Support for NPC Hairstyles, Character Creator Focus

[Raoabolic]

Some do, some don't, but either way it is a practice that we should NOT encourage. I personally heavily dislike SE's willingness to put things on the Mogstation that could easily be unlocked in-game, and this also goes for things like older holiday rewards that could be brought back.

*Screams in Cruise Chaser*

[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

[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.

[BiddyBatnana]

+1 character creator update
- More Ethnic Hairstyles and faces (in the styles of FF of course) would be appreciated take for example GW2 and their latest updates.
- More colors
- Asymetrical face features could be cool aswell.

[Beytran70]

- Asymetrical face features could be cool aswell.

I'd settle for more than 3 faces to choose from, period.

[Kolsykol]

- More Ethnic Hairstyles and faces

Calling it '' ethnic hairstyles and faces '' is so strange to me lel.
It's like '' people of color '', it's very '' othering '' in an odd way ( it used to be a racist to other black people with that term too I dunno when and why that changed ).
People with light-skin don't have a color or an ethnicity xD?
I just don't get the logic there it seems like people always just mean people of African descent too I dunno why people can't just say that.
Stuff like dreads have existed in Europe since ancient times too and even used to be the norm in some cultures it's an odd way of looking at it.

I get what you mean tho, GW2 actually has a really solid character creator imo.
I wish we could get more sliders for faces too like they have in GW2.
I wouldn't exactly say that GW2 is the best there is but I think it's a good standard basically, it's not on the level of like Blade and Soul and Black Desert Online but it's very solid.

[Kolsykol]

I really want updated textures on the second female Highlander face in particular it's noticeably lower especially when you zoom in.
It doesn't look good at all imo, and lets be real here no one uses 3 and 4.
I like the first one too but it's very '' angry '' you've basically got no other good choice unless you wanna deal with the bad textures.

And also for horns to be separated from the faces on Au'Ra.

[Seiori]

I think all races could use some more face options, better mouth options as well. Another thing that would be cool would be colored eyelashes that are kinda similar to characters like, Esdeath (Akame ga kill) Shiro (Deadman Wonderland) Olya (from Tiny Bunny the horror visual novel game) don't know what that style is called.