Today's the earliest expected date for the Benchmark re-release

[LuciaMirain]

They have redrawn the normal maps.

What does that mean?

[Larirawiel]

What does that mean?

Normal mapping is a sort of improved bump mapping. It simulates structures on a flat geometry. It looks good when you look at it with a 90° angle but the illusion disappears if you look at it almost parallel to the surface. Then you will notice, that the structure is flat. The advantage of it is, it does not need much processing power of a computer. FF14 uses normal mapping everywhere. But the normal maps have to fit exactly to a geometry. If they don't then the lighting and self shadowing will look very weird in some situations.



Cheers

[Rekh]

I just hope they fixed how glasses sit on female viera's face, they're basically floating a feet away from their face.