The Cape Or The Cloak Idea

Gidorick · October 2014

Has anyone ever suggested ZOS use a cloth plug-in like Cloakworks? Has ZOS ever mentioned a plug-in option?

http://www.cloak-works.com/

This would HAVE to be cheaper than developing cloaks in-house.

Elvent · October 2014

bedlom wrote: »

A vampire lord outfit in skyrim had a cape.

So did nightingales armor. It wouldn't be possible to have a chest or head piece that just comes with a cloak connected with it? but no stats or extra stats on it but just for awesome looks?

I saw somebody in the thread say it's not possible because of rendering them in PvP...PvP in MMORPGs ruins everything.

AlexDougherty · October 2014

Gidorick wrote: »

Are cloaks lore friendly? I don't recall there being cloaks in any TES game before...

Yeah they've been in the games, just on PCs mostly and not in huge numbers.

The whole problem is that a Cape/cloak needs to be worked into your animation, and the devs have it as a low priority. Having seen the issues in SWTOR (capes/cloaks looking wrong, rising weirdly, not rising when they should), I'm in the leave until there is nothing else to add camp.

pmn100b16_ESO · October 2014

Cloaks = lag, so no. The performance of the game comes ahead of how pretty you want to look.

AshySamurai · October 2014

KriHavok wrote: »

Well, there WERE capes present in the Official Gameplay Trailer, shown in the below screenshots:

http://imgur.com/kC9lUZs

http://imgur.com/ySFsX2A

They're also at 2:26 and 9:00 in the actual YouTube video if you are interested:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlEipFtHw7o

So it's not like ZoS disregarded it, they perhaps implemented it at first but got feedback that players didn't like it, or the capes were too faulty or may even be planned to come out in future content. I would say not to ignore the capes for the time being and wait for/if a ZoS employee talks about it in the future.

Only I noticed a summersault at 4:50?