Graphical Update Thread: Midlander Hyur

[hiedra]

they took away my cheekbones, I'm genuinely upset about it

I feel like their idea of improving the graphics was just to make everything smoother... and they sacrificed a lot of detail that made the different faces distinct to achieve their goal



darker skin does show detail better because of the higher contrast between shadows and highlights, but it's still not enough

also changed the lips because they looked off with the update

edit: I do like the edit with the changes, but he is just not what I wanted my character to look like. Right now I feel the update made him look more feminine/beautiful.

[Vanitax]

yeah I also noticed the cheekbones with a face 3 midlander I made once :'<

[eohippus]

I feel like I lucked out in that I don't mind face 5 looking a bit older for my guy specifically, and I don't mind his features being softened a little (even though I prefer harsher shading to define things like brows or noses stylistically). I came out more unscathed than my partner who plays as m!elezen. That said, there's still some things about the lighting that are really weird with darker skin tones. of course, it looked better in the trailer than the CC, but even just comparing between the CC....



(in case that link embed doesnt work, here's the image https://imgur.com/a/DWDbRkR )

like, the weird points of light at either side of his lips dont make sense to me, and he is overall a little more grayed out to the point where I'm going to consider taking him a shade darker and seeing if I like that more. (but that doesnt help anyone whose characters are already on the darkest settings they can use)

[eohippus]

having seen a lot of other folks' characters now it seems like a lot of the warmth got removed from darker skin tones. like, even the red-aspect of purple-y toned au ra and elezen. its weird.

[Heavenchild]

I think he looks much better now. I also tried with other cosmetics and the new hairstyle and I loved it.
But I wished that also the bodymodels would get a real improvement.

[cbanogueira]

It seems to me that the designers paid attention to isolated details of the characters' faces, individually analyzing eyes, nose, mouth, jaw, etc.
However, they forgot to analyze the entire work, the final face and how far it is from the original face. This can be seen in the links below. When seen up close, the face doesn't look that different, but from afar, when you look at it as a whole, it doesn't appear to be the same person.
I can't recognize my character after 9 years of playing Final Fantasy XIV. I'm very sad about this.

https://imgsli.com/MjU1ODQx

https://imgsli.com/MjU1ODQw

https://imgsli.com/MjU1ODM4

[hiedra]

I feel like I lucked out in that I don't mind face 5 looking a bit older for my guy specifically, and I don't mind his features being softened a little (even though I prefer harsher shading to define things like brows or noses stylistically). I came out more unscathed than my partner who plays as m!elezen. That said, there's still some things about the lighting that are really weird with darker skin tones. of course, it looked better in the trailer than the CC, but even just comparing between the CC....



(in case that link embed doesnt work, here's the image https://imgur.com/a/DWDbRkR )

like, the weird points of light at either side of his lips dont make sense to me, and he is overall a little more grayed out to the point where I'm going to consider taking him a shade darker and seeing if I like that more. (but that doesnt help anyone whose characters are already on the darkest settings they can use)

The highlights on the darkest skintones look kind of greasy to me and the shadows are not prominent enough so the face loses a lot of depth.

[LaurentusYarabor28]

I have the same face type as your character and the same has happened to me. I think because they have rounded everything off and got rid of the sharp edges it has taken away the cheek bones. Also the lighting changes make a huge difference as well. Sadly I think that's why mouth 1 now looks like it has no upper lip. The eye brows as well look weaker and smaller due to making them softer. It's so sad but I hope square enix take this feed back and make some improvements. Ultimately they have made the face seem more fat, soft and rounder than it's original counterpart.