Guild Wars 2

I’m tired not being able to use a majority of the heavy helmets ingame because they made my character(s) bald and aren’t even attempting to hide it with the exception of a few, which either hide the baldness with a cloth of some sort, or extend low enough to hide (almost) all of the head.

Please think about either redoing a few to have a default amount of hair at neck length (since using the normal hairs will clip with almost all helmets), lengthen the helmet at the base to hide the baldness a bit more, and maybe some helmets in the future which sit on top of the hair/forehead Saint Seiya style or something, essentially giant tiaras (haha), fashion over functionality!

Just heavy? Pretty much every head slot item but the ridiculous light armor tiaras erase your characters hair. I have two characters with the ‘new’ tophat armors and they are both completely bald with them.

With most head pieces, with the exception of several Light weight pieces, the piece’s texture/skin is mostly likely replacing the skin of your character’s hair. Think about it though, some Sylvari choose to walk around as what amounts to a “real life” goomba. Explain how THEY wear a heavy helmet.

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Just heavy? Pretty much every head slot item but the ridiculous light armor tiaras erase your characters hair. I have two characters with the ‘new’ tophat armors and they are both completely bald with them.

Hey, don’t diss the tiaras!

I’m surprised they haven’t done anything about this yet. After all, before Halloween ’12 there WAS a hair texture under hats/helmets but that patch removed it.

I did 3d modeling in my prevouse job, so good models really are important to me. I too was bothered by the bald character, and looked into why they were bald.

If you look at most female characters the hair moves from the top of the head, so for hair to poke put of a helmet they would need to model a seperate hair for every head piece which would add more lag and larger files.

Now I do not know if the hair is actually a seperate model or specal kind of spline that just renders as hair.

Either way I would dearly love to end all of the world bald problem, but wonder if it can be fixes.

yeah, the fact that it erases my hair keeps me from almost ever displaying a head piece.

Many games solve this problem by adding alternate hairstyles you get with those pieces if your character is not bald, like hair tied back in a ponytail, cut short or long hair upswept inside the hat.

That’ll require making at least one additional version for each of them, and adding a way to detect and choose the version based on the hair, and using the hair color in the “hair” part of the hat.

I doubt they’ll ever do that, though. It’s way simpler just to keep the hat ugly and never used by anyone who dislikes that. It’s pointless to make a hat not many will use, but well, I guess their though is “better bald than nothing”.

The closest they’ve ever done in GW1 and GW2 was a “wig” like GW2’s bandana or GW1’s frozen crown, or some cloth covering the hair altogether like GW2’s carnval top hat or GW1’s witch’kitten.

I would love for them to fix this I really hope they do at least it doesn’t effect Bunny Ears that is if they ever bring them back any time soon…