Dawntrail character graphics update - opinions, requests and discussion megathread

[CidHeiral]

Yeah, that's another issue that makes my Miqo'te's look like they have that thousand yard stare war veterans have after deployments.

It's interesting how there's such a difference in perception over the new and old eyes. Your description is exactly how I would describe the old eyes. The new ones are a night and day improvement and look vastly more "alive" in my opinion.

[Daralii]

It's interesting how there's such a difference in perception over the new and old eyes. Your description is exactly how I would describe the old eyes. The new ones are a night and day improvement and look vastly more "alive" in my opinion.

The new ones are much more dependent on the environment lighting complimenting them. They got rid of or heavily toned down a lot of the baked in lighting and shading, so there's less consistency from zone to zone and expansion to expansion.

[Turnintino]

And all too commonly, some lighting creates a foggy sheen over the eyes that just makes them look like they have cataracts.

[CidHeiral]

The new ones are much more dependent on the environment lighting complimenting them. They got rid of or heavily toned down a lot of the baked in lighting and shading, so there's less consistency from zone to zone and expansion to expansion.

It makes sense that their appearance would vary depending on the lighting conditions but I haven't encountered a situation where they look bad in my view. Is there a specific zone or location you're thinking of that I can check out?

[Anarnee]

It's interesting how there's such a difference in perception over the new and old eyes. Your description is exactly how I would describe the old eyes. The new ones are a night and day improvement and look vastly more "alive" in my opinion.

I wish I was having this experience with the new eyes. I've been replaying EW with a friend and in 90% of the CS my characters have no light in their eyes, dead fish eyes, and the last 10% of the time, only one eye gets lit. It's so perplexing. It was the same when I was going through DT too, so they didn't even consider that for the new stuff. I get so frustrated.

[zipkin]

ngl I am not even LOOKING at the cutscenes at this point in attempting to finish a playthrough. I already know it's gonna be upsetting no matter which alt I try. Just reading the text (which, ouch, wtf did they do to the FONT anyways??) and trying to ignore anything but the back of my character's head (which still looks mostly right at least, just NO FACE, no eyes, and for Twelvesake no looking at any of the SCALES) to just... get through it :/

remember when we used to put so much time into gpose? Anyone? :c

[Sairaag]

remember when we used to put so much time into gpose? Anyone? :c

Yep, I have a huge collection of screenshots of my catboy from before the graphics update. Had an account on Eorzea Collection and everything. Poor sod now looks like he went through twink death and no longer looks good in many of the outfits and hairstyles he used to be able to pull off. I play games to get away from real life annoyances like this!

[Tahli]

remember when we used to put so much time into gpose? Anyone? :c

Same as the post above. A big folder of screenshots and gposes, and lots of ideas for more that have just been... on hold, for far longer than I had expected, until at least the worst offending botched changes to my character's face have been fixed.
I had gotten a new PC and monitor too (not just for this game), and was excited to take higher resolution pictures, or even start my own Eorzea Collection catalogue of my favorite glams.

Before the update, I entered lots of gpose contests, both official and player-hosted. I even was a finalist in the most recent NA Fanfest. My gpose of my character was physically decorating their Las Vegas venue's wall. I wish they would more seriously take into account that the people passionate enough to give feedback on this are most likely their biggest contributors to community creations that make up their game's creative draw.

[Jaltaer]

remember when we used to put so much time into gpose? Anyone? :c

I already posted a couple pages back about it, but... yeah. I used to take so many screenshots of my character, my folders from pre-DT are overflowing with almost too many pictures. Now I barely take any, and half the time if I do my character's wearing some sort of facemask or helmet. The dead eyes with no catchlight 95% of the time and mangled mouth just make me frustrated every time I open gpose.

[Heavenchild]

I still do screenshots but it was more fun before they destroyed most of our chars faces. The problem is that it's not just a better textured
version of our faces. It's a redesign with different features for lots of faces.
All of my chars are broken since DT and have a slightly or extremely differnt look now. For example my celestrial male elezen look is
destroyed because they added that dark circles under the eyes (younger face) randomly also to the 2nd subrace. Before DT just 1 subrace had those.

Or for example female Aura face 2. The new one looks pretty, too (Besides the weird bending-up of the lower lip).
BUT it's not OUR Aura face 2. It has a completely different look. The eyes vibe different and the most pregnant feature of that face (the wide mouth with it's corners) is gone.
And 'that's' the problem. It's a redesign, instead of a texture update.

Also they should remove their new eye highlight feature if they can't manage it to work properly, and give back static highlight or let us choose between them.
Before DT I really loved Dunesfolk but they suffer so much from that new 'feature'. Most of the time they look just ded now. Now they really look like souless puppets. :C

When I search for ff14 screenshots, the most I see..., people who are still actively posting are modders.
I guess, because they don't depend on the weird things that SE presents to us. x3
They do what they like with mods and have still fun with making screenshots of it.