Support for NPC Hairstyles, Character Creator Focus

[CrayonsAndPaint]

I don’t want to discourage you but this has been asked for, for years now. And to this day, they still choose to not add these hairstyles and probably never will. These types of things just don’t reach Square Enix unless it has 900+ upvotes like the Male Viera thread.

Source: I supported threads like this back in 2017/2018 and still nothing.

[SherlottaEryut]

+1
People have been asking for these hairstyles for years... Yoshi (allegedly, based on what I heard) said he would implement them if there were a high demand, and there is. I'm not sure what's taking them so long, it's making me wonder if SE are severely understaffed. They would make so much money if they made these mogstation hairstyles, it just feels like bringing in new items/hairstyles are just too slow.

[anhaato]

+1
People have been asking for these hairstyles for years... Yoshi (allegedly, based on what I heard) said he would implement them if there were a high demand, and there is. I'm not sure what's taking them so long, it's making me wonder if SE are severely understaffed. They would make so much money if they made these mogstation hairstyles, it just feels like bringing in new items/hairstyles are just too slow.

Don't say that cursed word, we need more demand for customization options that aren't paywalled. Mogstation would be a horrific copout.

[SherlottaEryut]

Don't say that cursed word, we need more demand for customization options that aren't paywalled. Mogstation would be a horrific copout.

I figured it’s normal to release NPC hairstyles on the mogstation, no? I can’t see SE making these an exception

[Lexi_Krallphekter]

Imagine if SE is in secret just created dozens of new hairstyles already but waiting for an unknown reasons to put in all in the game?
including Lyse hairstyle <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

[Haruka_R]

I figured it’s normal to release NPC hairstyles on the mogstation, no? I can’t see SE making these an exception

Some NPC hairstyles do end up on the Mogstation, and some don't. But like, it's weird. Minfilia's, Thancred's, Y'shtola's are available but not Lyse's? Aymeric's available and unisex, but not Thancred's for the latter? Alphinaud's available and unisex, but not Ryne's? It's weird.

[SherlottaEryut]

Some NPC hairstyles do end up on the Mogstation, and some don't. But like, it's weird. Minfilia's, Thancred's, Y'shtola's are available but not Lyse's? Aymeric's available and unisex, but not Thancred's for the latter? Alphinaud's available and unisex, but not Ryne's? It's weird.

I feel like @Isach could explain potential factors why these hairstyles could be difficult to implement.

My personal guess on Lyse's hair is; they're struggling to animate the hair when our characters run? Because her hair is so overly thick and very layered, it probably looks strange when it's going side to side?

[LianaThorne]

Issue probably lies in the weights or clipping. Even with modded hair, you get a lot of instances where long hair just clips into your gear and when you run it swings side to side in a really unattractive manner. It's not super natural at all. I would think they might have to adjust how they make hair in general which could be holding them back, especially since people tend to scream about anything taking time away from content development.

[Starshower]

I really want more hair for my viera... specially hythlodaeu's hairstyle! I hope that going forwards the hairstyles they release are added for viera by default! It would also be really cool to have separate dye channels on gear, but I think that would be really hard since they would have to rework past gear...

[Iscah]

That is a horrible, comical alteration too. WHY??!??

I have to wonder if it partly got borrowed for Hien's hairstyle and partly for players. Does Hien's have a red tie?

I feel like @Isach could explain potential factors why these hairstyles could be difficult to implement.

My personal guess on Lyse's hair is; they're struggling to animate the hair when our characters run? Because her hair is so overly thick and very layered, it probably looks strange when it's going side to side?

I'm just speculating as much as anyone else, and I don't know what would be wrong with those styles from the look of them. Ryne's in particular doesn't look much different to the Great Lengths style. Lyse's would lose the ponytail with hats, but so do plenty of others.

I'd wonder if they just don't want to give away character hairstyles any more, but we got Alphinaud's recently so it can't be a blanket decision.

Also maybe if they're too inflexible and cut through the character model in some poses, though I thought I've seen people saying that's already an issue for Viera.