124287-pass-over-the-older-models-bring-them-to-par-with-chua-mordesh

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So I was looking at some random Reddit post, and I saw an animation trailer showing a lot of Wildstar animations. The clip was a few minutes long, and had mostly Chua being the showcased model... it's just so well done it's incredible! The Chua has an incredibly expressive face, animations that feel lively and natural, and all kinds of wonderful I can't describe! I play mostly Human and Aurin, which I feel are two of the earlier models that were made, and the difference is just astounding. The Chua (and Mordesh + Granok, now that I really look) are just so vastly different from the earlier races that they seem to be from entirely different games! The quality of the textures is better, the quality of overall rendering is better, the animations feel so much more alive... there's just such a huge difference it's kind of silly.
 
I know it's not likely to happen, but maybe the animation team could go back and touch up the older races, and bring them up to par with the Mordesh, Chua and so on. Just look at the Chua emotes, and then look at a Human or Aurin. Look at the overall quality of the model and the rendering... The difference is just astounding.
 
Just my little nit pick for the day. :P	
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Well, that's also a part of it. All the races need real voice acting. The voices that we have now sound almost like those fake voices you hear in old cartoons. :P I want voice emotes kind of like what we had in WoW / GW2 (not emotes so much in GW2, but the voice acting), with intelligible sounds and words, instead of faint grunting / maybe voices.
 
On the topic of finishing them though, some of the races seem REALLY rushed, while others have so much work that you can see put into them. The Chua and Mordesh have personality, they feel like a depressing genius or a crazy sociopathic genius, and their models feel alive. Compared to that, the other races just feel... lackluster. Kind of like an old action figure that doesn't do a whole lot. If you look closely at the races, you'll notice things that aren't really done / polished. The female humans have a giant gash in their face, across the mouth, their shoulders aren't totally connected to their arms, and so on; the Aurin have funky things going on with how they breathe... so on. Little things, really. Then you look at the texture/modeling quality compared to a Mordesh or Chua, and it's just night and day. I just feel like the animation team needs to sit down and look over each race and touch up and fix errors. Then the sound team needs to come in and really bring the races to life with voice and emotes that convey personality, emotion and life. :P	
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			or how about finish them, mechari still dont have sound in many if not all of their animations.	
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			I wish the idles on the creation screens persisted as emotes or toggles in-game.	
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I wish the idles on the creation screens persisted as emotes or toggles in-game.
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			Speaking of which, is there a way to prompt your idle animation? /idle doesn't seem to exist. Just have to wait?	
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Me too, that stuck up cassian pose. I want eeet!
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			Must get some pretty bad eyestrain from spending all that time looking down at us, huh.	
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Must get some pretty bad eyestrain from spending all that time looking down at us, huh.
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If I have to look down, then I am afraid you are not worth looking at.
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If I have to look down, then I am afraid you are not worth looking at.
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			I cant take anything seriously any more..... all I hear is that really girly loop voice with every post made! And saying "welcome to shiny tech support"	
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Talkie time !!! GO !"
 
"Lopp Speaking !!! Is this thing on ?"
 
"Trade Shinie for Lopp?	
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			:D	
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			Hm... strange. I haven't noticed the differences in the models and that some are more aged. I still kind of don't.	
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			The texturing on female aurin skin makes me super sad. Male aurin and all the other races get interesting, living textures, but my aurin are just flat white, or flat yellow-green, or flat blue. :( I ADORE the detail that went into the Mordesh bodies, the unique markings on male aurin, the draken scales/armor... blah!	
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or how about finish them, mechari still dont have sound in many if not all of their animations.
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