Separate Au Ra horns from Face

[Zebraoracle]

As someone who has to deal with locked bullcrap as a hrothgar, I support this 100%. The questionable design choices, whether intended or not due to coding or body framework limitations, are incredibly annoying.

[HeyMcFly]

People have wanted this for yeeeeeeeears. Speaking as someone who's currently happy with my horns and face, I agree with you OP. More customization options are a good thing. It would be nice to have this. There's no reason not to.
Now, because it's these forums, prepare for people who come in and tell you why you don't actually need this, or why they think it's ugly so nobody else should be allowed to have it, or why SE is simply too small and too indie to even consider it, or that there are other more pressing things for the team to deal with first (why can't they do both?). Bonus points when people who have as much knowledge about the game's programming as you or I come in to try and give a tech explanation of why some QoL feature is "not possible" only for it to get implemented a year later or something (looking at you, guy who told me overmelding couldn't be automated like it is today because of technical debt only for them to implement it; had enough of the LARPing-developer excuses tbh).

Anyway, bumping to show support even though you're literally better off screaming about this in the xiv discord or just @ing the company on twitter since nobody important checks this place.

You have an excellent point
I actually just did that- I tweeted at them lol
I did the same thing often about lyse's hair

Thank you so much for your insight & support<333

[VeyaAkemi]

While this is something I wholeheartedly support, I wonder how feasible it is, I wonder if the horns are baked onto the model in such a way that separating them would be too much... I mean we still have one and a half incomplete races in the game.

[Stormpeaks]

That's already an option: Hyur. You can just roleplay it's a hybrid!

I would love to agree, but I do care about the looks too, auras look absolutely amazing without horns and scales, there's a lot of nice gposes out there showing them

[Vahlnir]

While this is something I wholeheartedly support, I wonder how feasible it is, I wonder if the horns are baked onto the model in such a way that separating them would be too much... I mean we still have one and a half incomplete races in the game.

Considering they had to add a whole new face to just give male Midlanders a stubble instead of just giving them an extra facial hair option, I would imagine that they'd probably take a similar route. The entire character creator could use an overhaul at this point though.

[Jybril]

I want gradient horns too please. More CC is desperately needed.

[VeyaAkemi]

100% in support of being able to choose the specific horns we want. How this wasn't thought of during the race's creation back in Heavensward is a mystery to me. Tails should never have taken precedence over horn customization. I would have thought such things would be glaringly obvious.

The reason tails can be customized more than horns is likely because Au Ra are piggybacking off of the system that was already in place for Miqos, in fact I do believe Yugiri originally used a modified Miqo model initially because she was introduced before Au Ra were in the game, so it is probably less that they "take precedent", and more "it was easy to make this part work, the other part... not so much...".

[RukoBoshi]

The reason tails can be customized more than horns is likely because Au Ra are piggybacking off of the system that was already in place for Miqos, in fact I do believe Yugiri originally used a modified Miqo model initially because she was introduced before Au Ra were in the game, so it is probably less that they "take precedent", and more "it was easy to make this part work, the other part... not so much...".

All of this is so limiting. This character customization is way too dated. Between this and only having a handful of hairstyles added each year, they don't give us a lot of options.

At least they should also add new facial hair, make-up, tattoo or scars to give us more options.
This is really something that deserves an overhaul.

[Midareyukki]

Yes please, more variety isn't bad!

Considering they had to add a whole new face to just give male Midlanders a stubble instead of just giving them an extra facial hair option, I would imagine that they'd probably take a similar route. The entire character creator could use an overhaul at this point though.

Even if it weren't for that aspect, we do need an overhaul regardless :x

Because a lot of options we have are "unavailable" in other races (example: sliders) because they've been repurposed. So a fresh and more robust customization system that allows for more options can make stuff like this viable in the future.

[Iscah]

The reason tails can be customized more than horns is likely because Au Ra are piggybacking off of the system that was already in place for Miqos

I would speculate that it's not specifically because they're built off Miqo'te, but that "the thing the slider does" is more compatible with altering tail length (a simple stretching of the model in one direction) than the more complex resizing that would be needed for horns.