[Graphical Update Feedback] Eyes and Limbal Rings on Au ra

[Larirawiel]

However, the Elezen head that was first shown in that panel confirmed my observations from the Las Vegas Keynote video: some facial features have changed.

No, they did not really change the facial features. It seems, that the character model will stay the same. So the polygon count will not increase after the change. But they clearly replaced the old textures with new ones. The new textures are more detailed and have a higher resolution. And it seems, they fixed some broken textures. And it can look different.


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[Jeeqbit]

I see what you mean by the Elezen change. A lot of Elezens give off a no-nonsense look that immediately makes you think of them as being like Inspector Briardien or really annoying like Alphinaud is in ARR. The new look takes away from that quite a lot. Not entirely but it does significantly. The old pointy, polygon face is what makes it like that.

It seems, that the character model will stay the same. So the polygon count will not increase after the change.

It is hard for me to look at those pictures and believe that the model didn't change. Look how rounded the Elezen chin becomes and how rounded the nose becomes.

Anyway, I don't care. For the same reason I don't care about glamour that much, I don't care about these little details very much. I would go crazy if I allowed myself to care about all these little details and patterns on character models and clothes, so I just pick something that generally looks kinda cool, leave it at that for years and don't look too deeply into it.

[Akonyl]

The limbal rings seem like a huge downgrade + basically remove a part of what made au ra unique, imo. Hopefully they revert that change like they did with the scales.

No, they did not really change the facial features. It seems, that the character model will stay the same. So the polygon count will not increase after the change. But they clearly replaced the old textures with new ones. The new textures are more detailed and have a higher resolution. And it seems, they fixed some broken textures. And it can look different.


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The textures changed, but one of those includes the normal maps (which they talked a ton about here), which are used to approximate high-poly model detail onto a lower poly model. So the fact that they're updating the normal maps + how the shading looks means that the model may as well have changed, because changing normal maps can *drastically* change how a model works, even if you're not technically changing the polys you actually see (because they changed the original high-definition polys the normal maps are baked from).