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Deified Data · Jan 26, 2015

Bear with me. You ever notice how in most games no one seems to have armpit hair?

This can be explained by several factors. Either a character is young and effeminate like Vaan from FFXII, in which the smooth underarms looks natural, or devs simply skimp out on it because it's an area of a character's model that no one is ever going to see. But in some cases you get obviously masculine characters who are painstakingly detailed in every inch of their body, only to be smooth as a baby under their arms. Why do you think that is? Recent example is Geralt of Rivia:

Does he seem like the type to put everything down in the middle of an adventure to shave his pits? I mean, no one wants a monster bush under their arms but neatly trimmed pit hair is still acceptable, right? It makes me wonder if devs even know they're doing it at this point. Like it's not something they think about so the model just gets rendered that way without anyone sparing a thought. Or is there just a global taboo on armpit hair that I don't know about? Oddly enough the only armpit hair I remember being rendered was Olga in MGS2:

What do you think is going on here?

tcrunch · Jan 26, 2015

Drinking witcher potion made him that way!

dc89 · Jan 26, 2015

I was about to say Olga. The only one I can remember.

madmook · Jan 26, 2015

Hard enough rendering head hair, why have the hassle of other hairs to render unrealistically?

Is this your fetish?

SerTapTap · Jan 26, 2015

The tricks we use to fake head-hair don't particularly map to armpit (or other) hair. Note Witcher-bro also has no arm hair

McDougles · Jan 26, 2015

Surprised by how un-waifu-based this thread started out.

strafer · Jan 26, 2015

But aren't russion women known for their hair though?

both upstairs and downstairs

SystemBug · Jan 26, 2015

smh at geralt. keeps a beard but shaves his pits

BiGBoSSMk23 · Jan 26, 2015

Came here for Olga.

Although I gotta say the Witcher does look jarring. Dudes got a beard ffs.

Now I'm picturing him knife-shaving that shit with lard near a campfire or something.

lazygecko · Jan 26, 2015

Flat texture or mesh-based armpit hair?

entremet · Jan 26, 2015

strafer said:
But aren't russion women known for their hair though?

both upstairs and downstairs

No lol.

Olga is a solider. She had not time to be shaving.

Xbudz · Jan 26, 2015

NBA 2k15 has some.

Red Liquorice · Jan 26, 2015

Seems like an area of the body that isn't going to be on display too often or very prominently in a lot of games, so why go to the bother of making it.

I'm still pissed they took away hairy chests in Dark Souls 2, we can finally make bearded gruff looking older guys but they have the bodies of anime bishonen. It wasn't exactly a rug in DS1, but it was something to look at whilst going up an elevator.

entremet · Jan 26, 2015

I think it also has to the technical priorities.

The Witcher having no body hair at all is also jarring, but it's probably easier to do.

Video games don't really go for higher realism.

shandy706 · Jan 26, 2015

Red Dead Redemption 2 and GTA VI to have fully realized armpit and pubic hair.

You heard it in this thread.

Ingueferroque · Jan 26, 2015

That Witcher scene looks lame as fuck. Reminds me of modern Bioware games.

Xamtheking · Jan 26, 2015

shandy706 said:
Red Dead Redemption 2 and GTA VI to have fully realized armpit and pubic hair.

You heard it in this thread.

#1080pArmpitHair

Diggeh · Jan 26, 2015

Good morning GAF! What a beautiful day! Hmm? What's this thread?

...

You gotta work hard to render that armpit hair. Make it a feature in the next Dark Souls.

Enduin · Jan 26, 2015

Less armpit hair the better. Some things just don't need to be.

Mifec · Jan 26, 2015

shandy706 said:
Red Dead Redemption 2 and GTA VI to have fully realized armpit and pubic hair.

You heard it in this thread.

triss in W2

SRTtoZ · Jan 26, 2015

I've noticed at the gym a lot of guys with shaved pits. Really weird and I doubt they are all swimmers.

When you stop and think about it, what a weird place to have hair.

Not Spaceghost · Jan 26, 2015

Probably because it'd just look like armpit mud.

Prevolition · Jan 26, 2015

Never even thought of this. But all I know is that I have witnessed this thread with mine own eyes.

-Horizon- · Jan 26, 2015

We need some TressFX on that stat.

capitalCORN · Jan 26, 2015

PC exclusive effect with Nvidia Cards (Well, it does have haireffects

).

Zant532 · Jan 26, 2015

madmook said:
Is this your fetish?

Platy · Jan 26, 2015

I have a theory that games hates curly hair .... and that is what the majority of armpit hair is made of

Visualante2 · Jan 26, 2015

texture artists will often hide the seams of a character's UV map under the arm pit. This probably isn't such a big deal nowadays because of 3D painting tools. But I can see why a game wouldn't want to draw attention to the under arms 5+ years ago.

sublimit · Jan 26, 2015

Yeah it always looked a bit weird for Auron to have shaved armpits.

Winterfang · Jan 26, 2015

Well we finally reached top bottom on this kind of threads.

Windforce · Jan 26, 2015

Armpit hair probably not worth rendering as it doesn't appear as often.

Anyway, there's armpit hair on the EA Sports UFC models. Guess they are just textures, been a while I don't play it so I don't remember.

Deified Data · Jan 26, 2015

madmook said:
Hard enough rendering head hair, why have the hassle of other hairs to render unrealistically?

Is this your fetish?

I don't think so. I've just always found it odd. It's weirdly distracting in scenes with bared armpits.

Mandoric · Jan 26, 2015

Huh, never thought about that. I guess it's related to how terribly hair clips in most engines? Even if you added stubble texture it'd still look shaved on most guys, just badly shaved, and of course it's considered unattractive on women in the US and Japan so apart from Kojima being Kojima most studios wouldn't give a woman who didn't shave a sleeveless shirt to begin with.

Windforce · Jan 26, 2015

Winterfang said:
Well we finally reached top bottom on this kind of threads.

Not really, wait til Uncharted 4 drops for discussions about Drake's bodyhair with even more depth.

hoping for a shower scene

sakipon · Jan 26, 2015

Enduin said:
Less armpit hair the better. Some things just don't need to be.

First people keep begging for games to get closer to photorealism, and now we find out they can't handle the truth after all.

Meicyn · Jan 26, 2015

Ingueferroque said:
That Witcher scene looks lame as fuck. Reminds me of modern Bioware games.

But what does Geralt's sweat taste like?

Manu · Jan 26, 2015

sublimit said:
Yeah it always looked a bit weird for Auron to have shaved armpits.

I was gonna mention Auron and that specific cutscene. I always thought it looked weird.

Floridian · Jan 26, 2015

I'll wait until Uncharted 4 so that Drake's armpit hair physics can be fully appreciated.

zaccheus · Jan 26, 2015

heres one - why does ryu and gouken and other japanese characters have no nipples but abel and feilong do?

SDCowboy · Jan 26, 2015

It's 2015... Where is that deodorant clumped pit hair?!

Stereogatari · Jan 26, 2015

sublimit said:
Yeah it always looked a bit weird for Auron to have shaved armpits.

He must be a Muslim.

Deified Data said:

This is exactly what I thought of when I saw the thread title. I doubt gaming has as definitive an example of armpit hair as this.

Zombine · Jan 26, 2015

I shave my armpits regularly, so I feel as if these clean shaven heroes helps me share a deeper bond with the character.

Roto13 · Jan 26, 2015

Rufus has a treasure trail but every other Street Fighter character shaves their underarms.

Kagoshima_Luke · Jan 26, 2015

Gief is oddly lacking in this area as well.

I mean, shin hair, but none in the armpit?

TheSeks · Jan 26, 2015

dc89 said:
I was about to say Olga. The only one I can remember.

Leon's alternate outfit that allows him to one-hand aim guns in Biohazard 2 also has "underarm hair" as textures.

Great-God · Jan 26, 2015

SRTtoZ said:
I've noticed at the gym a lot of guys with shaved pits. Really weird and I doubt they are all swimmers.

When you stop and think about it, what a weird place to have hair.

Actually not. There's a lot of friction in both armpits and crotch, so there's hair to protect the skin.

On topic, I was expecting Olga and I'm not dissapointed.

Zoator · Jan 26, 2015

Auron from FFX always bothered me. This was from a CG cutscene:

Edit: Beaten

ppor · Jan 26, 2015

Doesn't UC4 Nathan Drake have body hair that flutters with the wind?

Dice// · Jan 26, 2015

No problem with this, I think armpit hair is icky on both men and women (rather, I hate when it's long and sticking out of shirts).

Kagoshima_Luke · Jan 26, 2015

ppor said:
Doesn't UC4 Nathan Drake have body hair that flutters with the wind?

No, I believe it's just his bulge that does that.

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