Hyur Midlander Male Face 5 - proposed revision

[Remina_Garamonde]

Firstly, thank you for all your effort in not only the graphics update, but the entire game in general. As a player since 2.0, I've greatly enjoyed being a resident of Eorzea.

For the graphics update, I have the following proposed revision for the Hyur midlander male, face 5.
Please see below for the proposed revision to the nasolabial fold shadows beside the nose.




The gear and overall graphics look fantastic, my only preference would be the removal of the nasolabial folds.

Thank you again for all your hard work!

Sincerely,
Remina Garamonde

[ValG]

Hello! I believe you linked the same image twice, I swear I'm not trolling, I was looking hard to see differences so then I checked the image link, that seems to be the same for both!

You can clearly see that the second image doesn't have expression lines below the cheeks, making him look way younger.

[Yencat]

Everyone has (slight) nasolabial folds, especially when smirking or smiling like in the screenshot. Removing them completely gives it a very unnaturally flat, almost chimpanzee-like quality.

[Remina_Garamonde]

I've found that the nasolabial folds are noticable even outside the benchmark's first scene.
I see it in second scene with the chocobo and in the benchmark's character creator.

I've looked at my 6.58 character and don't see the nasolabial folds under similar lighting conditions, so it seems to be an added facial structure in the update.

6.58 character creator on the left / benchmark on the right (gamma level 50) / 6.58 in-game below:



Here's a few more images from the benchmark character creator to help illustrate this under different lighting conditions (gamma level 50):


Gamma level 100 on the left / Gamma level 0 on the right: