Iris size

Just a curious question from playing around in the character creator: do you use the large or small iris size for your character?

For the majority of races I prefer the large size, but for Miqo'te (both genders) and female Au Ra I think the small size looks better.

So I was wondering whether there a pattern to what people prefer, or if it varies a lot.

Always large except for Seeker Miqo'te because it can look a bit freaky with light eye colours, looks fine on Keepers though.

Large. I feel that it helps calm the expression of the character. With some races having them small makes them look a tad too wide awake.

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Originally Posted by Yencat

Always large except for Seeker Miqo'te because it can look a bit freaky with light eye colours, looks fine on Keepers though.

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Yeah large looks better on Keepers imo. It's what I use, not that many people have seen it.

Mine are large, but I actually had to log in to check mine since I can't even remember. The difference in size for male Au Ra is so insignificant. I kind of wish it was more noticeable.

I always go for large. You can see the eye color a bit better, but also gives them as "softer" look I think.

Large, especially on races with smaller eyes like roegadyn. Any smaller, and they look creepy.

I use small irises. Large irises randomly started to bug me.

I prefer large for most races. Small irises honestly don't look like they're centered right? Is that just me? It makes them kinda off putting to look like and I feel like a simple change in placement would fix most of them.

I use small. I've used two fantasias on my character during my duration in XIV. One was the free one that I used to try out a Highlander, the second was to change everything back. When I changed back though, I didn't revert 100%. Her iris size, eye color, and height remained altered from her first iteration. I changed her iris size from large to small and also adjusted the shade of purple in her eye color to get them to be more 'piercing'. I also adjusted her height to maximum. I wanted to create an attractive character while also avoiding making her look like a loli, and more like an adult.

The large iris size in particular really bothered me during cut scenes that zoom in on my character's face.

Large on fem Au Ra, large or small on fem Miqo'te depending on the overall look I end up going for, and small on Viera and Miqo boys.

Large! For all races, all the time.

I've played around with other races, and it seems I prefer small iris every time.

large on Roe and Viera, small on Hroth

You WILL look into my soulless eyes!

To me it looks like the difference actually applies either to the pupil or iris depending on the race so it varies. I used small for my miqote and lalafell but large for my elezen.

It depends on the race and face.
I think I have the small iris on my female Au Ra. I just use the one I like more, depending on the other options.

I tend to use large irises for female characters, and small for male characters. I think it might be a symptom of watching cartoons where the female characters typically have larger eyes, compared to male characters.

Large.. I picked small and it makes the character look crazy. Try doing that on a midlander and you'll see what I mean. So large all the way.

Large.
I feel the small iris give people psycho looks, mainly the females. Looks fine on guys.

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Originally Posted by xxvaynxx

Large.
I feel the small iris give people psycho looks, mainly the females. Looks fine on guys.

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Same. I feel you on that one.

Had to check, but my female Au Ra has large. I usually create my RPG characters by hitting the random button a bunch of times until I get a base I can work with, then tweak the results. I don't recall changing iris size on this character.

I always use large. The smaller ones makes the characters look a little crazy to me.

While I prefer large, I chose small this time.

I don't even remember what I picked. I don't feel people really see my eyes in detail often.

Personally prefered small with this character in particular. Seems to be a matter of preference if anything.

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Originally Posted by Iscah

Just a curious question from playing around in the character creator: do you use the large or small iris size for your character?

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Large, curious eyes.
Though the downside is that Ifalna is quite sensitive to the light and prefers dimly lit woods and rooms.

She wore shaded glasses for most of ShB's main story, because Norvrandt was torture for her.

I go on a face by face basis.

Though when i was a keeper with this face, i went for large, but when i went seeker with the same face the large were bugging me in the character creation screen so i switched to small.

Smol iris

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I go with large irises. Most of my characters are lalafell and it just seems more natural.