...I've gotta agree with @JLeborgne here. The PS4 textures look plastic and unrealistic. The PS5/PC textures simply give the skin *pores*. That's how human faces look.
I'm wondering if they were going for the Advent Children look with early signs of Mako poisoning. It's definitely not just bad upscaling because there are details that weren't there before and the colors are different.
When you look at the actual textures (not on the model but as a flat texture) it becomes evident that they used the same texture for every single faces, including kids, just tweaking the color and the hair (eyebrows, beard, etc) they might have. Looks like a bad intern job honestly, the eye holes don't even line up properly with the model for a lot of them, hence the weird lines around the eyes. It's not only the slums NPCs but every single one of them.
Are you using the HD Project mod? They aren't compatible.
You can delete or rename the extension of the following pak from the Characters and Enemies folder: z Characters Secondary.pak <- causing errors in sector 5
Maybe some of those too : zzzz Faces.pak zzzz Skin.pak z Characters Main.pak z Weapons.pak
The HD Project causes a lot of trouble with many mods, mainly the paks i listed here but there might be others, those are the ones I encountered issues with.
Holy crap. I felt like something was off when playing the pc and ps5 version.s They look like they aren't living in their own skin. Almost like they borrowed somebody elses.
I mean.. It's almost as if most of those examples all live in the Slums. Under fake "sun" lamps. Can't be good for their skin. Also, most of the PS5/PC skin just looks like they have more visible pores.. Like humans do. A lot of the PS4 examples do look rather fake/plastic.
Are you seriously making assumptions on development you weren't a part of? Hell, the PS4 *Pro* could barely even texture Cloud's apartment door, it looked like it was metal/steel.. On PS5, with higher textures, it turns out it was WOOD the whole time!
You comparing a door to a human face says it all. Humans aren't supposed to look all veiny and blotchy with weird unnatural lines above their eyelids. And for the record every NPC looks like that, not only those who live in the slums, so your theory of SE caring about realism so much it gave every slum NPC severe rosacea to indicate a vitamin D deficiency doesn't work here, especially when our party members + Avalanche gang (who all live in the slums) don't look like that in either version.
"Humans aren't supposed to look all veiny and blotchy with weird unnatural lines above their eyelids." This implies that you haven't been around many people. People often have noticeable veins and capillaries under their skin, 'cuz, you know, skin is translucent. Furthermore, people come in all different kinds of appearances, including blotchy and lined with wrinkles. This seems more like you are mistaking makeup-created "media-perfect" appearances for natural appearances.
I and they have been round many people. People do NOT look like they are dying of poision as a majority group with blue tinged skin and sickly ripping. Thats not "Realistic" Its PYSICAL ILLNESS. THATS what the xbox.PS5 version looks like! Sure PS4 version looks plasticy and airbrushed. Better than dying of smurf disease or whatever the hell these other textures are LOL
OMG I didn't even realize how bad it was. All that skin discoloration wasn't the intent, was it?? I noticed some models seem kind of shiny and from watching videos on an in-depth look at Tifa's model, you can see the hi-res look is just reapplying textures over and over to get a detailed look. So maybe that technique was a detriment in some cases. Very interesting.
They maybe took the ps4 textures for NPCs and AI upscaled them or oversharpened them to "look better" at 4k. So the AI added more detail, but this is a case were less is more since the added detail made them look unnatural, like they all had crazy amounts of acne a few years ago, and retained the scars.
They authored the PS4 textures in 4k and compressed them to fit int vram. They have been authoring some games textures in 4k since the 360/PS3 era. The problem seems to be that most companies don't properly archive the files when they are done.
As for the game.... I don't know what happened. I'm gonna install both versions right now (PS4 & 5) and check because I don't remember it looking that terrible on PS5.
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1000+ textures changed.
The old files are still available would you prefer them.
Start of Sector 5 slums error with full mod.
You can delete or rename the extension of the following pak from the Characters and Enemies folder:
z Characters Secondary.pak <- causing errors in sector 5
Maybe some of those too :
zzzz Faces.pak
zzzz Skin.pak
z Characters Main.pak
z Weapons.pak
The HD Project causes a lot of trouble with many mods, mainly the paks i listed here but there might be others, those are the ones I encountered issues with.
Also, most of the PS5/PC skin just looks like they have more visible pores.. Like humans do. A lot of the PS4 examples do look rather fake/plastic.
Hell, the PS4 *Pro* could barely even texture Cloud's apartment door, it looked like it was metal/steel.. On PS5, with higher textures, it turns out it was WOOD the whole time!
Humans aren't supposed to look all veiny and blotchy with weird unnatural lines above their eyelids. And for the record every NPC looks like that, not only those who live in the slums, so your theory of SE caring about realism so much it gave every slum NPC severe rosacea to indicate a vitamin D deficiency doesn't work here, especially when our party members + Avalanche gang (who all live in the slums) don't look like that in either version.
This implies that you haven't been around many people. People often have noticeable veins and capillaries under their skin, 'cuz, you know, skin is translucent. Furthermore, people come in all different kinds of appearances, including blotchy and lined with wrinkles. This seems more like you are mistaking makeup-created "media-perfect" appearances for natural appearances.
People do NOT look like they are dying of poision as a majority group with blue tinged skin and sickly ripping. Thats not "Realistic" Its PYSICAL ILLNESS. THATS what the xbox.PS5 version looks like! Sure PS4 version looks plasticy and airbrushed. Better than dying of smurf disease or whatever the hell these other textures are LOL
i didn't know it was like this since i played the PS5 version first.
As for the game.... I don't know what happened. I'm gonna install both versions right now (PS4 & 5) and check because I don't remember it looking that terrible on PS5.