Dawntrail character graphics update - opinions, requests and discussion megathread

[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.

[Daralii]

The lighting oddities aren't limited to characters either. I don't understand what's happening to the Thaliak statue here.

[cutestfox]

Edit: Placeholder post for now, I'm going to work on my own big diagram image too

[Eien713]

Hello o/

I'm still thinking there is an issue with Miqo'te eyes. The two eyes don't look in the same direction. The main reflection points aren't symmetrical on Miqo'te eyes (this is also the case with Sun Miqo'te) :





I tried to correct it with Photoshop (the upper one):



I really hope we'll get a fix.

Same thing is going on with female Elezen eyes. It's probably what gave me the impression/feeling of my character being cross-eyed. I especially feel/see it with the left eye.

[CidHeiral]

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:

Looking at her facial structure the shadow location seems correct given where the light is coming from. The shadows perhaps seem a bit more dark and harsh than they realistically should be, but they were made that way after the community complained they were too soft in the first benchmark so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.