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

[QutieMunchie]

If we click "Settings" on the launcher for the benchmark, we can set them to match our in-game settings. This is extremely important for lighting and overall graphical quality and resolution, and that way we may receive a much better comparison between our current visuals and the new ones.

Some of the screenshots in this thread show different gamma settings, resolution quality, and shadow settings that have nothing to do with the model changes or texture updates themselves. Aligning these settings with our in-game settings to which we are accustomed does not mean that we will like the changes, necessarily, but will give much better points for comparison and contrast.

My benchmark is set up the same as my in-game settings, but the change is still so drastic I don't know what to think of it
The screenshots I posted were already with the same settings

[Fayt1203]

If we click "Settings" on the launcher for the benchmark, we can set them to match our in-game settings. This is extremely important for lighting and overall graphical quality and resolution, and that way we may receive a much better comparison between our current visuals and the new ones.

Some of the screenshots in this thread show different gamma settings, resolution quality, and shadow settings that have nothing to do with the model changes or texture updates themselves. Aligning these settings with our in-game settings to which we are accustomed does not mean that we will like the changes, necessarily, but will give much better points for comparison and contrast.

EDIT: One other thing to check! If there is another application for visuals (like Nvidia's various enhancement apps), they might be turned on for FFXIV but not for the benchmark program, and that will give totally different results. Also, certain settings in the benchmark launcher may not work correctly if drivers are not fully updated (or new settings are simply not doable on older video cards).

Also though i don't know if there is any difference but when i did use match our in-game settings it did put it in High (laptop) instead of High (desktop) for some reason and i am playing on desktop, But in the end i just put it in Maximum. then there is how or what people are using to take the screenshots and what the settings are behind that can sometime set for low quality to save space. For my self i just used steam for the screenshots

[Midian0]

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DT

[Miight]

She actually turned out pretty well, and didn't change too much, so I'm pretty satisfied (the eyes aren't quite exactly the same but it's fine).
I'm not sure if I have the exact same settings, but the gamma should be the same.
There are, however, some issues that I will elaborate on below the first batch of screenshots.








As said above, this came with its own set of problems :

- The face marks are now less visible on lighter skin colors (it looks like they added some kind of transparency to it)
- The fangs are gone (see this thread for more info)
- The makeup is way less visible than before (especially when the eyes are opened as you can see with the screenshots above)

Here is a comparison when the eyes are closed :



As you can see, it looks like they reduced the eyeshadow's size (Face Paint 3) and changed the color in general.

I sincerely hope they will address these issues, as they shouldn't be too hard to fix.
I also hope the best for those that were the most affected by the graphical update.

[GodModule]

Man this face is extremely cute with the DT update. An objective improvement imo.

[twobear]

I love how my guy looks in DT.

[Oizen]

New Auras are pretty cute and Face 1 looks great so Ima use that. Thank you Square enix for this much needed graphics quality update that will breathe new life into the game, i love how the new eyes look and how full of life they look as well as how easy it is to get good looking lips, and how faithful it looks to my original character.

[TaoTech]

Same settings as in game... Left is current, right is benchmark char creation. His whole face looks flat and dark, lips have no shine at all, eyes look dead and far too dark, eye makeup is all messed up and weird looking. And the worst offense, you can't see his eyelashes at all. I can't say I am happy about any of that at all. On the other hand my moon kitty looks great. But this is unacceptable.

[Doozer]

Same settings as in game... Left is current, right is benchmark char creation. His whole face looks flat and dark, lips have no shine at all, eyes look dead and far too dark, eye makeup is all messed up and weird looking. And the worst offense, you can't see his eyelashes at all. I can't say I am happy about any of that at all. On the other hand my moon kitty looks great. But this is unacceptable.

I have a similar problem to yours though I've already mentioned it so I won't go on about it again, but I wanted to say -- I really like what you did with the tattoo and makeup options. I picked the same options but just for a dark smokey eye look, whereas yours is like a cool colourful gradient. Sucks that the update messed that up.