Dawntrail character graphics update - opinions, requests and discussion megathread

[Cheapshot]

I also don’t see what you mean about skin colour from your photos. Maybe you could take some new ones? I’ve noticed a sort of grey hazy film over my eyes which looks awful. My eyes look really bad since the update and I’m shocked at everything that made it through QA in this graphic update.

My characters eyes have a sort of grey haze over them. The texture of it almost looks like certain kinds of shampoo if you know what I’m referring to? The haze is really sapping any life out of my eyes and light reflections in the eye also seem to be dimmed by both the grey overlay and the heavy shadow cast by the upper eyelid.

In this shot, there’s a bit of pink in the eyes from the lighting. Could that be what you saw?


My main concern is how blurry and dull and grey my eyes are now. They were so clear and sharp and bright before. Eye and skin colours have also been changed for some reason.

The grey film over eyes isn’t as visible in the CC but it does let me highlight something else going on.

The lightness if iris colour also has a stark impact on the pupil. This was always the case for miqo’te but it has a much stronger an effect now which combines with the in game greyness to make my eyes look like a dead fishes.

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No life in these eyes

[Rueby]

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Almost looks like cataract now that I look at it..

[Daralii]

My main concern is how blurry and dull and grey my eyes are now. They were so clear and sharp and bright before. Eye and skin colours have also been changed for some reason.

You could edit the new eyes onto a corpse and they wouldn't look out of place.

[strigiformes]

My main concern is how blurry and dull and grey my eyes are now. They were so clear and sharp and bright before. Eye and skin colours have also been changed for some reason.

I'm so glad you made these comparison shots because the eye film is my biggest issue with the graphical overhaul as far as Keepers go. Everything else I've made peace with, for the most part! Emotes look a little funny now but I'll live with it I guess! The eyes though...

Left is EDW benchmark; right is newest DT benchmark


In game in nearly all lighting conditions, the haze over my character's eyes makes them look really "dopey" in a way that doesn't really fit them. A friend referred to it as "catnip-addled," which was funny but also very true. I miss the sharpness of their old eye color! That specific hue of silver had a nice emissive quality to it that I'm very sad to do without!

Additionally, I've found that at least for miqo'te, black doesn't seem to be "true black" anymore when it comes to hair color and eyebrows.

Left is EDW benchmark; right is newest DT benchmark


Now, this character has grey highlights in their hair but even without those:



Barely any difference, right? I've noticed this on other friends' characters as well, mostly in the eyebrows, but there is something going on with hair black values in this game now that does not play nice with the new lighting engine. It's too "soft."