MEGATHREAD: Requested Hairstyles & Facial Hair

[Allegor]

Not to stir the pot but does it not feel a little... odd, that over 30 of the entries are JP? I doubt NA and EU had that few entries for such a disproportionate outcome.

[Raikai]

Also one of the hairs has a modded screen shot in it lol

That looks like painted on top of a screenshot. The work is really well made, it looks convincing if you don't zoom in.

[Tsiron]

What, you thought their disregard for the non-JP community was limited only to the forums? :P

(I'm joking, though at the same time it wouldn't surprise me THAT much...)

[OgruMogru]

Maybe there were more JP entries that used the template as opposed to redrawing the whole thing? I know there was some confusion as to whether the template should be used or was just a reference but perhaps that wasn't as unclear in JP?

[Caro178]

Not to stir the pot but does it not feel a little... odd, that over 30 of the entries are JP? I doubt NA and EU had that few entries for such a disproportionate outcome.

I suspect this has a lot to do with the fact that many of the submissions I'm seeing from NA remade the entire template when they were not supposed to do that. Perhaps it was not clear in the NA guidelines because every single winner used the original template without altering it significantly or at all.

[Cpt_Jack_Irons]

i looked at the contest winners

and almost all of them are short hairstyles...

can we please for the love of Hydaelyn get more long hairstyles in this game?

[Caro178]

i looked at the contest winners

and almost all of them are short hairstyles...

can we please for the love of Hydaelyn get more long hairstyles in this game?

It's almost like they picked short to medium length hairstyles on purpose because they know full well the type of styles they can realistically implement into the game. This is such a "take a hint" moment from SE, imo. And I understand being disappointed, but they seem well aware of their limitations when it comes to this subject because we end up with with the same result every single time. For whatever reason they cannot or will not implement styles longer than Great Lengths for player characters, be it because of clipping or because of hair weights.

[Cpt_Jack_Irons]

It's almost like they picked short to medium length hairstyles on purpose because they know full well the type of styles they can realistically implement into the game. This is such a "take a hint" moment from SE, imo. And I understand being disappointed, but they seem well aware of their limitations when it comes to this subject because we end up with with the same result every single time. For whatever reason they cannot or will not implement styles longer than Great Lengths for player characters, be it because of clipping or because of hair weights.

then they should do something to fix the clipping issues if its the main problem that prevents longer hairstyles from being added at all, its starting to get stale as they keep adding short hairstyles

[CidHeiral]

Is it just me or do some of the winners look dangerously close to hairs already within the game but with a small alteration?

Pretty much. It's also surprising how many winners they chose that look like near duplicates of other winners. Almost all the male winners look like slight variations on the same KPOP haircut and many female winners are very close in design to other winners or existing hairstyles.

You've got straight shoulder length hair and the same hair but shorter.




Two different winners where the only major difference is the bun/braid. The front also looks very similar to several ponytail hairstyles already in the game.




Another two that are practically identical.




This one is very close to a default female Midlander hairstyle.




This is just Y'sthola's hair.




And so on.

I appreciate the work of the artists and I'm happy for those who see hairstyles they love but personally I was thoroughly unimpressed with their selection of winners. I would have liked SE to choose more hairstyles that are decidedly different from options we currently have and each other. I hope people get the ones they want from this list but hopefully this isn't the only place SE is pulling hairstyles from for the next few years or that will be a very boring time for hair, in my opinion.

[Tsiron]

Could be less about the individual designs as much as the devs were narrowing down the kinds of hairstyles people wanted? Though I'm not sure why they'd then pick those as the winners, rather than keep that data to themselves...