Updated benchmark

[moodud]

Quality old men
(Now SE can u give us some quality old ladies??)

If they will not add any more new races in the future then give us new faces Old ladies when.

[Reinha]

If they will not add any more new races in the future then give us new faces

This graphics update chaos has really shown how badly we need a character creation update. More faces, hairstyles, eyebrows, eyes, lips, noses, etc.

[purincchi]

they un-massacred my boy!!!!

current game/benchmark 1.0:



benchmark 1.1:



the before and after between benchmarks is... a little horrifying honestly! but i'm over the moon with how he looks; my only little gripe is how overly shiny his skin is but i think that's a universal issue atm. i'm also still holding out hope that they'll make the viera inner ear textures less crunchy, surely

[Glitchima]

An absolute win for me!!! I'm so happy!! Thank you SE <3
(left is current game, right is benchmark)

[dango_]

I appreciate all the adjustments the dev team has made with the rerelease of the benchmark and overall I think it's a great improvement. I believe it has already been brought up here but one further change I would really appreciate is if we could get rid of the neck seams. Depending on the lighting they can look pretty rough on my catboy and I'm pretty sure the same goes for other races too. Would be great if with the update those could be a thing of the past so our chars no longer have to suffer never-healing sutures. I do imagine they must be rather painful

[arstoka]

Endwalker first, Dawntrail second.

I'm really happy about the changes from the OG benchmark to 1.1. While I understand they removed the yellowish gradient from it, I still feel like the hair colours, especially for darker colours, have been washed out by the new lighting.

I'll have to wait and see how he looks in game in Dawntrail.

(For the record, I have my game in boarderless windowed mode for the OG character creator so I'm taking that into consideration.)

[LuciaMirain]

I am honestly fascinated. It isnt just the light that has changed, some little things were changed with the mouth. But now my bunny actually looks almost like herself (mouth is still changed) compared to the old benchmark where I didn't recognize her and she looked swollen and somewhat featureless.
New benchmark left, old right

[Rugno]

Cobbled together a comparison image here. I will say that the lips, thanks to the new lighting do at least look a little better in the new benchmark, but the shape is off. it's missing that taper at the corner of the mouth where you get that cupid's bow curve. I did find a kind of sort of good enough mouth replacement that I'll probably go with unless they're somehow able to fix the issue before release. (Doubtful given how close we are.) I imagine it's probably got a lot to do with how the mouth is shaped on the new model, and might require a rework of the texture to get it more in line with current Viera. Overall, definitely an improvement over the original benchmark, but I'd really like to see them pull these lips together.

[1313]

I'd love to share some pics but idk how to make it work. Last time I tried, nothing happened when I put in the imgur url. Pls assist

[arstoka]

Try "right clicking" the image followed by 'copy image link' and using that link instead.