Viera Changes

[EliaStormblade]

Adding on to this as another unhappy viera. I was so happy in ENW to be able to play a masc bun and escape the mandatory viera lipstick, but their design has been stable since shb - warmish grey skintone, desaturated blues and greens elsewhere. Now their skin is green in all but very cool light.

(left: 6.0 graphics, right: 7.0 graphics)

I've managed to "fix" them slightly in the benchmark by making a veena clone, but that makes them much paler than they are right now.
Also, shoutout to the } lips getting turned into :|

I actually don't hate a lot of the new textures too badly, but the overhaul doesn't feel like it's quite ready to go yet. As another thread mentioned, light (and translucency) is all screwed up too.

How does it look in the actual DT benchmark? The lighting in the CC zones is pretty awful and casts a yellow light.

[VerdeLuck]

How does it look in the actual DT benchmark? The lighting in the CC zones is pretty awful and casts a yellow light.

Why would you compare in the benchmark? Character creator -> Character creator is the only way to get an apples to apples comparison of the changes.

[EliaStormblade]

Why would you compare in the benchmark? Character creator -> Character creator is the only way to get an apples to apples comparison of the changes.

You wouldn't compare 1:1, but you would get a feeling of how it acts in proper light. And not the broken yellow lighting in the CC that even live XIV doesn't have in those zones.

It isn't an apples to apples comparison to begin with because the lighting isn't the same, even if the CC zones in which they're being previewed are the same.

[sylanxi]

How does it look in the actual DT benchmark? The lighting in the CC zones is pretty awful and casts a yellow light.

"green in all but very cool light". It's the same. Limsa-backdrop CC is where it's the most visible, but it's pretty much across the board unless the lighting is cool-tinted, including in the benchmark trailer. In the few daylit-lighting settings where they're not green, they lose a lot of the desaturation and grey undertone and become very tan, so even when the lighting is neutral rather than warmish, it's simply not the same skintone.

Anyway comparing CC to CC also allows for a fairer side-by-side, since it's the same pose and time of day, which is why I chose to do that instead of comparing live gameplay shots to benchmark cutscene shots given that the issue is omnipresent anyway. The only escape is to switch subraces, which comes with its own set of issues.