Request for More Character Customization Options

[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