Dawntrail Graphic Update Feedback - Skin translucency is overtuned

This is perfectly put together & informative!
Thank you; I hope the devs see this & this thread remains relevant because I feel it's important and does well in keeping feedback simple, while also being constructive

Juat chiming in that I hope they see this. The characters do have a very waxy appearance

These are exactly my thoughts, thank you for explaining in detail and with real comparisons... It is uncanny, not as noticeable on every character, but specially on some darker skin tones and some pale ones too

Thank you for explaining in detail, this has been bothering me so much with the skin. Hope the devs can action on this...

I think you figured it out! This was very informative, thank you!

You can't really compare it to live skins because live skins don't really react to light at all. Wanting it to look like live is tantamount to saying "I want flat paper skin that just gets flatly lit up and doesn't interact with light".

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Originally Posted by EliaStormblade

You can't really compare it to live skins because live skins don't really react to light at all. Wanting it to look like live is tantamount to saying "I want flat paper skin that just gets flatly lit up and doesn't interact with light".

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By "live skins" do you mean "The skin of the characters as they appear in Final Fantasy XIV: Online Version 6.58" or did you mean "human flesh", either way "live skins" is a weird way to talk about it.

I feel like these skin changes are also contributing to the clan marks on Miqo'te (specifically fem, I haven't studied masc) not showing up as strongly in the benchmark as they do in 6.58...

Just wanted to add my support to this thread. I'm overall pretty happy with how my WoL looks in the new engine, but I *did* notice that her nose loses a lot of definition in the straight-on or 3/4 view--the shadows are nearly invisible and so it just kind of disappears. It looks to me like the translucency setting would completely rectify that for me.

Thank you for the technical breakdown!

I did see a friend post on twt about how adjusting the gamma correction seems to help with that overly-lit look, any thoughts on that? It's definitely not perfect and the skin still needs work regardless, but, I wondered if this might help anyone playing around with settings

(his photo, not mine):

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLJOq3XX...pg&name=medium