Using hide helmet option with outfit causing hair issues

Waddlesmcduckyeb17_ESO · March 2018

This isn't too big of an issue, but it's something I noticed and figured I should bring to your attention. If you create an outfit with a helmet via the new outfit station, but then leave the station and use the "hide your helm" option found under collections/appearance/hats, if your character has a ponytail it will have been "sliced off". I did this with a character that had a ponytail and upon using the hide helmet option they were left with a dent on the back of their head where their ponytail had originally been. I don't know if this is just an isolated case or whether it's something other people have stumbled across, but I figured it was worth mentioning. I play on the eu ps4 server btw.

Waddlesmcduckyeb17_ESO · March 2018

After testing this out some more it seems it isn't just ponytails. Large beards and other excessive hair styles are effected in the same way, with hair that wouldn't fit under the helmet being cropped off. I can understand this is obviously so the helmet will fit well without the hair clipping through, but it might be worthwhile to see if it's possible to get the excess hair to reapply after the hide helmet option is used

Shadowshire · March 2018

@ZOS_GinaBruno

Waddlesmcduckyeb17_ESO wrote: »

After testing this out some more it seems it isn't just ponytails. Large beards and other excessive hair styles are effected in the same way, with hair that wouldn't fit under the helmet being cropped off. I can understand this is obviously so the helmet will fit well without the hair clipping through, but it might be worthwhile to see if it's possible to get the excess hair to reapply after the hide helmet option is used.

Oops! At least for a ponytail, it appears to me that ZOS should have let the hair "clip through" the helmet, which then would appear as though the helmet was made that way.

For a large beard or other facial hair styles, there are helmet styles like the Imperial one, for which the face is not covered, but Imperial headgear has the ears covered. I don't recall its name, but there is at least one style for which neither the face nor the ears are covered.

However, if a character has a bushy "afro", I suppose that it has to be stuffed into the helmet. Either that or ZOS could introduce an armor set with a helmet like the ancient Egyptian pharoahs wore (one which vaguely reminds me of an office wastebasket, larger in diameter at the top than at the bottom).

ZOS_GinaBruno · March 2018

Thanks for the info, we're going to investigate.

LegendaryOaks · March 2018

Also to add, if you hide helmet while wearing the hallowjack medium helmet, your face will be completely black