Quote Originally Posted by DiaDeem View Post
All your second shot needed really was to wait for the sun to get in the right place once again. Mind you, I don't expect this to 180 your opinion, but it will give you a better before and after look of your character.

Cheers!
Here she is in the inn, and I also tried to retake my la noscea shots with as close to the same time of day as I could.






This is a little better, if only in that her skin doesn't look like wax anymore. That said, too much about her just looks different. The subtle things add up. Her eyebrows are thinner and lighter, the shape of her eyeliner is different and less dramatic, her eyes look a lot more flat and dead without the static shine, and her lips are just... awful. If I zoom out, it looks like she's gone back a console generation.

I think what's bothering me too, is that in the current version of the game, Mara looks like herself no matter what lighting she's under. Even in the incredibly unflattering top-down lighting of places like the Waking Sands, I never look at her and think "this is wrong." In the benchmark, why does she look dramatically different depending on the lighting, environment, etc? Should I spend 7.0 avoiding sunny areas so that my skin doesn't turn to wax and my features don't get erased in the light?

I don't know. Obviously some amount of change is going to be inevitable, and I want to be okay with that. But I have to be honest to my feelings right now, and in its current state, this is just making me feel bad.