Dawntrail Graphical Update - Au Ra Feedback

[Kimeraandrel]

Sorry if anyone else has pointed this out. But in the character creator, the pose Au Ra does when you swap between race clothes/small clothes is broken.

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[Roda]

Sorry if anyone else has pointed this out. But in the character creator, the pose Au Ra does when you swap between race clothes/small clothes is broken.

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Same as on live it seems

[SchwarzwaelderTorte]

Please report the troll if you haven't already (it's the yellow triangle on the left under the post) before people actually take the bait.

[Gember]

The tribal hair that is made specifically for male Au Ra does not have any updates regarding their unique horns. Here are some screenshots to show the differences:















I absolutely love the graphical update for the horns on the side of our heads, but I just noticed this while lurking in the character creator, and the differences are huge. Maybe the devs overlooked, but hopefully these hairstyles will be updated eventually.

Thank you.

EDIT: This is the same for Raen too. I just used Xaela for screenshot examples.

[SabrinaScribb1es]

The tribal hair that is made specifically for male Au Ra does not have any updates regarding their unique horns. Here are some screenshots to show the differences:















I absolutely love the graphical update for the horns on the side of our heads, but I just noticed this while lurking in the character creator, and the differences are huge. Maybe the devs overlooked, but hopefully these hairstyles will be updated eventually.

Thank you.

EDIT: This is the same for Raen too. I just used Xaela for screenshot examples.

It's the same for the female Au Ra exclusive hairstyles too. None of the hairstyles with additional horns have been updated, which is especially jarring when compared to the lovely new facial horn textures. I hope that if they do update the hairstyle-specific horns, they will also make them match in color to the facial horns and scales. I love my Au Ra's choppy hair and additional horns to the point where I refuse to change her hairstyle to anything else, but I've always found it a bit jarring that they don't match in color to her off-white facial horns/scales.

[PriscillaSaitou]

Taking a look at the fem Au Ra face 1 lips all together, I'm really surprised by how much the upper lip shape has changed over all 4 options. The wide curved cupid's bow was pretty consistent across them, and while it kind of remains in the 4th benchmark option, it's still pretty softened up. The lack of shadows on the lines between the lips also changes the appearance quite a bit, the slight pursed expression the shadow gave felt like it gave a lot of character to their faces when they weren't actively emoting



This is a bit of an aside since I'm mostly commenting on the lips here, but the rounding and lowering of the nostrils kind of disappoints me. I know people tend to consider face 1 the 'pretty' face, and this might be just a personal opinion, but the nostrils slanted upwards like that always reminded me of snake faces, and I liked that it felt a bit less human like. It's cute, and it gives a slightly uncanny feel to my girl, but I don't get that same feeling with the benchmark, it's a lot more human (and uncanny to me in a different way lol)

[smashBG]

I don't think the character creator is capable of dividing hairstyles by subrace, so instead we get horns that don't quite match either clan but could ostensibly belong to both of them. Small indie company, please understand, et cetera et cetera. I've never liked it myself but you can't fault the graphical update here. We probably won't see this change until character creation is overhauled (and even then, we still might not get it).

[SabrinaScribb1es]

I don't think the character creator is capable of dividing hairstyles by subrace, so instead we get horns that don't quite match either clan but could ostensibly belong to both of them. Small indie company, please understand, et cetera et cetera. I've never liked it myself but you can't fault the graphical update here. We probably won't see this change until character creation is overhauled (and even then, we still might not get it).

Oh yeah, I didn't think about how the colors would have to be divided by subrace. Perhaps it would be more feasible for any hairstyle (regardless of race/subrace) that has a hair accessory (like a brooch, hair tie, flowers, ribbons, additional horns, etc.) to gain a third color selector to change the color of the accessory. I've always found it a bit strange that some hairstyles have beautiful permanent accessories, but they can't really be edited or adjusted to fit with different character aesthetics or glamours.

Regardless, I doubt we will get any changes to the color of the hairstyle exclusive horns (or any other hairstyle-locked accessories) since that's more of a change to the character creator rather than a graphical update -- it's just some very wishful thinking on my part. I'd still like to see the actual texturing/modeling on the hairstyle-horns updated though, since the hairstyles themselves have already been updated and are looking pretty nice (albiet, a bit less brightly colored and shiny).