Given how Draenei and Night Elven hairstyles have toggle options for Jewelry and Leaves on several hairstyles, I think this should be the way to go with VE hairstyles and make the tendrils optional (or replace them with braids on certain hairstyles) this includes also adding optional tendrils to hairstyles that don’t have them (as well as perhaps additional nape tendrils that look similar to draenei ones and can be added as a separate customization)
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I agree. A toggle like the leaves that simply replaces the tentacle texture with a hair or braid texture would be an easy way to add options without having to create tons of new hairstyles for those wanting a High Elf aesthetic, and also to allow those who like the styles but not the tentacles to be able to enjoy using them as well.
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I would love it if they made the tentacles into their own separate option. That way if you like a hairstyle but not tentacles you can have it, but conversely if you like a hairstyle and want tentacles, there you go.
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Honestly the easier way is just to toggle the tendrils, which know thanks to the draenei and NE customizations we know can be done 
But yeah, I’d like if some of those hairstyles got toggles to make the tendrils into braids, or just hair texture, that works as well.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXnWI84X0AIm4Wh?format=jpg&name=4096x4096
Exactly, and now with NE and Draenei hairstyles, we know it can be done
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For 9.0, I think allied races may get:
Safe bet:
- Eye colors (Void elves and kul tirans got it already, Vulpera, Mechagnomes and Mag’har are sure to have it. Others we need to wait and see, but I think all of them are going to get it).
- Bald hair styles for all (already in alpha).
- Kul tiran beards and mustaches are now two seetings (already in alpha)
- Normal skins for void elves (confirmed, thought I’m a little doubtful we will get all blood elf skins. They’ll probably cut very similar tones to make things easier).
Very likely:
- A few new skin colors (around 3 per race)
- A few new hair colors (around 3 per race)
- Ear length setting for void elves
- Mechagnomes: separated skin colors and mechanical colors. Maybe new mech colors as well.
If we are lucky:
- Hair styles ported from other races (Gnome --> Mechagnome, for instance).
- More tatoo patterns
- Tatoos for void elves
Unlikely at this point:
- More jewelry
- Unique hair styles
- Anything that requires new geosets.
Those are my expectations.
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Well, I hope that the AR’s that were introduced in Legion get some more customisations sooner than the others. I know that Skin colours have been confirmed for Void Elves, and more eye colours, but I think all 4 need decent amount of customisations in conclusion to there parent races.
One thing though, Blizzard did say that customisations are going to be an on-going process, so guess they still got a lot planned. Not just for AR’s, but core races too.
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Aside from regular hair and hair colors the main thing I want for Void Elves appearance wise are the Alleria Tattoos. Even if they come later but I would love if we got them when these options go live.
Bonus points if we had an option to make the tattoos glow the color of tattoo you pick when EE procs instead of the current effect.
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Still thinking a corruption slider would be our best bet.
All of these are very likely.
The Kul Tirans have custom strings for jewelry so it is a safe bet that everyone is getting them.
Very likely since dark iron dwarves have customization strings for tattoos.
If I recall correctly, you have the knowledge means to edit models. Would it be possible for you to take a look at Void Elf hair with tentacles and take a pic of what they look like with the tentacles outright removed?
I’ve been curious due to an earlier comment if the tentacles in the hair are actually part of the hair model and removing them would leave “gaps” in the hair where they were or if the hair is its own separate model and the tentacles are just kind “plugged” into it.
Oof the stuff I have to read when catching up.
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The tentacles are a texture and not a physical copy of the model. There is a post here Alamara shared showing the secondary texture files and the void elf textures. on the right, there is some weirdlooking patterns and those belong to the hair itself.
There are also several male hair types that have a non-tentacle option.
So it is doable. They can just take the model and remove the tentacle texture.
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Nope but there was a belf in the beginning of bfa that asked Slyvanas to raise him. I would assume they are on friendly terms the dark rangers still consider belves kin.
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I’d still like to see what the hairstyles that currently have tentacles look like without them at all. Their absence could reveal issues that would need addressing before they could be used without tentacles and/or we might end up seeing that some hairstyles just look better or worse without them at all vs. just re-texturing them as hair or braids.
Want them to add their NPC Mog too.
Their Heritage Armour is so disappointing…
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We do? Or at leastI think we have one or two that are tentacless.
Every other one with tentacles, least for females, is unique which is rather meh.
So I wanted to take a few minutes to teach you all about 3d modeling.
3d models get cut up along edges to create UV layouts—UV being 2d XY—which are then painted over to create textures of different types (diffuse map, specular maps, ambient occlusion maps, normal maps, etc) in software like Zbrush and Substance or even in Photoshop.
Because Blood Elves and Void Elves use the same model, they have identical UV layouts and the texture maps are interchangeable. This means Blizzard can be lazy and share assets easily.
Stealing hair color from humans is not going to be direct unless you steal their hair models too.
What Blizzard can do is hue shift hair textures in Photoshop to try and match human hair colors. But this takes a minute of work from an intern and it’s possible they don’t want to spend that time.
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Hey…that minute can be spent making coffee.
If you’re not making coffee, you’re not an intern, you’re wasting my time!
Yep. Right.
I say it in jest, but when I think about it…that is…a rather frightening possibility given the level of work Blizzard puts into things at times.