Haircuts on Glamour Plates

[Hasrat]

Tbh, this feels a lot like expecting more out of the glamour plate system than it was designed for. Plates are just a fancy way of running macros to cast glamours, saving us the effort of doing so manually. Hair style is not something you can glamour, making it something the plate system likely isn't even capable of handling.

I understand that the way the devs have created the systems in this game may make it more complicated that we might think to put hairstyles on glamour plates, but I actually thought of a workaround they can use so they don't have to create any whole new systems to make it work:

Just make all the hairstyles you have unlocked purchasable from a special NPC as a "hat/helmet," for gil or MGP or whatever. Then you can choose the shaved head hairstyle at the barber and wear these "hat hairstyles" as gear items that can be added to your glamour dresser and included on glamour plates. Basically wigs.

This is very much creating a whole new system.

[BlackMetal]

This is very much creating a whole new system.

No it's not. What I'm suggesting would just be adding new gear, for the head slot. That's not the same as creating a whole new game system that would involve new UI elements and a way to partially access the character creation system through the glamour system. The latter would obviously be alot more complicated than adding some new "helmet" items (which would be made out of existing hair style models that are already in the game.)

[Rongway]

more than it was designed for

something the plate system likely isn't even capable of handling.

Every software feature is more than the system was designed for and something the system isn't capable of handling, until someone implements it.

This is very much creating a whole new system.

It's really not. What does wearing equipment mean to the game? When you get down to it it's just a list of IDs for models, textures, dye colors that need to be displayed on the screen. The glamour system is little more than a list of the same, intended to override the underlying gear for display. It would not be so different to tell either a Gear Set or a Glamour Plate to also store IDs for a hair model, texture, and dye colors.

The back end should be easy enough to implement. Where I expect it to go wrong is in the UI/UX of it, as SE is notoriously bad at that part.