7.0 Graphics update to SKIN

I would say it looks more like rubber than plastic, if anything, but could really just be the lighting.

What I honestly think, is that people are too used to how the game has been looking for the last 10 years, so I think it's understandable that things look a bit off, even though technologically everything about the new characters is better.

This is separate from the Auri limbal rings and Viera noses. Racial traits have to remain.

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Originally Posted by Darkstride

I'm pretty sure that first Lalafell picture was specifically showing "wet" effect textures on purpose.

Edit: yeah, you can see them flip on the wet effect. Go to 02:04:32

https://www.youtube.com/live/OxVWTkt...3enJRrX38nj_IV

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Thank you!

I think it looks fine, but then I dont spend all my time looking at faces. I am usually playing and most I do see up close, are fairly brief.

some of those images that have been used in this thread are far closer than I care to get, or can zoom in.

I'll wait until it releases before forming an opinion

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Originally Posted by Tsumdere

People are nuts if they think the new skin looks worse. It looks a lot better. Not current gen graphics, but it was never going to be that. Leagues better than the completely flat skin we have now.

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Youtube compression aside, there also seems to be an issue with the upscaling tech in the benchmark. At 1440p the skin does have a vaseline like smeared look to it, but I used DLDSR to downscale from 4k and it looked leagues better. I guess at 1080p and 1440p, it's upscaling from a much lower resolution akin to Performance mode?

It seems to be very depended on race and skin tone. In general, skin seems to have gotten lighter, which leaves darker skin tones looking mostly fine and lighter ones looking waxy. My friend's pale-skinned Duskwight lady has been hit especially hard while my dark skinned character looks OK when it comes to skin texture.

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Originally Posted by lunartears

I definitely have noticed that the skin is more plastic-like in the newer graphics. I feel like the skin looks less detailed and more like a barbie doll. And along with baked in character model shadows being lightened or removed, it gives off a very strange illuminated feeling compared to the original.

New Meteor is a great example of this

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLBEZDvW...jpg&name=large

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You can see from this

https://i.imgur.com/MqH6Jru.png

that the skin has pores. However it is very uniform. Overall its not that bad.

The issue is that with barely any lightning it looks overly exposed. Maybe tweaking the shaders would fix this somewhat.

Subsurface scattering would reduce the plastic look as well.

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Originally Posted by Somnolence

You can see from this

https://i.imgur.com/MqH6Jru.png

that the skin has pores. However it is very uniform. Overall its not that bad.

The issue is that with barely any lightning it looks overly exposed. Maybe tweaking the shaders would fix this somewhat.

Subsurface scattering would reduce the plastic look as well.

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the cheeks are a little flushed, but that's in game now. I don't see pores.

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Originally Posted by MsQi

the cheeks are a little flushed, but that's in game now. I don't see pores.

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The lighting in that shot definitely overexposes it to the point you can barely see it, but adjusting the contrast makes it more obvious that the skin has (more?) texture now.

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

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Originally Posted by MsQi

the cheeks are a little flushed, but that's in game now. I don't see pores.

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