Body Hair for males.

[Heghmoh]

I really think they have a lot to add before body hair is even on the list of wants. People don't even like it in real life

You don't even like it in real life /= People don't even like it in real life.

How many perfectly clean shaven men do you see walking around? Not many. And if they are, they're likely a swimmer or part of a very small demographic.

GIMME DAT CHEST HAIR!

[Mugiawara]

Adding chest hair is difficult. I laughed, hard.
Oh well, I am not surprised for this response.
The person who made the topic about the Miqote nose being an option to be darker like the Mithra's...
we got some whacky excuse there too.

[Shioban]

Adding chest hair is difficult. I laughed, hard.
Oh well, I am not surprised for this response.
The person who made the topic about the Miqote nose being an option to be darker like the Mithra's...
we got some whacky excuse there too.

It is actually difficult.

They're having to add either another layer of geometry like hair and or add in new skin texture maps.


It's not as simple as "Today I'll make some body hair, it'l be easy as pie".


It's as much a creative process as making any other piece of gear, it takes time, adjustment and effort.

So adding a bit of hair to the chest area is actually as hard to do as making a piece of gear.
Hmm, the more you know. I agree though, I don't think it'll be all nice and neat like our head hair.
It'll be painted probably...don't get mad if that happens because SE likes to be lazy lol.
I can imagine the under arm hair will be all odd looking LOL!

Well /technically/ it's painted, but that doesn't mean it's an easy task. Any art takes time and effort.
I'm not saying that you're disagreeing that it takes time, I thought I'd just explain why.

Essentially it'll be three layers of texture maps (usually), sometimes other maps such as displacement maps are used.

Diffuse = "Painted Colours"
Specular = "Shiny/Wet Effect"
Normal/Bump = "Fake 3D effect, to give the illusion of a highly detailed 3D object"

A normal map being where you can apply a texture that takes into account the lights in the scene to create the illusion, the geometry is completely unchanged but it gives the appearance of a highly detailed 3D object.

[myahele]

I have a feeling it'll look painted on and not quite like folks have in mind. See the picture a few pages back. Either way, its nice to have more options

[Mugiawara]

So adding a bit of hair to the chest area is actually as hard to do as making a piece of gear.
Hmm, the more you know. I agree though, I don't think it'll be all nice and neat like our head hair.
It'll be painted probably...don't get mad if that happens because SE likes to be lazy lol.
I can imagine the under arm hair will be all odd looking LOL!

[Cyrusskorrey]

i eagerly await for the day that my roe can come home from a long day of adventuring rip of his clothes expose his hairy chest walk over to his bed and pass the fudge out in a single falling forward motion

on that not i would love to have the /doze animation that roes do when logging off in an INN. epic face plant into pillow

[PrincezzPeach]

I think chest body hair would be a awesome option to have for our male players!!

[Shioban]

Nipples on *Roegadyns/Miqo'te and Lalafells too, please.

Fixed that for you, hyurs have them.

[whoopeeragon]

Fixed that for you, hyurs have them.

But but but....



WHERE ARE MY NIPPLES GDI.

[Shioban]

But but but....



WHERE ARE MY NIPPLES GDI.

My original (rather quick) thought was "Oh, they've probably just compressed the diffuse/bump/spec maps on the textures so low that we can't see it", then I swapped from Male Miqo'te to Male Highlander and felt rather stupid when I seen two protruding nipples, albeit slightly blurry.

So it was intentionally left out, not sure why.



It makes Male Miqo'te's and Male Roegadyn's look rather odd after I noticed it originally.