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

[Ayaime]

It's NOT the lighting.. It's the shapes that have changed.
Lips, eyes, nose..

Just look at this mess;

https://imgur.com/a/6gAKOP7

It's just not my character anymore :/

I kinda like the new one more >.<

[GoatOfWar]

I kinda like the new one more >.<

I don't care what you like more.
That's not my character.. And i don't want to play as another character.

[Windfire]

The f is this? I am NOT happy, it looks totally different from what they should be (and don't give me that bUt BeNcHmARk!, lighting won't fix changed shapes) DT left, current right on all

[Tethan]

There’s a lot of people I’ve told the run the benchmark who were like “oh wow that changed everything I was worried about.”

I am not trying to say that people who are upset just didn’t run the benchmark. My comment is only to try and help people who were in my position. It’s surprising how many people just didn’t bother running it because of the initial disappointment.

Some characters were also changed more than others. For one, I have yet to see a single Viera M3 face user that wasn't very unhappy with the changes.

[felixgalaxia]

Mine looks horrible. Why did they take the life out of his eyes, change the color of the scleras, and make his eyelashes so long that it looks like guyliner???

[AirisRay]

I gotcha. It’s just been surprising to me how few people actually bother to run their characters in the creator. I was initially very upset with me highlander but the benchmark itself put my fears to rest.

When I pointed this out to other people a lot of them were like “I didn’t even bother but I’ll give it a shot.”

There ARE some glaring issues with some of the faces, like lips and brows being totally changed, but the weird skin plastic look goes away for the most part in the actual game itself.

Of course I ran a benchmark. No, this did not solve the problems I am talking about here. There was no way this could solve them.

[Wasselin]

Yeah I think they need to do more work on the midlander male eyebrows and facial hair. Hopefully they can tweak it a bit. I thought my facial disappeared due to the light coloring, but even your looks a lot lighter.

My example with blond hair: https://imgur.com/a/VYjvbSW

[blinushka]

Lack of distinguishable rabbit nose for female vieras is quite disappointing to say the least - really hope they revert and make it rabbit like again.
Same human nose from the previews 3 months ago and now in the benchmark.

[ryouma17]

my midlander and miqot'e uses a hairstyle not available in the creation menu so i had to sub them with generic hair, also for some reason my highlanders benchmark pic is really dark even though i set the time to midday

personally i think my characters look worse then before but so long as the game in general looks better then i can overlook this

[Calderone]

(slider image if something want better look: https://imgsli.com/MjU1NDg2 )
I think I actually like the changes!
At first I was mad, but most my problems was from other environments, like Gridania one - my character basically glowing itself, regardless of light source.
Gridania environment: https://i.imgur.com/Evn26Vw.jpeg
Benchmark: https://i.imgur.com/DpZM2JS.png
In benchmark IMO he looks great, so definitely something is happening with light in character creator.
I need to get use to new "stare" and changes to nose, but overall Im happy with it.