Guild wars 2 Shader Medium/High

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Posted by: Aksel.7601

Aksel.7601

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I was just wondering if anyone else found that the characters models look 100x better when you put your shader setting to medium as it no longer has the prominent white shine on your character model regardless of the current lighting in the area, as it is always on the left hand side of your character no mater what direction you look at them from. The reason I dislike the shine is that it makes everyone look as if they are covered in Vaseline.

Why don’t I just use medium, you say well because the rest of the world (not character models) look 100x better with shader on high.

So that is why I was wondering if Arena net would ever consider creating a tick box in the graphics option section called shiny character models and remove it from the shader settings.

I have attached a picture of my character in a very dark area where you are in complete shadow of the mountain with shader on high/medium

High left /Medium right

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Posted by: Lazure.6358

Lazure.6358

The shine looks better… Your second shot just looks uber flat. Like there’s no 3D depth on the character at all. The shine shows the folds of the clothes, the bumps and creases in your skin, and so on to add depth. I like that effect anyways.

Without that shine your character just looks flat, depth-less, and very dark.

The one thing I want a separate graphics option for is the stupid colored outlines that appear on characters near you (the auto-target crap), it shows up EVEN if you hide the UI and DESTROYS good attempts at screenshots (especially if you want a shot of you standing next to a friend, NOT POSSIBLE right now).

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Posted by: Aksel.7601

Aksel.7601

Well the picture really does not do it justice,as it just appears to be lighting in the picture when in actual fact it is not . i just ask that everyone go try on thier own account a see what i am talking about

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Posted by: juginst.5018

juginst.5018

Agree with the OP. While landscape generally looks better with shaders turned high I use medium shaders because of that strange bright white backlight which usually have no actual source in environment (and is always white irrespectively to the environment). To be honest, I don’t get the purpose of that backlight. It just ruins the nice picture.

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juginst.5018

Does anybody know how to turn off this backlight? I hate it. The landscape looks better with it, but I use medium shaders because character looks weird

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Posted by: Beldin.5498

Beldin.5498

The shine looks better… Your second shot just looks uber flat. Like there’s no 3D depth on the character at all. .

Yeah .. the second picture simply looks like as if it was taken with much lower quality settings.

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