Glass looks EXTREMELY ugly !

Xendyn

RizaHawkeye wrote: »

Tholian1 wrote: »

Never liked glass armor from any of the previous games. Just not my style at all. But I do have to wonder if the people making the armor for ESO have even looked at the sets from the previous games to get some inspiration.

Likewise, I didn't like any of the glass armor in the previous games - but then I generally disliked all of the armors in Morrowind (even though they were probably the most original and unique).

I know, I know ... heresy and all that ... so settle down. Loved the game, hated the graphics. I think I ended up wearing the Nordic ring mail over a shirt for my armor the entire game.

In Skyrim, I wore Nordic steel most of the game until I got Dawnguard. I loved the glass swords ... I used a pair of those at endgame.

I don't think the armor looks terrible ... but can't you dye it green?

Can't dye weapons or shields, at the least.

Hmm had a thought. Did they maybe make it that way on purpose so the Malachite didn't interfere with dyes?

Tholian1

RizaHawkeye wrote: »

Tholian1 wrote: »

Never liked glass armor from any of the previous games. Just not my style at all. But I do have to wonder if the people making the armor for ESO have even looked at the sets from the previous games to get some inspiration.

Likewise, I didn't like any of the glass armor in the previous games - but then I generally disliked all of the armors in Morrowind (even though they were probably the most original and unique).

I know, I know ... heresy and all that ... so settle down. Loved the game, hated the graphics. I think I ended up wearing the Nordic ring mail over a shirt for my armor the entire game.

In Skyrim, I wore Nordic steel most of the game until I got Dawnguard. I loved the glass swords ... I used a pair of those at endgame.

I don't think the armor looks terrible ... but can't you dye it green?

My favorite was Linwe's armor in Skyrim. I spent hours questing and leveling so I could finally get to the quest to kill him and take his armor for the cool looking cowl, only to find out upon wearing it, that it was bugged if your character was a vampire, leaving a big bald spot on the top of the head. And to top it off, it was on console and after Bethesda was finished patching the game. Grrr... I was so mad lol.

(Check out Linwe's armor from Skyrim, Zeni art department. I want. Please.)

tplink3r1

Just got my glass sword and it looks grey, not green at all.
So disappointed.

starkerealm

tplink3r1 wrote: »

Just got my glass sword and it looks grey, not green at all.
So disappointed.

Is that a gear quality issue? I remember the glass portions of the Ancient Elf weapons start out as a dull grey and upgrade to a nice vibrant green at Epic.

Ffastyl

Dracane wrote: »

That is a perfect earthen gray!!
This makes me want to get Glass weapons even more... steel-esque metal colors!

Kaitona

It is uglier than the minecraft weapons. What have you done Zenimax? This could end up costing you tens of thousands of subscribers overnight - you must bring the game down ASAP and patch this before word gets out about it. I suspect Kotaku is probably in the middle of drafting a ground breaking story right now...

Azalin76

Weren't they supposed to add weapon and shield dying with the IC patch?

Xendyn

Azalin76 wrote: »

Weren't they supposed to add weapon and shield dying with the IC patch?

No, that's still on the "soon" list.

Slylok

I would have been fine had base gear started out as these colors and then with higher tiers become the green we all know. The green areas of the armors would always be green with the other parts players could dye.

The designs looks ok but the colors are wrong. How or why they did this to glass is beyond me.

SeptimusDova

Dracane you might wanna try some Windex that glass looks dirty.

Dracane

dwemer_paleologist wrote: »

Dracane wrote: »

I finally managed to get my first Glass weapon. I was so excited for this style, because it is perfection itself.
And the form looks cool. But.... WHAT DID YOU DO ZENIMAX ! If the ancient founders of this style would know about this.... their graves would explode.
When I received it, it was unimproved and looked so epic. Like glass should look like.

But as I improved it, it began to look uglier and uglier. Now finally on legendary (golden), it's merely an ugly grey. Yes, it still looks pretty amazing. But
the color is dissapointing. What does this have to do with glass anymore ? I'm not putting so much effort into getting something, if the final result has nothing to do with glass anymore.
I expect the average vulcanic green glass color. But NOT this ! :





Please, for the love of Auri-El and the founders of this style and the effort people put into it: Fix this. Give it what we expect from it : GLASS LOOK.

im not saying these pics look bad or even that the armor and wepaon looks bad cause they dont, it just looks bad when you try to call it "glass armor and weapons" THEN it looks like crap cause it's nothing like glass.
but the armor and weapons themselves in these pics look great and i will even say awesome, but,

Oh excuse me. Only the weapon is glass. Guess I should have made that clear I might edit it.
The armor is just normal armor. Was trying to highlight the staff.

Dracane

SeptimusDova wrote: »

Dracane you might wanna try some Windex that glass looks dirty.

Hahaha If you send me a.... man who can put it on.

Mojmir

so we have a glass weapon, and were worried about apperance? no wonder combat sucks

Dracane

Mojmir wrote: »

so we have a glass weapon, and were worried about apperance? no wonder combat sucks

Hey, style is the base To me, style>efficience
You gotta look good before you face your enemies.

NPC's are going to think: " Oh, last night I got killed by Dracane again' Other NPC " Ahhh, isn't this the stylish beauty with her fancy staff and gooood looking armor ?"

And players might say the same on Teamspeak, who knows.

Moonshadow66

For my taste, Skyrim had the best looking glass armor so far, still nice in Oblivion, a bit too green in Morrowind.
In ESO, it's not even green? That's a shame.

ObsidianMichi

The Ancient Elf weapons look more like glass at Epic tiers. At least, it looks more like Oblivion glass armor. Sad.

hrothbern

So.... Normal looks like Epic and Epic like Normal...

So... Perhaps the coding people got confused ???

Easy to fix...

.... just reverse the order

angelyn

Anyone got any pics of ...er..not weapons ..I mean the rest of the stuff. I'd like to see more before I judge (admittedly the weapon is a little..er..anti- climactic )


Remember the Amber armour in shivering Isles ? I was so excited and ended up looking like a hornet Perhaps it's just a texture thing..like others have said- ancient elf has some glass looking bits..

I currently have 2 out of 100 fragments...so it will be 3 years before I cam craft all glass

Dracane

angelyn wrote: »

Anyone got any pics of ...er..not weapons ..I mean the rest of the stuff. I'd like to see more before I judge (admittedly the weapon is a little..er..anti- climactic )


Remember the Amber armour in shivering Isles ? I was so excited and ended up looking like a hornet Perhaps it's just a texture thing..like others have said- ancient elf has some glass looking bits..

I currently have 2 out of 100 fragments...so it will be 3 years before I cam craft all glass

The armor has the same color sadly. But you can dye it at least and can imitate the green glass look a bit.

FriedEggSandwich

Judging by the OPs pictures I would say they added a Pewter motif to the game.

leepalmer95

An ancient elf staff looks more like glass than glass does , the v14 version has the 'green' glass type texture highlighting the weapon.

Prof_Bawbag

dwemer_paleologist wrote: »

These are images of Proper Glass armor and weapons in Morrowind that look right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl6sIkmk-jU

and here is proper glass armor and weapons found in skyrim that look acceptable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV9bTkHQgEs

That's the problem with Skyrim's glass armour. It looked good in mods as shown above, but looks terrible in vanilla Skyrim.

Dracane

leepalmer95 wrote: »

An ancient elf staff looks more like glass than glass does , the v14 version has the 'green' glass type texture highlighting the weapon.

That's true. Ancient elf weapons really look like glass.

Adryssa_Joneley

I agree... the glass armor is very disappointing and looks like crap

WolfingHour

Dracane wrote: »

I finally managed to get my first Glass weapon. I was so excited for this style, because it is perfection itself.
And the form looks cool. But.... WHAT DID YOU DO ZENIMAX ! If the ancient founders of this style would know about this.... their graves would explode.
When I received it, it was unimproved and looked so epic. Like glass should look like.

But as I improved it, it began to look uglier and uglier. Now finally on legendary (golden), it's merely an ugly grey. Yes, it still looks pretty amazing. But
the color is dissapointing. What does this have to do with glass anymore ? I'm not putting so much effort into getting something, if the final result has nothing to do with glass anymore.
I expect the average vulcanic green glass color. But NOT this ! :





Please, for the love of Auri-El and the founders of this style and the effort people put into it: Fix this. Give it what we expect from it : GLASS LOOK.

EDIT: Only the staff is glass style.

It looks just so... dull. Half finished even, like someone forgot to add the texture layer.

The model looks good, but have to admit I'm a bit disappointed.

hrothbern

hrothbern wrote: »

So.... Normal looks like Epic and Epic like Normal...

So... Perhaps the coding people got confused ???

Easy to fix...

.... just reverse the order

Another reason could be that the coding people forgot the meshes !!!
This happened a year or so ago also with Daedric Armor, if I remember correctly...
Here Epic was after release also dull grey

starkerealm

hrothbern wrote: »

hrothbern wrote: »

So.... Normal looks like Epic and Epic like Normal...

So... Perhaps the coding people got confused ???

Easy to fix...

.... just reverse the order

Another reason could be that the coding people forgot the meshes !!!
This happened a year or so ago also with Daedric Armor, if I remember correctly...
Here Epic was after release also dull grey

Textures.

Meshes are the actual geometry of an item. Textures are the visual and color data for how the item appears when rendered. If they'd forgotten the meshes, the item wouldn't render or would be stuck with a place holder, like one of the floating question mark boxes that you'll see in game rarely.

Alucardo

angelyn wrote: »

I currently have 2 out of 100 fragments...so it will be 3 years before I cam craft all glass

I have 1 fragment and it's yours if you want it. There you go, 3 out of 100. You're nearly there!

hrothbern

starkerealm wrote: »

hrothbern wrote: »

hrothbern wrote: »

So.... Normal looks like Epic and Epic like Normal...

So... Perhaps the coding people got confused ???

Easy to fix...

.... just reverse the order

Another reason could be that the coding people forgot the meshes !!!
This happened a year or so ago also with Daedric Armor, if I remember correctly...
Here Epic was after release also dull grey

Textures.

Meshes are the actual geometry of an item. Textures are the visual and color data for how the item appears when rendered. If they'd forgotten the meshes, the item wouldn't render or would be stuck with a place holder, like one of the floating question mark boxes that you'll see in game rarely.

Thanks for the amendment

So perhaps it is a glitch in the textures...

gives some hope that it is easy to fix and not a derailment of the Art dept breaking away from TES lore

@ZOS, could you please look into this?

Dracane

So this might be unintended and it's a bug, that improved glass looks so grey and boring ?

I can't wait for them to fix/change that. Currently, nobody really recognizes this weapon because it's so grey. If it was the real glass green, it would be an eye catcher for sure and I could be proud wearing this.