6.2 Hrothgar Update

[XiRon]

Hello there!


Hrothgar are descended from Roes. We re-use a lot of structures from them for different things. For example the muscle slider for them actually controls the length of our tails. We have a bestial jaw and “whisker” bones as well as 5 bones in our tails. All of this stuff’s gotta come from somewhere, and we can’t just “have more” or we’d become difficult for lower-end video cards and PS4s to render. There are some “kludges” that are done here and there to make us possible. One of which is that our ears are part of our ‘masks’ - this is part of why we can’t have hats, and part of why we don’t have ear wiggles like Miqos, and 100% of why ears are not a selectable item on character creation. Viera do not have this problem, you can see that partially because they have have selectable ears.

Adding more bones and details would also make characters more difficult to transport which is already hard. You can see this in that we get chocobo saddlebags rather than additional inventory slots.

So I will go ahead and say it - modders aren’t the answer. They can only do a few things:

1) They can replace a model with something else (and others cannot see it)
2) They can make the model more complex, see problems above.
3) They can take the time to do race-specific work which Square used to do in HW, but I believe will not because it’s in a design document somewhere. This involves a change to how the game makes some decisions, and I’d rather Square fixed it right than have a modder change my client.

I encourage you to take a look at the “Bad Haircut” thread where I go into this in more detail, or contact me at the Discord above or on my Twitter @kelevvidui - happy to discuss more.

Okay can you explain...better? the use of the word "can't" in can't have hats? Why? We get dinkyass visors and ocular impairment goggles but not something that sits on TOP of our heads? (Which would be more logical like why can hrothgar viera and miqo use glasses when their ears are on top of their heads????). It should really just be a metadata flag or even just resizing gear for hroth headshapes. We have a hat toggle for gods sake and I have no idea WHY hrothgar or viera have that button to begin with. It really cannot be that much of a tax on anyone, even lowgrade ps4s (like mine) to process hat on head technology.
I remember seeing someone claim our trash hair options HAD to remove our ears because our ears would cause the systems to break but how? Our ears are smaller than miqo or viera so just letting ears slip outta the Snow beanie (like haha viera or miqote ears do, yknow, gods golden races) cannot put that much strain on the game engine when god knows there are not nearly enough hroth players per world to cause such issues, not anymore than viera running around with their ears still attached with rainmaker hair.