Letter from the Producer LXII

[Gula]

Looks fine to me. The major drawback with a community mod rather than something official from SE is that this only applies to certain character models. For instance, this mod wouldn't work on a Lalafell or a Roegadyn because their feet are shaped differently.

Still... better than nothing.

That is not a good defense when trying to sell something to people who play Lala and Roe, especially JP which has a very high concentration of lala players. As someone else stated, SE has standards, status quo and QA. Not to mention these mods are only for PC players, meaning console is entirely locked out. Better than nothing is literally nothing for a major percentile.

[ForteNightshade]

for modders better than nothing is good enough, for SE they have certain artistic standards, utility requirements, and QA.

When SE's artistic standards are "draw black lines on paddle feet because we can't be bothered to make actual toes." I'm going to call BS.

[Crowedclown]

So,getting Bunny ears you have already in the Golden Saucer on Humans make Helmets hard to remoddel? Same wit roes, you have the model already, you just added the Tekken 2 head on it. If it´s not in the Budget to just stick the ears on male Humans, i don´t wanna know how much is Copy Paste in Shadow Bringer.

[Alucard135]

So,getting Bunny ears you have already in the Golden Saucer on Humans make Helmets hard to remoddel? Same wit roes, you have the model already, you just added the Tekken 2 head on it. If it´s not in the Budget to just stick the ears on male Humans, i don´t wanna know how much is Copy Paste in Shadow Bringer.

You didn't bother to read about this, right?

[Callinon]

They can let us run barefeet i said before there are NPC that are like that, its rly just the "floating" and i wonder how much that actually is, like the shortest sandals are like 2cm max, i wonder if would even notice.

And what i dont get at all is, the game comes from the ppl that traditionally move without shoes inside their homes so its kinda rly weird...

Actually the tech to fix that is already in place. Currently in the game there exist foot gear that modifies the character's height. Not by much but modify it it does. So you just make that value negative. It adjusts the character model down the z-axis a few pixels and done, no floating.

That is not a good defense when trying to sell something to people who play Lala and Roe, especially JP which has a very high concentration of lala players. As someone else stated, SE has standards, status quo and QA. Not to mention these mods are only for PC players, meaning console is entirely locked out. Better than nothing is literally nothing for a major percentile.

I'm not defending anything or selling anything. I'm demonstrating that this can be done without causing the space-time continuum to collapse in on itself. SE just doesn't want to. There isn't a good reason for it, they just don't feel like it.

[Alucard135]

SE just doesn't want to. There isn't a good reason for it, they just don't feel like it.

That doesn't make sense. Just because you don't know the actual technical problem, you can't assume that they don't want to or feel like it.

[Callinon]

That doesn't make sense. Just because you don't know the actual technical problem, you can't assume that they don't want to or feel like it.

I could understand assuming there was a technical limitation here before we saw barefoot NPCs. There isn't.

Now I'll freely admit I don't know why SE doesn't just do it, but there certainly doesn't seem to be a good reason for it.

[Alucard135]

I could understand assuming there was a technical limitation here before we saw barefoot NPCs. There isn't.

Now I'll freely admit I don't know why SE doesn't just do it, but there certainly doesn't seem to be a good reason for it.

Which NPC was that? Would be interesting to check how they're modeled.

[ForteNightshade]

That doesn't make sense. Just because you don't know the actual technical problem, you can't assume that they don't want to or feel like it.

When it comes to barefeet, there is unlikely any technical issues they couldn't overcome. Why? Because the mod available now proves they wouldn't have to do any skeletal or rigging adjustments, which would be a significant task. They literally have to replace existing textures so the game loads them. It may not be an outright simple addition, but it wouldn't be a difficult one. Why I suspect they don't is they assume people care if we float even a little (very few do) and they don't want to dedicate any time to something they don't see as a big deal.

As for the NPC, I believe this was it. And no, this isn't modded.

[Alucard135]

When it comes to barefeet, there is unlikely any technical issues they couldn't overcome. Why? Because the mod available now proves they wouldn't have to do any skeletal or rigging adjustments, which would be a significant task. They literally have to replace existing textures so the game loads them. It may not be an outright simple addition, but it wouldn't be a difficult one. Why I suspect they don't is they assume people care if we float even a little (very few do) and they don't want to dedicate any time to something they don't see as a big deal.

As for the NPC, I believe this was it. And no, this isn't modded.

That NPC is swimming. If you look carefully at the foot, it's the same one with sandals but without them. So if the NPC was to stand on ground, you'd see them floating. This picture was on reddit about another NPC (probably during the moonfire event) And you can see it's the exact same foot shape and it's floating.



So the NPC we have ingame does not have a proper bare feet model.