VIERA AND HROTHGAR COMPLAINT MEGATHREAD

[Adamantini]

Even the foreheads on these viera models are normal sized, idk what went wrong when SE designed the Viera or if it's a bug with the way the new hair fits but I really hope they fix it.

it is very difficult to fix these hairs on the Vieras' head. I mean, look at the shape of the Vieras' head, it's so different from what we have today, so unique... It's not like modders can do it, it's that they must have a huge team to do it, and a lot of money left over.


yes, i'm being ironic

[RecoveryPotion]

Even the foreheads on these viera models are normal sized, idk what went wrong when SE designed the Viera or if it's a bug with the way the new hair fits but I really hope they fix it.

Viera be lookin like:

yes please fix giant forehead

[Skyborne]

yes please fix giant forehead

My enormous fivehead raises my intellect from 1 to an entire 2, please don't take this away from me.

[Pip_Chick]

QUESTIONS:#3

3rd question, yes those are pretty iconic as well as Kimahri's outfit. If they would add them it could be from an X crossover event (and if they do, they could add a "fake" horn or a "broken fake" horn respectively as a headpiece for the outfit)

4th question, I didn't play XII, don't know anything about Fran or Vieras in general, but if what your saying is true then it would have been better to give them the normal or even a more tweaked version of Fran's outfit (something to resemble it, but not straight up copy it), you could put it that we had the same base outfit as Fran when we were in the village but used slightly different materials then her when revamping our outfits after we left, they could make it look kind of the same, but with different textures and/or accessories.

Or a small idea that I had a while ago of races sporting different outfits based on the clans they are from. That might be a lot of work and unrealistic, but it would be a nice touch (In my opinion).

[Adamantini]

QUESTIONS:
#3
A question of 'do you agree, what do you think? While I don't know much about Hrothgars lore, I would have loved it if they could receive an outfit that we saw in X. The outfit is defining for the Ronso, and it would suit the Hrothgar in FFXIV, the colours are vibrant and it'd be a nice tribute to their ancestors/previous appearance.
#4
ld have preferred if Viera had armor that was worn by those who reside in Eruyt village, the picture below shows what I would have liked the Female Viera to have as their starter gear.

3- I'm neutral on this one. I don't like the armor we have, and I don't like this one very much either.

4- I'm also neutral. Particularly for me it wouldn't make much difference

[Adamantini]

Continuing my saga of ideas for Vieras helmets: Top hats!

Top hats would be hard to imagine, as letting the ears clip would look weird (only half the ear would show). And pretending they're inside the top hat would also be weird (because top hats aren't that big).

I saw a solution that I particularly thought was great: Put rabbit ears in the hat. I won't name names because I don't want the person to be harmed, but I must say that I just cut the top hat from a photo, the idea is not mine.




And again, the "bugs bunny" solution would work in this case too.

[Kelev]

The problem I think you're going to run in there - and I'm not in any way defending Square on this end - is that in order to do something like that, any kind of "ears glued to the headgear" solution, you have to keep 8 copies of the hat in addition to the ones you already have (one for each Viera ear style, one for each Hrothgar skull.) That's gonna get cumbersome, and you might get some pushback developer wise.

I do think the hat's totes adorbs though.

(Also in before anyone makes a magician putting a rabbit back into a hat joke.)

[HollowedDoll]

The problem I think you're going to run in there - and I'm not in any way defending Square on this end - is that in order to do something like that, any kind of "ears glued to the headgear" solution, you have to keep 8 copies of the hat in addition to the ones you already have (one for each Viera ear style, one for each Hrothgar skull.) That's gonna get cumbersome, and you might get some pushback developer wise.

I do think the hat's totes adorbs though.

(Also in before anyone makes a magician putting a rabbit back into a hat joke.)

In the case of Viera ears they could just do what they did with hair, add a deformation to all ears and a flag on hats that would activate said deformation for the bugs bunny method, the other one looks very weird to me.. A bit unsure about the Hrothgar skulls, but didn't they change it so now they're all pretty similar?

[Kelev]

In the case of Viera ears they could just do what they did with hair, add a deformation to all ears and a flag on hats that would activate said deformation for the bugs bunny method, the other one looks very weird to me.. A bit unsure about the Hrothgar skulls, but didn't they change it so now they're all pretty similar?

I'd... ...rather not go into it. At some point, I might run out of the pills.

[Adamantini]

In the case of Viera ears they could just do what they did with hair, add a deformation to all ears and a flag on hats that would activate said deformation for the bugs bunny method, the other one looks very weird to me.. A bit unsure about the Hrothgar skulls, but didn't they change it so now they're all pretty similar?

I agree that a lot of people wouldn't like the method of putting ears on the hat (a pity, because I really liked the idea).

So I believe the "bugs bunny" method would be the most effective. As you said, just put a "deformation" like they do with hair, and that would solve the problem of most helmets. Apart from that it would be faster to make 4 models of ears, than to arrange all the helmets (excellent solution for the lazy SE)

The problem with the "bugs bunny" method is that it leaves the only visible feature of the race (ears) hidden. Okay, it would still have the characteristic nose, but from a distance, a viera would look like a hyur, or elezen.


I know they changed the hrothgar skull, but unsure if they're all the same now