What's up with the 7.0 gear textures?

[CidHeiral]

Overall I think the graphical update has been a success. There's already a thread about character model feedback, but I wanted to draw attention to another issue that has struck me as very odd.

I watched the technical panel during London Fanfest and at one point they showed the MASSIVE leap in texture resolution from the old graphics to the new.



This obviously had me very excited, but now that I'm actually playing Dawntrail I'm a little confused. The new material aspect they've added to the gear looks great for the most part, but the textures overall still look very low resolution and pixelated.

Here are a few examples, right click and open in a new tab for the full image:



Left - WHM Dawntrail job gear. Almost anywhere two materials meet is very pixelated.

Middle - WAR Dawntrail job gear, one of the worst offenders I've seen so far. Look at the chest area and the shoulder plate. If you told me this was gear that hadn't been updated yet from Stormblood or something, I'd believe you.

Right - The shoulder area from the raid fending chest piece released this morning.


I certainly don't expect the gear to be ultra high quality 4K textures straight out of a Horizon game or something, but I expected them to at least not have gigantic blocky pixels covering them anymore. In that regard they don't look any different than the gear we've had for the past ten years, they just have a layer of more accurate materials over them now. If it were only noticeable when zoomed in as far as possible I would say whatever no big deal, but the whole reason I noticed this issue to begin with is because it stuck out so wildly on other people from a distance away. The first two images are random people I was running past before noticing their gear. They're not zoomed in much at all, just cropped.

I appreciate all the hard work the devs have put into the update, especially with the new zones, but I hope this is an area they can continue to improve with time. Given how important gear is in an MMO, it would be nice if the resolution could perhaps be bumped up a bit in the future if possible.

Thanks for reading!

[Little_Giant]

The texture update has been very inconsistent, quite disappointing. Good textures age well.

These are the devs who let Koana, a high profile npc, have that low res outfit. They didn't even bother to update it. So I guess they just don't care about stuff being low res.

[Iscah]

Gear also still dyes shockingly blotchy – I haven't checked previously problematic things, but I just got the Neo Kingdom mage coat which should be so pretty when dyed but instead it has big patches of fabric that don't take the proper colour.

It's been happening for a while now with the things that have "updated" textures and I was really hoping it was things designed for the new graphics but stuck in the old system, but apparently it's just how they're designing things now. It defeats the purpose of dyeable gear.

[Canadane]

Didn't they say the upgrades were a rolling out process? So they just need more time to get to them all.
I'd assume the gear from the raids released today were in fact modeled months and months ago and were not preemptively included.

[CidHeiral]

Didn't they say the upgrades were a rolling out process? So they just need more time to get to them all.
I'd assume the gear from the raids released today were in fact modeled months and months ago and were not preemptively included.

They're rolling it out to older gear in waves. New gear, like the sets in the example above, are all already in the new graphics.

[Jeeqbit]

I've noticed pixelated areas as well, even on new gear.

It seems there is just a massive issue with texture stretching and areas where two separate parts of a model "meet".

I know that without the Unreal 5 engine, games usually do plants/trees as sprites but, them being sprites sometimes ruin the whole graphics update as well, regardless of them being upscaled to 1080p.

[Vahlnir]

Guess we can always rely on the devs to be consistently inconsistent.

[Araxes]

Some things never change. When i looked at the plated Shoulder piece on my Warrior which has like 480p resolution i knew not to look tooooo close or i would ruin the future Sets for myself again.

[CidHeiral]

Some things never change. When i looked at the plated Shoulder piece on my Warrior which has like 480p resolution i knew not to look tooooo close or i would ruin the future Sets for myself again.

Haha, I guess it's just more of the same gear we're used to up to this point so nothing to get worked up about. Just a little disappointing after such a big deal was made about the update.

[SeriousPan]

Another user and I reported this and it got put into "not enough information"

Just. Freaking. Look. At. It.

You don't need PC logs, you don't need "zone information". Look at the freaking gear, it's absolutely broken. The textures are high quality but the colour mapping going over the light map gives it awful jagged edges on so many pieces of gear.