Benchmark/Graphics Update - Show your WoL's before and after

[BadAtGames]

Genuinely horrific. If they AT LEAST. AT LEAST fix the eyebrows being so sparse comparatively then I will find a way to live with it, but in general, it is unforgivable what they did to male viera.

[DiaDeem]

It is absolutely INSANE how massive the upgrade we're getting actually is.

This has completely blown my expectations out of the water. We're going from horribly lit low res dead dolls, to characters that actually feel ALIVE.

You guys have no idea how happy it makes me to see light behave like light. I absolutely despise how hideous and unnatural indoors shadows have always looked since ARR, but no longer.


Shadows finally behave like real shadows. Skin is reflecting and refracting light, it finally looks like actual skin and the game engine FINALLY understands how to do proper contrast. There's no reason why shadows should be so dark when you're under direct sunlight as it was before. You can even see lovely hues of pink mixing with the shadows on the left side of the face, under the eye and cheeks.


Just to further drive the point home, I'll post my alt as well.

The horrendous low res hair is gone, the hairline no longer looks like clay, the eyes are finally interacting with light naturally instead of looking like unfinished PS3 graphics (which is literally what they've been for the past decade) and again: I can't begin to explain how beautiful the new lighting looks. Shadowbringers has a ton of scenes in the Occular, and I always abhorred how freaking horrible the lighting made faces look in those cutscenes, and you can see that in the comparison below. I can't tell people what to like and what to dislike, but I legitimately can't understand in what world or universe the horrendous character on the left is considered better than what I'm looking on the right.


I hardly ever think so highly of things SE has done with XIV, but from just the previews, I didn't think they could make characters look this good. If any dev is reading this: Thank you, you've done an absolutely amazing job.

I also think you guys have wonderful looking characters, seriously.

[nordiclania]

It is absolutely INSANE how massive upgrade we're getting actually is.

This has completely blown my expectations out of the water. We're going from horribly lit low res dead dolls, to characters that actually feel ALIVE.

You guys have no idea how happy it makes me to see light behave like light. I absolutely despise how hideous and unnatural indoors shadows have always looked since ARR, but no longer.

I feel like the Fem Viera face 1 that you are using looks even better now. I was contemplating changing to it instead of my current face 2, but it just feels wrong, it's not my character.

[DiaDeem]

I feel like the Fem Viera face 1 that you are using looks even better now. I was contemplating changing to it instead of my current face 2, but it just feels wrong, it's not my character.

Really? From what you posted I thought your character looked very pretty. The Viera nose trait looks even more prominent in the pics you posted, and I think it makes her look more distinct than before!

One thing that people aren't mentioning, is that character creator now has changing light conditions outdoors, even on a set time of day, and it can change how the character looks when taking the screenshot. All I can really recommend is to poke around and get every detail right if something feels off. We're all still getting a free fantasia. I'm sorry if you're finding it hard to make your character right. I know how important our characters can be. I just honestly think you have a wonderful character.

[nordiclania]

Really? From what you posted I thought your character looked very pretty. The Viera nose trait looks even more prominent in the pics you posted, and I think it makes her look more distinct than before!

One thing that people aren't mentioning, is that character creator now has changing light conditions outdoors, even on a set time of day, and it can change how the character looks when taking the screenshot. All I can really recommend is to poke around and get every detail right if something feels off. We're all still getting a free fantasia. I'm sorry if you're finding it hard to make your character right. I know how important our characters can be. I just honestly think you have a wonderful character.

The nose was the one thing that I liked! (As mentioned in another thread.) But I'm sad about the lips and eyes.

Thank you for liking my character. :') <3 I will try to fiddle around some more. It's not like I will stop playing the game or anything, I was just not expecting certain details to be removed.

(Perhaps this will give me a reason to play fem Hroth instead...? )

[LuluLavender]

Along with the changing light conditions in the character creator, your characters skin now reacts differently to the lighting in a scene. Yes, that means sometimes, in a dull and dimly lit scene, your character can look quite grey. Personally, I love this. It's realistic, and far far better than what we have now. Since I've got a darker skinned viera, I'm quite used to her skin and shadows looking absolutely awful in some scenes. This should massively cut down on that and give a more realistic look. Your skin naturally looks different under different lighting

[Spectre316]

I like the after for both my characters! I just need to figure it which one I want to use when the expansion is out...

[nordiclania]

I like the after for both my characters!

Her pupils got smaller, did they give Veena the same eyes as Rava? Unless you made that change yourself. ^^ But yeah, Face 1 for fem Viera looks very nice.