Guild Wars 2

Hello community!

Today i want to raise a topic about inability to hide view of any part of gear, but helmet and shoulders.

I mean, come on Anet, why should my character hide his gorgeous tattoos? If users wants to play topless or barefoot, they should not sacrifice with their stats

I know there is a lot of mechanics behind those checkboxes, but please at least consider that opportunity!

Hear hear, it’s been up many times before, particularly how much more in theme Charr would be if you could play bare chested/legged and still have armor. Let’s face it, even if hidden everyone in PvP/WvW knows you wear armor even though it doesn’t show and don’t require that visual cue.

So… is it a question of “decency” that Anet prevent it then?

Dondarrion.2748:

So… is it a question of “decency” that Anet prevent it then?

I doubt it’s decency they would care about, since players are already able to walk around without armour and skins.

EDIT: But I too would like to have the ability to toggle all my characters armour pieces.

As a result of introducing Invisible Boots, you can abandon the idea of an option to simply hide Armor pieces. People spend a lot of money to get some of these. I can not imagine, that ArenaNet will bring a option right now to the point we already are. Introducing new invisible Armor pieces, maybe …

Maria Murtor.7253:

Introducing new invisible Armor pieces, maybe …

Would be also nice to hide at least body parts

If I remember correctly the invisible boots were created because someone at Anet really wanted to be able to hide their shoes but wasn’t able to get any traction for that idea among the people who can make changes like that to the UI, so one of the people who makes armour decided to help them out by making invisible shoes as a work-around.

I wouldn’t take it as a sign that the ability to hide armour will never happen, if anything it’s the opposite, it shows that some Anet staff like the idea, they’re just not in a position to make it happen. (I imagine making a model without a skin is a lot easier than transferring all the mechanics to add the option in the UI.)

I’d really like to have this option too. If decency is a concern it could show our characters underwear instead. That’s already what happens if you remove your armour or if it’s broken, I can’t imagine letting players hide those pieces would be any more controversial than letting it break and disappear without the player noticing. (I can’t be the only one whose finished a dungeon and suddenly realised I’m not wearing trousers right?)

Assuming the body is the same under the armor (ie, the armor is not part of your avatar but is a distinct mesh), the answer is simple. Have there be a die that is pure alpha channel. It might be a bit trickier if they are hiding the underlying body area to reduce clipping though.

it would also be great if all the outfits weren’t so girly.

Menadena.7482:

Assuming the body is the same under the armor (ie, the armor is not part of your avatar but is a distinct mesh), the answer is simple. Have there be a die that is pure alpha channel. It might be a bit trickier if they are hiding the underlying body area to reduce clipping though.

There is nothing under the armor – the underlying meshes are removed to improve performance. Texture/game modders have tried this already.

I want my Elementalist to run around shirtless too.

Sartharina.3542:

Menadena.7482:

Assuming the body is the same under the armor (ie, the armor is not part of your avatar but is a distinct mesh), the answer is simple. Have there be a die that is pure alpha channel. It might be a bit trickier if they are hiding the underlying body area to reduce clipping though.

There is nothing under the armor – the underlying meshes are removed to improve performance. Texture/game modders have tried this already.

Thanks, I should have known it would not be that easy. There must be a technical solution somewhere though as they already do it with 3 of the armor components.