New Benchmark Feedback: Midlander Hyur Females

[Fleur]

I don't see a lot of Midlander females, so decided to make a thread for feedback for the new benchmark released today (June 3rd). Please feel free to post your feedback for Midlander females here too, regardless of what face you use.

I was reasonably happy with the previous benchmark version, but not this one. Here is a comparison, 6.5 (live game) vs the new benchmark:



I'm not really sure what to say here. She looks so different to me, it is like the new lighting highlights her features in the worst way (ex: emphasizes the nose bridge, and the undereye area makes her look tired in anything but the best light I could find, which is this). She was so cute, and now she is much less so, to my eyes.

Edit to clarify: a big reason she looks less cute to me is because her expression looks different, especially the mouth. She looks like she has a touch of a smile before, but in the benchmark it is gone and combined with the undereye area she just looks bored and tired.

+ a small note in regards to the lips: in both versions she has "light" lip color. However in the new benchmark, I noticed that there is a glossy/reflective effect even when I choose no lip color at all.

Any more opinions/feedback about Midlander females is welcome.

[aiqa]

I am very unhappy with the changes of the overal shape of face #1. Lips, eyes, nose, chin, hairline all look very different. And none of those are an improvement.




The JP forum has a pretty good comparison post.

[Leeca]

My problem is mostly related to lighting as several hairstyles have broken self-shadowing (on max settings)



And my favorite hairstyle has an odd seam in the middle of it

[jihos]

something definitely is *off*, and the addition of the eyebags/aegyosal doesn't really help. i really appreciate the devs hard work, i hope fem hyurs can be looked at in the future for further altering/fixing!

[OgruMogru]

I don't see a lot of Midlander females, so decided to make a thread for feedback for the new benchmark released today (June 3rd). Please feel free to post your feedback for Midlander females here too, regardless of what face you use.

I was reasonably happy with the previous benchmark version, but not this one. Here is a comparison, 6.5 (live game) vs the new benchmark:



I'm not really sure what to say here. She looks so different to me, it is like the new lighting highlights her features in the worst way (ex: emphasizes the nose bridge, and the undereye area makes her look tired in anything but the best light I could find, which is this). She was so cute, and now she is much less so, to my eyes.

+ a small note in regards to the lips: in both versions she has "light" lip color. However in the new benchmark, I noticed that there is a glossy/reflective effect even when I choose no lip color at all.

Any more opinions/feedback about Midlander females is welcome.

I have noticed that a lot of midlander fem faces have a melty lower lash on the bottom outer corner. It's like their false lashes are starting to peel away at the end of a night out. It's changing the shape of the bottom lids on a lot of eye types and making them look saggy and palsy like.

[aiqa]

and the addition of the eyebags/aegyosal doesn't really help

Face #1 always had somewhat baggy eyes in certain lighting conditions. That was smoothed away by overly strong subsurface sccattering in benchmark 1.0, but the live client always had it about as much as benchmark 1.1.

I have noticed that a lot of midlander fem faces have a melty lower lash on the bottom outer corner. It's like their false lashes are starting to peel away at the end of a night out. It's changing the shape of the bottom lids on a lot of eye types and making them look saggy and palsy like.

It's not really the eyelash, the eyelashes are connected properly. The issue is that the eyelids are about twice as thick in the benchmark. The freakishly big exposed fleshy part of the lower eyelid is the green outline around the eye in my screenshot.

[OgruMogru]

Face #1 always had somewhat baggy eyes in certain lighting conditions. That was smoothed away by overly strong subsurface sccattering in benchmark 1.0, but the live client always had it about as much as benchmark 1.1.



It's not really the eyelash, the eyelashes are connected properly. The issue is that the eyelids are about twice as thick in the benchmark. The freakishly big exposed fleshy part of the lower eyelid is the green outline around the eye in my screenshot.

Yeah that's what I mean, the lashline is really odd in that area. there are makeup techniques to make your eyes look larger for cosplay where you glue eyelashes way underneath the natural lash line and that's what it looks like here, except it's just like empty flesh lmao

[Siy]

Going to shamelessly copypaste my post from the other thread:

Bearable as long as I don't glance towards a light source! This is the result of turning a few degrees. Why is she so tired?!

By the way, I notice the hair is only high res and wirey when zoomed in all the way. When zoomed in a little, only the hair closest to the camera is high res. Is there a graphics option for this?

There's also an alpha transparency issue with hair overlapping hair in sunlight as you can slightly see above her forehead in the second image. In motion this looks much worse, but I haven't played with settings to figure out what's doing it.

[Luluna]

I am unsure where my lovely pale gloss has gone as every lip colour to be beige/brown. I usually favour face 2 but the lovely pout she had is gone and I can not get the shine on her lip right. I am overall happy but there is a slight change to the nose on face 1 and the lips seem flat on the races I made.

[LlymlaenGreene]

yes i can agree with you, even the previous benchmark much more better :3