Character graphical changes are NOT in an acceptable state, please make it optional

[Embran]

Something that makes me wonder how up-to-date the benchmark actually is is that I didn’t really see any complaints about characters looking the way they do during all of the previews — even stuff like the Pictomancer/Viper trailers, I don’t recall people being like “that looks nothing like miqote face 4 or middie face 2,” etc. — though there were certainly concerns over the lack of viera noses and au ra rings, etc.

It makes part of me believe the benchmark truly is scuffed or an old build or something. I hope they address it in the next live letter, whatever the truth of the matter is.

[Turtledeluxe]

Something that makes me wonder how up-to-date the benchmark actually is is that I didn’t really see any complaints about characters looking the way they do during all of the previews — even stuff like the Pictomancer/Viper trailers, I don’t recall people being like “that looks nothing like miqote face 4 or middie face 2,” etc. — though there were certainly concerns over the lack of viera noses and au ra rings, etc.

It makes part of me believe the benchmark truly is scuffed or an old build or something. I hope they address it in the next live letter, whatever the truth of the matter is.

If the graphical update is not a current build, it should not have been implemented imo. Combined with the fact you can't necessarily replicate things like the character lighting, it seems misleading.

On the other hand, some things like forced makeup, expression changes (primarily by changing lip shapes and angles, eye angles, etc.), removing features that were fine (glossy lips) etc etc are problematic imo. I'm uncertain if those things would be based on old builds or if they are structural.

Either way releasing something old and incomplete is kind of a silly idea for something of this magnitude.

[Shiro-Marusu]

Something that makes me wonder how up-to-date the benchmark actually is is that I didn’t really see any complaints about characters looking the way they do during all of the previews — even stuff like the Pictomancer/Viper trailers, I don’t recall people being like “that looks nothing like miqote face 4 or middie face 2,” etc. — though there were certainly concerns over the lack of viera noses and au ra rings, etc.

It makes part of me believe the benchmark truly is scuffed or an old build or something. I hope they address it in the next live letter, whatever the truth of the matter is.

I feel like there may not have been enough information to go off of. Not all faces/features have the same issues. But if anything, I would guess that perhaps the previews were earlier versions, for images only. Perhaps in some cases they deviated more and more from the original as they tried to (re)adapt it to animations etc. There's probably more going on there than we can even see.

Seeing some of the old models (and I have looked at mine more than any other), not all features are sculpted as 'realistically'. I wonder if they changed things because they worried that keeping the old shapes would look uncanny with the higher graphics... Just speculating at this point, though.