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Capes in ESO
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Sockermannen✭✭✭This has been asked alot before
The short answer is sadly no due to physics engine limitations (also physics + latency is alot of fun). We have a few cape like items but they are all glued to our characters and don’t really flap around like you’d expect a cape to do.7 -
merevie✭✭✭✭✭It'd be a much better than the guild tabbard -looking at Elden one in action atm and it's great. Maybe they could make a particle version rather than a full mesh.0
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VouxeTheMinotaur✭✭✭even a particle version wouldn't run past ZOS's discussion table, capes are just a solid no from them. The best they've offered was a stiff over the shoulder type of scarf-looking "cape" that are, like the person above me said, glued to the characters back and warp around with the muscle / model of your character.PS5/NA: Vouxe_
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BlackRaidho✭✭✭Sockermannen wrote: »This has been asked alot before
The short answer is sadly no due to physics engine limitations (also physics + latency is alot of fun). We have a few cape like items but they are all glued to our characters and don’t really flap around like you’d expect a cape to do.
Yeah physics is limited but they can make fancy mounts for 5000 crowns on the market.3 -
Dragonnord✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭It woud be hell to make capes work with all type of hair cuts, long and short and all other types of hair, with weapons on your back, with weapons on your hands, with all types of armor, light and thin robes, heavy and thick chests, with all type of shoulder pads too, small ones and really big ones, etc., etc., etc.
Clippinig would be all over the place.
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Elsonso✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭VouxeTheMinotaur wrote: »capes are just a solid no from them.
This is how I see it. Not an engine issue. A "studio" issue. They apparently don't want to do capes. They removed them a long time ago, and they seem reluctant to add them back in. Will that change? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ My money is on the bet that it won't. This is a 10 year old game and they are not exactly crowing about how they are expanding their technical investment in the game.
Besides, the return on investment for client-side cloth physics in this game is likely to be pretty poor. It is also likely to adversely impact sensitive areas of the game, like PVP.3 -
ghastley✭✭✭✭✭
✭Would you want a cape from a studio that can’t make pauldrons and tassets that don’t float?
Hint to ZOS - tassets won’t float if you let us hide them. It worked for shoulders.7 -
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✭✭✭Dragonnord wrote: »It woud be hell to make capes work with all type of hair cuts, long and short and all other types of hair, with weapons on your back, with weapons on your hands, with all types of armor, light and thin robes, heavy and thick chests, with all type of shoulder pads too, small ones and really big ones, etc., etc., etc.
Clippinig would be all over the place.
I have stopped using some of my favourite hairstyles because of the clipping issues....
Capes would just introduce a whole new world of "Omg let me unsee that!!"When people say to me........
"You're going to regret that in the morning"
I sleep until midday cos I'm a problem solver!4 -
Araneae6537✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭It seems early for this one to come up again. 🤔
I’ve yet to see a game that capes don’t look completely stupid in. Sure, I’d like cloaks if it were possible to make them look decent and it didn’t tank performance, and those seem to be real issues, alas.3 -
TaSheen✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Araneae6537 wrote: »It seems early for this one to come up again. 🤔
I’ve yet to see a game that capes don’t look completely stupid in. Sure, I’d like cloaks if it were possible to make them look decent and it didn’t tank performance, and those seem to be real issues, alas.
This right here....______________________________________________________
"But even in books, the heroes make mistakes, and there isn't always a happy ending." Mercedes Lackey, Into the West
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El_Borracho✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭I don't know why someone would want to look at their character from behind wearing a sheet that covers all of their armor they presumptively spent time choosing and dying.2 -
notyuu✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭So
Would capes be neat: yes
Will we ever get capes: no
But what if they (insert thing here): see Breton hero costume
What can you do about it: cry3 -
BlackRaidho✭✭✭Araneae6537 wrote: »It seems early for this one to come up again. 🤔
I’ve yet to see a game that capes don’t look completely stupid in. Sure, I’d like cloaks if it were possible to make them look decent and it didn’t tank performance, and those seem to be real issues, alas.
I loved capes in The 4th Coming :')0 -
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✭✭✭✭✭Araneae6537 wrote: »It seems early for this one to come up again. 🤔
I’ve yet to see a game that capes don’t look completely stupid in. Sure, I’d like cloaks if it were possible to make them look decent and it didn’t tank performance, and those seem to be real issues, alas.
city of heroes/villains capes worked really well there, but it kind of went with the theme of the game (super heroes and super villains) so it worked well there lolplays PC/NA
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VouxeTheMinotaur✭✭✭SilverBride wrote: »
i got a good chuckle from this response lolPS5/NA: Vouxe_
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LaintalAy✭✭✭✭✭SilverBride wrote: »
Not it isn't.
It's appropriate attire for a medieval setting.
They don't flop around like capes, so there shouldn't be any clipping issues.
It can't look any worse than the floating buckle that we get for most belts now.Game over, manHudson ~ Aliens ~ 19860 -
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✭✭✭✭✭SilverBride wrote: »
Not it isn't.
It's appropriate attire for a medieval setting.
They don't flop around like capes, so there shouldn't be any clipping issues.
It can't look any worse than the floating buckle that we get for most belts now.
What about females? There is nothing to attach a codpiece to.PCNA0 -
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✭✭✭It'd be a much better than the guild tabbard -looking at Elden one in action atm and it's great. Maybe they could make a particle version rather than a full mesh.
Guild tabards have bad clipping issues almost all the time. They look terrible.
I’m not sure why you think capes would be different or better.
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✭SilverBride wrote: »SilverBride wrote: »
Not it isn't.
It's appropriate attire for a medieval setting.
They don't flop around like capes, so there shouldn't be any clipping issues.
It can't look any worse than the floating buckle that we get for most belts now.
What about females? There is nothing to attach a codpiece to.
Chastity belts!1 -
Syldras✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭SilverBride wrote: »What about females? There is nothing to attach a codpiece to.
The codpiece is attached to one's armour, not to one's... parts
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✭✭We can probably get capes just as soon as they port the game to a new engine.
Or I guess more fake glued-on cape costumes, but those aren't the capes folks are looking for I'd think.0 -
LaintalAy✭✭✭✭✭SilverBride wrote: »What about females? There is nothing to attach a codpiece to.
The codpiece is attached to one's armour, not to one's... parts
Much like 80's shoulder-pads. Pretty sure shoulder pads were unisex.
Light-armour only; they're cloth.Game over, manHudson ~ Aliens ~ 19860 -
LaintalAy✭✭✭✭✭SilverBride wrote: »SilverBride wrote: »
Not it isn't.
It's appropriate attire for a medieval setting.
They don't flop around like capes, so there shouldn't be any clipping issues.
It can't look any worse than the floating buckle that we get for most belts now.
What about females? There is nothing to attach a codpiece to.
Chastity belts!
Suspender belts. Your separate hose attach to this as well.
But I've realised my folly. ZOS have got medieval clothing all wrong from the start.Game over, manHudson ~ Aliens ~ 19860
