Viera Changes

[prairie]

Sharing my character in all environments to show the difference the lighting makes. The update improves shadows and lighting in some environments but it's definitely lacking in others.

Gallery:
https://imgur.com/1nrWg1j

The Inn and La Noscea environments actually showcase beautiful new renderings--the lips definition is still there, I'm overall very happy except for the pupil size change!

The Aetherial Sea, Thanalan and Shroud environments show an entirely different character, imo. The lips lose definitely, the facial structure is flattened and the eyes look dull and harsh at the same time.

Makes me wonder if this is just a lighting issue? That said, I really do hope the devs see the feedback about Veena pupil size and fix this because I adore my original characters eyes! They really define her whole face and the new eyes give her a whole different vibe somehow.

Very interesting to see how drastically the lighting changes the whole look and feel of the face, especially when you can see in the original (current) graphics that facial structure isn't affected as much.

[RulerKelso]

The Inn and La Noscea environments actually showcase beautiful new renderings--the lips definition is still there, I'm overall very happy except for the pupil size change!

Well, my dark skinned viera is BLUE in new "La noscea" background lighting

I hope lighting in benchmark CC is bugged and dont represent real lighting DT will use in all La noscea areas.

[Kouren]

Well, my dark skinned viera is BLUE in new "La noscea" background lighting

The character creator has notoriously bad lighting. Predominate theory I've seen floating around is the chargen lighting hasn't been fully updated to be compatible with the new textures, which reflects what I've seen in my benchmark. Does she still seem blue in the benchmark trailer?

[RulerKelso]

The character creator has notoriously bad lighting. Predominate theory I've seen floating around is the chargen lighting hasn't been fully updated to be compatible with the new textures, which reflects what I've seen in my benchmark. Does she still seem blue in the benchmark trailer?

Ye, I hope so. Otherwise i will look like a Smurf in Limsa Lominsa

So perusing the JP megathread some posters over there have posted some really good feedback/breakdowns/edits of the changes that I think y'all might appreciate putting your eyes on.[

Lets hope that "sausage lips" and "dead eyes" are just temporal bugs and will be fixed until release. Did not found any nice lips in the benchmark CC fitting for this face (F Viera face1) which reminds the original lips shape im using now.
They would not just make such illogical changes unless neccessary.

[boopadoop]

Sharing my character in all environments to show the difference the lighting makes. The update improves shadows and lighting in some environments but it's definitely lacking in others.

Gallery:
https://imgur.com/1nrWg1j

The Inn and La Noscea environments actually showcase beautiful new renderings--the lips definition is still there, I'm overall very happy except for the pupil size change!

The Aetherial Sea, Thanalan and Shroud environments show an entirely different character, imo. The lips lose definitely, the facial structure is flattened and the eyes look dull and harsh at the same time.

Makes me wonder if this is just a lighting issue? That said, I really do hope the devs see the feedback about Veena pupil size and fix this because I adore my original characters eyes! They really define her whole face and the new eyes give her a whole different vibe somehow.

Very interesting to see how drastically the lighting changes the whole look and feel of the face, especially when you can see in the original (current) graphics that facial structure isn't affected as much.

i do think the lightning in areas other than the blue aetherial sea is the biggest issue and that if they updated/changed/fixed/provided a better setting with updated lighting to previews a lot of things wouldn't look nearly as bad <3