Dawntrail character graphics update - opinions, requests and discussion megathread

[azaleai]

First thing on my agenda today was to retake the screenshot from a cutscene I used for comparison with the new graphics to make a bug report...



She's... hideous. The definition between brow ridge and nose is utterly gone and there's no shape to the brow muscle anymore, both replaced by an awful, ugly, tattooed-on shadow. The orbital rim (the bone surrounding the upper side of the eyesocket) is gone, replaced by a bizarre dent that makes it look like she's got two black eyes. It completely and utterly changes the shape of her brow and makes it look like she doesn't even HAVE a forehead or brow ridge anymore.



There's also a highlight/shadow from the normal map that appears between the bridge of the nose and the inner corner of the eye completely CROSSING the painted shadows on the diffuse map. It looks as if they just grabbed a normal map from Hyur and slapped it ontp Roes as well.

I know Roegadyn have an inhuman shape to their brow ridge, but it looked so nice before, this is... a mess.



On top of that, the normals and the diffuse of the lips STILL don't line up. The lip colour exceeds the line where the lip peaks at the cupids bow and doesn't reach it at the dip in the middle; the normal map has the upper lip very very flat, but the diffuse does not. Additionally, the philtrum doesn't make sense - the philtral columns should meet the peaks of the cupid's bow on either side, but they instead go completely straight down, see below.



The ash mark is STILL lighter and the pupils are STILL blackened. Goodbye to those racial traits too, I guess.

I can only really bear to look at her in the fitting room, since the lighting there is so even the glaring issues with the normal map aren't obvious.

[MaxL]

First thing on my agenda today was to retake the screenshot from a cutscene I used for comparison with the new graphics to make a bug report...

Came here to echo those sentiments. I also have a Hellsguard character and the change to the eyes is terrible.

• The white of the eyes is far too bright compared to the skin color now
• The "baked-in shadow" at the top is too strong
• The pupils are way darker for no sensible reason
• The glint in the eyes is far too subtle and small compared to the previous stylized "eye shine"

It's immensely disappointing and has really soured me on the graphics update as far as my character is concerned

EDIT: here's a thread that goes more in depth about roes/hellsguards in specific https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...-Roegadyn-Eyes