Updated benchmark

Previous comparison:
https://i.imgur.com/YZrdAOu.png

Today's update:
https://i.imgur.com/aXhg8Ph.png

Thankyou very much devs for fixing the error with the hair highlighting! I'm thrilled, tbh!
I was worried that I had just got lucky from the first attempt and that my time was coming but my boy looks fantastic. He looks a little older and a little meaner and those are very big positives for me! I'm particularly happy about the softer realistic lighting in the second row AND MOST OF ALL the little curl of shadow the hair makes in the bottom right pic going to the corner of the mouth is a new charm point I didn't even know I needed ^^

My biggest issue was rounding up her cat-shaped eyes
I am glad that they fixed it - a tiny bit, but that make such a huge impact

ingame | first bench | new bench


Also we don't have to talk about the lighting fix - that alone makes the characters look so much better than in the first benchmark


https://media.discordapp.net/attachm...ality=losslesshttps://media.discordapp.net/attachm...ality=losslesshttps://media.discordapp.net/attachm...ality=lossless
ingame | first bench | new bench

I LOVE having back my cateyes! Very pleased! But I have no clue why the eyebrows got changed again and even more different than original

Also face marks on forehead stayed more visible like in the previous benchmark and the lips still have a slight difference even though my face model has very similar lips so the difference isn't that huge as with other)

But I'm kinda disappointed about the second-eyebrow change
Even with eyebrow shape 2 which always has the "saddest" look they look kinda mean

https://i.imgur.com/pnCFVgb.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/epLvcIt.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/g4J2IP8.png
first comparison after the first benchmark release plus the new one
https://i.imgur.com/zTJLnnn.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/Ip0yWN2.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/YCYl8Br.png
and eyebrows #2 aka the "straight" ones..

Overall I am happy because for me the eyes were the most important thing

As handsome as as ever
My only complaint is the unsaturated hair. I know it's because of the new lighting system but can the diffuse maps or other hair textures be made to be darker? Or at least let us select a darker shade of black; the darkest black is basically just grey now.

Roegadyn 10/10
Unsaturated hair colors 5/10
https://i.imgur.com/4RV10DV.png
https://i.imgur.com/ahdbekY.png
https://i.imgur.com/hxGh4m1.png

Lowering Gamma to 0 is great but the hair color is still not black; current endwalker hair colors are infinitely better.

I'm super happy with the changes they made to midlander face 5. My chracter looks like himself again.

From the new benchmark, with the excellent new lighting option in the crystal backdrop:https://i.imgur.com/6alcMf5.png

Here is the comparison if you are interested: https://i.imgur.com/F6jDUla.png

I was one of the (probably) few that was actually really happy with my character in the first benchmark, and I'm actually kinda disappointed now :(

this was my char in the 1st benchmark:

https://imgur.com/xw7uJA6

and this is her now in the 2nd benchmark:

https://imgur.com/De10Smo

look at her eyes, she had mad mascara (or whatever the makeup around the eyes is called, which got heavily reduced , and the lightning makes it look like she put makeup on 1 eye and forgot the other, her hair no longer casts shadow on her face (which looks really weird), shadows on the barrels behind her are reduced, people complained we had dead eyes, but now they look glazed over (and it looks like one of my eyes is lighter then the other, which, its not...)

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Originally Posted by localareanetwork

Why'd female miqo'te eye 3's shape change? It just looks worse

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...c88790b669a0a&

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Agreed i love that eyeshape and they destroyed it :(

https://i.imgur.com/Pngbvi4.png

I detest it. They ruined my boy. He looks like they took him out back, shot him in the head, and replaced him with a soulless fake they couldn't even be bothered getting right. I just want my cute catboy back.

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Originally Posted by Miemi

I love that they listened to the different eyeliner/lashline feedback and changed it. Also suprised that they darkened the eyebrows to reflect the current ones. Personally, I'll only have to change the eyebrow shape, overall I'm content with the changes

https://i.imgur.com/UPemXEj.png

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I put together a small visual feedback. Imgur for bigger picture: https://i.imgur.com/mFhtu3W.png

https://i.imgur.com/yqGTNOd.png

Hyur Highlander here.

While the new benchmark is immensely better than it was before, and the character was improved in the new version, still...

Comparing the original character with the benchmark 1.1 one, it's not "only" a different person altogether, it still doesn't even give the same feelings.

Imgsli comparison: https://imgsli.com/MjY5NDM2

Current - Bench 1.0 - Bench 1.1:
https://i.imgur.com/X3YSyKc.png
https://i.imgur.com/kLR1wuZ.png

On the one hand, I'm happy how it was improved from the last benchmark version, on the other, please don't tell me I should be okay with how radically different she feels for me...

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Originally Posted by Rikizza

Agreed i love that eyeshape and they destroyed it :(

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They "destroyed" it on purpose, right. Boohoo the evil devs, how dare they. Can we not assume it was some minor mistake?