Benchmark/Graphics Update - Show your WoL's before and after

Wonder if its something with the final fantasy benchmarks in general though not as obvious as with dawntrail benchmark i have always felt something is little off when using with my characters on those benchmarks.

I did a little tweak with the gamma and it did improve some what. her expression is very close to how she does them in game now but there is definitely some issue with lips in the upgrade

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I Loooove my character, the glow-up is so good! Might change Skintone just a tad with the fantasia but I couldn't be happier. its everything I wanted.

https://i.imgur.com/HKCxG0I.png
https://i.imgur.com/y595kDT.png

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Originally Posted by Roarmiaka

I Loooove my character, the glow-up is so good! Might change Skintone just a tad with the fantasia but I couldn't be happier. its everything I wanted.

https://i.imgur.com/HKCxG0I.png
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https://i.ibb.co/FhLC58J/ffxiv-04142024-185648-167.png

I guess we're just winning as Femezen for the most part.

https://i.imgur.com/uT9Z8CP.jpg

IT'S SO MUCH WORSE THAN I WAS EVEN EXPECTING

could literally not be more upset about what they've done to my character.

https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca88...tXtlVjytGMWZG4
Before

https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca88...3kKWEiC9DhWvBA
a,,after,,

literally who IS this..?

https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca88...5Pm9o-nzdVteZA
also tried manually swapping some of her features to try to return her personality and shape but the closest i got is still nothing like her..

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...d7d6e7823143a&
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...78079a086bbc1&

I actually cried a bit from how bad she looks now. All of the life in her expression is gone, all the definition in her features is reduced. She looks like a completely different person.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...0b063ce149d8b&
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She looks *very slightly* better in the benchmark, but is still nowhere as close to how good she looks right now.

Not happy with it at all. Some of my characters, my friends' characters, and my siblings' characters are drastically changed. Sure some might think they look better, or that it isn't that different, but they're not the same characters we've all played with since 1.0/2.0 and 3.0 (in the case of au ra). So below are some comparisons and comments by the respective players:

https://i.imgur.com/SQQRKDJ.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/3nGkNHr.png
Here SE made the nostrils bigger, the philtrum smaller, the lips no longer have the tubercles, the oral commissure is less pronounced/barely visible, the bridge of the nose has changed entirely, the nostrils are wider and rounder, epicanthal folds were shortened and receded.
He looks soulless, aged, unhappy, like he's had blepharoplasty and rhinoplasty by force at the hands of some Steppe butcher. It's as if all of the characters' happiness and spirit was sucked out of them and shoved into their nostrils.
This is a character my brother helped design before passing away, so I'm especially displeased with how he's so drastically changed. It's not just different textures, his facial structure is affected. He looks similar, yes, but it's not the same character.
Also, his eyelashes are gone.. why?
https://imgsli.com/MjU2MTAw

Here's another picture of the same face, both using nose 6- before and after 7.0's changes.
https://i.imgur.com/YQAij3L.png
Some races have a nose that was taller before and gets noticeably shorter after, or the opposite issue of this image.

https://i.imgur.com/KQAUjyz.png
She doesn't even look like the same character, the lips look completely different, the philtrum is wider and more pronounced, the lips aren't as full and the nose looks more like they went for a Disney look rather than something that fits in the game. The eyes are okay, but the pupils are a bit wider now.. which looks strange if you've gotten used to looking at how they used to look
Her bottom lip seems to lack the "plump" that it used to have, as well.

https://i.imgur.com/fQnhM46.jpeg
This character is meant to be childish and alien looking, made by someone who at the time was a child. She looks like she's been given a redesign to look softer, conventionally attractive, and generally more appealing to men- yet somehow more uncanny and creepy.

Why are the nose shapes changing so much? You can increase the quality of a model without altering its aesthetic to this degree.

Additionally, everything looks washed out. The makeup is less drastic even on the dark settings with saturated colours. There's more shine on skin where it feels weird and oily and the shine from glossy lips has been almost entirely removed.
Certain light hair colours don't look good now;
https://i.imgur.com/xfNoDCa.jpeg

Another example where the shape of the lips and nose were changed rather than upscaled;
https://i.imgur.com/XuXZtyx.png
She's making a 2000s duckface.

This persons' duskwight looks like someone ripped the textures from the other older-looking male elezen face and put them onto the only youthful one
https://i.imgur.com/AQoF0bT.png

These are the *exact* same options on one character, the only difference is the new graphical 'update'. They're not even close to the same.
https://i.imgur.com/VfCM653.png

I know none of this will be amended either prior to or after the release of 7.0, but it's another dissatisfaction drop we've all had among many in the bucket with the direction being taken for FF14 right now.

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

The eyelashes are really throwing me off (and this isn't even to mention the fang issues pointed out in another thread).

Her nose looks more "snatched" and I miss the gloss on her lips. I can adjust the shade of course... The dynamic lighting of the eyes just makes her eyes look WAY darker especially with the eyelashes. Just overall I really hate how full the eyelashes are now because it feels like a completely different vibe.

Her eyebrows are also lighter which I cannot fix without changing her hair color.

Overall the characters I've seen are just... softer, like someone sanded down any edge that might look like a stray polygon or something. It's too soft and too plastic-y.

https://i.imgur.com/gJl3iyw.jpg

In what universe... is this an improvement...

I posted a longer reply in the Elezen thread, but in general, I am super happy with how my boy came out. Yes, it's different and there are also things I dislike (mainly the plasticy skin and the loss of cheekbones) but overall, I feel good about him.

I did notice tho that the Limsa preset has changing lighting, hence why his skintone looks more greenish in the update here. I left the screen for 5 mins and came back to take another screen and the light completely changed and he looks normal in the Benchmark as well so that's not a point to complain for me personally.

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