Hello there,
The ‘windswept’ hairstyle on male troll characters has been broken since at least patch 10.2. I’ve made multiple bug reports and a reddit post over the past year, but I decided to create a forum post as well. I made an image that shows the same hairstyle before and after patch 10.2 and accurately represents the problem I’m talking about. But it looks like I’m unable to share links on this forum. So I’ll try to describe it as best I can. If there’s any way for me to include an image or a link, please let me know!
The shape of the mesh on the sideburns seems to be completely jagged and doesn’t ‘flow’ into the same downwards direction anymore. The texture also looks distorted on the sideburns and hairline especially. I feel like the texture issues are caused by the warped shape of the mesh. The mesh shape doesn’t seem to correspond to the texture map anymore, causing issues with the projection.
There’s also another smaller bug with male troll characters. Their idle animations simply stop playing from time to time. It’s especially noticeable when pressing ‘x’ to sit down in-game. The idle sitting animation plays for a while and then it just randomly stops, causing your character to ‘freeze’ in place. Once you jump up or do anything to cancel your sitting pose, normal animations resume. Not as annoying as the hair thing, but I wanted to mention it.
Anyhow, I hope this forum posts does more than the countless bug reports I’ve submitted. It would be wonderful if one of your artist was given the time to take a look under the hood and do some tweaks where necessary. I’d love to be able to play my troll without having to wear helmets again!