Dawntrail character graphics update - opinions, requests and discussion megathread

[smitten_miquitten]

I looked at some Endwalker pics, and gosh the eyebrow color change is such a bother. They're just invisible comparatively. Some comparison pics (sorry they're not as good. The emotes don't really look quite the same anymore so it's harder to get matching angles).I know the skintone is different, I changed it to a bit warmer for Dawntrail, so don't mind that.

Endwalker


Dawntrail

[lunartears]

Could someone link the Japanese counterpart to this thread? I don’t plan on embarrassing myself by trying to post there with a translator but I’d like to see what the feedback they’re giving looks like.

Opinions, requests and discussions on graphics updates

Dedicated thread for posting requests for modifications to character description graphics

[Cheapshot]

Opinions, requests and discussions on graphics updates

Dedicated thread for posting requests for modifications to character description graphics

Much appreciated, thank you!

[Einnecy]

Very nice of them to include eyebrows twitching on select emotes. Surely it is an artistic choice and not further indication that the update was rushed and there has been no quality control.




EDIT: I JUST LEARNED THIS WAS AROUND EVEN PRE-DT!!
Do with that information what you will, however I do not think it dismisses my claim that the update was rushed.

[smitten_miquitten]

Man, I saw a Sunseeker today and to add insult to injury, Sunseekers get visible eyebrows. It's the same face and the same eyebrow, why are Keeper's grey
Like I don't even want blingin white, I just want them visible like they were in Endwalker and like Sunseekers' are now. I shouldn't have to give up my fangs and OwO eyes in order to have actual eyebrows.
Keeper vs Seeker

[smitten_miquitten]

It's like the Keeper version is missing a highlights layer or something. There's no depth or variation to the Keeper version.

[Moonfallen]

Man, I saw a Sunseeker today and to add insult to injury, Sunseekers get visible eyebrows. It's the same face and the same eyebrow, why are Keeper's grey
Like I don't even want blingin white, I just want them visible like they were in Endwalker and like Sunseekers' are now. I shouldn't have to give up my fangs and OwO eyes in order to have actual eyebrows.
Keeper vs Seeker

I think overall the seekers got better treatment than the keepers, besides fixing our fangs. I made a seeker with all the same options as my main keeper and my seeker alt looks miles better. :/

[smitten_miquitten]

I'm really SO so happy with their attention to detail with our fangs. And adding the little gap in our lips back for face 4 was super cool of them, I really didn't expect that they would. But there's definitely a dropped ball here and there and it's sad and I'm very hopeful they make corrections, especially since they have an example of it being done correctly with Sunseekers.

[Cheapshot]

I really hope they take another stab at moon face 4 in general. It’s just still so different from the original, compared to other races.


It seems really unfair that my features have been shifted this much.

I’d also like them to address the issues with eye greyness and dullness and make more natural looking lip textures. There’s no detail to the texture aside from incorrect baked in shadows on mine, and it looks like we have lipstick on even if we select “none” in the creator.



I can’t even remember which of these is supposed to not have lipstick so they’re in no particular order. I submitted this as a bug report but they rejected it as “not a bug report”. Not even “Intended” but “Not a bug report”. I don’t understand what that means. I wish they’d add a context post when they move reports like they do on other languages forums.

[Daralii]

I really hope they take another stab at moon face 4 in general. It’s just still so different from the original, compared to other races.
https://i.imgur.com/6JxiItT.gif

It seems really unfair that my features have been shifted this much.

I like that the big mesh update that added more triangles somehow made her brow and forehead so jagged, but the PS3-era mesh is almost perfectly smooth.