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

[Hejligan]

Left is old, right is new.

I am not very happy about how it changes the overall "look" of my character.

The obvious parts (which seems to be affecting everyone) are the massively thickened, enlongated and uniformed eyelashes, which even affects the lighting on the eyes. Eyebrows are also horizontally wider and a completely different colour.

Then there are the more subtle parts. The lip is horizontally smudged but at the same time appears to be less puffy where the lower lip ends. Ironically, there appears to be less detail on the face: it looks more washed out. It makes the overall face look both less defined and wider. Overall the skin looks... Wrong? Like a layer of cheap make-up has been applied?

But then there are even more subtle things: these pictures are both taken from the default angle when you come in to the editor (though breathing might have affected it slightly), yet why does it look like one has eye contact with my character in the current build, yet not in the benchmark? It looks like the benchmark version is "looking through you" in my opinion, while the release build is looking at you.

Overall the impression is that it looks like my character has applied cheap make-up: smudged lips, a weird quality to the skin which even hides definition, massive eyelashes, different eyebrows. I don't like it.

If I am allowed to be a bit less prosaic, if I met the benchmark version, I would probably be worried and call for an ambulance, because she has more the skin tone and eye-impression of someone who is about to pass out...

[CaptainLagbeard]

Eye and hair colors feel a little washed out in the new graphical update



7.0 Benchmark on the left, current client on the right.

[Papayatar]

I have 3 WoLs so here we go

Lala


In the CC they look washed out, but now I can see the hair highlights better. Also the mouth looks like it’s a little smaller.

But for the most part she came out unscathed and in both CC and benchmark trailer she looks like her usual self.

Au Ra


Also mostly unscathed. I feel like the lighting makes them look better overall. The limbal ring is not as bright as it was before, but since it’s already on the second to lightest colour, pushing up to the lightest will push it closer to the original.

Also the lips look a little fuller? I like that they looked a little bit more angular before, but it’s not too bad. I tried the other lips and they just don’t look right so no changes I guess.

And I wish the lip shine and some detailing on the face scales were added back in. Both look so flat without it.

Viera


In CC he looks like a totally different dude. Like way more angular and not as soft as before. In the trailer though he looks fine but the CC is so off it’s a bit jarring. But at least I can see him better since he’s a black rabbit.

And something about the lip colour has changed. It looks redder/darker when it’s supposed to look closer to his skin tone. So now it looks more like he’s wearing like lipstick instead of like chapstick.

[Ryouu]

While i think they did such a huge and incredible work for 7.0 and i want to play it rn i have a small issue with my WoL, i don't lost the graphical update lottery but i don't think i won it either.

When you play a character straight up for days, month and years you notice every single changes and tbh i'm not really a big fan of them :

Endwalker :



Dawntrail Benchmark :



I have several issues with the Dawntrail, it may seems like nothing but i want my voice to be heard.

- While the mouth and chin are ok the face overall is round and lost that sharp shape
- Nose less defined make it look smaller
- Eyes are bigger (chose small eyes for a reason) and lost again that sharp shape of the eyelid
- Bigger thing is the eyebrows they seems so thin and the shape changed for no reasons

I hope they can adress things like theses.

[Geriel]

I have to say I am very pleased!

Before:


After:


I may lighten the eye color juuuuust a shade. Other than that, she's lovely! Is it June yet???

[QutieMunchie]

I really don't know about mine
It's not ugly at all, I think the update did great on textures and such but.. It doesn't look anything like her now

This is my character atm


And this is her on the benchmark


I know lighting isn't the same and all, but even in the actual benchmark she looks possessed and didn't have the same face at all.. Any Face 2 highlander have the same problem?

[Minali]

Personally I couldn't note any huge differences in the character that would made me say "this is not my character anymore". Skin colour has to be adjusted a bit, and because of how much flatter the lips look and a general glossiness, she has a bit of a porcellaine doll look. However, when I turned down the gamma correction in the bench mark to 0, it got a little bit better. (Screenshots were made after the adjustment.)



I also don't mind the eyes' highlights being changed to actually reflect the light in the scene in general. However, the way this is apparently mainly affected by the main light source, you just have no lights in the eyes very quickly. It needs to address indirect light sources as well or have some other way to shine.

She looks great in this screenshot from the Benchmark:


But just a few seconds earlier her eyes are entirely dark, even in a scene in broad daylight, just because the sun is shining on her back, not the front or side. I dread to think about highly emotional touching cutscenes in dark dungeons, at night or with the light coming from the "wrong" angle....

[NikaaNero]

I cant... they broke my girls nose, put fake lashes on her...and her eyebrows match the colour of her soulless pupils rather than her actual hair... Q.Q