GRAPHICS REQUEST Polygon C./Model for Hands and Feet

[Ath192]

Hello Dev Team,

As you are in the initial stages of the graphics planning no doubt the directions taken right now are going to dictate all the work that gets done in the following years.

I want to stress the importance of paying attention to our character's limbs and redoing them. You would be touching every gear model in the game and so please give us decent hands and feet.

Both are extremely outdated and horrible looking. We're not looking for perfection but at least not abandonment of these models.

These example screenshots were taken at 4K Max Graphics and downsized

Less offensive but still bad are the hands:



In way worse shape are the feet of this game.

Please don't make us walk through this:



With THESE:




To be honest Limbs are rather delicate features and they should have the same amount of attention as the faces of the characters are getting. ring/Glove/Shoe choices we make in our glamour reflect a big part of the style we would like to convey in game.

If this stuff matters to you please voice your support to create awareness. I know there are other areas that are bad as well, but these are especially bad in my opinion, and since they are redoing the textures so things don't look so pixelated this is one of the things I did not see mentioned anywhere with model/polygon count.

[LisSquid]

+1
I adore the Oracle boots and use them in almost all of my glams. I try very hard not to look at.. those. These are honestly worse than Warcraft Flippers.

[Averax]

+1 for high fidelity fingers and a foot with potentially discernable features.

[Ath192]

Mr Yoshida,

I know you like wearing rings. PLEASE help us with making our hands and feet more detailed.

[MsQi]

Mr Yoshida,

I know you like wearing rings. PLEASE help us with making our hands and feet more detailed.

is it fair he get's to wear 4 or 5 rings when we only get 2? We should have 2 more rings slots, just for style.

[Canadane]

is it fair he get's to wear 4 or 5 rings when we only get 2? We should have 2 more rings slots, just for style.

Tanaka allowed this in 1.0.
Bring him back, I say.

[Canadane]

Take a like from me, this is something I'd like to see them work on.

[Doc_Seraph]

You know why kupo they made them like this? I don't see any spas around..id imagine we all have some "hammertime" feet kupo. lol jk

[SigmaOZ]

Not only hands and feet but thighs, elbows and knees excruciatingly need better models with a much higher polygon count.


Final Fantasy XIV has a beautiful art style but the graphics are really old after 11 years of life, the dev team must take this opportunity and remake the models in much higher quality.



Honestly, I wouldn't mind if only one's character looked better than the rest of players and NPCs in the game but probably it's not so bad that they would have to do it that way, they could also give us more options to reduce the number of characters on screen to a new minimum to allow for better models.


Maybe make it so that only party members and a given amount of the closest characters look great and the farthest ones, the harder to see use simplified models, it would all depend on the player's hardware.

[Shougun]

Of course 50 million poly flowerpot is silly but I could see poly increase to common things be quite nice, especially if they're powerful yet cost effective. Reminds me of that Skyrim mod that makes loads of things have a greater 3d element (rounder barrels, rope, etc), and only very slightly impacted frames.