[2020] QOL The afro haircut request

Multi colour afros will not be offered and the scale of the afro will not be as large.

The designs must be kept basic to keep modelling times down and so not to devalue the existing afro available from clue scrolls: http://2007.runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Afro

Read 3rd comment in, we need to consider that people do when we create updated like this.

These are requested by the community as part of a series of small QOL updates we will be releasing over the coming weeks. If you don't like this update, hopefully there will be some other graphics QOL jobs which you can enjoy too.

Also, remember that these will be polled, so you will ultimately be able to have your say then.

This sphere on an existing head model, recoloured, took 10 minutes. A lot of what is asked on stream is in excess of 2 hours or more.

That said, this January we are able to offer small QOL updates like this requested by players and poll them to see if people want them.

This post is just putting out some feelers, if you don't want them please just say so politely.

I'll be discussing changing them to suit the original post put on here before I implemented feedback from Twitter.

We have a system where a head model and a hat model can be placed on a player; the head item having the hair. For full helms or larger hats we model the head gear into the head model and place nothing in the hat slot.

If we wanted to adjust the models to accommodate large hairstyles, we'd have to go through every worn hat model (326 in total) and create a new head with the hat built in and update all the hat object configs to use just these head models and no hat.

NPC's that have a specific hairstyle and hat would need to have unique models and their configs updated.

Then there's the time it would take to QA test every new head/hat model in game and check which NPCs wear a hat and if their configs have been updated. This task would be expanded further for NPCs that have multiple versions of themselves for things like quests.

To resolve this issue the resources required would be quite large, so unfortunately it's better to just offer some larger haircuts, like the afro, as "hat items."

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We have a system where a head model and a hat model can be placed on a player; the head item having the hair. For full helms or larger hats we model the head gear into the head model and place nothing in the hat slot.

If we wanted to adjust the models to accommodate large hairstyles, we'd have to go through every worn hat model (326 in total) and create a new head with the hat built in and update all the hat object configs to use just these head models and no hat.

NPC's that have a specific hairstyle and hat would need to have unique models and their configs updated.

Then there's the time it would take to QA test every new head/hat model in game and check which NPCs wear a hat and if their configs have been updated. This task would be expanded further for NPCs that have multiple versions of themselves for things like quests.

To resolve this issue the resources required would be quite large, so unfortunately it's better to just offer some larger haircuts, like the afro, as "hat items."