Hairstyles preview

[ViinaS]

Considering how many of the hairstyles we got are locked behind endgame (at that time) content and thereby only available via gil for many (Variant Dungeons, Chaotic Raid) or dependent on RNG (Treasure Maps), not to mention the ones in the store requiring acutal money, we really need a preview feature!

Yes, I can google stuff, but the images rarely show me what it would look like on my characters, with the faces, feature combo and glam I chose, nor how it looks with in game lighting. [...]

Sadly there's only one possible way and that requires... "Black Magic" from people on certain websites.
It's sad and embarrassing tho that those people are running laps around the Devs in so many ways.
They upscale outfits to HQ quality, fix rigging issues was before the Devs, fix the Viera and Hroth hat issue weeks after DT which the Devs are too dumb to do after almost 6 years and so on and so on.
The state of QoL fixes they do should be so embarrassing to any decent dev that they didnt implement those themselves.

[Asari5]

its 2025 and we still need a hairstyle preview.
and no some pictures in the internet dont do it. we need to see it on our own character. optimally with the possibility for a dye preview.

the Aesthetician should have a complete list with unobtained hairstyles to look at. including their name and how to get it.

also: we should also be able to look at them in character creation and when using fantasia (i assume thats the same?)


pls leave a like on the first post

[Asari5]

sooo.... how do we know an idea made its way to the devs? this isnt really a topic that allows for a lot of discussion neither is it very baity which reduces the number of posts heavily.
it has over a 100 likes, which of course isnt a lot for the internet but its not just a little here in the english forum.


a customable preview for hairstyles would be amazing.

[Loggos]

we need to see it on our own character. optimally with the possibility for a dye preview.

the Aesthetician should have a complete list with unobtained hairstyles to look at. including their name and how to get it.

also: we should also be able to look at them in character creation and when using fantasia (i assume thats the same?)

This honestly sounds like something that should be standard and it's crazy that this isn't a thing yet.

If a hairstyle costs X real life dollars or 8-10 million gil on the market board I want to know what it looks like beforehand. Otherwise it's an incredibly risky and expensive experiment.
Throwing real life money or several million gil in the bin for hair you'll end up never using because it looks terrible is something not every player can just do.

[Minali]

It would also be of advantage for SE because you can't miss what you don't know. If people scroll through their aesthetician list and see a bunch of hairstyles that look great on them, they might start farming stuff they usually wouldn't have farmed, thereby require a sub, or invest real money at the mogstation.
There are really no downsides to this aside from having to invest a little bit of time and effort to implement this.

[Sethsnake321]

I agree with this 100%, especially with Online Store exclusive hairstyles. I'd prefer to see what it would look like on my character before I buy it and realize I wasted 2 dollars.

[TBerry]

I agree with this.

[Underscore]

It would be nice, but unfortunately the developers are too busy working on cosmic exploration and another reskin of the same dungeon they've been making since Heavensward. Our only option is to use 3rd party plugins.

[Vintersol]

The Aesthetician should have a complete list with unobtained hairstyles to look at. including their name and how to get it.

That should be the No. 1 solution and it would be pretty much easy to implement.

[Asari5]

please someone tell us if this idea made its way to the team or whats missing for it to do so. its frustrating to only guess and hope.