Dawntrail character graphics update - opinions, requests and discussion megathread

[Lambdafish]

My seeker of the sun with Face 1 and Eye shape 6 has gone from stoic to stoned during the idle pose. It improves when using emotes, but the default face looks so vacant... Honestly not sure what to do to fix it.

[GreenLeafy]

My seeker of the sun with Face 1 and Eye shape 6 has gone from stoic to stoned during the idle pose. It improves when using emotes, but the default face looks so vacant... Honestly not sure what to do to fix it.

I cannot believe these are the same character holy crap... Male sunseekers got hit so hard... Yeah I don't think I have the heart to login anytime soon lol

[IndraSyngiwyb]

To say I'm disappointed would be an understatement.

My femroe looks like a completely different person. The nose smudge is basically gone. The facepaint makeup around her eyes is so much lighter you can barely see it. Her mouth is shaped different. The pupils are enormous and positioned so that her eyes look like they're rolling into the back of her head.

And before anyone suggests it's the lighting, it's not. I've looked in several different kinds of lighting and it doesn't make a difference. She still looks nothing like she used to. I just didn't have another EW pic on hand for comparison.

I don't know, y'all. I'll try playing with the makeup and stuff to see if I can fix it, but I don't think it's gonna make a difference.

[Aco505]

My seeker of the sun with Face 1 and Eye shape 6 has gone from stoic to stoned during the idle pose. It improves when using emotes, but the default face looks so vacant... Honestly not sure what to do to fix it.

Agreed, the changes to lip shape and eye color make things different.


I'm going to provide my feedback on the male miqo'te face 1 with mouth 4, although some of it will likely apply to other faces, genders or races.

After playing for a bit, I'm getting more used to the changes but there's several issues I see:

- Eye color is faded and darker compared to before. This is the biggest issue in my opinion. While they made the eyes look better from the first benchmark version to the second, the color of the eyes is still faded and darker compared to before. I suppose it's because it doesn't have the extra luminosity it used to have.

However, the consequence is that the character still looks "dead inside". When very specific lighting conditions are met, the eyes look fine but these situations are not that common. This also happens when I check other characters. It's hard to see the color of the irises of Keepers sometimes, for instance.

Additionally, the slit pupils of Seekers are less prominent now and harder to see.

- Eyebrows are thinner and faded and so is their color. Our eyebrows are simply less noticeable than before and face 1 didn't have thick ones to begin with, thus worsening the situation. The color of the stubble for face 1 also looks a bit faded to me.

- I personally don't mind the changes to mouth 4 but I agree that it's a big difference.

What I do feel is that the idle pose for mouth 4 makes it look as if we're smiling now. I'm not too sure if it's due to the lip color I have or if it's just like this. When checking other characters, it seems alright but sometimes when I look at mine it feels like the expression has changed for mouth 4 from normal or slightly serious to slightly smiling.

Lip color is also different.

On another note, I'm very happy that we lost the lip gap that many other mouths also had. I do wish for them to include it as an option to appeal to those players that do want it back, particularly for specific female miqo'te players.

- I have noticed that Koana has special features despite otherwise being a normal male miqo'te with face 1. One of the features that bothers me the most though is the fact that he has lower eyelashes whose color match his hair. Why can't we have those too? We literally have no lower eyelashes at all.

- The low resolution textures are still there and should be fixed: on the sides of the face, below the lower eyelids (and the lower eyelids themselves), the male markings below the eyes and face paint.

- My portraits look very weird now. I don't know what it is but they feel off and the face emotes don't convey the same feeling they did before.

Overall, the textures and graphics are great but I still feel like there's several areas to improve on. A lot of the feedback from previous posts such as this one has not been addressed. Also, as I expected, the body being lower resolution is jarring now.

They did improve it a bit but it's far from what it should be. Fingers need more work but toes look great. I suppose it's because the former are more complex body parts due to their movement.

I will conclude by attaching my own two pictures below of the before and after for comparison.

[MissBananaNana]

I am disappointed in my character too. The eyes are very lifeless now. The limbal rings are either to dull or way too bright at night.
https://imgur.com/gallery/ffxiv-graphic-update-TCsAlDn