Dawntrail Graphics Update - Feedback on changes to the world's aesthetic and feel

[Iscah]

I'm getting really tired of the reflective shine on everything.

It doesn't look realistic, it looks off, and the light sources have little to do with the actual position of lights in the room.

The whole update feels like the artists were tasked with making individual materials look as stunning as possible, without any mind to whether it serves the look of the world as a whole.

Metal glints distractingly, velvet looks amazingly realistic to the point of being uncanny (I had to immediately glamour over the red mage job gear because it felt unsettling), aetherytes can be seen from malms away in a way I don't recall noticing before.

[IttyBittyShark]

I'm getting really tired of the reflective shine on everything.

It doesn't look realistic, it looks off, and the light sources have little to do with the actual position of lights in the room.

The whole update feels like the artists were tasked with making individual materials look as stunning as possible, without any mind to whether it serves the look of the world as a whole.

Metal glints distractingly, velvet looks amazingly realistic to the point of being uncanny (I had to immediately glamour over the red mage job gear because it felt unsettling), aetherytes can be seen from malms away in a way I don't recall noticing before.

i agree. it needs to be toned down a lot and possibly take into consideration what type of surface is being so reflective. i think someone earlier in the thread mentioned how slick Island Sanctuary gets, it is really really bad... it's just an eyesore now whenever it rains anywhere, and rain has always been my favorite weather.

combine night time rain and all the lights, it's like i'm walking on a flattened disco ball.

[Hallarem]

Pretty to look at. No substance. Its going in a better direction with more clutter and stuff, but it's not there yet, far from it

Lot of exploring, sure. A few nice little hideouts here and there, but again a severe lack of enterable buildings.
Shalooani's closed off buildings, Mamook looks like a slum with empty buildings that are enterable for some reason, Urqopacha has barely any enterable buildings and a few joke ones for lalas only.

[Rueby]

Such pixelation!

Something is definitely wrong with the way lighting hits textures in some areas. At launch, your character and even chocobo had a radioactive glow on them if you were in certain spots in the Tempest. I haven't been able to replicate it, so I assume it's fixed.

My WoL going super saiyan:


That SS of yours looks like it was possibly taken at night time. And I found that moonlight looks a bit weird on cloth here and there. It's not all cloth though, which confuses me. I know nothing about 3D modeling and applying lighting - so maybe it's just cloth that has certain properties?

No. It was when the fabric is/was wet I noticed. I'm not sure either.

[CidHeiral]

velvet looks amazingly realistic to the point of being uncanny (I had to immediately glamour over the red mage job gear because it felt unsettling)

I've seen a lot of wild nitpicks on the update so far but "it looks too good" is a new one. lol

[gllt]

I've seen a lot of wild nitpicks on the update so far but "it looks too good" is a new one. lol

Uncannily realistic is not a compliment and certainly not an equivalent to 'looks too good'

[Kuro_Matsu]

No. It was when the fabric is/was wet I noticed. I'm not sure either.

Ah, that will do it too. The added reflections to wet surfaces is probably causing issues. I wish we could turn it off. I find most armor looks fine when wet, but stone, soil, and sand become too luminous.

[Adamantini]

2020



2024






all prints on clear skies. Graphics update, I guess

[Iscah]

I've seen a lot of wild nitpicks on the update so far but "it looks too good" is a new one. lol

It looks good in isolation if photorealism was the goal; it looks bad in context because this game is not (or was not) trying to be photorealistic.

[Daralii]

The Burning Wall definitely doesn't live up to its name anymore.