Thread: Any chance for old character model upgrade in 6.0?

Originally Posted by Raikai

XIV's models kind of aged well so far, so the work on this wouldn't be as taxing, I suppose. There are a lot of things that could really use an update, like they finding a way for the models to be really barefoot, or upscaling the textures overall. They are really blurry on close inspection.

Hairstyles is something that XIV is definitely very well served, but the other options pale in comparison - every race could use a couple of extra faces, or new tail models, new face paint options (and option to stack more than 1). Au Ra horns being separated from face model, and new horns as well.

And the cherry on top of the cake would be the modern aesthetics hairstyles working on Viera!

If you can convince the entire community that they do not want another new race or new male/female versions of the two that we have got with no matches, then sure. If not I expect that they will spend their resources to just bring the oppositte sexes in, or a new very weird race where the male is 9ft big and the female looks like shed die if he hugged her at half strength.

Originally Posted by Granyala

I do not believe that an updated model would work as easily as it did in WoW.
The char model is part of every piece of gear. So they would have to re-do every piece of gear that shows skin, or the new models would be a mish mash or new and old depending on what you are wearing.

Given that 3D gear design has been their bottle neck for ages now, I do not believe that new models are a feasible undertaking.

Also, considering how the Re-make of the WoW chars turned out and that the new models soon became the only option...

I want to say: DO NOT TOUCH MY CAT.

They could update the low res texture work though. No need for visible squares when I zoom into a piece of gear in the year 2020.

Yeah, the title that I wrote seemed pointed to that, but I actually meant two things:

a) Upscale of the blurry textures
b) Added new features on top of the existing ones, like new faces, tails, horns, nose shapes, eyebrows, face paints, etc

I think there needs to be some obvious additions; better hairstyles- bc most are short, ugly cuts that look self done. Or, if they are long, they're incredibly lackluster & could use obvious improvements like "bangs"- not everything has to be about a giant forehead.
More long up-do's like Hilda & Lyse's ponytail. Better designed short hairstyles, not everything has to be an ugly spikey mess.

The textures to most of the races are really boring & often make them just like a blank mannequin- there's no natural flush, contour or blemishes that we can choose from. Elezen & Hyur could really use some love in that aspect.
I think Hyur's should be given half-elven options- like Hilda
Miqo'te should be able to choose between markings, rather than choosing a face because of markings
Au Ra should have interchanable horns, rather than choosing a face because of the horns. That way, there is more diversity
Viera should have more likeness to how they looked in FFXII- (Frans ponytail, Mjrns bob cut) better upright ears, spotting on their ears & they need more racial based shoes because Viera feet are meant to be abnormal & they walk on the tips of their feet.

Overall we should be given more make-up options (not just abunch of terrible face paint) & able to wear more than 1 make-up at a time
More make-up colouring that isn't so freaking saturated

Originally Posted by HeyMcFly

I think there needs to be some obvious additions; better hairstyles- bc most are short, ugly cuts that look self done. Or, if they are long, they're incredibly lackluster & could use obvious improvements like "bangs"- not everything has to be about a giant forehead.
More long up-do's like Hilda & Lyse's ponytail. Better designed short hairstyles, not everything has to be an ugly spikey mess.

The textures to most of the races are really boring & often make them just like a blank mannequin- there's no natural flush, contour or blemishes that we can choose from. Elezen & Hyur could really use some love in that aspect.
I think Hyur's should be given half-elven options- like Hilda
Miqo'te should be able to choose between markings, rather than choosing a face because of markings
Au Ra should have interchanable horns, rather than choosing a face because of the horns. That way, there is more diversity
Viera should have more likeness to how they looked in FFXII- (Frans ponytail, Mjrns bob cut) better upright ears, spotting on their ears & they need more racial based shoes because Viera feet are meant to be abnormal & they walk on the tips of their feet.

Overall we should be given more make-up options (not just abunch of terrible face paint) & able to wear more than 1 make-up at a time
More make-up colouring that isn't so freaking saturated

Oh, on behalf of hairstyles, I'd love more CURLY options. Or even short flapper style fingerwaves. Everything we get looks like coming right out of a straightener iron.

It would be lovely to stack face paints, more specifically begin able to create gradients with 2 different stacked eye shadows.

Some hairstyles have repeated versions just with different accessory color. It would be nice if they were all condensed in one and that accessory could be tinted in the hair color menu.

Lip color, on the other hand, isn't very saturated at all... It would be nice to have a few bright colors there, because everything looks either too dark or too washed out.