Female waist seam inconsistency

[Karou_]

For the sake of not having this moved to insufficient info:
Date of issue: 06-08-2025
Time of issue: 7:45pm EST
Frequency: Always
World name: Jenova
Character name@Home World name: Giah Nelhah@ Jenova (confirmed on other player characters on other PC's)
Retainer name: None
NPC name: None
Monster name: None
Class/Level: lv 100 Picto (every class)
Party or solo: Solo
In-game time: 2:40 ET
Area and coordinates: Limsa Lominsa Lower Decks (9.8, 11.2) (happens everywhere)
Housing: None
Steps:
1. With a standard female body (not Lalafel, Roe, or Hroth) equip small clothes/ emperors new gearset (Au ra are best for this)
2. (optional) Enter Group pose
3. Zoom in closely near the waist and examine the texture.


Platform: Steam on Windows
Connection Specs
- Type of internet connection/provider: Cable/Oxio
- Modem maker/model number: Hitron CODA

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OS: Windows 10 Pro
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D
Motherboard: ASRock X570 Taichi
Ram: 4x8GB (32GB) Trident Z Royal DDR4-3200
GPU: AMD 7900 GRE - Gigabyte Gaming OC
Drives: Crucial P5 Plus 2TB, Samsung 970 EVO 1TB, WDC 3TB hard disk
Monitors: Dell S2417DG 1440p, 2x Acer GN246HLB
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Browser Information
- Name and version of the browser currently in-use: Firefox 139.0.1
- Microsoft Edge Version: Uninstalled from system

The main issue here is there's a noticeable seam in the skin texture as pictured below, its noticeable on emperors set, a lot of bikini's etc. The issue stems from a different texel density for the top and bottom, you can tell because of the slight degradation in texture quality on the bottom half of the seam compared to the top, I work doing 3D modelling and texturing for games so it was quite apparent to me personally, it started actually bugging me when I fanta'd to Au ra since the scales make the issue far more prominent.

I believe this is distinct from other bug reports regarding Au ra textures in general since this seems to be an issue with the body model itself (or the textures depending on how you wanna look at it I guess) which as far as I can tell haven't been raised yet on the bug reports forum. This happens to all females of the aforementioned races its just whether or not you either look hard enough to see it, or play Raen.

Raen is much more noticeable here.




It is also visible on other races like my Sunnie Miqo, albeit to a much much lesser degree.


If any other details required please let me know and provide details on whatever else it is you need. I can confirm this happens across multiple characters, accounts, and PCs as I've had friends confirm my findings.

[Karou_]

I further believe this is a bug because male models also display the seam however it is far more minimal as can be seen in the following image.