Dawntrail character graphics update - opinions, requests and discussion megathread

[smitten_miquitten]

Ah, sorry. I didn't mean to come across so abrasively.

[Cheapshot]

Ah, sorry. I didn't mean to come across so abrasively.

It’s ok. It’s important and meaningful to both of us, so I understand the stress of it. I’ve been feeling worse than awful since they changed my characters face so much. I haven't touched the game since early access, despite having 3 months left on my sub.

[Moonfallen]

I've gone through the entire MSQ and new raid. The NPC's animations and overall look are so much better than our actual characters. I don't understand how they could drop the ball on player characters especially since players are what pay for their game.

[KageTokage]

I'm not sure if it's something specific to my system, but when I have LoD for distant objects toggled on it, it causes really, really bad texture/shadow pop-in (To the extent of causing several square yards of terrain in front of me to flicker as I'm flying through an average zone) while I'm flying forward when this was not the case prior to the update.

This is problematic because this setting is also probably the biggest FPS increase available to me that alleviates most of the issues with certain parts of zones being cursed and tanking my FPS while I'm facing them.

[Archaeothyris]

My 2nd main FFXIV OC now looks like he got stung by a bee. The old lip shape was fine, why change it? Same with the jaw. What happened?? Sorry I don't have exact comparison pics, but I think the difference is glaring enough for anyone to notice. I put spoiler bars since the pics are quite large u__u

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[Turnintino]

My 2nd main FFXIV OC now looks like he got stung by a bee. The old lip shape was fine, why change it? Same with the jaw. What happened?? Sorry I don't have exact comparison pics, but I think the difference is glaring enough for anyone to notice. I put spoiler bars since the pics are quite large u__u

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It's really wild what they've done to so many of our lip shapes, and this face is definitely one of the most egregious examples.

In general, this face looks much softer and rounder than it used to, because they removed the painted contour of the cheekbones and under-eye creases from the previous diffuse map without compensating for the change in either the mesh or the normal map (the texture that fakes a lot of the topography we see under different lighting conditions). Before the update, face 2 for male Elezen was the option you might've chosen if you wanted a less gaunt but still conventionally handsome, masculine face -- but the opposite is true now lol. It's very telling.

[eohippus]

My 2nd main FFXIV OC now looks like he got stung by a bee. The old lip shape was fine, why change it? Same with the jaw. What happened?? Sorry I don't have exact comparison pics, but I think the difference is glaring enough for anyone to notice. I put spoiler bars since the pics are quite large u__u

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I am genuinely starting to wonder if there was some sort of rush at the end and people had to hurriedly create new faces while not bothering to make the correct lip color shapes for each face and mouth option. You can literally see the outline still of where his lip color should go to if they kept the same mouth from your pre-DT images! This has been VERY obvious on male elezen but I'm starting to think it might be why lips seem off and more homogenized across the board on most races...

[CecMiller]

I wonder when we should expect to see an update on this kind of thing - surprised nothing has been announced just yet.

[Feathetaria]

Looking at the /alert expression makes me realize how broken things are. my /think used to be so cute and now it's weird looking. Everything about my upper lip is WRONG! (female miqo face 3 mouth 4)

What a drastic change...





Feathetaria is still refusing to MSQ until she feels comfortable with her own face.

Look how cute she was in 6.55.