Thread: Benchmark 1.1 Feedback - Elezen

Originally Posted by oracleofroses

Oh I didn't notice this. I will have to experiment with makeup too when I get home. Given how close Dawntrail's release is I don't know how feasible it is for a 1.2 benchmark, but I hope they'll release one just to fix these issues.

Not all faces are affected. So i guess, they confused some normal maps ... again. -.-




Cheers

They re-lumped my boy. I guess it is much closer to the current version and some people liked the lumps, and maybe it was just a weird artifact from the funky lighting in the first benchmark, but I was excited that the weird jowl lumps on male duskwight face 2 were finally getting smoothed a bit. But, alas, they will persist. And now he's also lost his lip gloss and has the wildwood eye bag textures making him look tired/congested all the time too. At least there's noticeably more polygons so some of the other odd lumps were indeed smoothed.

I accidentally made a whole new thread about this because I didn't realize an Elezen thread was already going. Whoops. But I noticed some hairstyles that are meant to sit flush against the head have some gaps on Elezen.










^ This one especially is mostly only evident when rotating the character.







Please pardon some of my layer sloppiness at the bottom. I was ironically trying to get through these as quickly as possible. I rotated the character multiple times in an attempt to show the gaps as clearly as possible.

The last (5th) hairstyle on the first row also doesn't appear to be sitting flush and that is evident when rotating, however it is so subtle it's difficult to capture so I omitted it.

Hoping they're able to fix this.

Originally Posted by Coerced

I prefer what was shown in the previous benchmark outside of the lighting. At least the changes to the shape of the eyes were obscured partially by the lashes.



Otherwise, none of the issues I have were altered in any positive way.

I'll drop this here as well, I suppose.

I'm female elezen player and i'm glad they have fixed the wired mouth movement and over pervious to light face, but there's still one thing i hope they can improve:
The sharpness on female elezen's face is gone, please bring it back. I think disappearance of sharpness makes female elezen lose their characteristics and looks less different from other races. She does look softer in new version but come on, I don't need this at all. I choose female elezen because they're cool instead of soft.

I am having difficulty with fixing my female elezen because they're more rounded now. The softness/roundness is affecting her nose and eye shapes. The nose feels wider and gives the sense of setting the eyes farther apart, despite being the slowest nose option on any face (currently face 1). The eye shape I have is rounding out and in the same place as the eyelash/makeup Facial Features is making it look even more round. I like the angled eyebrows and have them, but they've gotten even thinner than they already were! Which just exacerbates the smoothness of the face because there's More Face, haha.

Overall I'm pretty happy with how my character looks, but I do miss the definition on nose and lips for sure, plus the shape of the lips has changed slightly. It's a change that I can live with, but given the chance, I would go back to the pre-Dawntrail version in a heartbeat lol. I also wish lip gloss would be noticeable again. I can see it if I squint, but it seems very faint now.



Dug out an old gpose for comparison. Resized the screenshots a bit too much I'm afraid lol, but the change in the lips/shine is still quite noticeable I think: