Dawntrail character graphics update - opinions, requests and discussion megathread

[lunartears]

The old scales look so good, actually. Wow.

Not sure if this is sarcasm (I know my examples there are awful), but yeah. Even though they were low resolution, at least they didn't have that flat look and crispy outline all over them.

(Old image but still applies even in 7.1)



You don't even need to zoom in to see the bad quality.



I know this game has a lot of pixelated armour but the scales before never looked this bad.

[Larirawiel]

It seems, that they used a sort of upscaling + sharpening for the scales. I still cannot believe, that they do not have any high resolution versions of the textures. It is a standard procedure, that you create high resolution textures first and then you downscale them. Because it is very easy to do that and this is how mip mapping works.


Cheers

[Turnintino]

It seems, that they used a sort of upscaling + sharpening for the scales. I still cannot believe, that they do not have any high resolution versions of the textures. It is a standard procedure, that you create high resolution textures first and then you downscale them. Because it is very easy to do that and this is how mip mapping works.


Cheers

It's pretty likely that they did create them in a higher resolution, originally... They just didn't save the assets. The same issue that plagues many of the FF remasters for games that use pre-rendered backgrounds, for example, which now just look embarrassingly blurry in their respective games, because they couldn't do anything about them without completely remaking those assets from the ground up -- and, apparently, that's out of the question. But we can see now what happens when it's not lol.

[Khryseis_Astra]

I'm still here, still disappointed with how my character looks, still barely touching the alts I used to love dearly.

Same. Luckily my Lala main is close enough to what she was before that I still enjoy playing her. Ended up turning my Highlander alt into a Middie. Just couldn’t deal with the face anymore. Not that Middie Face 1 doesn’t have its own issues… seriously can we fix these mouths missing half their upper lips already?! But it’s a million times better than what they did to my Highlander Face 2. I kept a retainer with her settings, so I’ll be able to see right away if they make any improvements, but honestly I wasn’t willing to wait however many months we have until next patch playing a character that doesn’t look like the same person anymore.

[Gwen_Lavellan]

Yugiri has something to say… (they really need to do something about the horns!)

[lunartears]

I know this is in disagreement but I'm jealous that Yugiri gets to keep the old horns and scale textures.

[Gwen_Lavellan]

I know this is in disagreement but I'm jealous that Yugiri gets to keep the old horns and scale textures.

Aha, don’t worry! I have a dragon lady alt and I perfectly understand your statement.

[SchwarzwaelderTorte]

Oh, her limbal rings are the wrong color now, interesting.



I was keeping an eye (haha.) on Sadu and Allie (who looked nothing like themselves in 7.0 because of the dimmed limbal ring, thankfully that has been somewhat fixed in 7.1), and I noticed that in 7.1 Cirina looks even less like she did before because her dark blue limbal rings glow greyish-blue at night/in the shadow, but I wasn't paying attention to Yugiri, that's a pretty drastic change.

[noumen0nn]

There was a post on the ffxiv subreddit earlier today about Miqo'te eyelashes, and the comments are full of people talking about their dislike of the various changes to whatever race they play. This thread has lost a little momentum lately, mostly because not enough was actually changed with 7.1 to warrant additional rounds of feedback (though I still plan on making one, because midlander F face 1 is still a disaster). But I don't want the devs to get the impression that the dislike of the update is dying down or going anywhere. Many, many more players are unhappy with the changes than just the ones who have posted here. I really hope you are still taking all of our feedback into account and are ready to deliver some ACTUAL adjustments come 7.2, instead of another half-effort.

[Valence]

Miqo'te eyebrow thread link