A "hide tails" option for Miqo'te and Au'ra characters?

[Ramesses]

Why offer a hide tail option when people should fantasia into a better race.

*(Hardens his Au'Ra face into a draconian glare)*

I feel offended, my friend... "Better race"?

[CaptainLagbeard]

Capes on armors do make the tails quite clippy.

Ban capes.


But regardless of what happens, even if it is the most likely nothing, as long as it's not tail boners in the essence of Evenstar set, it will be fine.

[Sigma-Astra]

The tail should be hidden while wearing the chocobo suit. It looks ridiculous with it.

.....Well, the chocobo suit itself is already ridiculous, so.....I don't know what you're trying to get at here. I mean, if you're wearing it or the pig suit, ya already look ridiculous.

[Skivvy]

.....Well, the chocobo suit itself is already ridiculous, so.....I don't know what you're trying to get at here. I mean, if you're wearing it or the pig suit, ya already look ridiculous.

While the costumes are ridiculous (in a good way?) just because of what they are, the chocobo suit makes it look like you're taking a poo :X

Bonus side view!:



But then on the snowman suit & pig suit they do actually hide the tail:



Truth be told, I don't mind the tail clipping on most normal armor. Yes, I think it's horrible. Yes, I think SE is lazy as sin to allow for tails to be handled in that way, but the tails have never really stopped me from wearing a particular piece of armor (unlike hairstyle clipping which has most definitely prevented me from using a hairstyle or armor piece I want).

HOWEVER, the chocobo outfit is the one that really makes me ask WTH. The tails just look bad. They hide the tail in other costumes - why not this one?

[Sigma-Astra]

The pig suit actually makes it look like you have a butt too.

[Raskbuck]

.....Well, the chocobo suit itself is already ridiculous, so.....I don't know what you're trying to get at here. I mean, if you're wearing it or the pig suit, ya already look ridiculous.

The other suits already hide it, why not this one too?

[SenorPatty]

At the very least, SE should rework some gear to either fit tails or hide them, as Skivvy showed as an example.

As for an option to hide it, when recalling Yoshida's expressed views on how races should not lose their visual identities, something tells me he'd not be keen on implementing a feature like that.

[micropanther7]

While the costumes are ridiculous (in a good way?) just because of what they are, the chocobo suit makes it look like you're taking a poo :X

Bonus side view!:


HOWEVER, the chocobo outfit is the one that really makes me ask WTH. The tails just look bad. They hide the tail in other costumes - why not this one?

LOOOOOOL please forgive me, but that's first time I've seen that, genuinely laughed out loud for a good while...yeah that's not good, I went WTH as well come on Square really? XD Reminds me of that haircut with the buns on the side of the head.. you know which one I'm talking about

[Sigma-Astra]

The other suits already hide it, why not this one too?

I never knew about the other suits hiding it actually since I don't really wear those silly outfits. They're just too gaudy for my tastes, lol, sorry.

[L-Lihzeh]

I refuse to believe that a "hide this particular part of the character model" button would take up a lot of time or resources.

and you should not believe that lol
Hi I remember seeing this topic a few years ago, and now I find myself looking back at this and thinking why has square not done this ?
I have gone to and graduated college with a video game design degree (yeah that is a thing) and I can say I have worked with Unreal, Unity and PS4 dev kits (cant say the real software due to NDA, that was part of a class though)

I know square has options, one thing to do would be to add an opacity map to the shader settings. This can help with other clipping as well. (any one ever notice that the palm of the hand can clip with punching gloves ?)
I spent a lot of time figuring out my own clipping issues, I know its a pain but I got suggestions square !

I'm willing to bet the tail is separate from the main skeleton given micropanther7 and Skivvy's screen shots, if so then it would be verry simple for them to set a hide setting.
One guy could add a toggle to the options in less than a day (if it is separate from the skeleton)
given the total number of items it would take a few days for one guy, but one guy cold still updated each item to hide it the way the snowman suit does just by setting a bool
(to the from admins this is a call to action for Square lol)

for the guy who mentioned hair clipping I have suggestions for that to but its less universal so I need to see the the "Crystal Tools" game runs on to know what is doable lol
fingers crossed for some improvements when DT drops.

can't spell when waking up lol