Anyone else notice this? Its kinda neat

[Amyas]

Noticed this a while back, just now thought of it again.
So its a bit hard to see...



But if you look closely, you can see 'reflections' of the zone you're in in your chocobo's eyes. Not real time reflections, as you can see, I'm in the middle Dragonhead and its 'reflecting' one of the in-ground forts. Still, its a neat effect they added in.

[Treble]

not creepy at all..

[Avengedangel]

Wow, good observation!

[Mysteltain]

I noticed that when I was checking out various character models up close. There are some really neat little details in this game--it's pretty fun to notice them, haha!

[Rez-V]

He apparently thinks so, no need to put him down for it. There are other threads you could troll that are actually about your complaint...

[Laryndra]

There are a TON of small details in this game that i havent seen before. Try standing in front of a building when the sun is going down behind it. You can slowly watch the shadow creep up and eventually engulf your character and the ground in front of you. Weather effects.. ect.. ALOT of effort went into these things.

[MStowastiqVahlshdeh]

@OP Whatever substance you are on, please let me in on it.
:P
J/k I love shinys and will try this out next time I am in game.

@Laryndra
And yes, the little details in this game never hesitate to blow me away, filling up my screen shot folder. I like how the some of Scion npc's eyes and heads turn to follow you when you walk by them. This made me nuts and I had to run by each one to see which ones did and did not look. There are so many FX in this game that surprise me especially looking at some land structure, wondering if I can climb on it, finding out that I can.

[Nayto]

The sad thing about being an environment designer IS to make all these small details... so that the playerbase doesn't notice them. Your practically fighting a losing battle to make sure people don't notice the OMFG THERE'S A CLIPPING IN THE TEXTURE!

So it's no surprise people just go 'meh' at small things like this... and that's only the bare minimum.
*Reflects on the grass days of the alpha phase*

[Dyrstahl]

Gonna have to be one of those boring guys that whine. Small details like these are nice but I can't help but to think that I sure hope these kind of things didn't take resources out of other things that has higher priority. It reminds me of when I was in school and made some 3D stuff and I could spend hours on just fixing some details of a chair but once I had to show my results I had this fancy looking chair sitting amongst plenty of other mediocre stuff. Spent too much time on tiny details so a lot ended up bad. Considering the many many weird flaws of FF14... Can't help but to think negatively.

[Amyas]

Gonna have to be one of those boring guys that whine. Small details like these are nice but I can't help but to think that I sure hope these kind of things didn't take resources out of other things that has higher priority. It reminds me of when I was in school and made some 3D stuff and I could spend hours on just fixing some details of a chair but once I had to show my results I had this fancy looking chair sitting amongst plenty of other mediocre stuff. Spent too much time on tiny details so a lot ended up bad. Considering the many many weird flaws of FF14... Can't help but to think negatively.

Eh, I don't think the guys that do design for the little things like this are the ones that work on other stuff, like battle mechanics and over all direction planning. I don't really know what flaws you mean, other than the obvious stuff like tomes and general laggy-ness in certain instances.

There's like thousand weird designs. Two of them: While running, you have to press M twice to close the map. If you scroll up the chat you have to type something to bring back "auto scrolling", so if I miss something and scroll up, I got to type something or else I have to manually scroll down to see if there's been any new messages. Additionally, the targeting is badly designed, which makes it frustrating to target enemies. (I can write much more about targetting but I'm fairly sure this is pretty much an issue most knows about).

Ah yeah. Been using it so long I didn't even notice anymore xD