Dawntrail character graphics update - opinions, requests and discussion megathread

[Anneliese_Lev]

I will upload a screenshot later, but I really dislike the emotes where my character shows her teeth. It's the most trollish grin I've ever seen. I can't compare right now, but I don't remember this being the case before. She's way better when she smiles without showing her teeth.

Oh, and sometimes the lighting plays really bad around her mouth. Sometimes it looks like she's harelipped or has a dumb expression (although in this case it's an optical illusion casted by the light and shadows)

[3/5]

The new teeth are really frightening as well, I would like if they could be made less realistic.

Ok, so I'm not the only one who noticed. Yes, the new teeth create very uncomfortable smiles and other expressions. Also, they look less detailed somehow (in my case, it was as if she only had a solid mass of bright white color)

[Noelani]

One thing I'm noticing is that DT faces -appear- vertically squished by about ~3-5%. Whether this is due to an actual change in the mesh, or just the cumulative effect of individually changed features and lighting, I put the blame for the 'puffy/round face syndrome' squarely on this vertical squish.

[antylamon]

Had some more time to play and see things in motion, and I keep being thrown off by the noses… Like it was mentioned before, a sudden change of aesthetics towards a more realistic one, while using the same “base”, made a lot of noses look uncanny with the rest (especially jarring on some previously more stylized faces, like the one I use).

It’s better under some lighting conditions where the transition to the rest of the face is more smooth, but a lot of times it just feels plastered on.

Lighting does impact things, but… wish the stylization was kept and improved on within the style we know and love.

[SturmChurro]

Had some more time to play and see things in motion, and I keep being thrown off by the noses… Like it was mentioned before, a sudden change of aesthetics towards a more realistic one, while using the same “base”, made a lot of noses look uncanny with the rest (especially jarring on some previously more stylized faces, like the one I use).

It’s better under some lighting conditions where the transition to the rest of the face is more smooth, but a lot of times it just feels plastered on.

Lighting does impact things, but… wish the stylization was kept and improved on within the style we know and love.

So true. It is so jarring sometimes to see how samey my nose cat looks to other miqo now as well in a lot of lighting.

[antylamon]

So true. It is so jarring sometimes to see how samey my nose cat looks to other miqo now as well in a lot of lighting.

I feel ya... Face 4 Miqo was always one of my favourites!

We also used to have nostrils that weren't just punched in, and added a lot to the stylization (I really miss that stylistic choice)(and lips too ;__; ):

[sindriiisgaming]

Just comming in with some info. Try increasing the light source that's being cast on your characters and see if they look better. I found mare lamentorum to be the best place because the light was flat. When I did this my character looked 100x better


I think maybe the lips are bugged or something. I'm not sure how they work but they look very wired in the dark

[Kaurhz]

I am loving this update, and it really shows in the world design as well.

The only thing I am not so strung on is the waxy texture of the skintone.

[moodud]

Hello. Male Midlander face 3 here. I love the new graphics update and looking forward to future updates.

However in my character case, the beard remain unchanged and still appear as low resolution. It has been like this since the first benchmark.

6.58 / benchmark 1.0 / benchmark 1.1 / 7.0 (ps4)


I don't have access to my pc and I can't try ps5 version yet but I doubt it will be different. The beard is still broken.

I made comments about this in the previous benchmark feedback threads and it hasn't been fix.

In live game the seams between hair and beard are softer than the benchmark but they are still quite jarring when look up close.



The same problem also affects the NPCs. Poor Alberic wishes an update too.



From distance it appears fine but as you can see from the benchmark pictures, in certain angles and lightings the beard can look very broken and act weirdly. I don't want to start MSQ with my broken beard. Please fix this and give us new beard already, I am quite jealous of other faces and races ;_;. Thank you.

[Alice_Chrystal]

Hey hey,

I start off with the positives.

I generally am extremely thrilled about the graphics update when it comes to the environment (If you don't see a difference, go into your graphics setting. Your previous settings got changed up a bit. Mine got lowered. Activate NVDIA DLSS manually, (mine got set to AMD even though I have an NVIDIA Graphics card) and set the overall settings to MAX).
I like the new lighting, textures, how objects are now rendered. Adding to that, I am also a huge fan of how clothes look now and in general how skin is displayed. I think the game looks amazing now!

With that out of the way, now to the *but*.



I am surprised Au Ra face 3 is rarely talked about. My character was supposed to be on the older side (late 30, start of her 40s) but now she just looks so extremely...young. The only difference between the two pictures are eyecolor and hairstyle.
The lower lip got smaller, the nose is just completely different, as well as er eyeshape. Her jawline was changed from a smoothely curved one to a harsher transition from jaw to chin.
Black hair is just not black anymore but rather...greyish? The intensity of her makeup got nerfed as well, with her black Lipstick not being as pronounced as before. Generally she seems to lack depth in color. I am rather disapointed in that regard and had to play with her makeup and eyecolor to give her face a bit more warmth and dimension.

I hope this gets updated, because generally I do really like the changes. Just not that my model changed that much and that colors got so dulled out.