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

There's an update from YoshiP regarding this whole endeavor

https://media.discordapp.net/attachm...050&height=701

I did several comparisons trying to capture from the same angle in the different lighting scenarios. The broken lighting in the character creator is really easily seen and I'm looking forward to that being fixed (Yoshi-P just put out a new statement if you haven't seen it yet that they're fixing this!) The comparison in the far bottom right is the only real comparison since it's actually in game.

They ruined my au ra. What a shock, it's face 4 again. Disregard the limbal, that's to showcase the differences of changing it a bit.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...7cc184d00440f&
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...0f8449c85507b&

Gone is my hawkish, aggressive, angular, "I WILL END YOU!" au ra. Replaced by an imposter porcelain doll I never asked for.

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Originally Posted by lunartears

Since you claimed that people sharing their thoughts as I wrote in the original title was derailing the thread and are now derailing the thread - Are you going to post your character's before and after or not?

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Of course, I just need to get home for that. Sorry for the derailment.

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Edit: Seems like I reached my post limit, oh well.
I'll just edit in the before/after here:

This one is not my main, because the cat-girl I use is a fancy placeholder until I can fanta in Dawntrail. But I can post my Alt bunny and my favourite retainer!

Bun bun Before:
https://i.imgur.com/CX8RkGC.png

Bun bun After:
https://i.imgur.com/lUJpm7T.png

I like her more now, her eyes are more sparkly, I love dynamic lighting in games, in the right light it looks really magical. I hated the static white dot, it looked like a toy's plastic eyes, not lively or fun. Very happy with the change, her eyelashes seem fuller, but at the same time softer. Her lip shape changed, but I can see that being done to make the animator's life easier. I hope we will get some nice animations from it. Overall happy with my bun.


Duskwight Before:
https://i.imgur.com/tm9MEJj.png

Duskwight After:
https://i.imgur.com/Qw6aNXK.png

Unacceptable! It should NOT be legal to be this handsome!!! I mean he went from a 10/10 to an infinite/10. How is this even fair? I am so tempted to say bye to my bun from above just to make him my alt instead!

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Originally Posted by Rehayem

There's an update from YoshiP regarding this whole endeavor

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That's good to see that a lot of complaints are being addressed. Clearly it is not in fact just bad lighting in the character creator (though that is also one of the problems).

Hopefully everyone's biggest problems will be fixed. I'll reserve any more judgement until the next benchmark release.

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Originally Posted by Kouren

lol No misdirect intended. Here's the real before and after

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

I would probably need to figure out how to change the character illumination to get a more direct comparison, but this will do.

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One of the rare viera cases where I think the updated version looks better

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Originally Posted by Taranok

They ruined my au ra. What a shock, it's face 4 again. Disregard the limbal, that's to showcase the differences of changing it a bit.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...7cc184d00440f&
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...0f8449c85507b&

Gone is my hawkish, aggressive, angular, "I WILL END YOU!" au ra. Replaced by an imposter porcelain doll I never asked for.

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I still get a "I WILL END YOU!" vibe, she just seems more confident now. I really like the updated version

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Originally Posted by GodModule

I still get a "I WILL END YOU!" vibe, she just seems more confident now. I really like the updated version

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Nah, she looks way softer, especially with that mouth.

I've gone into more detail in a post in the Au Ra feedback thread, but here are the comparison images I did of my character. I still need to do similar comparisons for my other characters - my Duskwight and Miqo'te were the others worst hit.


Specific core issues with this face are the exaggerated shadow under the eyebrow, changed shape of the eye itself and changed shape of the mouth which has altered a slight smile into a definite frown.

https://lds-img.finalfantasyxiv.com/...e4f0da4bf4.jpg

https://lds-img.finalfantasyxiv.com/...4dc921f450.jpg

Relevant character settings:
Face 3
Jaw 4
Eyes 2
Iris L
No limbal rings
Brows 2
Nose 1
Mouth 1
"Other Features": cheek scales and thicker eyebrows turned on; extra eyeliner turned off.

And an attempt to photoshop the changes back:

https://lds-img.finalfantasyxiv.com/...4285421e44.jpg

Another comparison and edit - I hope to get these done for all of my characters, but it takes a surprisingly long amount of time to get it sorted out.

https://lds-img.finalfantasyxiv.com/...a621eeb9e5.jpg

Character settings:

Character settings:
Face 2
Skin 24,4
Hair 1,3
Jaw 4

EYES
Shape 4
Large irises
Colour 13,6
Eyebrows 4

EARS
Shape 3
Length 25

Nose 4
Mouth 4
No lip colour

Features: (4) scar on left cheek

Tattoos: (1) right
Colour: 19,8 (RGB 28,32,39)

Facepaint: none

Edited version:

https://lds-img.finalfantasyxiv.com/...3dda2d1948.jpg

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Originally Posted by Aimed

https://i.imgur.com/9rzk795.png
Love my au ra

Hyur looks uuuuuuuhhhh not the same. Unfortunately not finding a matching eye in the options :(

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Goodness, those eyes on the Hyur are a punch to the gut. You have my condolences! My character's eyes were altered as well, but not to that extent. Personally, I'm hoping that this part of Yoshi-P's updated means that transformations were not applied correctly to eye shapes as well:

"The following are examples of issues which fall into this category:

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D. An issue with uncorrected scaling for the mouth of certain playable races."

Even though he didn't mention eyes, he did mention the mouth and use the word "example", so... Keep up the hard work taking the screenshots and voicing your feedback!