Please. I'd love to see a full view of what I'm crafting without spending resources

And the "Convert to Imperial Style" context menu option (for those of us who bought the Imperial Edition) should have a preview too.

WoW has this feature. I don't want a Wow clone!

I assume this will be coming since a similar mechanism has to be used for the dye system coming

It pretty much belongs to a MMO.
It can actually improove immersion/rp by having a real preview of how it will look.

I think the only reason it is not part yet is that making a preview window with proper resolution can be quite resource draining and might require some rewrite of the code.
But once they did that part they would also have a open road to implement a "Ingame Character looks editor". So I asume it is a priority (even if not a high one).

I think this is a pretty clear request. I imagine it's fairly complicated, given that the item varies not just by motif and material, but also by amount of material (item level) and gender (for armor) and possibly even trait (?).

They have this information of course, but figuring out an easy way to grab exactly the right elements might require more of a "preview engine" as opposed to just pulling a static image from a repository.

Edited for typos.

Of course they should, but will they? You have a better chance of being struck down by Zeus.

R1ckyDaMan wrote: »

Arsenic_Touch wrote: »

Of course they should, but will they? You have a better chance of being struck down by Zeus.

That is my worry, If they see it as not demanded then why put time on it..

As of my vote, this is the only poll I have seen on this forum that is 100% in agreement. Maybe that will give them some nudge in the right direction.

really not sure how difficult it is, at minimum, they can enlarge the small artwork of the craft screen.

one of the most one-sided polls i've seen, perhaps zenimax should add this soon

14 styles , 3 weights, like 9 tiers of materials, and some unique pieces ....
Shouldn't it have been there from the start :?

EDIT: I think you should be able to preview gear whenever, not when crafting-only.

Arsenic_Touch wrote: »

Tr1cksh0t wrote: »

one of the most one-sided polls i've seen, perhaps zenimax should add this soon

Yup, with one troll vote who didn't even comment, imagine that. Heh.

I guess the poll question might cover it already, but previews in the Improvement tab would be needed since gear often changes color schemes when upgrading.

Yes. Absolutely, positively yes.

In my ideal world, weapons and armor would be viewed floating in midair, able to be rotated, flipped and zoomed in on, and with the ability to hypothetically adjust the refinement of the item to see what it would look like all the way to legendary, or set a hypothetical enchant to it. Armor would not have the default 'on the ground' look it did in Oblivion/Skyrim, but would appear as if it were floating on a character.

The crafting screen would still sit to the right, with players be able to adjust the level of the material used, as well as trait gems and motiff material at will. This preview screen wouldn't be another window to open which supersede's the crafting menu, but simply share screen space with it.

Finally, players would also be able to change the name of their gear they are crafting (though the tooltip would provide the generic name, and players could sort by the generic name or the crafted name in guild stores).

Yes, all armour should be able to be previewed. Should be able to preview in the guild store and when crafting as well.