Graphical Update: Female Hrothgar feedback

[ZhaiRhen]

I'm very happy to see female hroth finally coming to the game! Thank you to the dev team for your hard work making this a reality. This thread is for feedback on the options available in the benchmark. I'll break this into quality feedback and personal feedback.

During experimenting with character creation in the benchmark, I have noticed some assets that seem to not be up to par with the overall quality of the graphical update.

This post is being made with the knowledge that some assets might not be in their final state, and some assets might be included in the benchmark at a lower quality or missing compared to the full release.

I am familiar with the process of making assets for videogames and understand that these things take time and resources that are not always available to the developers.



Quality Feedback:

The low quality assets are especially visible on the darker skin/fur options but are there on all of them.

Pixellated markings (all tail markings and face 3's lighter-colored "brows" - also face 1 to a less visible extent). These color patterns are much lower resolution than the rest of the textures/markings visible on the character.




There is also a visible neck seam in most lights. This looks to be a difference in shaders/pixel density between the body and head.




Personal Feedback:

Fang placement:

Currently placement reads less "big cat" and more "overbite". Moving the fangs to be placed slightly wider would fix this.


Hair Variety:

There is no reason to lock hairstyles to each face on these models, as head shape is nearly identical between each face. I understand this may be a decision purposefully made to make each appearance more distinct, but it comes at the cost of denying players more variety when the assets are already made and look fantastic. Many of these hairstyles are beautiful and I would love to be able to use them on all faces.

I am glad to see that it seems other hairstyles will be available (as indicated by the Meteor hair).

Overall I am happy with the assets included for female hrothgar. I also LOVE the design for their race clothing. While I do hope to see some small changes, I understand we're getting so close to Dawntrail release that other things will inevitably have higher priority for the team.

[VerCat]

I agree with everything in this post, but especially the hair options being limited. The racial exclusive hairs are usually the most diverse for each race, so being locked down to so few only hurts our creativity and expression.

[crystallineAbyss]

Teeth definitely need to be adjusted, but why so few hairstyles....even male hroth had more options. And not even access to vanilla stuff???

[joybear]

I actually noticed the same thing when creating my Hrothgar.

Her face is multiple shades lighter and more grey toned than her body. This is more noticeable on darker colors.

[Joltik]

I actually noticed the same thing when creating my Hrothgar.

Her face is multiple shades lighter and more grey toned than her body. This is more noticeable on darker colors.

I came here to say exactly this. Tried to make a Hrothgal with the darkest skintone, and her head is just weirdly grey where her body is almost black. It looks so out of place.

[CidHeiral]

I would love for the hairstyles to be unlocked if possible.

I hadn't thought of the fang placement but that's a good point. They looked more like vampire bat fangs than cat fangs to me so I didn't use them. I always have them enabled on male Hrothgar.

[Kraros]

Apart from what has already been said with dark skin tones (you can't have a completely black cat), I would like to make a suggestion regarding hairstyles:
The possibility of not carrying any, such as lionesses, pumas or panthers.
It is something that seemed interesting to me since the Bozja murals were seen; and it shocks me that that possibility is not there.

[D3AFN3SS1337]

There is one thing about the fangs that has been bothering me. The fangs in one of the four faces are significantly darker, compared to the rest. It doesn't look good with dark fur.

[ZhaiRhen]

I came here to say exactly this. Tried to make a Hrothgal with the darkest skintone, and her head is just weirdly grey where her body is almost black. It looks so out of place.

AGREED. I was trying to make an all black panther-like color palette and the face is so much lighter than the rest of the body. I realize this is probably done to ensure visibility of facial expressions?? (or something idk) but it also looks so silly, especially on the warmer skin colors where the face is so washed out!

[ZhaiRhen]

There is one thing about the fangs that has been bothering me. The fangs in one of the four faces are significantly darker, compared to the rest. It doesn't look good with dark fur.

The matching male face also has this feature, it seems to be intentional for the "coeurl" type faces... but I think it still looks pretty weird when the rest of the teeth are normally colored and the fangs just look stuck on.