WIll the character shadows get fix soon?

[Reika]

I think the fact that light sources (especially the sun) are all wrong. The sun doesn't really 'move', your shadow just snaps to a different direction at certain times of the day. and light sources like lanterns don't alter or add to your shadow count. Shadows are pretty much just all jacked up. Can very well just turn shadows off in this game, they aren't anything impressive and are just buggy.

[Coldfire]

I think the fact that light sources (especially the sun) are all wrong. The sun doesn't really 'move', your shadow just snaps to a different direction at certain times of the day. and light sources like lanterns don't alter or add to your shadow count. Shadows are pretty much just all jacked up. Can very well just turn shadows off in this game, they aren't anything impressive and are just buggy.

True... but even if you try to disable them your game won't run any faster! xD
The thing is that there's no low-detail versions of the characters which means every light source that casts shadows increases the rendering time by an inacceptible amount. Shadows also cause graphical glitches on stuff like bridges (shadow on multiple surfaces) if you don't do the ambient lighting with something like Ambient Occlusion. Sadly AO in this game is horribly coded. At least we can disable that though :/
I think shadows and AO are part of a high quality game these days. But without DX10/11 it's impossible to fully optimize those features.

[Coldfire]

I think I found the exact problem as I was able to reproduce it with my own engine. It's the "fudge factor" for the floating point error. This is basically a latitude for the depth value. If the factor is too small there will be ugly shadows(this is what we got in this game).
"if shadowdepth-0.03 > ourdepth then shade"
Where -0.03 is the factor. This is done in the pixelshader.

[Vaen]

THREAD NECROMANCY!!!!!

I really hate this damn character shadows bug.

The ONE THING that ff14 has over other MMOs are the top-notch character graphics, but they're completely ruined when all the characters I see are covered in crazy stripes instead of functioning shadows. It ruins all the cutscenes for me.

Has anyone found a fix yet?? Do some people not have this issue?? Have the devs talked about it at all??

WHAT CAN I DO TO BRING IT LOUD AND CLEAR TO YOSHI-P's ATTENTION?