Future Character Creation Idea, Animation Swapping

[Ayalu]

I mean they still would need to redo all animation with the skeleton of each race and gender.
Its not like its no work at all.

A animations adjustments menu would be cool but i am more for new ones ala ESO personality then yoiking them from the other races.

[CaptainLagbeard]

It wouldn't be entirely as simple as just copy pasting the animations, as you do have slightly different body proportions and things like tails and Miqo'te ears (which do move on Emotes, mostly older ones)...

[Tsiron]

It's the same skeleton that the races' various proportions are applied to separately. There's no reason I can think of that they would need to add anything from scratch (aside from tail movement)

[Tsiron]

Would that be a problem?

[Ayalu]

Would that be a problem?

That depends on who you ask.
I personaly would say yes but that also the case because FF14 doesnt play with Race or Class identiy much.

[Pepperblue]

I feel like every Hrothgar in existence would immediately change to Roe's animations

[Tsiron]

Well, we did recently have Zero who, despite being a female Hyur, used male animations. Sure would be nice if we could, too...

[Rueby]

Honestly, it'd be nice...
It'd also make me give Elezen a chance if I can switch their...run animation.
I'd love to get my AuRa jump on my miqo'te...or get the male miqo squat on my female miqo...

I think it'd add alot more customization and I'm here for it...

[Connor]

Wouldn’t it be extortionately expensive to have to redo every movement animation for every single existing race? I imagine they’d need to readjust every animations to make sure they still worked on other races (i.e Roegadyn with Lalafell movement lol).

[Tsiron]

It's not like they'd be redoing them from scratch, no. Unlockable emotes are the same across all races, so clearly they're already set up to share animations