Please!! Armours that fit female characters!! :)

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Zalhan2 wrote:

Not necessarily. As a matter of fact we dont know their engine nor their inhouse dev-kits.

It might well be, that no one planned ahead when they were creating the models and rigs.
It might be, that were going for an "One-Size-Fits-All" approach and all they are doing is creating the biggest variant and then just scale it down.

If so, they would actually have to rework most models and rigs.


All Im trying to say is:
None of us has the knowledge to even estimate the amount of work needed to make it happen.
GGG does know and they didnt release any MTXs like those that players are asking for in this thread.
Why? Because they dont know how to pull it off?
No, they do know and didnt go for it - although they would have earned money by doing so.

Thats all you need to know to figure out yourself - its not as easy as you think.
If it was, these MTXs would already exist since years.

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I0wa wrote:

That looks really good, I wish that was in game, reminds of the of the ancient armour in D2.


I wish there was some more armour, that just looked like armour

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鬼殺し wrote:

I sort of wish you'd change your topic title so that it more clearly articulates how important your actual suggestion is. We veterans are used to the not-so-occasional call for more boobies and molded cuirasses which obviously isn't going to happen (thankfully). Your examples are much more rational and palatable, focusing on natural curvature that is somehow 'concealed' by the armour overlays.

A few things to note.

Most importantly, I take it for granted that the npcs have better sculpting and modeling than the player characters, because most of them came long after the player models. Clarissa, especially, I think puts the player models to shame and I'm glad you used that as an example. The current player models are ancient. I'm pretty sure they haven't changed in any significant ways since the private alpha, and certainly not since the closed beta of 2012. It is fairly well known that a player model overhaul is in the works -- GGG themselves have hinted at it over the past few months and some preliminary work was shown at a Chinese PoE event. So I think this is less a call for 'girly armour options' and probably more a matter of waiting to see how the player model rework affects what goes on top. Typically armour itself doesn't change to fit the body underneath, after all.

And secondly, unlike Guild Wars 2 (from which you drew your examples, and rightfully so; ArenaNet do amazing character and item designs/modeling), Path of Exile doesn't really have much in the way of cosmetic showing off on a larger scale. Where Tyria has Lion's Arch and you can just wander around admiring all the shinies, we have...Lioneye's Watch, a shitty little outcropping of civilisation literally no bigger than an outpost. At best we have Sarn, which is still sharded like crazy. I think GGG push mtxes less to give players a chance to show off and more to help our personal, private experiences look less cruddy. Whether or not they succeed in this is pretty much up to the individual. That probably gives them less impetus to worry how player models look at a distance rather than zoomed in. Not saying they don't care about it because I suspect the aforementioned player model rework will make a big difference...just saying I don't think it's as big a priority for them as certain other games.

Anyway, thanks for making the effort. It's a good point to raise. And again, please consider changing that topic title. I almost didn't click on it because it looks like clickbait. Cheers.