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It's clearly in there. The left collarbone displays a little specular highlighting, unless that's her bone sticking out of her skin. That being said, as a personal preference, I have always felt most games use too strong of a hand with specular lighting, especially with human skin. It's a poor-man's subsurface scattering (well okay, some specular highlighting exists naturally as well) and now that we're seeing real-time techniques for subsurface scattering, I hope people will start backing off of using specular highlights for skin.

Eh, I think what you are seeing on the collarbone is actual an artifact from the shadows. If the skin really had any specular shading, you'd see it on her shoulder.

Still, I like the overall softness of the skin, they did a great job with that. Just a subtle speck of highlighting would sell it perfectly IMO.

But even the skin would be fine unchanged as long as they give the hair a bit of highlighting love.

they do actually look very different. It was just an observation, by the way. Im not trying to make anyone cry again. Everything just looks more three-dimensional in the current version. Maybe that's what yoshi meant when he said they were embarrassed about the interiors of buildings in ARR which is why they never released any images so far, and the lighting wasn't finished, however, lighting can only do so much.

Anyways, it was just an observation. Deny if you must.

You are right about the interiors, but if you look back to the differences between the 1.0 Alpha and Beta interior lighting, you will see that the lighting in 1.0's Alpha was FAR worse than ARR's Alpha.



In addition to tweaking the lighting, I expect some final color-grading effects added to the game that will trigger on entering interior areas. (and thus greatly enhance the look)