Dawntrail character graphics update - opinions, requests and discussion megathread

[SchwarzwaelderTorte]

Is there a thread anywhere talking about the loss of the red subsurface scattering for Au Ra? I know they did that because people complained, but I thought it was beautiful and I feel really robbed. Horns will have a layer of dead keratin, but they still have blood vessels in order to grow, so their arguments didn't make sense anyway. If you shave an animal's horn down too much it will bleed. Were the people complaining even au ra mains?

(pics are from 7.0)

Yes.

But the announcement on Lodestone only said that it would be lessened, not removed entirely...
So I'm surprised that on Au ra F face 1 at least, it seems to have completely disappeared. (personally I don't mind, but I would have also been fine with horns that simply didn't glow bright red in an unnatural way)

In the cutscene when you wake up on the boat at the beginning of the 7.0 MSQ, it was glowing just as red (despite the lighting being on the other side of the head).
I've seen similar feedback from Au ra M Face 2 players.
It would already look a lot less weird if the parts that are not directly exposed to light were not changing color, and if the translucency color was affected by the color of the light.
But that's advanced graphics stuff, and this is an MMO with tons of technical constraints, so it's probably not possible.
Still, I'd rather not look like Rudolph the reindeer at random times if I can avoid it.