Request for More Character Customization Options

[blargle_ragequit]

I genuinely believe mare might never have been created if there were enough body types. So many of the people I've seen who are sad about recent events are chubby, transgender, or an ethnic minority, and just want people to see themselves in their characters! And I play other MMOs that have more options for body shape and ethnic looks, and those games don't have visual mods at all, even though they have healthy (encouraged) modding scenes!

(To be clear, I'm not affected by the recent actions, I just know people who are.)

[Luluna]

I do not want anything stupid just a few options.

Au ra horns tied to faces needs to be gone.

Miqo'te all should have fangs none of my four fluffy head cats (real ones) have human teefs lol

More shape for my character nothing daft out of proportion but please take a look at the Nier woman and also Exp 33 for some inspiration as I want a fuller bottom and hips and to be curvy, the game really needs to move forward and give us some body options so we are not all like sticks. Makeup and eyebrows please for all with long eyelashes.

I would love more faces and more running choices along with unlock all hair for all races.

[Kelg]

• Add a body type slider of sorts, with limitations of course. 100% possible within the game engine, maybe allow us to move the needle between a few presets such as thin, muscular(more like broad shoulders, thicker arms, thin waist etc rather than muscles), chubby and standard. A lot of people would like this for more customization.
• Options for different skin textures for body and face, maybe some freckles and aged options. I personally would like the option to have no blush on my Lalafell's face(currently using the blush face paint matching my skin to do this).
• Face scar options for every race, and more facial options in general.
• REAL BEARD/FACIAL HAIR OPTIONS THAT DON'T LOOK TERRIBLE(and yes, male highlander eyebrows as well)
• Allow us to choose 'personality' animations sets. Kinda sucks that your mannerisms are tied to your race+gender combo. It also makes no sense that every person within a race/gender has the exact same mannerisms and attitude.
• Unlockable animation packs/skins for jobs that give a different take on the job. For example, an animation pack that makes Ninja's abilities all look like shadow based ninjutsu rather than elemental. These would be cosmetic only.

[Kahnha]

should be able to mash up hair options like make it up to 3 - 5
it would make the cash items more desirable.

decouple horns from aura faces then add more horn options some could be added to cash shop.

and decouple the animations from the races

for example a male Au Ra that walks like a male high lander....

class attack colors and animation changes would be awesome 2x so if you can carry it into CS like the recent one. :3

maybe make some gear as customization options for ex I try to use the arc angle face piece as part of my girl's face

[Luluna]

Back here just to try and bump this up.

I really would love the horns to be able to choose as I love the face 3 Au ra but the horns are yay big lol

We need to try and get the attention of the devs and try and push for a massive overhaul.

I do not know how technically it could work, Yoshi did say a long time ago they could not make the horns separate for some reason.

I think they can and should do it, they seriously need more faces unlock all hairstyles and add makeup and body sliders for height/weight and move forward. It would be a really big selling point for 8.0 if they could pull this off.

I have been playing a little of FFXI why it is free and I saw how well the female bodies looked they are more curvy than stick figure.

[SKAshe]

Back here just to try and bump this up.

I really would love the horns to be able to choose as I love the face 3 Au ra but the horns are yay big lol

We need to try and get the attention of the devs and try and push for a massive overhaul.

I do not know how technically it could work, Yoshi did say a long time ago they could not make the horns separate for some reason.

I think they can and should do it, they seriously need more faces unlock all hairstyles and add makeup and body sliders for height/weight and move forward. It would be a really big selling point for 8.0 if they could pull this off.

I have been playing a little of FFXI why it is free and I saw how well the female bodies looked they are more curvy than stick figure.

I believe in the case of the Au Ra, it was because the topology of all the faces was different prior to Dawntrail. They would have needed to create unique horns for every possible face, vastly multiplying the modeling taken for doing a single character creation option on just a single face. With the universal topology though, it should be a matter of some simple corrective shape keys on each of the horns to fit them to the face.

Think what you will about the new universal topology, but it should allow for things like this, as well as making the addition of more customization options much easier. It would also allow the devs to add things like sliders. I've been hoping the changes in Dawntrail was in preparation for this. (they'd likely need to overhaul how characters' appearance information is stored, which might be why it hasn't been done already).

Body sliders they might want to overhaul the topology of the body as well. I've heard that the body 3d model can be manipulated by scaling the bones in the body skeleton. In fact, I believe they use this for the breast slider already.

In addition, some subtle facial sliders, particularly around the eyes and mouth, might be able to allow long time players to correct the issues plaguing their characters. <- I'm really hoping they do this

[Asari5]

yeah, expand on it. its about time. and if you cant do it because of your dumb programming make a new one from scratch and replace the old one.

[Seelie]

I wanted to bump the thread after Yoshi-P mentioned that they are intending to add more options to the character creator in the near-future. So far, the only thing used as an example was the desire to make it so that everyone has access to facial moles, but I'm sure that won't be the only thing.

In that vein, I really hope that moles, scars, bandages, and other things of that nature will be available to everyone to pick an choose in the future. (and this must be shared between genders, girls need more scars and boys deserve more moles, too!)

And I hope this means they're also intending to update other things, like giving everyone an equal range of face preset options (5-6 faces per race! pretty-please!), overhauling the makeup so that things like lipstick can look good, fixing hairstyles that look "broken" on certain races due to their unique features (ex: ear holes & headband "clipping" on viera), and maybe even doing something fancy like giving female au ra the *option* to choose to have the unique features that male au ra have (black sclera, blue tongues)....and, this might be pushing it, but being able to have the actually-black scales like the malera have would be cool too...

Additionally, I hope we'll soon have a more robust color selection for character creation. There are some oddities in the creator, like how different races have *slightly* different hair colors from each other despite all presumably picking from the same palette, and I would really like to see that discrepancy resolved some day. I'd also like to have more options for colors in general, in regards to skin/eye/hair color.

[Ashenri]

a proper fluffy tail (like ragdoll or a maine coon) would be nice since the 'fluffy' tail we have right now for miqos isnt really all that fluffy

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Age slider.

There's an awfully few amount of old faces for males. Females? None at all, apparently lol.