Updated benchmark

[Minali]

THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYING the corners of the mouth are completely off for our face now!

The corners are even like this when the mouth is wide open; wasn't the case in the other benchmark. Not by a lot mind you, barely noticing compared to, well, the open mouth, but it feels to me like they made these corners "static" in some way and I really can't see a reason why, it wasn't like this in the old model. (And yes, I went to a mirror to check how my own mouth behaves in various expressions, including an open mouth. And I'm not the youngest person anymore, my mouth corners show small signs of aging, and these "folds" are still "gone" when I open my mouth real wide. :P )

I wonder if this impression of them being so strange compared to the older model is them being so round and soft, like two stuffed pillows on top of each other instead of fairly thin sinnews and muscles or so.

I swear all the criticism i read in here boils down to "Return to arr 2.0 graphics".

Maybe work on your reading comprehension then? I specifically mentioned the mouth, not the whole face. I love her eyes, I love her hair, I love her "everything else but the mouth". And I sure as hell don't want to go back to 2.0 graphics.

[SarahDesdemona]

Yeah, the Au Ra fem face (speaking for face 4) has def got a weird thing going on with the lips. It's in the benchmark too which means it'll be in game, so that worries me. Everything else I'm giddy with or will learn to love, but the mouth issue makes us look weirdly skeletal or like we got lip fillers.





Miqo mouths got pulled in and Femra mouths got pushed out lol
Hopefully it's something that'll be addressed if not by launch then shortly after.

[Soxforrow]

Honestly everything about the graphics update environmentally etc looks great, like really great, but our faces are looking rough

[Minali]

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Added a comparison screenshot of how my Miqo'te face 4 mouth looks in the game at the moment. Should make it easier to spot the difference. The lighting in the new benchmark character creator is still a bit brighter, but I tried to get it as close as possible. (I am amazed how many weird weathers Central Thanalan has for a desert place. The one "clear skies" lately was around night... xD )

[cutestfox]

Added a comparison screenshot of how my Miqo'te face 4 mouth looks in the game at the moment. Should make it easier to spot the difference. The lighting in the new benchmark character creator is still a bit brighter, but I tried to get it as close as possible. (I am amazed how many weird weathers Central Thanalan has for a desert place. The one "clear skies" lately was around night... xD )

It is on all the mouths for face 3... it's way too much

[Garruss]

There seems to be an issue with the hair on the Miqo'te, the hairstyle 1 here you can see, it looks like someone has not made the shading look natural like the other hairstyles in the picture, it looks more like grey streaks rather than the light on the hair making it look lighter.

I would gather this seems to be a bug with the lighting not working correctly

[Soxforrow]

We all must band together and reclaim normal looking corners-of-the-mouth for certain Miqo'te and Au'ra faces

[LuciaMirain]

We all must band together and reclaim normal looking corners-of-the-mouth for certain Miqo'te and Au'ra faces

Seriously, yes. It looks so bad as soon as they hit any light.

[BeoCat]

I swear all the criticism i read in here boils down to "Return to arr 2.0 graphics".

[LuciaMirain]

I swear all the criticism i read in here boils down to "Return to arr 2.0 graphics".

Actually I just want my normal lipshape back. The rest is acceptable. So no, not everyone is miserable. But my characters mouth has gone from a defined cupids bow to pouty lips that look like they have been stung by bees and I have no option to switch to. Will I get used to it? Most likely not. Am I ok with using a fantasia? Yes, somewhat. Is this a feedback thread? Yes it is.