[Feedback Request] Hairstyles in Character Creator

TheSturnOne

maouw wrote: »

I have a suggestion

I think this might be one of the best suggestions on this Thread, really fantastic stuff 100% Agree

Percimes

I hope the options for "bad hair day" and "I've worn my helm all day" are present.

You know, everything looks fine when you have a headgear on, but everyone stop talking and stare at you when you remove it.

Lizeq

Tatiana

MaikaHalfwolf

What areas of hair customization are important to you?
Colors/Dying Hair, Gradient Hair Dye, Non cis-gender and female hair styles


What do you feel is missing from the hairstyles we’ve shared so far?
Ombre and Balayage




Up-do hairstyles for women.




Styling hair under hats




Messy hair




Which types of hairstyles do other games do well, and what makes hair in those games good?
Final Fantasy has a good hair dye system that makes the hair look more complex, providing hair with depth.

Galvornian

I feel like so many games offer maybe one and at best two ethnic hairstyles. I'm hoping Ashes breaks that trend. Here are some samples of what there could be, just to start:

Dreadlocks (I have bias....we need more of these in games), Braids, Cornrows, Black Caesar Cuts, good afros, etc:

Leiloni

Can I get Margaret's hairstyle please

JustVine

I guess I have to ask for nonstandard colors in tasteful 'natural' feeling color pallets. For example soft periwinkle to deep periwinkle, various greens, purples, pinks, blues. I don't need them to be loud and neon but something beyond normal hair colors is in every high fantasy mmo worth playing, so it'd feel weird to not have it when 'glamor' level appearance magic has been frequently cited in AoC.

Bayzul

it would be cool if PyRai could have plants in their hair for both male and female! Like some vines or leaves or flowers

SonicXplosion

Some hairstyles I'd like

Aphisia

I would like to see a variety of colors that are bright and fun. So many games make colors so muddy. I'm tired of green based blonde hair. It makes it look muddy. I'd also love to see all styles have different dye patterns that you can adjust so you can have ombre styles. My own hair is currently deep purple roots with teal ends. https://www.hair.com/best-ombre-hair-ideas.html#:~:text=54 Ombre Hair Ideas We Love 1 Caramel,10 Pewter to Pink. ... More items...

Amma

some ideas:

Balrog21

Well, Randy Rhoads had the best hair hands down in the hard rock scene. DEF see this for the elves or humans.

Balrog21

some for the lady's.

Sockski

Being able to have longer hair is super important. Curly hair too! Wavy, curly, ringlets...there's more than one type of curly. It's also amazing when you have more granular control over colors, and separate control over the front/bangs and the back. This allows players to mix and match to create exactly the style they want!

PLEASE find a way to make it so that wearing a helmet doesn't make your character bald underneath. I know that it presents several challenges, but "replace hair with helmet, essentially making character bald" is not an okay solution in a modern game!

Here are some example hairstyles. Basically anything from D&D fan portrait art, or game of thrones. Braids, intricate things that are hard to do in real life. They add that flair of fantastical elegance that make it fun to dress up your character.

Alice

Hairstyles that come with hair ties, headband, ribbons, flowers, bandana, and ornaments/accessories.
I think they are the cutest and have "fantasy" vibe to them.

Female:
(These are special because they are too feminine to be on a male. Most hairstyles are unisex ~ I think)



(I'd love a curly hair variant + long hair variant for this one + a variant with ribbon added to it. too much?♥)

Male:

This is for both genders.


BONUS: Messy hair samples:

In BDO, I can make it even messier! (This is the default).




Many asked for long & braided hairstyles for males, have you considered making hairstyles unisex(with few exceptions)?

Zahie

Hairstyles with accessories. Some accessories could have an on/off toggle.

Some other hairstyles.

Male hairstyles. Don't have to be gender locked!

Tyranthraxus

@Zahie Heheh - I've not missed flat-tops since they were all the rage.

Tsukuyomi

id give my first born for a pompadour. like a good old fashion, "dad what's that' kind of pompadour . id give my second kid for a length slider on such a thing

Tsukuyomi

and to add i think it would be nothing but a boon to not lock hairstyles by gender some of us pride ourselves in the sense of androgyny and balance in our beauty and to have a character creator were I can be a very feminine man (which is sorely neglected by many other games) would mean the literal world to me personally

Zahie

Tyranthraxus wrote: »

@Zahie Heheh - I've not missed flat-tops since they were all the rage.

Did i post flat-tops?

TheSturnOne

I think it may have been one of the styles in the male section.

Zahie

TheSturnOne wrote: »

I think it may have been one of the styles in the male section.

Aha found it. I just saw a bunch of hipster haircuts x)

Efoq

PaperLink1

Twintails and pigtails would be great options to have

Centurion

Firstly, I would like to note that the editor, as it has already been shown, is developing in the right direction.

Of course, I would like more variety. The ability (in a decent range) to change the length, make the hair curly/straight, create multicolored hairstyles. However, it seems to me that all this should not be too pretentious and bright. The characters should be diverse, detailed, interesting and attractive (for their creators), but we are in a harsh fantasy world, not at a festival.

In conclusion, I think that for more immersion and diversity, it will be great to have options specific to certain races. For example, decorated beards with braids for dwarves or something in the style of South American Indians for vekh orcs.

Zainox

I would love to see an option to add extra bits of hair on top of what we can already choose. This would create more custom, diverse types of hairstyles within the world. Such options could be an extra braid of hair, a curly flyaway hair or a long strand of hair added going down the face. These options would be something we can pick and add to the scalp where we choose. The game "Code Vein" had a similar kind of system in their character creation system.

The video below is of the Code Vein character creator. Someone creating Vincent from FF7. In this video, they use different strand of hair to customize his look further. Similar to what I was requesting. I feel like in Code Vein, it's very lenient to where you can place these bits of hair, which could result in some pretty dodgy looking characters with floating hair. But, I think if these extra bit's of hair we could add are force snapped to the scalp, it could be doable with a lot better looking end result.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyF0jlNAIE4

Also, stuff like horns or the big teeth. An option to resize them, both together and/or separately, would be nice. Being able to rotate or move them to a desired position could also be a nice touch.

The ability to add highlights or two-tone our hair.


I feel like a lot of games create very bland, straight/clean looking hair styles. I for one, really like curly or messy hair styles. I have added some images below of some styles that I found and liked. The hair styles aren't straight forward and clean cut. But have a lot of visible, messy strands.

Male/female long hair curled versions




Male/short curly


Male/ Long messy

Songcaller

More female concepts for horns/hair combos(still collecting male versions too, I don't want you to think I'm one dimensional lol).

















Cheers,
Neu.

willchrisiam

I've commented this in the character creator post but since this is a hair specific one, I'm gonna write it here as well.

I strongly urge you to reconsider your stance on hair color options. Limiting it to shades of brown and vibrant orange in a world where Py'Rai, Dawnbreaker, Whispering Watcher, flower mobs and many more fantastical creatures exist makes zero sense to me. How are artificial hair colors immersion breaking but glow effects and 3 tailed lava foxes not? Please, give it some more thought.

I'd like to have options for balayage and two tone (or more) highlights with sliders for position, intensity, density and width.

I'd also love it if hair, facial hair and eyebrow colors were independent.

You guys said you wanted your character creator to be the best one so I hope I'm not too unrealistic with my requests/expectations.

I liked the idea of long hairstyles for males LunariGoddes posted. It would be nice to have the most (if not all) of the hairstyles available to both genders, especially now that we're stepping into an age where we start questioning and exploring gender roles and identity.

Here are a few hairstyles I liked (traditionally female character have more options to play with and there have already been some great submission so I didn't go there):

Lithion

willchrisiam wrote: »

I strongly urge you to reconsider your stance on hair color options. Limiting it to shades of brown and vibrant orange in a world where Py'Rai, Dawnbreaker, Whispering Watcher, flower mobs and many more fantastical creatures exist makes zero sense to me. How are artificial hair colors immersion breaking but glow effects and 3 tailed lava foxes not? Please, give it some more thought.

I don't believe they have stated it's going to be limited colors for hair yet. (unless there is a quote I don't know about?) We have actually been discussing the hair color options a lot in other threads. If you are referring to the video of the character creator, that is a very early iteration with much much more to add before even alpha 2.