EU Graphical Update Feedback - Hands and Feet

[Averax]

I'm gonna be the unsung hero of this thread and also advocate for male nipples, as well as updated hands (god the hands, they do so many close up shots of hands, WHY DO THEY LOOK LIKE THAT) and feet. It's so odd looking to have a shirtless glam where you just have nothing there. It almost makes me wish i had a bra instead.

In my opinion if they can do this for a boss they can do it for us. They even dyed her nails.

I think they just ripped her model from Dissidia

[Colt47]

Basically, hands, butt, feet, and anything that requires spherical shading to a degree on the body took a hit going from 1.0 to 2.0. Honestly, I think the feet are worse than the hands but not by much.

[Ath192]

Basically, hands, butt, feet, and anything that requires spherical shading to a degree on the body took a hit going from 1.0 to 2.0. Honestly, I think the feet are worse than the hands but not by much.

As a matter of fact, I have a stock picture of a Miqo from 1.0

here it is:

[Colt47]

As a matter of fact, I have a stock picture of a Miqo from 1.0

here it is:

Oh yeah, like the graphics update is going one step up after going two or three steps back with the 1.0 to 2.0 move.

[SigmaOZ]

As a matter of fact, I have a stock picture of a Miqo from 1.0

here it is:

That clearly shows how much better the models were in 1.X, I wish they brought them back.


Modern GPUs should be more than enough to handle the high polygon count.

[Ath192]

That clearly shows how much better the models were in 1.X, I wish they brought them back.


Modern GPUs should be more than enough to handle the high polygon count.

I remember running this game in 1,000 dollar laptop in 2010. It wasnt smooth but it was playable. Surely 13 years later we can run even better looking models imo.

[MsQi]

That clearly shows how much better the models were in 1.X, I wish they brought them back.


Modern GPUs should be more than enough to handle the high polygon count.

There were obviously systems then that could handle it. They could have had graphic options that allowed players to choose higher or lower quality models instead of throwing all that out. It's funny that the difference between highest and lowest quality in the game now is so narrow. Must be the console mentality.

[CidHeiral]

Well if the Hrothgal legs are any indication that is most likely being addressed in the graphical update. I assume the model they're using is just a downscaled version of the Dawntrail one.

[Eraden]

Is reason why nots able has bare feets in game? Stock shoes coverings up bad feets? Mao also nots impressed with high heel shoes. 2B boots look likes torture devices for feets. Is why Mao prefers Type 51 boots and legs. Mao thinkings feets problems is WAY more urgent than messings with limbal eye rings.

[TheDustyOne]

The sandals of the bare feet models I believe are to make the foot relatively consistent between "bare" feet and when you have shoes with any heel on.

When high heels like the 2B shoes get equipped, instead of offsetting the model upwards a set distance, it instead just... cuts off part of the leg. And because the rig for our characters aren't made for the feet at that angle, it deforms very, very strangely. It's why I don't use the 2B heels on my highlander. If we were to fix heels and make them work properly, we'd have to introduce a proper IK system to the animations and rigs to account for our characters having heels, which can eat a lot of resources if you have a bunch of characters on screen. IK animations tend to work better in more controlled environments compared to MMOs.

We don't have many high heels in the game anyway, and the ones that do exist aren't all that high with exceptions like the 2B boots.

That said, it would be neat if Square could think of improving on the animation system as a whole with the graphics update; better blending between animations, IK systems to properly plant our feet on the ground (with a possible heel fix), and transitions between certain animations. We don't need the actual motion physics from 1.0, but having our characters use a starting and stopping animation that blends seamlessly when we move around helps a lot for making movement feel fluid.