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About the texture rebalancing

Shinjusuke··2 votes·612 views

I hate to sound like a total jerk, because I know some of you guys work really hard on the art of League of Legends, but I really, really don't like some of the texture changes.

I know my GF was super upset by the changes to Silent Night Sona, and I myself really dislike the Viktor changes.

But I feel as if you guys are HEAVILY simplifying the textures of many champions purely to make them look slightly more fitting with the new SR, and I really feel like the costs significantly outweigh the gains in this case.

For those of you unaware, please check out this surrender@20 post displaying 12 of the new champions (as always keep in mind these are beta images and are no finished):

http://www.surrenderat20.net/2014/09/912-pbe-update-first-batch-of-texture.html

I'd like to bring particular attention to the large changes in the models of Nautilus, Xerath and Orianna.

They just look way, WAY too simplified and "cartoony". Naut loses all his wear and tarnish entirely.

I think Viktor heavily suffers with the significant removal of dark spots on his texture, as well.

Again, i'm sorry if I offend anyone, truly, and everyone should be aware that these are works in progress, but I just wanted to bring attention to this and say that I sincerely hope we can convince you guys to take a somewhat different direction with this. Almost every model is vastly brighter and suffers from less detail and, in my opinion, character. Please don't do that :(

4 Comments

Sunfield2 votes

My opinion is that you dont even see all this detail most of the time unless you look up close, and from the usual view it does look better than the old ones on new SR. And if its to improve performance, Im all for it.

Shinjusuke1 votes

I feel like if they want to rework textures for the ease of performance, these should be LoD low-end textures, cuz they're just that simplified.

As someone who put the work and saving into purchasing a higher end PC, it's disappointing that they'd opt to remove interesting detail from champions like this.

I mean, now we've got a Nautilus who's been underwater for ages but wears a brand-spankin' new suit instead of the tarnished, rusty-looking one currently on live. It's just not a reasonable trade (champ detail vs accordance with new SR). And I've played on the new SR, the visual change isn't huge enough a leap in art style to warrant pulling so much detail from the character textures to match it. They all (except REALLY old ones that need total VUs) fit it well enough.

Sunfield1 votes

I say, if you only look at models it does seem like a big change, but in game it looks fine.

Imao new SR is a huge change and a big leap in art style. Everything is more cartoonish and simplified.

Shinjusuke1 votes

It's not such a difference in art style that the characters seem out of place. From old SR? yes. From the champions? no.

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