Clive's character model

[AnimaAnimus]

It's likely been said before but I just got around to doing the crossover Clive's character model in the XVI cross over next to ours is just jarring. It reallyn shows how just ugly and cheap looking our character models are. If the graphics update takes us half way to the same level it will be amazing, but it shows that they can definately make better characters if they really want to, even with the current assets.

[Suniva]

I am tempering my expectations, but if the graphical update comes with the same fidelity as the Clive model then I am going to be extremely pleased.

[Vyrerus]

Idk, it didn't really look that great to me. Like an altered Highlander Female face #2 with the stubble midlander face. I mean, I guess it didn't look bad by any means, but idk. It looked like it drew from extant faces heavily.

[AnimaAnimus]

It did pull on the some of the same assets but the textures were way better and there were differences in things like his brow, mouth, nose and eyes which made a huge difference. Just much better all around.

[LilimoLimomo]

If the graphics update takes us half way to the same level it will be amazing, but it shows that they can definately make better characters if they really want to, even with the current assets.

While this does demonstrate that a single character can be made with more detail, what it unfortunately doesn't demonstrate is that FF14 can support having player characters with that much detail. That's because at any given time, there's guaranteed to be only a single Clive on-screen. However, there can and often are a hundred different player characters on a screen. Because the limitation in graphics quality isn't due to not being able to create higher-fidelity assets (although there is certainly a cost to that) but rather hardware's ability to render assets while staying performant. More assets on screen uses up hardware's limited bandwidth, and similarly higher-fidelity assets use up that bandwidth as well. Thus, whether Clive levels of detail would or wouldn't overflow the budget for player character assets is uncertain.

Personally, I'm going in with low expectations. My best guess is that they gave Clive all that extra detail as a compromise because without it he either wouldn't look like Clive (because Clive was designed for a game with much more detail) or he'd look like a meaningfully bad version of Clive.

[WantlessYoYo]

Clive's model just feels weird to me
I don't know if it's because of the contrast between models but it feels so HD it's funny, like when I first saw the sc a friend sent me of it I thought he was using a sculpt someone had made

Not that is bad, it's just that maybe it's *too* good it's rare

[MuraBoy]

Yeah, the difference is huge

[AnimaAnimus]

My best guess is that they gave Clive all that extra detail as a compromise because without it he either wouldn't look like Clive (because Clive was designed for a game with much more detail) or he'd look like a meaningfully bad version of Clive.

Honestly I would rather they just made a lower quality Clive, then knowing that they could do better but I am stuck playing the Warrior of Wishdotcom

[Iscah]

I am actually happy with the character models we have, and I would be happy with just getting slightly less pixelly versions of some gear. I like the plainer textures on old gear over the high-detail ones we've had more recently, which tend to have so much detail up close that they just look like a mess from a distance, while the marks added for texture often don't dye properly and effectively make the item undyeable.

[DiaDeem]

Idk, it didn't really look that great to me