Dawntrail character graphics update - opinions, requests and discussion megathread

[lunartears]

I saw these screenshots online a few days ago and thought it would be worth sharing here. I thought the Ancients' eyes were deliberately made to glow?




Has anyone checked early ShB Ryne's eyes?

[ConantSivrha]

I expect it to be an unpopular opinion but I don't like the new hair textures much, the darker lines in the old ones made the hair look more defined and in the new one I feel like the detail gets lost. (...) The hair is also too bright.

To me, the new hair looks softer and more like actual hair...as long as you have dark hair...and you can tolerate it looking a bit muted in comparison to its previous appearance. Light hair, on the other hand, just looks like a beacon.



This hair isn't perfectly white. Or, at least, it's not supposed to be; it's a greyish blonde. Truly white hair is, as you can imagine, even worse.

I saw these screenshots online a few days ago and thought it would be worth sharing here. I thought the Ancients' eyes were deliberately made to glow?




Has anyone checked early ShB Ryne's eyes?

Maybe the ancients' more obvious eye glow was somehow tied to the slight glow that all eyes had before the update, resulting in the ancients' eye glow accidentally being removed when they intentionally removed our eye glow? It seems like a weird oversight, though. I hope it was an error that will be fixed in the future, because their noticeably glowing eyes helped the ancients look distinct from hyurs.

Ryne's eyes still glow.



I didn't have any screenshots of her pre-update appearance, so the first image is what I could find on the wiki. The following is a clearer screenshot of her new eyes.



I don't think her old eyes had the appearance of sharply-defined, pale blue "pupils", but I could be wrong. I remember the bright part of her eyes looking more like hazy blue lights against a darker outer edge.

TL;DR: we (and the ancients) no longer have glowing eyes, but that's okay, because we have grossly incandescent hair to make up for it.

[Daralii]

I saw these screenshots online a few days ago and thought it would be worth sharing here. I thought the Ancients' eyes were deliberately made to glow?


Has anyone checked early ShB Ryne's eyes?

I wonder how badly it hit the ending cutscene for Elpis. One of the most striking visuals at the end was Venat's eyes being so bright when she was otherwise coated in blood.