Gender Locked Items (Lightning Edition)

[Shioban]

Just like you can get SOLIDER outfit, for Lighting in LR....you should be able to use Lighting gear, on male chars, and Snow gear, on females...
And you should be able to buy both, at the same NPC, as is selling weps, so you can buy the other set.

I agree on separating the genders, fitting the female/male clothing for the opposite genders would be a tad difficult, but having it so that you can't OBTAIN both genders is pointless, especially when you're offering a service where you can change race/gender at any given moment.

They did it for the summer event, they should have done it for this too.

[Naunet]

fitting the female/male clothing for the opposite genders would be a tad difficult

Not really. Snow's outfit could just be as-is with no adjustments at all, and they could just change Lightning's skirt to shorts. Or, y'know, do something really progressive and let guys wear a skirt!

Hate gender-locked things. Anti would look adorable in the coat and pants.

[Shioban]

Not really. Snow's outfit could just be as-is with no adjustments at all, and they could just change Lightning's skirt to shorts. Or, y'know, do something really progressive and let guys wear a skirt!

Hate gender-locked things. Anti would look adorable in the coat and pants.

I'm afraid it's not that easy, due to body shapes, where women have more curves and men are more angular. It would look incredibly silly without these adjustments (both ways)
You may not have noticed, but lightning has breasts and her guardian corps top would need adjusted to remove them. (Which isn't as easy as 'flattening a few polygons') it'd be a huge waste of time;

It is completely possible but these are the assets taken DIRECTLY from Final Fantasy XIII's asset pool, re-sized to fit Hyur>Elezen etc. The base model design has not been changed. To add/remove breasts and heavily adjust the curvature of the clothing would mean having to re-do;
•The original hi-poly model
•UV Mapping the model
•Retopologising it into a lower poly model
•Readjusting the UV Mapping on the model
•Reapply and adjust the bump and specular maps
•Redo the diffuse texture
•Rebaking the maps onto the model
•Re-rigging, skinning and weighting the model
•Making adjustments for texture compression and memory impact
•Finalising the graphics for errors/deformities.
•Applying it to the game

So no, it isn't 'easy'.

Here's what I mean about body shapes;

[Naunet]

I'm afraid it's not that easy, due to body shapes, where women have more curves and men are more angular. It would look incredibly silly without these adjustments (both ways)
You may not have noticed, but lightning has breasts and her guardian corps top would need adjusted to remove them. (Which isn't as easy as 'flattening a few polygons') it'd be a huge waste of time;

I assumed you were talking about artistic adjustments, but... uhm, thanks for the lecture, I guess? I disagree that it would be a waste of time, though.

[Shioban]

I assumed you were talking about artistic adjustments, but... uhm, thanks for the lecture, I guess? I disagree that it would be a waste of time, though.

It'd be a waste of time for both development teams, if you knew the amount of time it would take to make these adjustments, just for the sake of FFXIV's one-time e-peen vanity event.

But /opinions/.

It wasn't meant to be a lecture, more an insight into the fact that it's not as simple as 'BOOBICUS-DISSAPEARICUS' here we go, now Lightnings body can fit on male characters.