5/7 Shadows

Interestingly enough shadows on characters still have jittering textures which sometimes is worse than how they were before DT. Here’s a screenshot I took of a friend of mine and my alt in Endwalker along with a comparison after DT release. There’s now jagged shadows most notably on the cheeks.


Doesn’t seem so bad on a screenshot, however they’re distracting in motion. Perhaps this is related to areas where lighting has yet to be updated?


I don’t think that’s the case when this npc’s hair jitters in Solution 9.

Also have the ears always been that poorly fitted to the hairstyle? It looks like they're floating on top of her head.

I also experience something similar inside my house.


Tancred had some weird shadowing going on during an early-ish DT cutscene. Other npcs in the same cutscene were not affected.


- Shadow under upper eyelid
When it comes to painted shadow, the shadow below the upper eyelid is too harsh, making it blend with the eyelashes and eyeshadow.

The highlight might help, yet on this viera the shadow gives the impression that her right eyelid sits lower than the left one.

Bringing this npc with his shocked face again, at first I thought the highlight was coming from the eyelids, however they’re from the sclera. I have to zoom in on the picture for my brain to realize what is truly going on.


Even on milder cases, the shadow blurs the line between the eyelid and eyeball, making the highlight at the top of the eye seem more unnatural.