[ Graphical Update Feedback ] Examples of Darker Skinned Characters/Darker Lighting

[crystallineAbyss]

I was actually just about to make a thread on this! I'm extremely concerned about the lighting since I haven't seen any characters anywhere near my player character's original skintone, so I doubt we'll see what she has right now. I swear I only saw her because of the limbal rings in places like Ultima Thule, it was comical. I have more of an issue with how xaela are lit specifically, because this happens regardless of race - as I've got a lot of alts with similar skintones and I've run them through the same cutscenes - but Xaela are....weird? And get washed out really egregiously? Most dark skinned Xaela I know have fantasia'd darker at least once, if not twice because of it.


I tried to find a screen with the actual color I chose, but it's not even represented in these - it's supposed to be a warm and darker tan. It could get surprisingly dark in some areas, but getting to Shadowbringers was the final straw for me and had me fantasia because what is that TToTT I could hardly focus on the intro because my poor girl was washed right to white.

I fanta'd darker, but even then...

It's still a wild variable. I'm on a third fantasia for skintone adjustment and the second darkest you can be for femra, since the darkest is desaturated and tinted green for some reason (but also they need to get over their colorist nonsense of women being lighter on average and men being darker on average - we should have the exact same pallets). But even with this, I find my character still looking like she has her old skintone from when I first made her and not her current one. It's especially bad in places like the First and Gridania (god even the lighting is racist), but the Dravanian areas and surprisingly Shirogane and Gyr Abania aren't too bad. It's just such a shame, because it's such an egregious lighting problem it takes me out of the moment more often than not. And with them almost borderline refusing to show off darker characters, I'm worried this is going to get worse.