A Respectful Request For Improved Cloth & Hair Physics

[Jeeqbit]

SE generally don't do surprises very much. If you go back in time you find they at least hinted something in interviews or live letters a few times prior to it happening.

The only genuine surprise recently was probably the Fall Guys collaboration, which of course was mentioned in multiple live letters, but it was not predicted prior to that. But that is common with unusual crossovers.

They also did a whole segment of a fan fest showing the technical side of what they have been doing and it did not include this. It was all about improving the shaders, textures, their depth, their polygons (in new areas) and increasing the scale of everything to 1080p so that it can make use of up to a 2060 GPU's graphics, all of which means adding more lights, longer distance shadows and objects such as boxes as well as more realistic looking cloth, metal and fog.

Animations have not really seemed to be talked about much, although we do have animations on gear such as them blowing when it's windy. That fact alone could mean it's possible with hair, but they have a problem which is that in some cases, 100 players can be together in an area and that is why players have far less detail than everything else.

[Iscah]

Animations have not really seemed to be talked about much, although we do have animations on gear such as them blowing when it's windy. That fact alone could mean it's possible with hair...

Hair already animates in the wind. Not so obvious on a short-haired character, but longer parts will move in the wind.

We don't have the physics for it to drape over clothing, though. And as you say, it becomes more of a problem the more people are in a place together, which is probably why some NPCs can have extra-long hair (because there will only ever be one of them at a time) but they won't give it to players.

[AurisNix]

When they first announced the graphic update they already made it very clear that they won't and probably never fix the clipping physics, this was asked very frequently due capes and some clothing clipping when mounted, they are aware of it but they can't do much about it, was in the Digital Fan Fest if I remember correctly when they announced EW