Barefoot

[Lexia]

Actually, there's a more fundamental reason for the sandals when barefooted. The shape of your foot. The default 'shoe' is done that way because the height of the character is based on the character's heels. This means that the character models are basically designed around always wearing shoes or boots, even when 'barefooted'. If they changed the mesh, your character would magically have heels which didn't touch the ground, or rather deformed feet to accommodate the heel position.

Already been stated couple times in some other threads also that people that really wanted a true barefoot option would take the trade off of "floating" above the ground in order to have that option available to them.

[AstralKaos]

Already been stated couple times in some other threads also that people that really wanted a true barefoot option would take the trade off of "floating" above the ground in order to have that option available to them.

No need for floating, there's ideas aplenty to make it work. In the numerous threads about this subject there's been a plethora of solutions to this illusional issue of heel and character height being "reason" enough for this not to happen.

The real kicker is a bunch of pervy people have already done this, using... methods; it's obviously a quickly done job, ehich makes the fact we can't all have it as an option even more of a shame - especially when a dev team can make it look better than a rando guy's work... if only they did it.

Anyway -- +1 to freeing us of the grafted on skin-sandals.

[Hen-Hen]

The real kicker is a bunch of pervy people have already done this, using... methods;

It wouldn't be that hard, I suspect, since certain characters have appeared barefoot and the model seems to be in the game already. It's just a question of making it available to everyone, and 3rd party software has proved it's doable.

[CienFleur]

ooooh Nice Feedback

Keep it up people !

I appreciate the positive responses

[Powe]

Already been stated couple times in some other threads also that people that really wanted a true barefoot option would take the trade off of "floating" above the ground in order to have that option available to them.

The excuss could be that our characters are to beautiful to touch the ground, especially Roes, Male Highlander's and Au Ra's

[SigmaOZ]

I wouldn't take that, way too cheap on their part!...

Please do a good job with the character models Square Enix, if adjusting the height if required then do so, it would be worse seeing floating people around!...

[Nirokun]

I wouldn't take that, way too cheap on their part!...

Please do a good job with the character models Square Enix, if adjusting the height if required then do so, it would be worse seeing floating people around!...

I honestly dont think floating around, at a height equal to the width of the sole of the imposed sandal, would be at all noticeable. I mean, we already float above many surfaces anyway if you take the time to look (very easy with stairs), and a lot of running is sliding on the ground.

[Derio]

Were people not wearing shoes in the swimming preview?

[Lexia]

Were people not wearing shoes in the swimming preview?

They were wearing footwear in the swimming preview but the thread is asking for SE to add a barefoot option.

[Shougun]

What if... we just made you shorter by the amount the heel of sandals made? Lower your booty into the ground a tad, maybe just a very slight float to keep your toes from sinking into the cobblestone too much - sort of a comprise from full float and not.

Of course the slider bar height you picked at creation wouldn't be the height anymore if that's how they calculated things but when you don't wear shoes in real life you also shrink.. so.. its not that magical to expect you'd be smaller xD

Perhaps combining that with a naked foot model working as a "shoe" to probably define the bottom of the foot we don't have defined since they've never needed to show it before.