Updated benchmark

[Rikizza]

The lips are alsmost the same and, in fact, more accurate on the second model. The curvature usually stops at the level of the pupils; the previous mouth was too small, not the opposite in your case.

Excuse me?? Accurate to what? My lips do not "stop at the level of the pupils" and its not a basic human trait to have that lol.
I personally think the edits they made to the lips made them ugly.

[LlymlaenGreene]

I find it really very funny to be honest. This person claims that there are no differences between new and old characters.

I like going through this thread and playing spot the difference games with people's pictures only to conclude they're 99.99% the exact same image.

I scroll further and see that this person says that the developers have literally remastered midlander.

Of all the races, I'm really liking the Midlander looks. Some of the details look even closer to what modern FF character models look like.

I'll call this revenge of the Midlander. The race that got dismissed for looking like dolls are getting the best revamp with 7.0. Now if they can just fix the female midlander lips...

I do not know whether to laugh or not? Maybe Mr. will show Miss the differences? She's obviously having some difficulty distinguishing faces. *I don't really think so, I see her messages from time to time and she sometimes offers sound ideas, but when it comes to graphical updates, I'm just surprised where she gets so much sarcasm and anger and indifference to our problems. But when she doesn't like something, rest assured, she will write three volumes of an encyclopedia on this subject*. So anyone can safely ignore her attacks in your direction about anything about graphic updates.

And about your message. That begs a few questions. first of all. I wonder who rejected this race? By you personally or you are talking in general now. Because it sounds like you're claiming that it was rejected by the community. The population of active players at the lalas and viera levels. That is, they have clearly not been rejected. About the fact that you are happy with the new look and actually confirm that the development team is literally not fulfilling its promises * to update the characters as closely as possible to the original. They did not say that they would make a new aesthetic for existing characters*. Actually, thanks for your message. I will definitely quote your message and translate it into Japanese to show the developers that even third-party people on the forum say that midlander female looks like new people at the moment. If they really want a new look, let them create a third sub-race. lowlander or something like that, and leave our beloved ones to us. And then everyone will be happy :3 Dolls, you say? you have the right to do so. For the sake of interest, I asked about 13 of my midlander female friends and none of them are happy with the new look. Yes, the sample is small, but I have to play with them, and do you think this is conducive to a positive atmosphere or not? :3

[Kacho_Nacho]

Good afternoon! Does anyone know if Square Enix is updating our entire character model or just our faces? Due to the improved lighting, I'm seeing a lot of blockiness and edges on my models and wanted to know if I should provide feedback on that issue here or wait until after a body patch was announced and released?

[moodud]

Good afternoon! Does anyone know if Square Enix is updating our entire character model or just our faces? Due to the improved lighting, I'm seeing a lot of blockiness and edges on my models and wanted to know if I should provide feedback on that issue here or wait until after a body patch was announced and released?

I believe they only enhanced polygons for the face, hands and feet. Anything else should stay blocky as before and I don't think they will do the body since it is unnecessary.

[Minali]

I believe they only enhanced polygons for the face, hands and feet. Anything else should stay blocky as before and I don't think they will do the body since it is unnecessary.

Au Ra have special characteristic scales all over their bodies. Hrothgars have fur patterns of all kinds, and have an absurd lack of other options of customization with other means besides. That aside, plenty of gear and glam invites to showing off e.g. your chest, has been the case since ARR. And there are plenty of cutscenes where the body - covered or not - is very much visible. Updating the body is far from "unnecessary".

[Kacho_Nacho]

Aura have special characteristic scales all over their bodies. Hrothgars have fur patterns of all kinds, and have an absurd lack of other options of customization with other means besides. That aside, plenty of gear and glam invites to showing off e.g. your chest, has been the case since ARR. And there are plenty of cutscenes where the body - covered or not - is very much visible. Updating the body is far from "unnecessary".

Good point, Minali! I believe moodud was thinking along the lines of Hyur, Miqo'te, etc... but, even then, you're right. Characters have plenty of opportunity to show off their bodies.

Come to think of it, there's a whole glam set specifically for this purpose. The Emperor's New Gear..

I'll guess I better take some screenshots for CBU3 then. Thank you both!

[moodud]

Au Ra have special characteristic scales all over their bodies. Hrothgars have fur patterns of all kinds, and have an absurd lack of other options of customization with other means besides. That aside, plenty of gear and glam invites to showing off e.g. your chest, has been the case since ARR. And there are plenty of cutscenes where the body - covered or not - is very much visible. Updating the body is far from "unnecessary".

For textures, sure they will be updated for the whole body and everything else. But increasing polygons to make the body model rounder or smoother, is unnecessary.

[Kacho_Nacho]

I believe they only enhanced polygons for the face, hands and feet. Anything else should stay blocky as before and I don't think they will do the body since it is unnecessary.

*emphasis mine*

Except during Moonfire. Got to show off my sexy lalafell pectorals sometime.

/flex

[Minali]

For the lulz I opened the game on one screen and the benchmark on the other and made a direct comparison of old face 3 me and new face 3 me. I also rotated them away from the sun so this whole lower jaw and mouth situation is not influencing judging the shape.

She looks really similar to people who don't play the game as her I'm sure, and this is nothing I'd quit the game over or anything. However, I noticed something had changed with her eyes, making her look like she was trying very hard to get this Mountain Dew mount. I'll live, but I know I'm going to miss all the gpose moments where she's just relaxing somewhere, gazing into the distance, with this contempt resting face, happy and alert but calm. I can't even point to what the difference is, maybe it's the lack of dark eye lashes, one pixel being moved elsewhere, or the size being bigger and the eyes being further apart from each other, or at least giving the impression they would be further apart. Maybe all of that. So I checked how far I could get by recreating her with a different face, putting that free Fantasia, adjusting it just like we were asked to. That face 2 version was the closest I could get to, but it's still a rather different, idk, vibe? Face 1 would mean losing basically all of my fancy tiger stripes, and Face 4 looks to me more like a shy or anxious person, and this just doesn't suit her at all. It's a pity these stripes are glued to the face. I really wish they'd be optional features, so every face can have all types of stripes.



Not sure what I'm going to do when Dawntrail drops. Might not Fantasia right away in case there are going to be any tweaks in the first few patches or so, but whatever I choose, I'll need time to get used to that. I know that much.

(Then again, maybe the lighting decides for me, depending on if they fix that mouth situation or not, because these "dimples" are just absurd. https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...51#post6470751 )