Guild Wars 2

I am speaking, of course, of the visible seam on character models in certain armor. I can understand if there is some mismatch with piecemeal armor, but even fully matched sets can have a prominent visible seam, like the image attached. This has been an issue marring an otherwise excellent visual presentation for some time now, and it is a shame it has gone on for so long.

I should note, the screenshot compression actually makes the seam somewhat less obnoxious, if the forum would let me upload the bitmap screen cap I have it becomes a bit more obvious and close to what I see in game.

I can see the seam you mention but what draws my attention is the A in a circle on her belly (an illusion made from pattern/shading/muscles). She has an ANet brand!

Slightly better image quality here.
(Sorry for the minor flood of posts, this has been bugging me since launch.)

Donari.5237:

I can see the seam you mention but what draws my attention is the A in a circle on her belly (an illusion made from pattern/shading/muscles). She has an ANet brand!

Yeah, who knew the Sylvari went in for body modification huh? So many of them are branded there.

I’m not seeing it .. I saw the A Donari pointed out.

Eggshells.1748:

I’m not seeing it .. I saw the A Donari pointed out.

It’s the faint line across her middle that bisects the belly button, with slightly different shades of skin above and below. I see it because I have excellent color vision — whatever else my eyes do wrong, they can pick out very tiny color differences.

Now that you’ve pointed it out I see it .. This just reaffirmed that I’m as blind as a bat :S

Eggshells.1748:

I’m not seeing it .. I saw the A Donari pointed out.

Sadly the stills make it less obvious. In game, not only is it a texture mismatch, but they don’t meet properly, so you get specks of background peeking through now and them. Most obvious on light backgrounds (moving the character on the login screen makes it look like she has a blinking LED belt the way that seam twinkles.)

I entered this thread thinking you were talking about the game world. I would love to see the world seamless, not too concerned about the armor. haha

My biggest gripe with that armor specifically is how it warps as the character moves, making it look like it’s made of rubber instead of metal and/or leather. The seam pales in comparison to that issue.

If you have a female Norn, look up at where her head joins the neck. There is a visible seam there along the jawline. I reported it shortly after I made her a couple of years back.
:/

Edit: it shows up more on dark skinned chars as it’s a white line.

wayne.7213:

My biggest gripe with that armor specifically is how it warps as the character moves, making it look like it’s made of rubber instead of metal and/or leather. The seam pales in comparison to that issue.

Bouncy plate armor -.-

wayne.7213:

My biggest gripe with that armor specifically is how it warps as the character moves, making it look like it’s made of rubber instead of metal and/or leather. The seam pales in comparison to that issue.

The Dreamer’s Finery :c