Updated benchmark

[Cahlum]

Most of you all saying 'something feels off' are saying that because thats the biggest difference the lighting makes. The current games lighting is /very/ bad. Now we have proper lighting. Shadows are more accurate and look a lot better. Shadows make things look different.

Its the age old shine a flashlight under your chin to look scary thing.

I also don't get the 'duck lips' complaint on the Au Ra pictures from that one person. Duck lips stick out. Au Ra lips are practically flat against their face in all four options on Face 1.

Some of yall will literally never be happy unless they give up on the graphics update and leave us with old models forever.

Yup, most of the complaints are total nonsense.

[RhaesDaenys]

Yup, most of the complaints are total nonsense.

I was with them when they were showing outlines of lips and stuff being different - and that /is/ a problem or was. I don't know because my character has looked perfect before in 6.58, benchmark 1.0 and 1.1. I'm easy to please.

But now they're literally complaining about shadows making things look different - which is exactly what shadows do.

Someone literally said "I don't want to only like my character in certain lighting."

Like... even in 6.58 I only like my character in certain lighting. Thats not a benchmark thing. Thats a FFXIV thing.

[TabrisOmbrelame]

I was with them when they were showing outlines of lips and stuff being different - and that /is/ a problem or was. I don't know because my character has looked perfect before in 6.58, benchmark 1.0 and 1.1. I'm easy to please.

But now they're literally complaining about shadows making things look different - which is exactly what shadows do.

Someone literally said "I don't want to only like my character in certain lighting."

Like... even in 6.58 I only like my character in certain lighting. Thats not a benchmark thing. Thats a FFXIV thing.

People had legitimate concern with the 1.0 benchmark we got. For exemple, a bad vertex point on the Elezeen mouth made it extremely weird. Now, They upgraded the texture even further, changed lightning a bit, shadow calculation, etc etc and people get mad. People will always get mad for the slightest reason. Of course, some reason are completely valid, like a neck seam or eyelashes that aren't placed correctly on the eyes, etc... feature that are not done correctly.

I'm pretty satisfied with how my character look now. Looks great, and can't wait to start Dawntrail !