Female Avatar hair

Maria_Hatch_HIK · February 19, 2020, 4:47pm

I am a blonde female with very long hair. I would like to be able to have option of either a blonde longhair pony tail, or a long braid when creating my avatar. Thanks!

Karen_Peterson · May 25, 2020, 4:56pm

Same here! Any word on this?

Ben_Brawn_HVR · May 25, 2020, 5:48pm

There are lots of requests like this already https://forums.zwift.com/search?q=Avatar%20hair

More lengths, colours, styles. Avatar customisation isn’t a high priority I’d say based on the evidence.

Karen_Peterson · May 25, 2020, 6:08pm

Yes, I’m aware that many people have asked for this seemingly trivial improvement and yet it has not been forthcoming …

Laura_D_Andrea · February 16, 2021, 3:30pm

I am in the same boat. I have long dark hair and don’t understand why there aren’t longer hair options for avatars. It looks like this has been a topic in the forum for a number of years so it would be great to get some good news.

Mike_Rowe1 · February 16, 2021, 3:38pm

Please see below from a different thread.

Long Hair Options for Avatars

Hey folks!

Noticed some recent activity on this thread and I wanted to pop in and provide some clarification to make sure ya’ll know we’re listening!

The reason Zwift has yet to add longer hairstyle options for avatars is simply due to graphical limitations. Notice that all hairstyles are above the shoulders? This is because certain hairstyles become impossible to render without visual issue. Since hairstyles don’t allow a lot of wiggle room for animation (think a helmet made of hair), any styles below the shoulders would just clip through the avatars and appear severely broken. Rather than having a bunch of rogue braids and ponytails attached to torsos, we opted to keep hairstyles to a certain length for now.

While I understand this may not be the answer many of ya’ll were searching for, I hope this clarifies the limitation with the current hairstyles in game, and let’s ya’ll know your requests are being heard and discussed

Karen_Peterson · March 3, 2021, 2:54am

Someone else explained to me that jerseys are rendered separately from heads and they can’t overlap – that’s why we can’t have long hair. I immediately thought this explanation should be more widely known since this is such a wished-for feature. Put it in the avatar design section of the game so we don’t have to go looking for it!