Updated benchmark

[Minali]

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Totally off topic, but I love your signature.
Same, buddy.

[Reinha]

Didn't your dad teach you about the birds and the bees? When it's our "special time", our heads pop off! Then, over a period of a few weeks, the head sprouts several new clones, and our body grows a new head.

Omg, thanks for the nightmares.

[GrizzlyTank]

OLD
NEW

Face 3,
Jaw 3,
Eyeshape 3, size small
Eyebrows 1
nose 1
mouth 1

Eyes are less sharp, harder to spot the pupils and the iris is slightly larger.

The eyelid is rounder in the new one

The eyebrows hangs lower now, has less curve, ends earlier and lacks the tiny spacing on the outer part.

[Amh_Wilzuun]

OLD
NEW

Face 3,
Jaw 3,
Eyeshape 3, size small
Eyebrows 1
nose 1
mouth 1

Eyes are less sharp, harder to spot the pupils and the iris is slightly larger.

The eyelid is rounder in the new one

The eyebrows hangs lower now, has less curve, ends earlier and lacks the tiny spacing on the outer part.

I also use mouth 1. Upon closer inspection the 7.0 mouth looks pretty identical to the current game, but has the just very slightest differences in the edges and shape as a consequence of having better detail. It’s so minute but I’ve stared at my character for so long that I can’t help but notice. It’s just one of those things I’ll have to get used to honestly

[emcapi]

I'm very happy with the new update! Huge, huge improvements on the lighting. Also noticed some much appreciated adjustments to femroe face 4 + eye type 4 shape. The previous benchmark gave my character a bizarrely huge lower eyelid that completely changed the eye shape. The updated version still has a larger eyelid than before, but the overall eye shape and facial expression is far better preserved and I'm happy with it.

For comparison:

Endwalker:




Previous benchmark:



...Uhh. Mildly horrifying, tbh.




New benchmark:



SHE TURNED OUT FANTASTIC!

I know that the darker pupils on femroes have been somewhat controversial, but personally I feel that they work really well for my character. She looks significantly less dead inside, lol.

The one thing I would still love to see would be upscales of the face paint options, as her freckles are still very blotchy. Apart from that, though, I am very content and feeling a lot more confident compared to the previous benchmark about how she'll look in Dawntrail.

Also, thank you to the devs for working to incorporate our feedback. An unplanned massive overhaul of the character creator must have been a huge imposition while also trying to put the finishing touches on the new expansion. I know it's impossible to make everyone happy, especially when we all have so much emotional attachment to our characters and how they look, but there has clearly been a lot of effort put in to address the issues that have come up (although admittedly, I think the lighting problems in particular really should have been noticed earlier).

[Garruss]

OLD
NEW

Face 3,
Jaw 3,
Eyeshape 3, size small
Eyebrows 1
nose 1
mouth 1

Eyes are less sharp, harder to spot the pupils and the iris is slightly larger.


The eyelid is rounder in the new one

The eyebrows hangs lower now, has less curve, ends earlier and lacks the tiny spacing on the outer part.

I use those eyes too I used them due to the shape and now well.... they look nothing like they did, they used to look a lot sharper and it's a reason I chose them, really come off too soft looking now

[Rugno]

Viera havers are that one selfie meme where someone's in the background drowning

"out here living my best life"

"the viera are drowning"

"this ain't about them"

Definitely feels like this, for sure

[antylamon]

Posted before, after the first benchmark.
Like a lot of people with femra face 4, I was not happy with the weird mouth changes and the pinched area at the corners.
Updated screens (left - first benchmark, middle - endwalker, right - new benchmark):




Lighting did make things look better (for me), the mouth pinch (?) looks not so apparent now, and I feel like I can live with it due to it being a middle ground between the first two (especially on the bottom pic). However! Lips are still wildly different and I wouldn't say no to the depth/shape being added back;
Scales are better but the one on the nose is still different (I don't feel too strongly about it admittedly though).

I don't use limbal rings so I'll leave the discussion about their changes to those who do.

So in the end I feel happier about it than before and, regardless, you'd have to pry my lizard from my cold dead hands even with the changes, but still would loooove to have the old mouth back in HD xD it's my favourite detail.
And will also support fellow face 4 players in their comments

[Noelani]

It's so weird but across the races Face 4's seem to have taken the most dramatic changes. I can see it really clearly here on your au'ra that the whole head/face is squashed vertically by like 5%. My miqo has the same problem. T____T