Implementation of a "Tail Toggle"

[Felis]

This thread reminds me of something I noticed a while back.

There is no space in this skin-tight costume to hide the tail

It depends on normal clothing, for example usually it's only the skin tight stuff that doesn't clash, but when you have bulkier clothing, it tends to clip quite a bit.

Examples:

SE should add tail slits again to the gears, like they did during 1.x


(the right one)

[Vejjiegirl]

There is no space in this skin-tight costume to hide the tail

I'm not a Miq'ote, but I actually support the need for some detail to be done when making gear with your tails... @_@ (And any glamour in general)
I saw this in a live letter and thought it would help support your case as the tail is probably going to clip completely with the bunny tail like it does for most gears x_x;

[Alfinia]

SE should add tail slits again to the gears, like they did during 1.x


(the right one)

This... THIS !!!!! PLEASE ! I can't stand the tail clipping T_T (I know it won't happen but heh... sigh)

[Quoyan]

There is no space in this skin-tight costume to hide the tail


SE should add tail slits again to the gears, like they did during 1.x


(the right one)

tbh this is the only suggestion I can really get behind. Magically making the tail disappear is unrealistic as heck, unless docked tails suddenly become the fashion in Eorzea. Wrapping them around waists/legs/god-knows-where is anatomically invalid.

That said, Squeenix isn't gonna modify the vast majority of the gear in the game just for that. They might take more consideration of the tails in future gear pieces (thanks Au Ra) but odds are that the gear that already exists is staying as it is.
It's an MMO. All armour is not gonna look amazing on all races. There will be some clipping. It's a sad reality.

(But I still would really like to see tail slits oh man)

[Zanmato]

Something else I find dumb is that the tail color cannot be set separately from the hair color. That is nothing but dumb, and should be fixed as soon as possible.

[Tiggy]

The ghost outfit covers the tail completely and would leave it comfortably hanging beneath the robes. In the chocobo set pictured above you'd have to forcefully shove a tail with lots of bones in it into a confined space. It would be incredibly uncomfortable for the wearer and therefore completely unrealistic.

These are cats after all. You can't just shove the tail into a confined space. This wouldn't work.

They could make better outlets like better slits in the gear for the tail, but simply hiding it will not do.

Something else I find dumb is that the tail color cannot be set separately from the hair color. That is nothing but dumb, and should be fixed as soon as possible.

Seems quite reasonable. Most animals share a hair coloring/pattern on their whole body. Not just piece meal one hair color per body part. Seems based in reality and your "fix" is based in fantasy.

[SekhmetM]

Something else I find dumb is that the tail color cannot be set separately from the hair color. That is nothing but dumb, and should be fixed as soon as possible.

Erm....how is that dumb?

Umm... Yeah, I'm going to go with no.

Back when I was a miqo'te, I finally had to change my glamour because that looked so absolutely painful D: Whoever thought it'd be a good idea to have the tail sticking out four ilms to the left/right of the opening for it?



Edit:


Yeah >.< And especially the liontail-looking one. Even no individual settings for tail colour, how hard would it have been to code the "naked" part of the tail to conform to skincolour and the tuft to haircolour?

The tail isn't "naked", it's just short hair. Have you ever seen a lion or at least a photo? The tuft is a darker shade of the chosen hair color.

Tail hair is your natural hair color. Obviously it would be your head hair color. Having tail colored seperately from head hair is ugly and tacky. Square Enix is doing you a favor.

We're not lemurs, we're cats. We don't need tacky patterns on our tails to alert others of our presence.

[Zumi]

Technically you could dye the fur on your tail a different color then your hair, just like there are many unnatural hair colors you can pick. I think they went with tail color same as hair for simplicity sake.

[KaedrianLiang]

A tail toggle could be implemented...

It's already ingame, its called Fantasia you can grab one for 10 bucks. Bulk discount available.

[CrystalRainbow]

We can only hope that with 2 tailed races they look into this issue more closely.