Character Creator Light

Hey SE, can we get a new character creator area option? It's a pain currently to get the "right" amount of light in the character creator regardless of which area scene you choose. Yes, I know we can move our character in a circle towards the light but even then there is shadows of trees and whatnot on our character that can mess with our perception.

Yeah.... I can get behind this. I was having trouble determining color, myself, no matter how I spun the character. My Au Ra's skin is a little more red than I anticipated because of this. >_> It was difficult to get a feel of the true color when all of them are 90% shadowy with bits of bright light. I wanted a tan.... but not a reddish tan... x_x Just a light brownish tan....

I agree, the lighting in the character creator is really annoying! >_<

Also they need to allow us to walk around in an empty instance before finalizing. That would be a nice feature.

And if they let us walk around can we also get striking dummies and emote options to try everything?

Also can we get the option to switch which job armour set we can toggle on and off?
Very minor thing but it would be a nice little quality of life feature to see how the character will look in all the job specific gears.

Personally I find the Limsa background while facing shadow to be the most accurate.

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Originally Posted by Terrini

And if they let us walk around can we also get striking dummies and emote options to try everything?

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This or at least a button to hear the battle cries. That was a nightmare when I was testing alt designs; get through the intro, only to hear the voice to be entirely different in battle than what I heard from on the creation screen.

Yeah...this was annoying....I would adjust skin tones to get it all correct...then I get in the game and i'm bright as hell. I get a fantasia from the veterans rewards and adjust darker.....still too bright. But both times they looked fine in the character creator...

I'm glad I finally got my character how I want them, but I had to buy the second fantasia to do it.

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Originally Posted by Terrini

And if they let us walk around can we also get striking dummies and emote options to try everything?

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This please

Also, an option to hear what our voices sound like when attacking. Because, you know, that's the sound we'll be making most.

The lighting in the character creator (and the entire game) changed with the Heavensward expansion. Prior to its release it was much easier to see our characters in the creator, particularly in the Black Shroud setting. Now there are stark shadows everywhere.

Regardless of whether or not this is ever addressed, there's a "Adjust Graphics Settings" button in the lower right corner of the screen that will pop open the System Configuration window. You can access this while creating your characters. The first tab is the "Display Settings", and if you scroll down to the bottom of those options you'll see a slider for "Character Lighting". If you move the lighting to a setting of "100" it'll look more or less like it did prior to the release of Heavensward. You can always change it back after you're done (the default setting is 0). Note that this slider has the least amount of impact in the default "aetherial background" environment.

I seem to recall being able to view the running animation at least in the 1.0 character creator. It's a shame this was taken out!

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Originally Posted by Gramul

Also, an option to hear what our voices sound like when attacking. Because, you know, that's the sound we'll be making most.

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Yeah, I would like this too, as mine sounds like she is shouting 'Whore' everytime she hits something lmao

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Originally Posted by Gramul

Also, an option to hear what our voices sound like when attacking. Because, you know, that's the sound we'll be making most.

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Yes, this please! I don't care if they have to get rid of one of the voice options so long as they add how grunts sound like.