Updated benchmark

[Siy]

Bearable as long as I don't glance towards a light source! This is the result of turning a few degrees. Why is she so tired?!

By the way, I notice the hair is only high res and wirey when zoomed in all the way. When zoomed in a little, only the hair closest to the camera is high res. Is there a graphics option for this?

There's also an alpha transparency issue with hair overlapping hair in sunlight as you can slightly see above her forehead in the second image. In motion this looks much worse, but I haven't played with settings to figure out what's doing it.

[Thais]

I posted in the other topic for feedback so I'll quote my post from there:

I'm fairly pleased with the changes on my Midlander. In the original benchmark, I noticed his eyes were differently shaped but was prepared to live with the change. I'm happy that they restored his eye shape! His face looks about as close to the original as possible.



Unfortunately, there's still the issue of the eyebrow change and I really do feel that the thinning of them changes his expression somewhat. I was hoping it was a scaling issue but it seems to be a design choice. However, I do wish to see those brought closer to how they look before the graphics update as it was my only real nitpick of how he looks.

Even still, I'm very happy and looking at the second image, you can see just how much he looks like himself before the graphics update.





The devs have done a great job and I hope they continue to tweak some of these more minor issues.

[SpiritMuse]

Looking at all there pictures I am noticing a fairly consistent trend among the lip alterations. Which is, Cupid's Bow are regularly narrowed, and especially on female characters, in some cases entire mouths are narrower and so appear smaller and "more cute".

Here is an example of my own character, current game above and new benchmark below, where I have traced the shape and highlighted where the highest points are. It is a drastically different lip shape.

[SugaryMiraa]

They actually fixed the hairstyle I used, which no longer has that weird spaghetti look it had before, and also added back the colour, so I am quite happy with this!
But I noticed that the shadow resolution has been changed for the character editor, which sometimes can result in overly sharp shadows being cast from the hair and nose. (The shadows remain soft and blurry in the actual benchmark on the same settings)

Old benchmark on the left, new one on the right.

[Priddy]

Bald hairstyles still aren't upscaled, still have a texture seam around the whole head, and now have a brand new lighting seam that didn't exist before, so it's actually worse.

I like the intentional changes and the new benchmark looks much better. But the technical issues that basically ruin my character are still there and it looks like I'm going to need to fantasia even though I don't want to.

https://imgur.com/a/JFsK2lB

[baby_lon]

I am happy! I was very very sad with the last benchmark as it didn't look like my lalafell and no changes I made could restore her. But I didn't have to change anything at all here, and she looks exactly like she does in Endwalker

Here is the old benchmark:


Here is the new benchmark:


I'm really happy that the eyes and the nose smudge were fixed.

Additionally, I noticed this bug, I think? I don't really mind it because at least my lalafell looks the way I want her to, but I thought I should mention. Not sure why the eyelashes go grey in shadows.




Anyways, thank you devs for changes I hope they keep making changes and by Dawntrail everyone is happy with their WOL too!

[NorthernLadMSP]

OMG I'm so happy they fixed the brand new hairstyle for Viera, Miqo'te and Hrothgar. I really wanted to use it, but in the first Benchmark it looked kind of ridiculous around the area where the normal human ears would have been. They filled in those weird gaps with hair, and it looks so much better now.

Before.





After

[Dorito_Burrito]

One thing I noticed is that you can now cycle through every hit/hurt sound in the voice preview instead of just one.

Also I'm not surprised the board's started to flood with separate feedback topics again.