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

[OgruMogru]

I seem to have gotten very lucky indeed! Somehow my boy's Cupid's Bow is a way better shape than a lot of other examples I've seen! The actual mouth line itself looks flat in the cc but in the benchmark it's totally fine. I only had to alter my lip shade slightly everything else looks pretty great!

My only small criticisms are that sometimes the shading on his cheeks looks like a really grubby 5'oclock shadow, the facepaint/makeup could do with a few tweaks and most egregious to me is the hair highlight errors. It's like they just updated the other variant of this hairstyle and removed the fringe but didn't continue the front highlights up and it's throwing the balance of the face off slightly. The hair doesn't seem to be as tousled or messy either which is a shame!

Commiserations to those unhappy with the way their characters look! There is absolutely an issue with the way detail shadows are working [nostrils in particular] and they need to do something about a lot of the lip shapes.

[OgruMogru]

Comparison of some screenshots from the benchmark. Really think the CC lighting is making everyone look a lot worse.

[Thrawn21]

It's crazy to me how wildly different the new model looks depending on the environment. My old model looked consistently like himself in good or bad angles/lighting. That's definitely not the case for the new model.



When I saw the comparison above (left = old, right = new) I instantly thought, "wtf happened to you!?" It's almost comical how bad the new version looks to me. I played around a bit with different angles and environments and got very different results.



I actually love his new look in this comparison (left = old, right = new). Some of his facial features changed, but it looks like a proper glowup while still looking like himself. All of these comparisons have identical character appearance stats (I had to double check because it looked so different depending on the environment). Hopefully when DT drops we end up having more consistency and people can feel good about their WoL. I've had mine since 2.0 and I empathize with people who are distraught with their character's appearance.

[EstelleCere]

Overall it looks generally better, but I really don't like the mouth that they did for the fin horns, it took away her pouty face that I liked so much. Her lips to me look too flat and not really the same shape at all like the old ones, and it bothers me. Other than that she looks pretty similar.

[Nahmazu]

Could be worse, but definitely not feeling the dead eyes or extended lip color. :')

[Katsuragi_]

Might as well copy pasta here:

Old:


New:


These do NOT give the same vibes. I don't know if it's just the added eyeliner, but the new one looks much more sultry; And while I'm not one to shy away from how hot I can make my character look, I don't like how "in your face" the new face looks.
I'd like to keep the ability to look more cute/simple.

Hell, I'd probably even LOVE if it was a toggle in the Facial Features/Face Paint.

[Fiala]

i personally have minor-ish complaints. i don't like the lightened eyebrows that seem to have happened to everyone (i posted in another thread complaining about such) and i prefer the old lip shape/textures but other than that i think i escaped looking mostly good

benchmark is the left and normal is on the right



but like overall? especially when i got her normal hair working in the benchmark i think it's serviceable.

[Octa_Bahjan]

Here's my lala and how they turned out in the benchmark... is it just me or are the eyebrows no longer following the primary hair color? (is that a benchmark bug?)


i prefer the new eyes, but something with the face feels off, and the eyelashes don't look the same when the eyes are closed... i don't mind it that much but i certainly lost a little cuteness in the transition i feel like

[GrizzlyTank]

Funny how they seem to have messed up aura the most when it was both the first extra race and only new race they didn't mess up with dumb decisions like no hats...