Barbershop, now live on PTS!

[Gersh_Trion]

Afternoon!

As some of you may have already noticed we quietly snuck in the barbershop with Friday's patch. This feature will allow you to re-customize any of your character's features except race and gender.

Below is a quick overview of how the system works

• Stylist NPCs can be found in Meridian and Sanctum. Their shops are identified with a barber pole icon on the mini map.
• Talking to a stylist will enable you to enter the barbershop. While in the barbershop other NPCs and players are hidden. To exit the barbershop just hit the cancel button.
• Adjusting features works exactly like the character creation interface
• Each feature has a fixed price, sub totals are tallied by category and a total cost is displayed at the bottom of the screen
• Simple changes such as hair color are fairly in-expensive, while more dramatic changes such as height or face shape are singificantly more expensive.
• If you don't like your changes then you can reset any individual category or the entire session.
• When you are finished pay your fee and voila its a new you!

As with any new feature there is likely to be a number of small bugs and issues, please test the feature and give us your feedback!

Thanks
-Gersh

P.S. We do not plan on allowing people to change gender or race with the inital Barbershop feature, in addition there are no plans at this time to add additional customization options for patch 1.9. Our primary goal was to get the feature out to the public so we could let the feedback drive how we develop it further!

[Hawkmoon0028]

There's already a thread about this

[Ailene]

There's already a thread about this

/giggles

Anyway! Yes thank you, love it! Tested and can't wait till it hit live

[Jonus]

We do not plan on allowing people to change gender or race with the initial Barbershop feature

Can't wait to meet Female Marko! 8D

[Riane]

The Barbershop, while simple (and essentially the char creation screen), is fantastic but the only qualm I have:

If you have multiple people standing in front of the NPC while you are in the "Barbershop", they actually block your portrait and it renders your changes useless since you can't see your character.

Although, once I was in the tent and had my char's back against it, a dwarf that was using Holy Champ said that he was on top of me but I was unable to see him blocking my portrait in the Barbershop.

I'll edit with screenshots whenever I hop back on the PTS ^_^.

[Jonus]

If you have multiple people standing in front of the NPC while you are in the "Barbershop", they actually block your portrait and it renders your changes useless since you can't see your character

There is a hotkey that hides other players for you. Not sure if this is the default, but mine's F12.
Of course, if Trion can automatically and properly hide other players when using the barber, it would be easier.

[Koredan]

If you have multiple people standing in front of the NPC while you are in the "Barbershop", they actually block your portrait and it renders your changes useless since you can't see your character.

While in the barbershop other NPCs and players are hidden.

Pretty sure that was working when I tested it out yesterday.

[xanduin246]

i dont know if its not in yet or what, but yesterday when i was messing around in the barbershop i could see other players jumping around behind me. seems to be a bug because of:

"While in the barbershop other NPCs and players are hidden."

[Riane]

i dont know if its not in yet or what, but yesterday when i was messing around in the barbershop i could see other players jumping around behind me. seems to be a bug because of:

"While in the barbershop other NPCs and players are hidden."

I think it was fixed today; I logged in and had some friends stand on top of me and they didn't block my view.

But yesterday I had huge as hell mounts blocking my character.

[Arasaadi]

One thing I would like to see with the "Barbershop Experience" is to have a consistent shade and light level.

I noticed when playing around with it yesterday that the changes in light levels made it hard to tell if that was really the colour I was changing my hair to, or my skin.

Also possibly having a before and after still (a head and shoulders portrait) might be nice as well, wouldn't have to be too large, similar to what's shown in the unit frame (or a little larger!)

[Nnnxia]

Please fix shiny hair bug texture.

[thoroar]

I'm liking how the edit interface pops up where ever you are standing but there is a bit of a proplem.

When I went to change my hieght I was standing inside the tent, I went to zoom out so I could see the change but my camera went out the back of the tent I tryed getting to some sort of mid point but I couldn't seem to find a spot to see my character from head to toe.

I'm not sure how to fix this unless you move the character out side the tent when using the stylist.

[Blooderfly]

This is SO great. I'm very impressed that all this customization is absolutely free. Trion, you ROCK!

So, 2 things I noticed -

1) Lighting is kinda wonky. My toon's skin/hair color looks quite different once I leave the tent and go out to the 'natural' lighting of the city.

2) On my male Eths, the facial 'features' seems to always default to...i believe the second option, rather than the feature they actually had. And so, switching it back to their original feature cost me 4p. This happened consistently on 2 different male Eths. This didn't happen on my male Kelari, but not sure about the other races/genders.

Other than that, this is AWESOME!

[Gersh_Trion]

Couple of quick notes on things we've fixed that you should see up on PTS soon

• We adjusted the lighting some, and it should be more consistant regardless of time of day
• We've fixed some bugs with the camera that caused it to clip through the tent

[Rizz]

Changing height doesn't seem to work ("doesn't save into the real world").