What sort of personalities/animation variables you wish?

Tapio75

List yours.

I would like a mage personality where walking animation includes using staff as a walking stick like Prophet does and fiddling with some spells (Spell type could depend on equipped staff). Writing notes and such..

Bard personality where character would actually sig and play an instrument.

An animation variables for shield¤swword users where shield is held on left hand while weapon is unsheathed, Twwo hander animation variable where the axe is not held on back but in tcarried in the left hand when "sheathed"

Personalities including fiddling with weapon should actually use the equipped weapon instead of "POOF" weapons like the assasin thing does, these could also include sharpening the weapon for example, practising swordplay etc.

Lady like animations with lady riding variable for those noble ladies we have.

Also, all personalities need to have separate walking animation for female and male, most personalities right now make women walk the masculine way though in the "Furious" personality, i think it is fitting. In the other hand, commander personality is awkward for females when walking.

Some of us actually use the real walk!

Tapio75

Use your creativity for Kyne´s sake!

TheShadowScout

Personally I want a lot more personality, though maybe not quite what is suggested...

I mean, if you want to walk like the prophet, all you need to do is pick up a healing staff, right?

And bard should be more then a mere personality, I'd want a whole "Bardic Guild" DLC for that...

And the weapons... eh. Sure it'd be nice to have more options there, but its hardly essential...

I think a saw a "ladylike" animation (baroness?) in one of the datamined previews... as well as a "scholar" one, I soo need that for my dunmer librarian boy!

But more walks, definitely! Like I mentioned in another thread...

TheShadowScout wrote: »

I would also like to see stuff like...

Khajiit clichee pesonality - with extra catlike behavoir, for those who want to express their inner feline nature extra strongly.

Nervous personality - always looking around, twitchy, wringing hands, fearful, etc. More frightened then the purposeful thief personality.

Seducer personality - flirty and feminine, stances and moves full of promises of things not shown in the game (Yes, I know, a disapponted whine now ran through the rooms of half the people who read this)... maybe refit to all dark seducers?

Innocent personality - for those who want to milk the cute and harmless kid shtick. Hey, I hear some vampires find it easier to lure their victims to them instead of sneaking after 'em... (and yes, that -was- a reference to a certain NPC in a different TES game)

Feral personality - and I don't mean Khajiit, that's above, I mean wildman, enkidu, tarzan, mougli, neanderthals, the librarian at the unseen library (though he does not really count on account of... having become an ape), etc. For those so one with nature they half forgot how to be civilized.

Injured personality - "painfully holding your wounds" stance, limping walk, occasional bleeding... useful for roleplayers.

Zombie personality - why only go for polymorphs and not walk the (shambling) walk as well?

Showman personality - grand gestures, flourishes and other stuff that may be more at home on a stage or in a circus then in a dungeon... think "Gilderoy Lockheart"...

Hunter/Tracker personality - always checking the ground for tracks when standing idle, sniffing that broken branch they just picked off the next bush, half-sneaking walk as to not spook the prey, stuff like that for those who are on the "ranger" trip...

Madman personality - for those who looked too deep into Sheogoraths cheese cabinet, and found his cheese collection looking back at them...

Elder personality - for those who want to show off their extra wisdom with bent back and shaking knees. Occasional plumbing malfunctions not included, thank the divines!

Saint personality - floating instead of walking, mystic gestures and occasional ritual blessins dispensed, etc. Possibly including halo.

Monk personality - walking with bowed head, pious stances, quiet prayer ("Pie Iesu domine, dona eis requiem"? No, wait... different world... ), etc. Can be refitted to a lot of robed brethren all around tamriel...

Watchman personality - threatening stances with arms crossed, suspiscious glances looking for criminal scum and stolen sweetrolls to confiscate, occasional polishing of an (possibly expired) city guard badge... no leaning against magic shields in mid-air though, that is true city guards priviledge!

Strongman personality - body builder poses, showing off your biceps to all the world, and those deltoids, and those pecs... may or may not include a "Do you even lift, bro?" battlecry or attempts to rip off your chest armor... (and then count the days until someone figures it out, makes an earthen heart DK for it, named "Alex Louis Armstrong" )

Kodrac

Tapio75 wrote: »

Lady like animations with lady riding variable for those noble ladies we have.

Explain.

Balticthunder

Creativity? Let me see, ah yes, here we go:

Dutchess personality/animation (already confirmed)
Princess personality/animation
Queen personality/animation
Gothic wampirella personality/ animation
Sexy female walking animation
Sexy female running (like in asian games)
Flirting animation
What else? Maybe sexy idle poses for females too - like those from Skyrim mods.

BlackSparrow

Tapio75 wrote: »

Also, all personalities need to have separate walking animation for female and male, most personalities right now make women walk the masculine way though in the "Furious" personality, i think it is fitting. In the other hand, commander personality is awkward for females when walking.

Some of us actually use the real walk!

This. So much this. My Commander and Assassin are both fairly curvy ladies, and it is so ridiculously obvious that both walks were modeled for males.


I've had "hunter" on my wishlist for a while... holds themselves light on their feet, a bit like the thief, and has an idle where they kneel down and check the dirt.

Kuroinu

Anything done in motion capture.

moonio

I want more personalities for my mounts..
I love my Hist Guar's patrol guard type animation, great when doing rounds of the keep walls.
And the new(ish) skittish horse animation is fantastic, but I want more please...:)

Foxic

Sneering telvanni wizard lord

Tapio75

Someone asked about lady personality? Something from commander, a dignified stance with feminine wak. thats close to it but not quite. You should see what lady"ish" is when looking at old movies of Victorian era. Lady like riding is when you dont sit on the horse like now (Legs on both sides) but rather sit sideways so you can ride with a dress and keep both legs on the same side though this usually needs a separate sadle as well.

I also hope a litle less exaggaretion in the future, like the cheerful is perfect example of too much exaggeration, so is when you look how serious the mouth is with commander personality, especielly if you use it on allready serious Imperial.

Sexy stuff? No thanks, i think these would be overused and while i greatly enjoy sexiness in real world, i dont think it fits well within Tamriel..

Perphaps just "Lusty argonian" personality for Argonians ;P

Silver_Strider

Any that doesn't cost me money

Tapio75

Silver_Strider wrote: »

Any that doesn't cost me money

Well, be a proper subscriber and you can get them with crowns from subscription. All DLC´s and the reagent space alone are worth it. Plus i suggest you describe what "Anything" means so that it is perphaps something you would like instead of just "Anything" that does not suit your needs and therefore has no use on your characters.

Anyways.. Now that i was just playing a Nord warrior.. Some sort of personality which is more resiliant to booze, drinks mead and swings his/her axe with laughter and laughs at the pain... Like instead of GRRR! ARRG!! NNGHR!! it would be HAAHAHAA! HOOHOHOHOO! and shouts like "Think that hurst? for Ysgramor and such...

That be neat!

MythicEmperor

TotallyNotVos wrote: »

Sneering telvanni wizard lord

Yes!!! I will finally be able to tell others about how I am likely the greatest wizard they will ever meet. Who else do you think could create a staff enchant... Ahem.

Sausage

I would love to get something grumpy for my orc Sorc. Kind of mad Wizard grumpy type of thing, ready to blow up things just in for the sake for boredom. I hate to use it but, Gabe Newell, unsatisfied, grumpy, and slightly power-hungry. My Dragonknight is kind of lame, its quite normal Warrior. Something proud and ready for a battle, kind of "Singing into War" type of character. Yeah, bohemian warrior.

4 per class would do it, imho, also some rarer would work as reward. 10 -20 different as reward, unique ones. Personalities are definitely great reward, way better than some gear piece for example.

This goes slightly off-topic but I think we should be able to pimp our mounts too.

DM_ESO

Cooking:


Clothier:




Travolta is a gold mine.
Walk:

Idle:

Dance (of many)

Chest Open:


Weakling: Someone who has lots of trouble swinging a two handed weapon. Cowers behind their shield. Stumbles a lot. etc...

greylox

Studious. Browses scrolls and stuff while you're idle and stands stroking his chin, looking thoughtfully into the distance.

Tapio75

@DM_ESO

I admire that you choose Charles as an example there, i love his movies and acting.

Travolta too, especially the dance

@Sausage

Id like to have grumpy wizard as well, thats a great idea.

i would also like to have a brooding type, i use "melancholy" right now on one of my characters but it could be better without the sobbing as he is brooding, not sad.

PS: i would also like to point out "Idle animations# addon, yes there is one for ESO as well Anyways, with that, you can spice up the personalities a bit more giving automation based on setting for certain emotes to used when idle. Very good. My dragonknight which is made fire wizard, uses this in conjuctioin with "Melancholy", sometimes /juggleflame then /Recordfinding /Brushoff etc.. You can use "Heroic personality and add some fitting emotes to that personality as well I reeally recommend you try, it has been long outdated but it works just fine

AlwaysOnFire

As much as I too want an in-your-face femme personality set maybe we need the reminder that just having wide hips doesn't make you sashay like a slinky red-carpet model. Those of us who are pelvically augmented are fully capable of galumphing like a caveperson just like anybody else. It's something you learn to do, and will fail at doing many times before you get the trick of it-- not something women (or anybody else who fancies the posture) have innate to them, regardless of booty anatomy. It's not unrealistic for lady avatars to run just like the dude ones. We're all an eyesore unless we're putting work into not being one.

That said, I could go for more personalities that effect attack, sneak, riding, or functional animations rather than standing/idles or emotes. It would be neat to have characters that act, walk, and fight with authority, with sauciness, with awkwardness or caution, etc. The 'thief' emote already changed sneaking posture, and I think 'drunk' makes you stagger around with three sheets to the wind, but it's a pity that 'commander' doesn't make you strut like the boss rather than run like a grunt.

Kodrac

I wish they'd fix the thief stealth animation bug.

Tapio75

@AlwaysOnFire
Agree with your statement. Anyways, i too, would like to see personalities change more than idling, as i once suggested allready a lady riding would be nice for one of my characters, she is dignified noble. My Nord i currently play (Is female and has the furious which suit her well with all its aspects) would benefit from joyful combat style, laughter and Nordish commentary added perphaps, would be great. The commander would also benefit from more authorative fight and riding posture.

For a wizards it would be nivce to have some flashy spellweawer if you are in to that sort of mage... Drunk personality would be very funny with drunken fight style as well

ZiRM

Constipation animation... where are the toilets in Tamriel?!

AlwaysOnFire

Tapio75 wrote: »

@AlwaysOnFire
Agree with your statement. Anyways, i too, would like to see personalities change more than idling, as i once suggested allready a lady riding would be nice for one of my characters, she is dignified noble. My Nord i currently play (Is female and has the furious which suit her well with all its aspects) would benefit from joyful combat style, laughter and Nordish commentary added perphaps, would be great. The commander would also benefit from more authorative fight and riding posture.

For a wizards it would be nivce to have some flashy spellweawer if you are in to that sort of mage... Drunk personality would be very funny with drunken fight style as well

One benefit of the 'lady riding sidesaddle' concept (though... in real life you need a cue crop and a special saddle to ride sidesaddle effectively.. ok, lets not go there with that equestrian niptick) is that many of the fancy dresses released as costumes work like the vanilla robes do-- and seem to weirdly split around the horse like they were secretly pants when you mount up. This is because of the way they work in relation to the animation skeleton, I think. An alternative mount animation could conceal this strange effect.

It's another convincing reason for different 'mage' emotes-- emotes that assume you're wearing robes and don't call attention to that the robes are mapped in the same way pants are to the model.

MarbleQuiche

Kodrac wrote: »

Tapio75 wrote: »

Lady like animations with lady riding variable for those noble ladies we have.

Explain.

It's called riding side-saddle

https://youtube.com/watch?v=bjMuH7xeMB0

Tapio75

AlwaysOnFire wrote: »

It's another convincing reason for different 'mage' emotes-- emotes that assume you're wearing robes and don't call attention to that the robes are mapped in the same way pants are to the model.

Well, it is traditional that they have a problem with dress/robe turning to pants or animated weirdly on all the TES games so, bit amusing really to see this here as well ^^

I mostly use pants on my characters due the riding style or in the lady character, the riding suit, otherwise if it is a robe wearing type, just mostly walk around. I have one such character which i play without any hurry at all and really walk from place to place. The lady would like to ride though and as there aare no carriages, a horse will need to do.

Kodrac

MarbleQuiche wrote: »

Kodrac wrote: »

Tapio75 wrote: »

Lady like animations with lady riding variable for those noble ladies we have.

Explain.

It's called riding side-saddle

https://youtube.com/watch?v=bjMuH7xeMB0

LOL I always had a different take on that term.

Tapio75

Thanks for educating me on the right terms

AlwaysOnFire

MarbleQuiche wrote: »

Kodrac wrote: »

Tapio75 wrote: »

Lady like animations with lady riding variable for those noble ladies we have.

Explain.

It's called riding side-saddle

https://youtube.com/watch?v=bjMuH7xeMB0

Good video! As somebody who has ridden side-saddle I will say that it's actually really comfortable. The victorian prudery of its history isn't much fun, but I will say that if you're wearing robes or a dress it definitely would feel much better than astride unless you had thick leggings underneath, and it would prevent your hemline from flying up all over the place.

Druachan

So really what you want is a personality settings tab that you can choose several personality traits that your character will use in a few scenarios like fighting, walking, running, jogging, riding, standing idle, waiting etc. I kindof wish my character could speak their lines when conversing with npcs. Rather than just arrghh when the get a beating.

Druachan

Actually one that would be nice for a horse would be trot, galloping through town seems a bit weird.

AlwaysOnFire

Druachan wrote: »

Actually one that would be nice for a horse would be trot, galloping through town seems a bit weird.

I can sort of manage this by toggling 'walk' while on a horse, but my mount speed is fully upgraded. Someone with base mount speed might just get an intolerable plod rather than a brisk trot.

Minalan

Where's the 'skooma addict' personality?



I smoke rocks!