Viera Updates

[ElazulHP]

Honestly, I wouldn't expect anything until either right before the next expansion or for the next expansion.

[wereotter]

Considering how many months we had to wait for the 5.3 patch.... and the fact that we aren't getting a Halloween event due to COVID... I'm pretty sure that extra features for specific races ended up being ranked pretty low on their list of things to complete. I'm going to say they likely did have good intentions of making these additions and adjustments to the race, but that the realities of the world they found themselves in meant things had to change and get delayed.

[znushu]

My only wish for Christmas this year is for Viera to get new hairstyles and be able to wear headgear.

[Hanayumi]

Very likely we wont see this till 6.0 expansion.

[Gojin]

theyre saving everything for expansion and use it as selling point to get people to re up.

[MsQi]

Didn't the hat with the new shop outfit work for viera?

I think everyone should be barefoot when they are barefoot.

[wereotter]

I think everyone should be barefoot when they are barefoot.

They've actually come out and explained why we aren't. Basically it came down to either your character will sink into the floor, visually, whenever you're wearing shoes, or your character will levitate when barefoot without the sandals because of where the character model is rendered in relation to the floor.

Honestly it's more coding that it would be worth to let people be literally barefoot since it would mean that not only would the game have to look for that if you have no foot gear on, but it would have to adjust that to make you not directly on the floor if you're wearing some of the ARR armor pieces where the leg and foot pieces are combined, and would have to lower your down to the ground whenever you have the emperor's new shoes glamored regardless of what you have equipped.

[MsQi]

They've actually come out and explained why we aren't. Basically it came down to either your character will sink into the floor, visually, whenever you're wearing shoes, or your character will levitate when barefoot without the sandals because of where the character model is rendered in relation to the floor.

That was an overly literal joke that people took as a real answer. If they just removed the sandal from the model without doing anything else the character would be floating. But that's not how things are done. The sandal is part of the default foot modal. All shoes are just replacement foot models which are all designed to reach to the floor when standing still. The apparent foot shape and leg length is changed constantly.

[Zol_blade]

Exactly this, and I don't like it.

[RyuDragnier]

Some of the new Bozjan gear works with both Viera and Hrothgar. Namely the Fending and Aiming sets, both of which have hoods. That's progress at least.