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

[Salmonking]

I agree with OP entirely. I don't have an Au Ra character, but in order to keep the NPCs looking the same my vote is to keep the limbal rings as they are.

I don't really understand the need for a graphics update to be perfectly honest; the existing graphics work well and make the game accessible for more PCs, while once the update ships I will need to replace my computers in order to play due to the increased hard drive space and requirements. But at the very least the update shouldn't come at the cost of what makes each race unique.

[AlchemicRose]

I enjoy my LED looking limbal rings and I want them to stay.
Be it by an adjustment to their decision, a luminosity slider or a light/dark option I want them to stay bright. Thats how many character looks and I will be disappointed if the graphical updates makes her look unlike herself which she would without her bright limbal rings.

I also wish we could have heterochromic limbal rings but thats a whole nother debate.

[ueeyasu]

more than anything i hope they listen most to people who use each feature. changing the pupil size on top of changing limbal glow is a big difference for people with those characteristics

[Turethir]

If anyone from SE is reading this - it's very telling that a large number of people here aren't people who regularly visit the forums and have created accounts just to post about this - this is very important to us!

Please consider our feedback and let us toggle our limbal ring glow!

[Vuro]

The limbal ring glow is a huge part of the appeal for me as a male Au Ra. I really love the effect his bright rings have during cutscenes and it makes his expressions stand out in a dynamic way (especially for surprised emotes). I can't even imagine what my character would look like without the glow because the rings are such a key feature of his face.

If you're one of those people who doesn't like the glow, you're probably already playing as a different race that you're happy with. And if you're not...pick a different race lol - just slap the Ultima Horns on a Hyur or Elezen. Don't advocate to rob us of our unique trait because you're too boring to appreciate it.

[gensymscribe]

I would like to see an option to choose between the two limbal ring styles, as well as a brightness slider to adjust the intensity of the glows! The current limbal rings are very charming and I love how bright and crisp they are on my au ra character, but the new limbal rings look a lot dimmer and would not work as well with his design.

[Iximaz]

While I like the new gradient, I'm worried about losing the glow. I specifically made my au ra's eyes black with a white limbal ring to look like the corona of an eclipse and I'd be really sad if it was changed to a dull greyscale.

[SiriuslyEmily]

As with a lot of others in this thread I really hope they’ll provide a toggle or a slider for the glow effect on Auri limbal rings!! They’re one of the most unique features for that race and it would really diminish an interesting feature if the only option was the faded version.

I’m also a little concerned that the softening of certain facial characteristics like the Elezen example in the original post for this thread is going to lead to some of the more unique facial features being smoothed away. I overall like the direction the examples have shown but it would be a shame for so many players to lose the more intense features they’ve come to love in their wol’s designs.

[goldenophanim]

I don't usually chat here in the forums, but as an artist, I feel the need to clarify an assumption that the overwhelming majority of the replies here seem to be going off of.

It was not the removal of the limbal rings that "fixed" the "soulless/glassy" look that some are complaining about, it's the overall model/normal changes around the eyes (the upper eyelids are noticeably less droopy) and, most importantly, they added real eye shines. This has very little if anything to do with the limbal rings.

You know, living people's eyes are wet. Dead people's eyes aren't. It's as simple as that. If you don't believe me, I've edited the pictures in the OP to show my point:



Adding the glowing limbal rings to the new style of eyes does not make them soulless or glassy, because guess what, it was never them that caused that effect.

The eye shine thing is most drastic in Au Ras, but it's also affecting pretty much every example shown in this thread just to a less huge degree. The elezen guy's eye shines are hidden by his longer lashes in the new style and it's part of what makes him look depressed. The dunesfolk girl's eyes got darker and gained better rendered shadows, yes, but they also gained decently painted eye shines that don't look like stickers.

I'm all for the toggle idea. Let people pick between no ring, non-glowing ring, and glowing ring.

[VayneArior]

I like how the limbal rings kinda gradient into the normal eye, but please leave them glowing! It's why we love Au Ras, I can't imagine my boy without his purple glowing rings. I'm scared he'll look much more different after the update, I hope devs read feedback and decide to let us keep them glowing.