Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[Beki_Bayaqad]

Kind of makes me curious on how they'll handle ripping and re-rigging 2B's model, since it seems like they did so with noctis, though I know a friends said his looked sort of like an edited male miqo model.

Really? He looks like a Midlander to me.

[MrKimper]

Really? He looks like a Midlander to me.

He does but his running animation is def ripped from the game, down to the weird arm slouch, I don't THINK it's a custom mesh but my friend said his stance and shoulder with matched male miqo'te more than midlanders, but I wouldn't know, I don't mod. I still think it's just a straight rip like fran just scaled way waaay down, since he has the same animations just without the physics engine of XV to back them up.

[Beki_Bayaqad]

He does but his running animation is def ripped from the game, down to the weird arm slouch, I don't THINK it's a custom mesh but my friend said his stance and shoulder with matched male miqo'te more than midlanders, but I wouldn't know, I don't mod. I still think it's just a straight rip like fran just scaled way waaay down, since he has the same animations just without the physics engine of XV to back them up.

Not to mention that FFXIV still has PS3 limitations so there's also graphical reductions too (he is vastly less detained then in XV.)

[Kradus]

Not to mention that FFXIV still has PS3 limitations so there's also graphical reductions too (he is vastly less detained then in XV.)

PS3 support was ended with stormblood.

[Beki_Bayaqad]

PS3 support was ended with stormblood.

Yes but the upgrade to 64 will be with ShB, for now it's still a game limited to ps3 specs.

[Kelryth]

I can't wait but I doubt I'll be ready in time for 5.0. I've been doing the mor dona part of the main story line.





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[Anselmet]

Kind of makes me curious on how they'll handle ripping and re-rigging 2B's model, since it seems like they did so with noctis, though I know a friends said his looked sort of like an edited male miqo model.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought this. His cheeks also have a miqote roundness to them, if you ask me.

[Melichoir]

The probable case for how theyre handled is a mix of two things: Ripping the model and textures from the original content, but rebuild the skeleton using pre-existing skeletons in game.

From a pure time constraint point, pulling the models from other games seems to be a decent way to approach it IF the style is close enough. If the style is drastically different, then its guaranteed they reskinned something in game or made a whole new model from scratch thats in the same style as the game. From there, Id imagine theyd rebuild the rig or modify an existing one. I dont know or think you can import rigs from other games unless they share the same engine. As someone pointed out, they probably pulled Noctis's model and textures and dumbed it down to match FFXIV which works fine. They probably used pre-existing animations too (Actually I had the thought that some of Noctis's fighting might actually be some of GunBreaker animations. This close to the xpac, I doubt theyd reanimate very specific animations for this)

As for 2B, not sure if theyd import her cause while the styles are in the ballpark, the porportions arent. Her model would kinda stick out, IMO. For her, they might modify pre-existing models and make her. There are already assets in FFXIV that can be used across certain races (hairstyles, faces, etc) that could be used to closely resemble 2B without needing to rip her model from NA

[Lucorinth]

I will keep hoping for male viera in the game and enjoying the fanart people have made of them.

[Svaltus]

A key selling point whenever I consider playing any game, especially mmorpgs is the amount of customization. I have no interest in playing either of the new races, but gender locking anything in any game especially an mmorpg In 2019 just seems ridiculous. genderlocking seems like one step below hero based characters with minimal customization. bring on the male viera and female hrothgar!