The artificial Eye reflection looks bad.

[EliaStormblade]

Also this does look pretty jarring.


Got a little floaty on there

You got something in your eye, friend.

[Roda]

You got something in your eye, friend.

I just wanna

[GTK0HLK]

Finally, the thread I was looking for.
(Cause sometimes making one yourself is a waste of time if no one bothers)

Yes, on My Au Ra it was blatantly obvious the change.

I liked the tech they are implementing, and I felt like it only needed a slider scale like in some SP games like Code Vein, where you can choose the size and brightness.

But it moves. or simply just affect how bright or blatant it is and have it move, not static.

[Unlike some of the users I seen, I personally preferred the Dynamic. as I know it was for a reason.]

[GrizzlyTank]

Also this does look pretty jarring.


Got a little floaty on there

Yeah, an issue of too many highlights, with their own rules.

Though couldn't notice the same issue in the benchmark.

[GTK0HLK]

At least some closure, the jp side is also likely to be causing some stir of this atm.

We just have to see if they'll be swinging forwards and back on the changes, or if they'll specifically break down the changes and tune it before or after DT release.

At least they more or less know in what range people want now.

[HeyMcFly]

I've already made a similar thread, but posting the link here- maybe it can be merged down the road

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...t-appears-dull

[HeyMcFly]

I honestly agree? I get the reason why people complained about the eyes in the benchmark 1. Not having any shine isn't good, but adding in a static fake shine (or rather, adding it back) is regressing, and it's gonna be really janky combined with what are otherwise a bunch of real and dynamic lights. Not sure what the perfect solution would have been, but I don't think adding in a cartoony eye dot was it.

There was eye shine, but the way the reflections worked was likely too realistic which folks had an issue with- now it's been dulled completely. I also wish the thicker eyelashes had been optional, instead of removing it- seeing so much of the under eyelid is gross imo


Here is a screen of miqo eyes in 1st DT benchmark

and here is 2nd (current) benchmark

[EliaStormblade]

Yeah, an issue of too many highlights, with their own rules.

Though couldn't notice the same issue in the benchmark.

I have to be honest... some races don't seem to have it, or their eyes are too small for me/it's obscured to see that kinda thing.

[Kuro_Matsu]

Not your PC. I have a 4090 and a 4K display run on max settings. Def an issue on their end.

Yeah it seems to be some overly sensitive LOD texture scaling? I'm getting it too on every race.

Here's my smudgy Roe

I'm relieved to see it's not just me, and I hope they can fix this issue as soon as possible. But they are on crunch time now, so I might end up stuck not taking any MSQ SS until it gets resolved. :/

[Boyu]

I did a rough photoshop edit (I didn't do a good job, but it's just to illustrate the point) to show how important this is for the likeness of our cats. We can have upgraded models and still use the older cheap tricks from 2.0 to maintain likeness, there's no reason to sacrifice quality for the sake of fidelity.



I'm glad there's other people who agree on this. As someone who's been staring at their catgirl for 9+years, the subtleties are important to me. The artists on the team are awesome but feedback is important so that things can be tuned, and dismissing people who are taking their concerns to the forums helps nobody. It's frustrating to see how many people are being dismissive to valid critique.

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