles to work. With hats being incompatible and now ears pose a problem. My expectations were low coming into this but I felt I needed to voice it.

It seems poor planning if Hroths weren't meant to take on new hairstyles, no? I'd rather they take their time to reevaluate Hroths altogether and just do it right. Overhaul the whole race's head/facial structure if they have to if it meant we got our hats/proper hairstyles with our ears working. I would not even mind waiting until 7.0's graphic overhaul to handle this if it meant we got a proper compatibility because I'd be concerned for female hroths coming over the horizon. They can do better than this.

[Vahlnir]

They can do better than this.

I have started to think otherwise.

[FoxyAreku]

I wouldn't mind this so much if they hadn't removed the ears just so we'd get hairstyles to work. With hats being incompatible and now ears pose a problem. My expectations were low coming into this but I felt I needed to voice it.

It seems poor planning if Hroths weren't meant to take on new hairstyles, no? I'd rather they take their time to reevaluate Hroths altogether and just do it right. Overhaul the whole race's head/facial structure if they have to if it meant we got our hats/proper hairstyles with our ears working. I would not even mind waiting until 7.0's graphic overhaul to handle this if it meant we got a proper compatibility because I'd be concerned for female hroths coming over the horizon. They can do better than this.

tbh they've had who knows how many years to get it right, counting the time before hrothgars were even implemented. I know game dev can take a long time but christ, they should have something way better to show by now, especially when modders have made things work in far less time and with no budget at all. I'm seriously so confused what the problem is, i'm not even an expert or anything, very limited animation experience, and even I know how to put a hat on a model and make it stick. Wonder if it's just over-fear of things clipping (even though every race deals with clipping already)?

[ZaleGallant]

tbh they've had who knows how many years to get it right, counting the time before hrothgars were even implemented. I know game dev can take a long time but christ, they should have something way better to show by now, especially when modders have made things work in far less time with and no budget at all. I'm seriously so confused what the problem is, i'm not even an expert or anything, very limited animation experience, and even I know how to put a hat on a model and make it stick. Wonder if it's just over-fear of things clipping (even though every race deals with clipping already)?

This is according to the translation (from what he spoke of on LL I'm assuming). I have zero knowledge on modeling myself, but it doesn't make any sense to me either. Hroths in Gangos have been shown to have hairstyles on faces that's impossible for us to select. I'll link the post for it: https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...-Hrothgar-Hair

So it's totally DOABLE to retrofit other hairstyles, and I fail to see the above reasoning for it on the new hairstyles.

[Gullis]

This is according to the translation (from what he spoke of on LL I'm assuming). I have zero knowledge on modeling myself, but it doesn't make any sense to me either. Hroths in Gangos have been shown to have hairstyles on faces that's impossible for us to select. I'll link the post for it: https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...-Hrothgar-Hair

So it's totally DOABLE to retrofit other hairstyles, and I fail to see the above reasoning for it on the new hairstyles.

"We have no choice but to do it this way" unlike the modders who are actually able make good hair options. Too bad.

Now I wont pretend i know anything about models and stuff, but it seems logical to me that if fans are able to do this in their spare time, the people hired to do this, should be able to do it too.

The whole "its impossible" argument they keep using just seems so wierd, when its clearly possible.

[Khurt]

Retrofitting other Hroth's faces hairstyles is totally doable, with some tools that aren't even mods you can easily try every Hroth exclusive hairstyle in every Hrothgar face.

They just don't fit well in some parts because every Hroth's face is uniquely sculpted, but with some quick tweaking you can get them well fitted for every face in so little time... also the head+ears and the hair are sculpted separately by default, so there shouldn't be any troubles making different hairs for Hroth or picking the existing ones and adapting them properly to their heads.

Hair and face are not melted together or anything, they're just lying and making stupid excuses hoping for us to shut up and accept the rubbish they came out with after 3 years waiting and having to pay a fantasia to change between 2 hairstyles, disgusting.