When gliding no backpack or cape animation

[medivh.4725]

I know alot players spend money no cool capes or backpacks as they are very prominent and for majority of time a player is staring at the toon's back. Hence the question how come during gliding the backpack or cape is hidden. Wouldn't it be cool to see your toon playing with cape on? Picture superman flying but without his cape.

I have one toon with a cool backpack but it won't show during gliding.

I have another toon with asteroid animation glider effect purchased off gem store. He wears a cape (also from gem store) I have not hidden his cape but during gliding his cape goes missing. In my opinion he will look much cooler while standing on an asteroid, with that cape hovering behind. This effect has been missing as back item is hidden by anet when gliding. For unknown reasons. 

Edited May 28, 2021 by medivh.4725

[Danikat.8537]

I think it's probably because originally all of the gliders covered your characters back so they'd hide or clip through a backpack. There's also quite a few sold as pairs where the backpack is supposed to turn into the glider (functionally they're separate objects, but the animations are designed to make it look like that - like the various wings.) I haven't counted them up but I would have thought that gliders where it makes sense to have your backpack visible are still the minority.

 

Having said that I wouldn't mind having the option available if it's possible to link it to the specific gliders/backpacks where it makes sense or for the player to manually enable or disable it based on their preferences. I wouldn't want to be stuck with a backpack clipping through a glider (especially for the matching ones - one pair of wings flapping and an identical one folded up would look absurd) just because sometimes it might look good.

[Inculpatus cedo.9234]

Perhaps, one day, a cape glider will be released.

Doubtful that gliders and back items will both be visible at the same time.

At least, not in the foreseeable future. 

[Danikat.8537]

1 hour ago, Inculpatus cedo.9234 said:

Perhaps, one day, a cape glider will be released.

Doubtful that gliders and back items will both be visible at the same time.

At least, not in the foreseeable future. 

I've often wished we could have an invisible glider. Sometimes it takes a while for my glider to load and I think it looks pretty cool with my character just flying along. A cape glider could be similar, especially if it was a small cape (or one I could dye so it's less noticable, like the Shimmering Aurora one).

Edited May 28, 2021 by Danikat.8537