shoddy work of squareenix

[Heroboy]

I believe they have a certain size for hairstyles, so the textures for some of the more complex hairstyles look worse due to that. Probably some kind of design constraint, that isnt usually even noticeable.
I don't think i'd call their work shoddy.

Im telling not about bad texture resolution.... I understand why they low...
Im not understand why so big difference in quality between some hairs and why some hairs have crossed lines that should not be in hairs...

[Rakiria]

Im not understand why so big difference in quality between some hairs

Okay so this is how textures for 3D things work:

Everythign has to be laid out and painted there. So you only have so much space to do the texture on. Now, if you have a simple hairstyle, like the (I think Miqo exclusive?) one that is just straight, shoulder-lenght hair and bangs, you don't have a lot of faces to put down on the texture. It's all just one flat thing, so you have fewer pieces to texture and can make them larger on the texture itself.
Now, if you have a more complex hairstyle, you'll have more faces to put down, and each of them has fewer space there. Thus, while the overall texture quality remains the same, each individual part has less pixels on it.

[Astyrah]

i remember this photo i saw on FFXIV reddit:

http://i.imgur.com/bCtvVlG.png


i really hope that someday we get an optional HD texture option (additional download from SE servers) in the launcher for those who want/can run it

[Riardon]

i remember this photo i saw on FFXIV reddit:

http://i.imgur.com/bCtvVlG.png


i really hope that someday we get an optional HD texture option (additional download from SE servers) in the launcher for those who want/can run it

Yep this is what we got now and there are no signs of improving the horrible textures. They really need to address this along with some other things.