Dawntrail character graphics update - opinions, requests and discussion megathread

[CidHeiral]

Anyone noticed the really unnatural way the eyeballs uh...shake?/twitch???

Real people have subtle eye movements like that. What would be unnatural is for them to just vacantly stare into the void completely motionless, which was previously the case in FFXIV. Between the movement and texture upgrades the eyes look so much more alive now.

[Iscah]

Real people have subtle eye movements like that. What would be unnatural is for them to just vacantly stare into the void completely motionless, which was previously the case in FFXIV. Between the movement and texture upgrades the eyes look so much more alive now.

The thing that will make them "stare into the void" is the size and positioning of the eyes. Get that wrong and the character is going to stare into the void whether or not their eyes quiver while they do it.

[lunartears]

I came across some 6.55 screenshots and was curious how they would compare to now:




It's so blatantly not the same person...
At risk of feeding into it, I still can't fathom the rhetoric behind people claiming that faces look "no different" or "look better" in response to dissatisfied people.

[Barachim]

Something needs to be done about Hrothgar hands, they are an absolute abomination right now. I always wear the Hrothgar Wristguards, because I prefer my beastman to have claws. But now it looks like he has a set of claws growing out of regular fingernails. Can we please go back to fingernails being an accessory option and not actually part of the character model for the Hrothgar?

[Cheapshot]

I don’t know if you’re still around but could I ask you how you managed to create such a high quality animated gif? I would like to do the same so I can show an edit to my character but I cant find any way to save it without it loosing a lot of quality.

[cutestfox]

I don’t know if you’re still around but could I ask you how you managed to create such a high quality animated gif? I would like to do the same so I can show an edit to my character but I cant find any way to save it without it loosing a lot of quality.

I'm just going to jump in so you don't have to wait around, but use Gifski

[Cheapshot]

I'm just going to jump in so you don't have to wait around, but use Gifski

Thanks. I’ll have to see if I can get a desktop set up so I can try it. I’m out of town on an ipad for a while and it says gifski isn’t compatible.

[lunartears]

After I got through the MSQ with the new face (got sick of reglamming my masks at the last zone), I developed a strong feeling of disinterest in seeing any more cutscenes for the unforseeable future. I have no interest in playing the patch MSQ or anything else. The face is too strange, and it's especially bad when it emotes.

At this point in time, I really wish I could wave a magic wand so things could be how they were before 7.0 downtime. I miss the features of my character and please excuse this but I also don't personally see anything "amazing" or "beautiful" in the new graphics system. It's really mostly the opposite to me. Everything feels somehow simutaneously either too saturated/bright or lifeless/dull as opposed to before.

I know that it is an unrealistic and selfish thing to want to go back to the old graphics as a whole so at the least I really really wish we could have the old facial designs back. This game means a lot to me and to feel so meaningless about logging in everyday makes me so sad.

[Nabril]

My character's face is perfect in the update. His eyes don't stare into the void (unless I'm actually in that void with Zero- then he can't help it- the void is literally all around him). His eyes look perfect and so do his expressions. He is absolutely unchanged by the terror of the update.

[Eien713]

Now aside from things others have mentioned, one thing that has been bothering me a lot is how much more triangular and younger the face looks currently. At first I thought that they may have changed the jaw shape entirely, but after giving it some time it looks like the new lighting is doing weird things with the face shape that I'm not entirely sure is intentional.

There's definitely something going on with the lighting. This can't be the way my character is supposed to look in the light D:


This is a comparison in the light and in the shade:






Bonus picture of wonky lighting in Old Gridania:



P.S. I play on PS5.