dolores II [M]

dolores II, a KOFXV port.
(dolores I is the updo i ported from TS4, which i'm also hoping to overhaul.)

looking for F-based races? find them here.

the second half of the overhaul i've been meaning to do with this hair. it is now available for everyone. this would not have been possible without khanter.kz's guide on hair skeleton/physics porting, so please give him your thanks.

"why are the dolores II hairs separate uploads? why not make them variants?" the unfortunate thing about helio is that updates don't show front and center the way XMA does. while i consider that a good thing and it should stay that way, i don't really exist in xiv social spaces anymore. i gotta tell people this exists without bugging other people to do it for me, lol. the limitations here are also a little different compared to the F version, and i don't want to confuse people with really long descriptions if they're only using this for one character.

this hair has some limitations due to my own lack of knowledge. those are:

• big apologies to the miqos, but this hair is earless only.
• depending on what idles your character is doing, or if their body type strays from vanilla, this hair will clip rather unnaturally. the original was like this, and the ports over have the same issue. this is why C+ is a requirement for this hair, as C+ makes this much easier to navigate and fix for your specific character so it looks natural for them. this applies especially to lalafell and hrothgar:
  • for lalafell, the weights do not fully match the rest of the hairs. the front right braid does not utilize the third side hair bone, and their bone placement will look off compared to the rest (though they are still completely serviceable in C+ as well, i made sure of this).
  • for hrothgar, this hair will require serious fiddling with C+. using something like upright hrothgar can help mitigate it. i tried to do this hair skeleton in VFXEditor with hrothgar's default posture and genuinely, i wanted to cry. i tried for hours, even if it doesn't seem like it. please understand.
• this hair uses a half times two's skeleton, which does not have proper naming in c+ yet. you will find these bones in the unknown category. i know it's not the most convenient, and i apologize.

the materials acc_a and acc_c can be used to colorset the gold rings and the crystals, respectively. i think that's everything, but if there's a bug please reach out to me on the forums. thank you!

(also, please reach out if you'd like to help me fix lalafell and/or hrothgar; what is here is the best i could personally do for them, but i know it's not ideal!)