Dawntrail Graphical Update - Au Ra Feedback

[AvaloniaFallen]

Geez, her lips look completely different. I'm not sure why they drastically changed so many of the lip shapes. A bunch of Au Ra lip options look strange and puckered.

[Sarnai]

He just looks plastic tbh

And those are ugly, Like I don't want this bad of jpeg on my body come on what are those

[GrizzlyTank]

Geez, her lips look completely different. I'm not sure why they drastically changed so many of the lip shapes. A bunch of Au Ra lip options look strange and puckered.

Almost feels like they mixed up the lip options somewhere in development.

[Roda]

God, for the most part I've been kind of chill with most of the changes, barring a few exceptions (miqote fangs, roe nose smudge, viera lips, etc) but i can't sugar coat it, au ra kind of got slaughtered. :x

The eyes are wrong, the limbal rings are wrong, the lips are freaking criminal, the scales have artifacting, and the neck seam is still there???! Oof.

[GoatOfWar]

God, for the most part I've been kind of chill with most of the changes, barring a few exceptions (miqote fangs, roe nose smudge, viera lips, etc) but i can't sugar coat it, au ra kind of got slaughtered. :x

The eyes are wrong, the limbal rings are wrong, the lips are freaking criminal, the scales have artifacting, and the neck seam is still there???! Oof.

My character looks more like a distant cousin of my character than my actual character in DT.
The eyes, lips and nose MUST be addressed.

[Raim]

Face 1 and 4 male Au Ra look way better than before.

[StarStrider]

I have two female au ras, one face 1, one face 2.

I'm pretty happy with how face 2 looks now - but I would perhaps enjoy it even more if the mouth was a bit wider. Everything else is perfect.


My face 1 au ra I'm also quite happy with, but I feel that the face paint would need to get some editing. It feels too fuzzy and not on par with other high definition textures we've received. The face paint eyebrows also don't align with the regular eyebrows.


I have a lot of friends whose female au ra characters have face 4, and they're dissatisfied with how softened the features of their characters are. I really hope SE will return the "edge" to face 4 and sharp corners of the eyes it had, because I think the fierce look was what really made face 4 unique.

I also hope that the visual bugs regarding characters with darker skin colors will be fixed.

I think, overall, the Gridanian preview zone has issues with its lighting - characters there look pretty flat. My face 2 character immediately lost all of the depth and nuance her face had when I switched the preview to this zone.

[wyrmonstring]

oooh, my turn to butt in!
like everyone else, the artifacting is really atrocious on darker skin tones. in fact, the quality of the scales on the body are just... really out of place? especially in comparison to the face/horns:




I remember them saying during the live, that they weren't going to change any models or stuff but they have definitely changed lip and nose models. a lot of the lips have lost that little dip in the middle, and are a completely straight line.
my partner's Raen is definitely suffering from it.


on lower graphics settings, too, the skin texture kinda looks like hotpressed water color paper

also this is me personally, but i feel like they've sucked a lot of the red undertones out of the skintones, it feels horrific in the chara creator

i really like some of the changes, and i really want to like this update overall! i just dont like that theyre changing so much when they said it'd just be a texture/shader update. i'd like my characters to be recognizable from their 6.5x state to 7.x

[Solais]

I feel I must say something too, registered just for this, because I can't keep silent about this, they absolutely murdered my character!

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Benchmark



Originally my character looked curious and intelligent, like "ooh, what is that shiny thing!", but in the benchmark she's all dull and gloomy looking, like "I guess Meteion was right, life sucks and I'm out of coffee", it is not my character!
Also, I know a lot of people has been praising it, but I absolutely dislike the new Raen scales! The Xaela ones look good, but the Raen ones, especially around the neck look like as if they grew under the skin like some sort of skin disease, the original ones have a more natural color at the edges that gives the scales the feel that they grew out of the skin, part of it, they protrude. It's almost feels like as if they by accident flipped the normal map of the scale texture. And I really don't like how it's more white/grey colored, the white highlights look way over done, the more bronze/gold feel of the scales are gone. Why can't we choose the color of the scales anyways? Why only two presets?

[Yukimin]

Lip changes are so bad.