Benchmark/Graphics Update - Show your WoL's before and after

[Zifeara]

I'm one of the lucky ones playing a male miqo and while I'm overall pretty pleased with how he turned out, I still have some grievances on behalf of everyone else. He looked better in the trailer thankfully, but that static indoor lighting is not doing his lips favors. I honestly think they got lips wrong for everyone -some flat out changing shape- but I mostly think I just liked the way they were shaded before, if that makes sense. I'll need to mess with my shaders because now the game finally has some color of its own and alter some of his colors with fanta to get them back to the way they were, but I'm mostly hoping they're listening to everyone who got everything changed about their WoL :/

[OgruMogru]

Comparison of some screenshots from the benchmark. Really think the CC lighting is making everyone look a lot worse.

[Thrawn21]

It's crazy to me how wildly different the new model looks depending on the environment. My old model looked consistently like himself in good or bad angles/lighting. That's definitely not the case for the new model.



When I saw the comparison above (left = old, right = new) I instantly thought, "wtf happened to you!?" It's almost comical how bad the new version looks to me. I played around a bit with different angles and environments and got very different results.



I actually love his new look in this comparison (left = old, right = new). Some of his facial features changed, but it looks like a proper glowup while still looking like himself. All of these comparisons have identical character appearance stats (I had to double check because it looked so different depending on the environment). Hopefully when DT drops we end up having more consistency and people can feel good about their WoL. I've had mine since 2.0 and I empathize with people who are distraught with their character's appearance.

[Mangetsuren]

I don't currently plan on not playing viera on my main char once DT comes around but I'm also not too impressed with how my character looks right now. I normally play on ps5 and don't use shaders even on my laptop so it's not because I'm not used to seeing my character without shaders or anything like that.



I think what's really getting to me is the eyes. In the current version, the eyes look bright and wide and show a kind of life to them; in the benchmark version, the eye shape and the way that the eyelashes angle a bit down makes her look a little more dead inside. Also the face shape/jaw looked a bit more defined in the current version vs the benchmark.


The rest of the graphics i'm seeing are great though - the details of the hairstyles, the quality of the environment in the benchmark character creator. I just wish i liked the way my character looked a little more, but it just has this different vibe right now. Maybe i'll get used to it but...

[GodModule]

[miep]

i play my characters since 2016 and they stayed the same since then but with the benchmark they all look too drastically different to be still my original characters, i doubt the free fantasia will do anything since striking features or charm points are simply gone.
this is my main girl:





some npcs i play (face 2 and face 4 male elezen)








Also the skintextures/shadows on skin look very dirty and pixelated. the skin is too waxy. It's a shame they even touched the faces to begin with... personally i think the devs should have stayed with just changing lighting physics, textures of the surroundings, make everything a bit more HD and don't change whole faces. They might have done the characters objectively better but subjectively worse bc of the lost charm points and the uniqueness some of those faces had.

[MipMop]

Quality is nice. I switched to Face 2 Aura because of the pouty/plump lips. It doesn't have that feel anymore and looks more like a copy of Au'ra face 1. Wish that would be fixed

This is a comparison of the new Face 1 and new Face 2. They look very similar now - almost like they used Face 1 as a template and changed it very slightly

https://imgur.com/a/XqBCPOO

This is the current face 2 compared with the new face 1. There's a noticeable distinction in the mouth and eyes. I love the roundness of the current face 2 which is not really there in the new version.

https://imgur.com/a/XdfPzdj

[Zeta_Hayalix]

I ran 7 characters through the benchmark, 4 which I play regularly. I absolutely love my Au Ra, but with this update I can't even look at her anymore. The lighting is horrible, but not sure if that's just a benchmark thing. Features though seriously need adjusting. Specifically the pupils. Also the color saturation on the scale and horns needs to go down. Even the lower eyelids seem to bulge out too much now.

[GodModule]

I ran 7 characters through the benchmark, 4 which I play regularly. I absolutely love my Au Ra, but with this update I can't even look at her anymore. The lighting is horrible, but not sure if that's just a benchmark thing. Features though seriously need adjusting. Specifically the pupils. Also the color saturation on the scale and horns needs to go down. Even the lower eyelids seem to bulge out too much now.

Updated looks better imo

[Anarnee]

My Bunny boy looks like he went to Nam and saw some things... but also got lip surgery...