What do would you like to see added to the character creator?

[Pomelo]

Body Hair, Body Tatoos, More Haircuts, Muscle Sliders for more races.

Customizable emote sets?

I'd love my fem roe to have fem miqo /pose for example >.<

[KisaiTenshi]

I only have one thing to ask.

WHERE THE BLOODY 'ELL ARE MY DRILL CURLS SE?!

Yes Please.

1. You're definitely not wrong it's not that major with an except of the Au Ra, but it is a notable enough difference. I'm not going to lie, I made that point with the Au Ra specifically in mind (Honestly this thread was originally going to be just about them), but I got to thinking, "There was a girl a while back that wanted to be as tall as her husband when they're both Miqo'te, so I should probably list is under the "All race" idea. I mean, plus it's still noticable to the point where things can get a little annoying if you want to be a girl and also be as tall as the guys of the same race. It works in the inverse as well, Perhaps you're a guy Roegadyn and want to be as short as the girl, well they're still a 9 inch difference, which is pretty noticeable! One particular issue I have with the "Age-slider" concept is it's ultimately limiting, say someone wants to be big and tall and have a baby face, for humor or whatever reason, well it's come into conflict a good bit with the age-slider controlling too much like say the face and height. It'd be better to just have the height slider imho, it adds more options without limiting them as well.

The reason I phrased it the way I did earlier was because "youthful" characters tend to be around the same height, and so are elderly. The intent was to change the extents of the height slider by that factor. After playing Aion, I do really think it can become ridiculous. Customization is great until you have people making purposely awful choices.

2. Oh of course clipping is a concern, but so many things already clip in the game (Hint never wear robes in a windy area if it bugs you), the addition of a few more things wouldn't hurt honestly, especially if it opens the door for more customization options.

I mean, would a short tail option really interfere with the animations that much?

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I'm a little curious with regards to the gear from 1.0 being worn by the Au Ra, does it lack a butt or not?

The way the game is designed, is that the tail is "glued on" part of the base model. But the "alligator tail" on the Auri just looks absolutely awful, being the only tail that doesn't have the same shape as the Miqo'te. Like seriously who designed this and went "oh we can just leave this bizarre curved gap between the butt and the tail.

Hence why this thread will devolve into a Miqo'te and Auri butt argument. Which the developer at some point earlier in the forum (October 2013, so launch time) did say why they did this:

Hello,
Lead designer Takeo Suzuki here.

We understand that you all care deeply for the detail and shape of your characters, and while the development team is really happy about this, we would like to keep the specifications for character’s butts as they are.

I’d like to explain a bit about why we changed the shape of character model’s butts. It all began when Yoshi-P and the character team sat down and reconsidered what should be prioritized for players when we moved from 1.0 to A Realm Reborn.

Based on this discussion it was decided to place emphasis on the below:
• New races (male Miqo’te, female Highlanders, and female Roegadyn.)
• Increase the amount of content and the amount of reward items (equipment and weapons)
(We want to make a team that can create more than four times the amount of rewards compared to what there was originally.)

As a result of thinking about what could be done to fulfill the above objectives all while converting everything over and optimizing all the data by completely remaking the graphics engine, we decided to reduce the cost by simplifying items that were too complex when making them. One aspect of this was the graphical display of waist equipment.

I deeply apologize for those of you who were really partial to what Miqo’tes looked like in 1.0, but this decision was made so we could relaunch with new races and a lot of new equipment. We will be implementing a wide variety of really cool looking equipment moving forward, and we appreciate your understanding on this.

[ScarecrowJames]

More hairstyles and facial features and a butt slider and a larger bust slider. Finger/toe nail paint options. Obesity option would be nice to with some neckbeard slider action also.

[Talia_Hailwind]

Actual blue hair for Elezen and au ra.

And for twelves sake some waist, hip and butt sliders so the female races actually look female.
Seriously some of their concept art is just misleading.


This ^ does not equal this:


Its like sqaure is in denial about what their female models actually look like.


If the reason was to add more armor and items, I'd rather have less items than have my avatar defaced.

[Terrini]

Continuing on my rants about equal customization options I've been crunching numbers and the Tails for Au Ra and Miqo'te are left as bonus (after taking some other options and making them universal and adjusting them) as well as Limbal Rings, unless we also make those universal. But to illustrate, here is the current list of universal options :
height; Skin Color ; Hairstyle ; Hair Color ; Face ; Jaw ; Eye Shape ; Iris Size ; Eye Color ; Eyebrows ; Nose ; Mouth ; Lip Color ; Facial Features ; Face Paint ; Face Paint Color ; Voice - a total of 17 items.

The NON-UNIVERSAL options (and their equivalents) are:
bust Size (no equivalent)
Tail/Ear Shape/Length and Muscle Tone
Ear Clasps/Color and Limbal Rings/Color and Tattoos/Color

I would propose giving males a FACIAL HAIR option to counteract the Bust Size and the hairy facial Features given it's own section with more hair options and perhaps give more face options in facial Features (like scars, turning some Miqo'te face marks on and off, hairy Eyebrows ect)

Ear Clasps and Color on Miqo'te can be changed to Ear Type and color, giving more ear options to Miqo'te including the Clasps and the option to change their color. Hyur and Roegadyn would get some new ear options and a Slider to adjust the size of them. And add Horn Shape and Horn Size options Making ear options universal.

Tattoos will be given all the face Paint options as well as the tattoo options on all races, then we can have 2 face paints on at once.

All races are given a muscle tone Slider.

But how to balance Tails?

[Xolotl]

I don't think it's possible to " balance " every race to make sure they all have the same amount of options. Why don't you just think of things you want to see added regardless of who gets what ? Even If we're trying to find a " balance " somewhere, SE will make his own balancing job. So you should just focus on the things you want to see implemented and suggest.

At least this is how I see it.

[Terrini]

However, SE has said that part of the reason they aren't adding more options is because the existing options are equivalent to other options on other races. So I'm doing this because THEY have stated it's the reason they are not doing this.

[ScarecrowJames]

However, SE has said that part of the reason they aren't adding more options is because the existing options are equivalent to other options on other races. So I'm doing this because THEY have stated it's the reason they are not doing this.

If this was ff13-2 or lightning returns they'd have no trouble giving us more options for our sushi.

[Jin-]

- More faces / Sliders
- Weight slider (minimal)

[Averax]

What do you mean by different default poses but not cposes?

And Seida, would you mind posting an example? I'm a little curious on what you mean, because it sounds like maybe the skintone is causing that issue?

You know how you can do /cpose but that does not make it default? In every cutscene, you are the default pose, no matter how much you hate it.

I also want new ones to add onto what we have.