Thread: 7.0 Graphic Update - Elezen feedback

Originally Posted by decomposer

This is something I've been grappling with over the last few days. Are we really meant to think that hooked noses, strong profiles, smaller almond eyes, and full lips were "mistakes?"

Jepp. There is a nice documentary on YT how ARR was made. They took literary every shortcut, they could to finish ARR as fast as possible. With the graphical update, they fix some defect things.



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Originally Posted by SpiritMuse

Plainly, if a facial feature ends up looking differently than you intended due to a bug, and you plan to update that feature after 10 years of people creating characters with it while promising to preserve the original look of characters as much as possible, you should rework that feature so that the updated, unbugged version still reflects the actual way it has always looked.

Yes, it happens, that the players start to like some bugs or not intended behavior of a game. It was the same in WoW. Blizzard assigned an incorrect sound to a warrior ability. Later, they fixed it and the players were upset because they liked the wrong sound. This is more a philosophical question: is a bug really a bug if people like it and it does not disrupt the game?

Originally Posted by Lorefiend

The normal map might not have been perfect and got remade, but 3D shapes are not bugs. The sculpting of the face was intentional for 1.0, and it is intentional for 7.0 too.
The changes hurt the character creation range we used to have, and are the opposite of what they said they were trying to do; staying faithful. This is not something that needed to be lost to fix the bugs.

Yes, they altered also some other aspects of the face. Because they increased the polygon count of it. And more polygons look different than less polygons. The eyes also look different because the anime-like white dot is gone.



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Hair colour has been washed out and becauase of this, some original colours are unable to be replicated now. Some hair colours have also been strangely darkened.
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Hair has lost its shine, looks more flat.
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Some hairstyles are no longer 'fitted' to the face, causing clipping issues.
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Some hairstyles are completely broken, or have strange shadows.
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Strange lighter-toned highlights that look like tinsel visible on some hairstyles, especially with darker hair.
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