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lianthelia
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10 years, still no long skirts and almost no dresses at all. Would be nice to see a few!
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If not, more choices is always a good thing.
I suspect it's an engine limitation as skirts (even the loose ones) don't really have any flow to them and we have only above the knee or full length (on robes) hems in game I can't really remember a single item that a hem below the knee and it flowed properly.
Probably a clipping issue. Pants are easy: you can just make the legs underneath 100& transparent -- or the part covered by the pants. (That's a common trick in Second Life, for instance, where you just wear an alpha-layer first.) Can't do that with skirts, though (as you need to be able to see your legs, and, since they're loose, up your skirt, really -- eew). Not even sure Cryptic toons are rigged mesh. That would help. But clipping almost almost becomes an issue then what you're wearing is very long (like a gown in SL), even with rigged mesh, as there are only so many 'bones' to connect to. Fitted mesh would be even better; but I have the nagging suspicion that STO avatars use pretty old technology.
Beat me to it.
Longer skirts, dresses and robes can be a headache to play with in my own 3D art stuff. Hence why "Goddesses" characters are seen wearing short skirts or slacks.
Bajoran/Tholian robes (lower) can emulate the "long and flowing" motif for off-duty uniforms.
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there are also long talaxian skirts
The Bajoran ones are actually built kind of like wide legged palazzo pants under a thigh-length tunic I think (it has been a while since I played the Bajor stuff so I may be mixing it up with something else) so invisible legs would not be a problem since you would never see past the cloth from any angle. It makes the "skirts" move weirdly and probably would not work for anything that is not supposed to have a heavy layered look. It actually clips a lot but since the clips are blended with similar layers it is not as noticeable and sort of looks like long robes.
The angled Romulan civilian skirt is probably the best one in the game, it could be used as a kind of model for others if the devs wanted to.
Well I don't mean like full length down to your footwear skirts...but something a bit longer would be nice. Maybe above the knee or a bit below it. Right now most are virtually the same short length.
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Well Kilts are a traditional male garment
Most skirts in game are around a very similar length and most of them are rather plain as well
The same thing happens with some outfits in Runescape.
The funny thing about animation is that ankle length skirts would probably be easier to animated then knee length or slightly above the knee, due the hem length would allow to the developers to make the the skirt essentially a closed cone.
anything shorter would show your legs and you can't really just make it a closed cone, since it would look wierd and essentially looks like your character wears a trash bag.
The Skants, kilts and skirts in-game work because they're fairly stiff (the talaxian is so stiff it looks like a cone attached to the hips of the character).
Simple answer, sex appeal sells
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Cryptic hasn't caught up to the times.
Truth be told, all jesting aside, the costume options is due for an extreme overhaul - very little has been done to improve character creation options. Everything from body style types to outfits need a serious overhaul.
When they do play with those options, they tend to mess things up for the worst. It is almost feels like the staff do not know the game's coding and just one or two do, but there is too much to work on to even try.
For example: They horribly "F" up the "girly" and the "stern" stances - If you use the girly stance, your character runs very funny and weird. The Stern stance use to be bad@$$, now your character stands like he or she has a corn in a cobb stuck up their TRIBBLE$.
The only way we will see long skirts and dresses is if they introduce new costume pieces or sets - something along the lines of off duty clothing, and last I remember, costumes are not great sellers on the zen store.
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