Guild Wars 2

Hi. I’m not sure if this has been suggested yet. I searched for it and nothing came up, so…

This is mainly in response to the “More Skimpy Armor” thread. Instead of making entirely new more/less revealing armor models, why not add the option to toggle the opposite gender’s armor model? As in a female character wearing a male character’s armor and vice versa. Charr and asura already do this (for females anyway), so it’s not really an alien concept. I just feel this would solve a lot of gripes people have about their various opinions of armor.

Thoughts?

That’s a pretty cool idea.
It also made me think that there should be a gender change option in the preview window so you can see how a certain armour piece looks on the opposite sex.

I would like that. It’s already pretty easy to do by just switching to an alt, but simplicity is generally always good.

good suggestions

Thread title made it look to me like the suggestion would be “toggle clothes on/off for characters of an opposite gender to your own”.

But, my faith in humanity has been restored. In actual fact this seems a pretty reasonable suggestion.

Mantorok.3647:

why not add the option to toggle the opposite gender’s armor model? As in a female character wearing a male character’s armor and vice versa.

Thoughts?

It’s a good idea, since it gives more choice/freedom to players.

In terms of implementation, though – it’s a non-starter. This isn’t a matter of clicking a checkbox on the backend which says “allow cross-gender armor yes/no”. Instead, each individual armor model would need to be adjusted to actually fit onto the other gender’s skeleton (you’d also need to adjust the rigging so that it animates properly – due to wider shoulders, proportionally longer thighs, etc). And you’d need to deal with the problem of protuberances – it’s difficult to avoid distortions of UVW maps when an underlying surface changes from flat to bumpy (or vice-versa). In many cases, supplemental texture work would be needed.

It would require hundreds (quite possibly thousands) of hours of preparatory work by artists in order to make this feature possible. Imagine that you’re a manager/producer at ArenaNet. Which of the following would you do?

• Greenlight this proposal in order to satisfy a (relatively) small number of players on the forum.
• Invest that time/effort into creating fresh new content which might expand your playerbase (e.g. reward items for new dungeons, new gem store vanity items, new endgame armor skins to act as a long-term goal for players).

This sounds fun until I imaged macho male norn wearing sexy female light armors… NOOOOOOO!! I don’t want to see that!