Dawntrail character graphics update - opinions, requests and discussion megathread

[DynnDiablos]

I know they haven't fixed the eyelids.
I just know.

So, did this eyelid glitch only impact races prior to DT? Because hrothgals don't have this issue..I am assuming it's because we are new and are models are excluded from all graphical updates/tweaks because we never needed them. And that is awful. Scary.

[Asteri]

Another patch is coming, and I still very dearly miss how my character looked in 6.58. I found an old portrait and managed to recreate it and oof... Her expression looked kinder, her eyes and mouth were wider and her scales were cream-colored. I miss my FemRa Face 2 from pre-DT... :<



My bug from one year ago is still in the Accepted pile and I still hold on hope for some changes, but dang...

[Turethir]

Another patch is coming, and I still very dearly miss how my character looked in 6.58. I found an old portrait and managed to recreate it and oof... Her expression looked kinder, her eyes and mouth were wider and her scales were cream-colored. I miss my FemRa Face 2 from pre-DT... :<



My bug from one year ago is still in the Accepted pile and I still hold on hope for some changes, but dang...

As a fellow Face 2 Au Ra, I'm happy to see your report was moved to Accepted Bugs! I too really miss my WoL's mouth and smile

[Aniya_Estlihn]

So, did this eyelid glitch only impact races prior to DT? Because hrothgals don't have this issue..I am assuming it's because we are new and are models are excluded from all graphical updates/tweaks because we never needed them. And that is awful. Scary.

Its a 7.2 issue, exclusively. Likely due to them attempting to make the changes that people keep trying to give feedback on, ironically.

[RedLolly]

I was looking into Fantasia-inf my character back into a Dusk Elf and the face combo I used for years on my account (switched to Steam) is just... Gone. The nose, chin, and eye shape have all changed just enough to be unrecognizable to me.


Meanwhile Roegadyn women look like they were finally finished after spending a decade with sharp pixels in random lip and brow textures.

[faiarrow]

Meanwhile Roegadyn women look like they were finally finished after spending a decade with sharp pixels in random lip and brow textures.

I can tell you now that's not the opinion most of us femroe players have right now...

I totally enjoy all faces having a mouth shape that makes smiles look, unironically, like

Just like I totally enjoy all the normal maps being fubared. And the brows being wrong; gone are the clear normal maps made for the different muscle structure, now we're just pretty smooth dolls complete with dead eyes from black pupils that are 15% larger than they ever used to be. They stripped us of all features that made femroe look like they weren't just a "bigger hyur" (while they also have butchered hyur, too.)

And then we have XIV mobile which fix a lot of the major gripes I've had since 7.0's benchmark and it's a slap to the face.

So no, sorry, not agreeing they "finished femroe." Smoothing out faces to the point of unrecognizability does not make a fix.

[Rabblerabble]

I've said it in another thread, but I want to see more Male Midlander Facial hair options. Mustache, beard, 5 o'clock shadow. The works.

I like a lot of the Highlander options, and I don't know what makes making good options for us middie folk so hard, but I'd like to see it happen. /fingerscrossed

[RedLolly]

So no, sorry, not agreeing they "finished femroe." Smoothing out faces to the point of unrecognizability does not make a fix.

You don't need to apologize if you preferred the older style when I prefer the current. It just really drove me insane to see that uniquely crunchy upper lip on the face option I liked with every variant, and it stuck there after several upgrades to my hardware.

[MoonNoire]

They did not, in fact, fix the eyelids.
But hey, hats (unironically super happy oh my god finally and it looks like they didn't half ass it)

[Iscah]

Ironic that the expansion that gave us Smile also made smiles look so horrible.

I find it more ironic that one of their talking points at the beginning was "better detailed expressions" (or however they exactly phrased it) and yet they can't even figure out how to recreate the ones we had before.