Ayakaru.6583 Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 (edited) Excelsior, So, since forever, emotes hide the backpack. However, this seems like an arbitrary decision. There is no need for this happen. Reasons? ; Performing an emote will hide the backpack. Scrolling into first person mode, and back out, enables the backpack again. The backpack will either be solid as usual, or move along as actual. Hence animations are not an issue, since there are no graphical conflicts. Clipping is a _minor_ issue at best of at all. One except come to mind is like sitting or lying down, and a Cape or object would sink into the ground or chair. This is easily fixed by giving us a checkbox in te settings, so that players can decide for themselves if they want to take the minor clipping issues for granted or not. Tldr; emotes hiding backpacks is an arbitrary decision, does not conflict with animation as they can be forced visible, and I want them to remain visible while using emotes. Thank you for coming to my lecture on advanced object permanence. Tomorrow's lecture will be about the culinary application of mordrem tissue in vegan diets. Edited December 9, 2021 by Ayakaru.6583 11 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mungrul.9358 Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 I was initially going to side with the devs on this, assuming it's a harder problem to solve than at first glance (maybe down to the way the game stores animations and models in different, distinct data arrays or something like that). But there's also an interesting exception to this. The human female animation when harvesting plants using the Reap-r-Tron tool uses the Point emote as its basis, but doesn't hide the character's backpiece. So it's not like it couldn't be done. 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leshpar.2408 Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 I've kinda been wondering that myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayakaru.6583 Posted December 12, 2021 Author Share Posted December 12, 2021 Replaying Bloodstone Fen story, the commander uses a lot of emotes while talking to Caithe, none of which hide the backpack. So I have zero reason to believe the system can't handle it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liewec.2896 Posted May 19 Share Posted May 19 this is STILL an issue that should be resolved, how can it be so hard to fix? if we zoom into first person and then back out we can see our backpack and weapons, but noone else can see them (its clientside) c'mon Anet! i see you making QoL changes like graphical settings and crosshairs, allow us to keep our backpacks while emoting! characters with wings shouldn't have them vanish every time they want to nod and then appear again afterwards, its so silly and has been in the game far longer than it should have. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linken.6345 Posted May 19 Share Posted May 19 23 minutes ago, Liewec.2896 said: this is STILL an issue that should be resolved, how can it be so hard to fix? if we zoom into first person and then back out we can see our backpack and weapons, but noone else can see them (its clientside) c'mon Anet! i see you making QoL changes like graphical settings and crosshairs, allow us to keep our backpacks while emoting! characters with wings shouldn't have them vanish every time they want to nod and then appear again afterwards, its so silly and has been in the game far longer than it should have. Is it an issue tho? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liewec.2896 Posted May 20 Share Posted May 20 (edited) 21 hours ago, Linken.6345 said: Is it an issue tho? yes. we shouldn't have to unequip and reequip our capes/wings/backpacks to have them visible during emotes, they just shouldn't vanish. Edited May 20 by Liewec.2896 1 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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