Can you make all (most) mounts blink their eyes?

Folkb

Its really a let down when I see a new pet and see they don't blink their eyes, I end up not buying them. Right now I only use mounts who blink their eyes or those that don't need to blink such as the skeletal horse.

How come there are so many pets with no eye blink but some do?

YoWombat

Great, now I can't un-notice this.

DaiKahn

The Palefrost Elk Fawn pet is a really good example of this. Always O_O

Fischblut

I also always notice when normal-looking mount has dead eyes

Also, sad fact: there is no single horse and guar mount who blinks Newer horses have better-looking eyes, but they are still dead and cold. Guars have big eyes, so it's the easiest to notice lack of blinking on them.

ectoplasmicninja

I never noticed this until I got the durzog mount. So many eyes and none of them blink. It's so unsettling I never use it because it weirds me out to see on the character select screen. Now I exclusively use magical mounts unfettered by such things as eyelids.

TitusF2

I remembered noticing this years ago and was SMH at the fact. lol. Such a seemingly simple thing that could be added. Though, they may need to manually redo the eyes on most of them for that.

Parasaurolophus

No. Most players are casual and they don't pay attention to it. Why would ZoS invest time and money into something that won't make a profit?

Seminolegirl1992

Folkb wrote: »

Its really a let down when I see a new pet and see they don't blink their eyes, I end up not buying them. Right now I only use mounts who blink their eyes or those that don't need to blink such as the skeletal horse.

How come there are so many pets with no eye blink but some do?

This^^^^^ Wolves blink. Horses do not. It's sorta weird. This may be asking too much, but I've also noticed newer dogs have a lot more personality. And teeth. The old labrador has no teeth, a broken tail, and looks like a sad boi. Same with old cats. Look sorta..broken.

16BitForestCat

When I'm feeling uncharitable, I say I don't think the people who do the animations for this game know how blinking actually works. Virtually nothing blinks properly. It either doesn't blink, or it blinks in a way that is very unnatural. It all needs fixing!

Related tangent: for me, what's irritating is that my characters never actually blink. They just kinda flutter their eyes into a weird-looking half-closed squint where you can clearly still see the eyes. It looks like they got a dust speck they're trying to shake loose without closing the lids all the way. Often the eyelid clips under the eye, so they're squinting inside their own eyes when they not-blink. If the rigging of the game's models is so bad that you can't even properly animate a standard action like blinking, maybe it's way past time to fix the models.

Second tangent: don't even get me started on how awful, distorted, and unnaturally cartoony facial expressions and animations in general are. The animators seem to think ESO gamers want to play a cartoon, which is fantastic in games with a more toony style. But it looks awful, distracting, and again, unnatural in ESO. And I say this as someone who adores cartoons and cartoony games. Like, I bought the Cheerful personality because I was tired of my characters' faces looking grim and flat. But I ended up retiring it very quickly because the facial animations for it are so totally unrealistic and exaggerated they're disturbing to watch. Instead of Cheerful, I got Deranged Cartoon Serial Killer. I don't buy personalities anymore.

OP, you opened up a flood in me. I thank you for this. XD

KyleTheYounger

Folkb wrote: »

Its really a let down when I see a new pet and see they don't blink their eyes, I end up not buying them. Right now I only use mounts who blink their eyes or those that don't need to blink such as the skeletal horse.

How come there are so many pets with no eye blink but some do?

[Snip]







[edited for profanity bypass]

KyleTheYounger

Seriously? I could barely play last night thanks to chronic fps drop. It's one thing to recycle existing coding for existing animations (which NPCS already do since base game release). Or remesh/tweak existing functionality/rehash/reshuffle assets and reintroduce them under a new package that end up for sale in the store.

But adding more code for a practically superfluous feature that adds zero value to the game? Given all the performance crippling PvE/PvP issues that have been crippling the game??

[Snip]

[edited for baiting]

Blinx

yea it's pretty obvious on some mounts, not all, that rediculously priced Nebulous Star-Born Steed with the dead eyes is one that stands out, and as well as the preorder mount, and pet

Danikat

It usually doesn't bother me (and it does make getting screenshots easier, I always seem to catch my characters blinking), but it is weird if you watch them for any length of time and if it's possible to update the mounts which don't blink it would be nice.

Incidentally I don't think it's simply a difference between older and newer mounts. The clouded senche-leopard and the pride-king lion do blink (and I assume the other senche mounts do as well) and they were released in 2015, whereas senche-raht mount and the indriks which are much newer don't blink.

I wonder if it comes down to different people building and animating the models. Maybe some of the animators consider blinking important and worth putting in and others don't like it for some reason, forgot or don't think it's worth the time.

16BitForestCat wrote: »

Second tangent: don't even get me started on how awful, distorted, and unnaturally cartoony facial expressions and animations in general are. The animators seem to think ESO gamers want to play a cartoon, which is fantastic in games with a more toony style. But it looks awful, distracting, and again, unnatural in ESO. And I say this as someone who adores cartoons and cartoony games. Like, I bought the Cheerful personality because I was tired of my characters' faces looking grim and flat. But I ended up retiring it very quickly because the facial animations for it are so totally unrealistic and exaggerated they're disturbing to watch. Instead of Cheerful, I got Deranged Cartoon Serial Killer. I don't buy personalities anymore.

I wonder if it's related to the fact that the game did originally have a more cartoony art style, similar to WoW (but not quite as exaggerated). It was changed long before release, shortly after Skyrim came out and was so popular (because the developers knew their audience would expect a similar style) but I imagine the engine and a lot of the underlying mechanics pre-date the change in art style.

Although with the personalities I think it might also be that they come from the crown store or achievements so ZOS wanted them to be noticable - they're almost all very over-acted and it seems like they wanted to make sure absolutely no one could miss that your character is using a personality.

16BitForestCat

Danikat wrote: »

I wonder if it's related to the fact that the game did originally have a more cartoony art style, similar to WoW (but not quite as exaggerated). It was changed long before release, shortly after Skyrim came out and was so popular (because the developers knew their audience would expect a similar style) but I imagine the engine and a lot of the underlying mechanics pre-date the change in art style..

I've definitely always had the inkling that's exactly it, or at least a major part. I remember those old alpha screenshots where the World of Warcraft influence was unmissable. (I think about it every time I see my character move like a mime putting on a show, LOL.)

UntilValhalla13

I've never even bothered to check if anything blinks in this game. It was never a concern whatsoever. I've got other stuff to do. XD