Today's the earliest expected date for the Benchmark re-release

[Shikiseki]

Honestly this makes me very happy that the feedback was considered. Even if it's redrawn 2.0 aesthetics, it just feels like the character has details and personality again.

[Khryseis_Astra]

The lips is part of the whole texture package (notably the diffuse texture, which is the base image texture and it doesn't follow the same shape than OG). The dimples on the sides of the mouth however can be a combination of 3D mesh and normal mapping, hard to tell for sure. For the eyes, it's definitely the 3D mesh shape of the edges of the eye, if that's what you're pointing out here.

They specifically noted there were issues with “mouth scaling” in the first benchmark too, so hopefully there will be a noticeable difference in the new one.

Speaking of… wasn’t today the target date for the new benchmark? I really want to get in there and play with it!

[Taliriah]

I saw no mention of

I mean they clearly emphasized that they didn't mention all the changes.

Speaking of… wasn’t today the target date for the new benchmark? I really want to get in there and play with it!

Pushed to Monday because if they release it today they won't be able to address any issue with it during the weekend.

Oh, and by the way the reason yoshiP gives for this is not "because the staff deserve to rest on the weekend" but "because power to our offices will be cut all weekend for a building inspection". Sure seems like a great boss

[Shibi]

Oh, and by the way the reason yoshiP gives for this is not "because the staff deserve to rest on the weekend" but "because power to our offices will be cut all weekend for a building inspection". Sure seems like a great boss

Honestly, with under 4 weeks until release (isnt it), some staff will be pulling all-nighters too if Square is like any other software house. Anyone who has ever seen a release of any software behind the scenes knows there is likely a lot of very last minute clean-up going on, and I know I personally would expect be called to work many extra hours for the release date.

Weekends, even Christmas day, doesn't exist for me, if the release of the software I am involved with is close. Square will be the same, with a Japanese mindset on top to increase the work hours.

[Valence]

Honestly, with under 4 weeks until release (isnt it), some staff will be pulling all-nighters too if Square is like any other software house. Anyone who has ever seen a release of any software behind the scenes knows there is likely a lot of very last minute clean-up going on, and I know I personally would expect be called to work many extra hours for the release date.

Weekends, even Christmas day, doesn't exist for me, if the release of the software I am involved with is close. Square will be the same, with a Japanese mindset on top to increase the work hours.

I hope they do get paid for overtime.

Unpaid crunch time can go rot in hell.

[Taliriah]

Honestly, with under 4 weeks until release (isnt it), some staff will be pulling all-nighters too if Square is like any other software house. Anyone who has ever seen a release of any software behind the scenes knows there is likely a lot of very last minute clean-up going on, and I know I personally would expect be called to work many extra hours for the release date.

Weekends, even Christmas day, doesn't exist for me, if the release of the software I am involved with is close. Square will be the same, with a Japanese mindset on top to increase the work hours.

As someone who has worked as a programmer on multiple release of a AAA game franchise in the past decade (and yes, got involved in awful last minute bugs) and can't even remember the last time I worked overtime, much less something as ludicrous as pulling an all nighter, I have this to say:
Skill. Issues. (not on your part, but the company you're working for).

[Khryseis_Astra]

They specifically noted there were issues with “mouth scaling” in the first benchmark too, so hopefully there will be a noticeable difference in the new one.

Speaking of… wasn’t today the target date for the new benchmark? I really want to get in there and play with it!

Just saw the announcement… so far I think things look a lot better! And while they didn’t show all the races, the Lala and Hyurs they showed had mouths much closer to how they are now, so I’m hopeful the other races got the fixes they needed too.

Guess we have another 3 days to wait… but I was also happy to see them clarify that the new 60-minute feature for Fantasia is going to apply to all of them, and not just the free one we’re getting with Dawntrail!

[Fawkes]

Wowzers

Looks like they fixed the weird subsurface scattering.

[Boblawblah]

"4 weeks until release"

4 weeks...