F Viera Face 2 Benchmark Lip Textures

[Kimitu]

I wasn't sure where to post this, so I apologize if this isn't the right place. I want to bring attention to the textures on female Viera face 2.

In my opinion, the lips look worse in the benchmark than they do in the current game. It's like the textures are even more low resolution. They don't line up with the mouth properly either, and the shadows look very weird no matter what lighting I put them in.

For example,

With light lip color:


No lip color:


Dark lip color:


Compared to what we have currently (using light lip color):


It just feels like a huge downgrade. I was really disappointed that my WoL looked so low-quality compared to the other three faces. I hope this is just benchmark testing stuff and won't be carried over to the official game release.

For some reason it seems like they have removed definition on the lips on all the female faces from what I have seen. Even face 3 lips are completely messed up and made it look like my character is always frowning.
I notice especially that they made the part where the mouth separates into a straight line, while compared to the current graphics, there's clearly a defined shape. It just looks objectively worse.

[witchymumma]

Another disappointed bun here...

I'm confused as to why the shape of the lips on face 4 were changed so much (especially after they said multiple times at fanfest that they wouldn't make any dramatic changes). Sure, all the lips have slightly changed (lighting, subsurface scattering, blah blah blah), but the shape of 4's lips has been outright changed.



As it stands right now, the lips on face 1 (in current and benchmark) look more like what the current face 4's lips have. People have pointed out that we'll all be getting a free fantasia at launch but with the current "customisation" system (of features being locked to specific faces), no amount of fantasia is gonna allow me to put face 1's lips on face 4.

[witchymumma]

To slightly add to my last post, I've seen a lot of people say to wait til we see our character in the actual trailer as they look better there than in character customisation.... yeah, thanks I hate it even more now. This close-up shot just looks cursed/terrifying:



I also ran the benchmark with her using face 1 and face 2, and although she still looks like she's plotting world domination (or is once again possessed by Zenos), the lips/smile looks way better.

[SquidzureDragoon]

I feel like this graphical update has a weird thing for giving everyone a very apathetic/dead inside default expression. My au ri look fine (unlike my bunboy, alas, but I've lamented him enough in another thread), but the lips still make them look so bored and uncaring when they had a little faint smile beforehand.

Here's one of my Raen girls, Calypso (ew first, then dt)