Body Hair for males.

[Shioban]

Much more important things to focus on.

That's actually not true. There's a 'set' of development teams, which can easily be broken down;

Game Design
Art Design
Sound Engineering/Design
Programming/Implementation
Marketing/PR
(etc.) (All of the following teams have sub-subsequent teams, but this is the rough layout)

If you think that all these teams are working on the SAME thing, you're sorely mistaken.
Those who focus mostly on the development of character designs (Hair/New Race) would see this on their priority list.

To confuse this team with the likes of "Well SOKEN hasn't finished the new dungeon theme, therefore we can't possibly make body-hair!" sounds ridiculous, right?


They had a lot on their plate currently for character development, but that doesn't mean this could be added as a low priority to work it's way up the list.

Thing is, there always is something more important to focus on. Stuff that might fall under the "less important" bracket could be the housing as well as PvP since people could always argue server stability needs priority, instance random lag and disconnect, RMT etc.

Almost every suggestion on the forums is not a pressing issue. Thank god they have separate teams for separate things in SE. It's not like they can allocate the people working in the graphic department (or however you may call it) to just iron out other stuff they're not even qualified for or know how to do even >.>

^ Exactly this.


All of my suggestions bar one have actually been implemented and they were all VERY minor concerns/additions/changes.
Nothing is too unimportant for them to consider it.

BEST case scenario!

LOOK AT THAT SUBLIGAR!!!

Suddenly I now have a visison of people going from; "Oh lol he's wearing a subligar and a harness" to; "Oh my god, is this a gay porno?" with this addition.

My sides, when I seen that image scrolling down Page 7.

[Muzetta]

Well, I guess at least Roes will need some way to be Eorzea's true King Kong defenders.

[Spyrit]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRKbez1LpWU hahaha

[Darske]

If they add body hair, I will fantasia into a rogadyn with a bountiful chest afro.

[Leowilde]

Voting up this thread! I am so tired of baby butt skin on all males. -_-

[Qfox]

D: i want body hair

[Meeep]

Hairrr, grosss!!! buuht yay options D:

[Shioban]

I suppose my Mi'qote male naturally doesn't come with nipples either. Someone get me a doctor plz. :|

Actually they do, the normal map resolution is sadly just very low on 2.0's character models, therefore the detail is lost.

What is a Normal Map?

A Normal Map is usually used to fake high-res geometry detail when it's mapped onto a low-res mesh. The pixels of the normal map each store a normal, a vector that describes the surface slope of the original high-res mesh at that point. The red, green, and blue channels of the normal map are used to control the direction of each pixel's normal.

When a normal map is applied to a low-poly mesh, the texture pixels control the direction each of the pixels on the low-poly mesh will be facing in 3D space, creating the illusion of more surface detail or better curvature. However, the silhouette of the model doesn't change.

An example of a higher resolution normal map from 1.23 shows that that the detail is there (it just gets lost with the lower resolution normal maps);

The character models for FFXIV are actually very very low poly models, with fantastic work done on applying the normal/specularity maps for each model.

[BearGrylls]

Yes please. But I doubt they'll expand too much on appearance options until they drop PS3 support. It doesn't seem like it would be any more difficult than adding a new piece of chest gear, but without any actual modeling, just a texture.

[Aegis]

/bump /bump

Please do not make a simple post just for the purpose of "bumping" a thread.

Also, it's just annoying.