DX 11 : D

[mmcsky]

I want the game to look like that ^

I see no problems with textures, I would really have to nitpick with some lenses to find anything wrong with it, as a matter of fact my game looks better than any of the pics posted here.

I have no idea why, but I have spent a lot of time fiddling with settings, all i can say and also sweetfx .

[ForteXX]

I want the game to look like that ^

I see no problems with textures, I would really have to nitpick with some lenses to find anything wrong with it, as a matter of fact my game looks better than any of the pics posted here.

I have no idea why, but I have spent a lot of time fiddling with settings, all i can say and also sweetfx .

My game has decided to stop saving my settings, even when run under admin. Sweetfx either crashes for me, or just doesnt go into effect.

[Doki]

No, it's a concept art shot of what they wanted 2.0 to look like.

[Assirra]

Aw, well we can always hope it becomes that eventually. They can always upgrade it bit by bit, adding Dx11 is a start.

[kqgaming]

SweetFX can enhance the overall display , making the game sharper and more colorful


but i have to agree with everyone the textures are so low res i can't take close-up screenshots of the models

[Nutz]

The SweetFX example above is probably not what people are hoping for. I don't know that I'd actually say it looks better really. The colors are oversaturated and the contrast is turned up.

Presumably a high resolution texture pack would be possible and not terribly labor intensive. It is incredibly unlikely that SE doesn't already have high resolution textures of every asset in the game (probably double the currently used resolution since you typically only work in exponents of 2) though they're probably .psd files currently that would have to be compressed. I imagine they're hesitant to release higher resolution textures because they feel it would look only marginally better for the player and would be significantly more resource intensive. Quadrupling the texture space on everything would be a massive performance hit, though personally I feel like players should be able to toggle it on or off as they see fit, unless for some reason it would be a massive undertaking for them to do it (for example if they don't have high resolution files for everything already -- some artists work in native resolution, or perhaps their game engine maps textures to polygons in an unconventional manner that wouldn't allow swapping in high resolution textures easily -- FFXI was this way).

EDIT: Also, without seeing a very high resolution image I can't say for certain, but to me it looks like the FFXIV:ARR promo shot people like merely uses improved lighting over what we have currently. I doubt that the textures are any different form what we have, though they could be.

[Laf]

sweetfx can sharpen image, vanilla ARR looks way too blurry. Look at walls in #81 post.

[Artemed]

Pretty sure that Sweetfx also can use a different type of AA than XIV currently uses, but its basically there for more contrast/saturation. Even then we shouldn't have to rely on a 3rd party to get a decent looking game in this day and age.

[Karnyboy]

New weather effects....foggy mornings,etc would he awesome

[uryell]

New weather effects....foggy mornings,etc would he awesome

It seems to me that we already have it..