Quote Originally Posted by grinkdaboy View Post
for some completely and utterly bizarre reason they decided to go with customizable limbal eye rings for au ra instead of not having horns attached to the face. boggles the mind as to why a completely and utterly worthless and unnoticeable feature was selected and not horns
Because they're working from a template, basically. Each race gets the same kinds of settings, even if they control different things.

Limbal rings are controlled by the same setting that other races use for racial tattoos (and Wildwood Elezen's built-in earrings). There are two on/off switches and a linked colour palette.

I don't think that setting ever could have been used to control horn shape, unless perhaps they were more like branching antlers and you could turn sections of them on or off - but they probably still would have to be linked to the face design and not interchangeable.

If any of the current settings could have been replaced with a choice of horn shapes, I think it would have to be the tail shape selection, but that seems to be linked to the tail length slider and there's a pattern of similar linked settings on other races. (Miqo'te and Hrothgar have a choice of tail shape and a length slider, Elezen and Lalafell (and Viera?) have ear shapes and ear length.)

So it's possible that they couldn't have horn shape as a choice without also making the slider control horn length - and that might warp the horns in strange ways since the ears/tails it normally controls just get stretched out.



Personally, as much as it would be nice to have a choice of horns for my Au Ra alt, I also appreciate having that choice of tail length and shape - I only really like the spiked tail design that doesn't seem to get used much, and at maximum length. I didn't like the horns that were attached to the face I wanted for him, but I got used to it and now it'd be odd for him to have something else.

I also don't think the limbal rings are "unnoticeable" at all - they can be very visible and striking, especially on male Xaela's dark eyes.