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Can we talk about how sad this weird midleg finny thing from SO MANY shoes makes me, as someone who mains a character with retrograde legs?
WHYYYYYYYY. It shows up on SO MANY boot models when they’re haphazardly slapped on Draenei/Worgen/Tauren and it looks SO WEIRD AND BAD. It has literally never looked either good, or like something that someone would wear on purpose, or like something that would make any kind of functional sense in…anklewear.
What are some good implementations of footwear for retrograde-leg models, you ask?
My favorite choice: It’s like I’m wearing nothing at all! Nothing at all…nothing at all…
Pros: A nice clean line down the leg to the hoof, which is my shoe. I need no shoe, I have hoof.
Cons: Depends on finding pants that don’t arbitrarily peter out at the knee so that I look like I’m in a schoolboy outfit.
A good implementation of a premium unique shoe: I’m a dapper strappy lad!
This is how the “jester” outfit endcap Trading Post deal from last month looks on retrograde legs.
Pros: STRAPS! Instead of having a neat curled toe, the shoe has unique straps for retrograde legs. Also neat!
Cons: It does still have a fin, but it’s a sedate, reasonable, decorative one at least. It looks like a jacket collar. My hooves are dressed up for a suave night out!
Also nice: A hoof-cage!
Pros: Anything that changes shape for a hoof is A+ in my books.
Cons: The knee bit is a little much (am I going to stab my own leg when I kneel or run?), it has some texture stretching.
Also acceptable: Hoofwarmers.
Pros: The weird cuffy-fin-thing is in a place that it makes SENSE to be
Cons: Disrupts the line of a lot of pants, but eh, it’s cute anyway
I GUESS: A modest fin
Pros: The design elements are well-placed for a retrograde leg, and the smaller fin doesn’t look TOO out of place.
Cons: Does still inexplicably have a midleg fin.
Almost, but not quite: PICK A LANE
Pros: I love anything that changes shape to accommodate a hoof, as seen in the front.
Cons: WHY THE FIN IN THE BACK. WHY? YOU WERE SO CLOSE.
Almost, but not quite: That’s a streeeeeeetch
Pros: 3d elements are NEAT! And well-placed on a retrograde leg.
Cons: Look at how that purple scale texture is streeeeeetched to the point of being low-rez and cheesy looking at the top. Ew.
I would post further Hall of Shame items, but I should probably do like…some actual work today. STILL. Say no to leg-fins!