(06-23-2016, 08:08 PM)Caspar Wrote: I was saddened by the dimorphism in that I couldn't make a slim, feminine-looking Au Ra male. I had some cool ideas for such a character, but I'm also beginning to think such an Au Ra isn't physically possible...
As far as lore is concerned, I think anything's physically possible, within reasonable bounds of human-like divergence. I think the model presets are designed just to show the most common builds and features for an adventurer of the race in question. Doesn't mean they're the only ones. I mean, just with the Au Ra for example, we know it's possible for them to gain presumably quite a bit of weight in fat - but the in-game models aren't like this because chances are most adventurers are going to be relatively slim.
...but as far as representing in-game goes, yeah... we're pretty limited. In terms of the attitude conveyed by cposes and emotes, as well, it's a pretty specific "feel" from each race/gender preset combination... I'm lucky the au ra male emotes suit Aghurlal pretty well, on the whole. There are some emotes on some characters that I've practically blacklisted myself from using because they feel so OOC for the character.