I wish we could pick different animation sets for our characters

[EliTheGunbreaker]

The title says it all.

I play a female Midlander as a main, and I feel the female Midlander emotes really don't reflect the personality I have for her in mind well. If anything, I imagine her emoting more like an Elezen( male or female) or a Viera in my head.

And before I am told to buy a Fantasia( which I don't need because I still have my level 50 one) and become an Elezen or a Viera, consider this: we meet NPCs of different personalities regardless of race, and since one's body language depends on one's personality too, I find a hard time believing that the entire race would have one body language. Different people grow up in different circumstances, have different life experiences, develop different personalities, and, by extension, different body language. Not every female Midlander has to be a cutesy girly girl, not every male Elezen has to be a stiff and stoic man, and not every Miqo'te has to be an outgoing, emotional person.

I wish we could choose how the characters emote. Like, let the default animations set be tied to race, but then allow override items that will apply new animations to the character. These things can be on Mog Station or be found in the game or whatever. I feel like this would add a lot of diversity and personality to our characters.

I know I am probably asking for something impossible from a technical standpoint, and even if it is, the devs probably won't bother with that much work, but I guess if I never ask, I'll never know.

Anyway, what do you think of this idea? Would you like something like that? Or would you rather just Fantasia?

[Hazama999]

Personally, I'd prefer all animations be available to everyone regardless of gender or race.

[Fredco191]

Honestly. It’d be nice to have Hrothgar animations without actually playing one.

[ReiMakoto]

Personally, I'd prefer all animations be available to everyone regardless of gender or race.

This might be entirely the wrong place to ask you this, but in your signature it says "a mass pathology of information", but like what does that mean? Pathology is the study of diseases and such so are you talking about a disease of information? Or does it just sound cool or what.

[Hazama999]

This might be entirely the wrong place to ask you this, but in your signature it says "a mass pathology of information", but like what does that mean? Pathology is the study of diseases and such so are you talking about a disease of information? Or does it just sound cool or what.

It is a reference to Pathoma, a book covering the fundamentals of pathology written by Dr. Hussain Sattar. It's a book used by my school (and a bunch other medical schools throughout the US, I imagine) in the first 2 years in preparation for the first part of medical licensing exams.

The name itself is a pun of sorts. As a melanoma can be thought of as a mass of pigment-producing cells, a "pathoma" is a "mass of pathology." Yeah medical humor's not the best but we love it all the same.

[Mihana]

I doubt using emotes of the opposite gender will ever happen just for the headache it would give. Similarly trying to convert each and every emote to fit every race/gender might be too much of a task. However giving alternate animations for some emotes should be doable. Sit and Doze (When on a bed.) originally had a single pose each. Eventually more were added you could toggle through just like idle stances. Give it time and if there's enough of a demand we'll probably see it sooner or later.

[PyurBlue]

I'd like to see this as well. Personality/mannerisms are part of a character and they shouldn't be tied to other attributes.

I doubt using emotes of the opposite gender will ever happen just for the headache it would give. Similarly trying to convert each and every emote to fit every race/gender might be too much of a task. However giving alternate animations for some emotes should be doable.

Copying existing emotes is probably the easiest thing to do. All the races should have the same type of skeleton, they'll be different sizes, some different shapes, but they all move the same joints. If this wasn't the case it would make animations for job actions (skills, poses, etc) very difficult and time consuming to reproduce.

[Neve17]

YES! Being able to choose your animation set would be fantastic. Being able to create a custom set would be heavenly.

I've always wished I could swap one or two animations out for those of another race. I play a lalafel. I love how expressive her emotes are, and MOST of them I'd never change. But that /dance emote... *shudder* And her doze animation for beds makes me very uncomfortable. :/

I never considered a Fantasia for her until the Viera were added. I didn't think I'd like them... but the first time I saw a Viera player, I was struck by how strong and beautiful and just full of personality the character's expression was, no emotes required. Yet, when I made an alt Viera character to test them out, I found the emotes tremendously disappointing. All very similar and... flirty. ie. not to my tastes, and certainly not fitting with the personality of my adorable Teiran. (I *do* really like their /dance though.) If I could choose to replace a Viera's emotes with ones better fitting my character's personality, I'd be able to go through with using a Fantasia. But until the day the option to change emotes is added, I'm afraid I just can't bring myself to make the switch.

So for me... I love this suggestion. It really would make all the difference.

And along with my (probably too big lol) hope that we could mix and match emotes to make a custom set... I'd better add that I'd love to see such an option for voices, too!

Thanks for suggesting this, Eli. I know it would be a lot of work to remake the animations, but it would have such a huge impact that I think it's more than worthwhile. I fully support the idea!

[E4EO]

I agree, the female Midlander walk animation is ridiculous in my opinion, and what you mentioned about them being too cutesy is another issue I'm sure quite a few people take issue with, and this is only talking about F midlanders. Other people have other issues with their chosen races that the option to change animations could remedy.

For me, the male Au Ra walk is possibly the most ridiculous walk in the game, and even after playing as one for maybe 3/4 of a year now, I still haven't gotten fully used to it. Now I have no intention to change races, male Xaela are my favorite race to play as, but I just wish I could replace the absurd walk with another more normal one.

[Chie_M]

I'd love some of the male Miqo'te animations for my female Miqo'te. Her "personality" is more aligned with their animation set.