Missing Genders: A request for Male Miqote, Female Highlander, and Female Roegadyn

[gifthorse]

They have an entire team dedicated to Characters if you are to believe Yoshida's most recent Letter. Which I do.

Still, SE has to probably remodel all the existing gear sets as well as create the models and animate them (hopefully not from scratch), so it could be a massive undertaking. And given that the team devoted to making it could instead be working on modeling new gear as well as new monster models or hairstyles, etc, then it serves to suggest that having the team work to create the missing genders comes at a cost to development of the rest of the game.

My point being that, despite having every intention of implementing the missing races, they might have to drop them (or at least some of them) in favour of other features.

[Cairdeas]

I'd suggest you go watch the "Making Of" video they have for XIV about equipment.

They make 1 Armor, fit it to the body then use "Alpha Shaving" to make it look different. 1 In Game model ends up being used like a dozen times with slight variations and different textures.


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[gifthorse]

I'd suggest you go watch the "Making Of" video they have for XIV about equipment.

They make 1 Armor, fit it to the body then use "Alpha Shaving" to make it look different. 1 In Game model ends up being used like a dozen times with slight variations and different textures.

I had that video in mind while I was replying and therefore said "hopefully not from scratch" because I envisioned them tweaking the armours using their engine the way that video showed. The fact remains that they still have to fit all the gear though, as well as create oh so many models (for the actual races). It's probably easier said than done.

I'm not trying to dash your dreams or anything, I'm just saying, they might have better things to do.

[Xmbei]

Still, SE has to probably remodel all the existing gear sets as well as create the models and animate them (hopefully not from scratch), so it could be a massive undertaking. And given that the team devoted to making it could instead be working on modeling new gear as well as new monster models or hairstyles, etc, then it serves to suggest that having the team work to create the missing genders comes at a cost to development of the rest of the game.

My point being that, despite having every intention of implementing the missing races, they might have to drop them (or at least some of them) in favour of other features.

from this statement I don't think you saw the development system they use for character creation now.... its not like XI where they actually had to make individual armors for every individual body type and race.... in there new development system it showed in the video it took them seconds to change a clothing to fit another model.

also what mid said.