New Sylvari Body Physiques

New Sylvari Body Physiques

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Posted by: Fancy Fool.1743

Fancy Fool.1743

Note: This is something applicable to ALL races, but with five level 80 Sylvari, I felt most comfortable talking about Sylvari physiques.

Why more physiques?

We have seen new hairstyles and new faces for all the races thus far, and while that isn’t any kind of argument in itself what we know is the reason those were added was to deliver more diversity and combination potential to our character models. But why do that?

Having a unique avatar appearance is crucial to how an MMO feels to the playerbase. Your avatar is the end result of all your many hours of leveling, dungeoning, pvping, achieve hunting, ecetera. They represent everything, and are our direct link to the world of Tyria.

So why physiques? Because they change everything about how an armor sits on a character, and your armor/clothing is a lot of what makes up the unique appearance of our characters. Ever notice some armors you try to mix on one character don’t work so well on another? Or how one physique can look great in a set of gear, but another wont? It’s all about how the armor maps over the character model.

In GW2, each race comes with a set array of body physiques instead of scalars to customize their own. I think this is actually a great limitation because it respects the lore of each race, and prevents people from making really preposterously proportioned characters.

However, that boon comes with the con of having a lot less options for body physiques. I think this can be remedied by adding more options. I know for Sylvari females and male, there’s a lot of options for skinny framed Sylvari, then a single medium/curvy option and a single big option.

My suggestion for Sylvari would be to add more options that is between the default physique (top left on the creator) and the medium/curvy physique, because after the four skinny options, have have these big gaps between the default, the medium, and the big. I do think it’s possible to add more physiques without betraying the lore that makes Sylvari unique (i.e. giving female Sylvari too much chest).

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Posted by: Alissah.9281

Alissah.9281

I completely agree.

I mained a female sylvari Mesmer since launch, and chose the skinniest physique with A-cups. In december or so, when they added the makeover item, I changed to little bit more bust + a curvier body type that isn’t too skinny for human standards… And I imediatally ended up with a D cup :P.

I wouldnt mind if there were a few curvy physiques with smaller bust, and less curvy ones with bigger bust.

I honestly have no idea if that would be much work. I have some experience in armour creation in Skyrim, and once you have an easy program for body sliders, itsnot all that difficult.

If I were to make an outfit for body Y, but later decide to switch to body X, I can simply use the maaaaaaany sliders to scale the outfit to the new body, and save it as a “conversion Y to X” preset. Then i load that preset and (hopefully) make the program do everything i did the first time, on new outfits. The conversion preset loading takes like 10 seconds at most.

And then the outfit is compatible with in-game sliders, and body sliders in the outfit studio

But then again, this is an mmo. And it seems like things are waaaaaaaay more difficult in mmos :/. To me it seems like they can just use the upper body of physique A and the lower body of physique B to create something entirely new, though. How difficult can i be :o?

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Posted by: Hot Boy.7138

Hot Boy.7138

I’d def love to have Nikki Minaj’s body for my sylvari.

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Posted by: Wanderer.3248

Wanderer.3248

It’s a race of walking trees and all you care about is cup size?

What would be really cool would be to have some less humanoid options. For example being able to change the length of the limbs, or the shape of the head, or the position of the head. Or to have four legs (although that would rule out wearing human armour).