Character Creation, Customization, and Gender

[Iscah]

There is clearly room to make different character body types without making them one-off (Dulia-Chai Mewlah and a few other unnamed characters in Eulmore basically a Miqo'te with lalafell animations.)

Actually, going from some behind-the-scenes screenshots that were shown a while back, it seems that they're handled as oversized Lalafells with Miqo'te faces. The test model in the screenshots was in the Lalafell version of the hempen camise and bloomers.

[KisaiTenshi]

Actually, going from some behind-the-scenes screenshots that were shown a while back, it seems that they're handled as oversized Lalafells with Miqo'te faces. The test model in the screenshots was in the Lalafell version of the hempen camise and bloomers.

That just tells me that the ability to make such a character does actually exist and the lack of interest by the devs to want to make that more of a thing in the creator. Add a "third Miqo'te faction" in addition to Sunseeker and Moonseeker. Call them "Snowseeker" or something. They could probably do it with the hyur too, considering the Padjal are Hyur with horns.

Anyway that was just a to highlight that the game engine does support at least a "larger lalafell" type of base. So it's very much something they likely could do, but they would probably prefer players that want bigger characters pick Roe or Hrothgar and maybe not realize some players want, something closer to a Dulia-Chai variant.

Would I personally want to? Not really. I would want a way to have a somewhat thicker model, but I'm not going to lose sleep over that. The game's always had the drawback that the faces are nice but the body shapes leave a lot to be desired ("giraffe Elezen" have been in the game since 1.0)

[MikkoAkure]

That just tells me that the ability to make such a character does actually exist and the lack of interest by the devs to want to make that more of a thing in the creator. Add a "third Miqo'te faction" in addition to Sunseeker and Moonseeker. Call them "Snowseeker" or something. They could probably do it with the hyur too, considering the Padjal are Hyur with horns.

The problem here is gear. After a race is made, they'll need to make gear proportioned for that specific body shape and make sure the textures and scaling is correct. The gear replaces whole parts of the body, it isn't worn on the body. This is why they said making new races was such a big deal because of the lift and why we'll never get new ones after this. As for height sliders, what we have now already doesn't really work because it scales the entire body up or down together evenly instead of making a naturally looking short/tall person. I don't think I'd be a fan of making those a wider range than what they already are.

For stuff like Garleans and Padjal, those characters have unique unplayable faces in the game that has those features. I'm not sure what the hold-up is for getting more face options, but the devs seemed to have made a big deal about unlocking the midlander beard face so there must be some limitation there.