The artificial Eye reflection looks bad.

[GrizzlyTank]

We don't know how the other eye reflections are in-game. Might be restricted to the creator only.

Issue i have with the eyes now is that they have opted to go a tad too detailed on them, which breaks away from the older more cartoony artstyle. Our eyes were sharp and clean, now they are foggy and... gooey.

I do honestly feel like the old benchmark results had issues with eyes in the shade having no shine at all. But I think they could've gone for a better solution than adding back the old, archaic eye dot. So yeah, pity, really.

And the amount of people complaining about the skin shading is inconceivable. So many people who are angry that their character's skin no longer looks like cardboard.

Archaic... Pretty much most artists, photographers and cinematographers would disagree with that.

[EliaStormblade]

We don't know how the other eye reflections are in-game. Might be restricted to the creator only.

Issue i have with the eyes now is that they have opted to go a tad too detailed on them, which breaks away from the older more cartoony artstyle. Our eyes were sharp and clean, now they are foggy and... gooey.



Archaic... Pretty much most artists, photographers and cinematographers would disagree with that.

For a video game, a static eye glint is archaic. Unless it's an overly cartoony type game, which XIV decidedly is not. You're not technically wrong, but your comment comes across as pedantry more than anything else.

[GrizzlyTank]

For a video game, a static eye glint is archaic. Unless it's an overly cartoony type game, which XIV decidedly is not. You're not technically wrong, but your comment comes across as pedantry more than anything else.

It's not static though. It does move with the camera. And in-game the old one will vanish if you look enough from the side.

[EliaStormblade]

I thought the super blurry hair was because my PC is barely holding onto life. But I am also having the same issue if I zoom out. Her hair only looks good if I'm zoomed all the way in. Otherwise it looks like this:




I tried changing her hair as well to see if it's just that specific style. This happens to every hair to varying degrees. Some of the ARR styles look fine from the back, yet the bangs are super blurred and vice versa. The styles added in StB and onward aren't affected to such a striking degree (but are still slightly blurred). I'm not sure if it's my settings or something they've added / subtracted.

Seems like a MipMaps kinda thing? If so, they might have configured the falloff wrong, where it jumps to a lower res texture too quickly.

It's not static though. It does move with the camera. And in-game the old one will vanish if you look enough from the side.

I still don't think it's a particularly good solution per se. Feels like a clash of styles. I think there might have been better ways to handle it. Like I said: I'm not saying the first benchmark's eye lighting was without its issues.

[Roda]

Also this does look pretty jarring.


Got a little floaty on there

[EliaStormblade]

Also this does look pretty jarring.


Got a little floaty on there

You got something in your eye, friend.

[Roda]

You got something in your eye, friend.

I just wanna

[GrizzlyTank]

Also this does look pretty jarring.


Got a little floaty on there

Yeah, an issue of too many highlights, with their own rules.

Though couldn't notice the same issue in the benchmark.

[EliaStormblade]

Yeah, an issue of too many highlights, with their own rules.

Though couldn't notice the same issue in the benchmark.

I have to be honest... some races don't seem to have it, or their eyes are too small for me/it's obscured to see that kinda thing.