Show me those .dats!

**Chrian** · 2012-08-18 15:23

haha, well could use the ball as the staff head and a shard + handle as the body with the spikes shorted to be like floating stuff on the staff :O

**Stromgarde** · 2012-08-18 17:04

You don't seem to understand. Every time I've posted that file, I get 'that looks great, but could you port it to [something that would require a ton of work and still end up looking shitty as]?'

It gets old.

**Chrian** · 2012-08-18 17:29

ohhhhh ok

**Yugl** · 2012-08-18 22:51

Could you port that to a lance? A BLUE lance?

**Mooshywooshy** · 2012-08-18 23:20

Hey can you port that to some shoulder pads that shoot lazrs?

**Indalecia** · 2012-08-19 00:25

Ohhhhh, like gun pods! OR the chariot move thats 4400 needles with all the little pod thingys

LAZERS

**Stromgarde** · 2012-08-19 00:37

That sounds ridiculous, though certainly possible. I mean, Tidal Talisman has a perpetual effect on it so why not just use a different one?

**Mooshywooshy** · 2012-08-19 02:04

lol I wonder if you put the mesh of body armor into a weapon dat then swapped the dat for body armor if the effects would still work for engage/disengage... or I guess since they added a new battle effect system if you could just put engage/disengage effects on armor ;o

**Leashedragon** · 2012-08-19 06:17

Went through and made the blue SMN AF for everything but Taru. I'll have to actually recolor theirs as it's different from the rest.

Elvaan F

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Elvaan M

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Hume M

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Galka

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Attention those who downloaded the Hume F version earlier:
I noticed while doing these that the Hume F one had a dark smudge on the arm... I have fixed that and reuploaded it to my bucket and the dat site. If you downloaded it previously and want the fixed version, please download the new non-smudge version!
http://ffxidats.caarrie.com/index.ph...wnfile&id=1191

Downloads can also be found in my bucket:
http://www.bluegartr.com/box/files/user/30184-xiani

**Dotsudoku** · 2012-08-19 09:55

:O Love that. The fluffy, winter-esque design reminds me of WHM AF3.

Taru prz

**Sithel** · 2012-08-19 15:19

I redid my Ragnarok to look more gold with a touch of green. Not much of a change, but better then that dull bronze look imo.

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**Sithel** · 2012-08-19 18:17

Messing around recoloring, I'm not sure if I like this.

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**Yugl** · 2012-08-19 18:19

I could see that working if you did neon yellow and only did the line portions (So you would have stripes of yellow on black).

**Septimus** · 2012-08-19 18:36

Originally Posted by Sithel

Messing around recoloring, I'm not sure if I like this.

Try to mute the yellow a little more so that it looks more like gold. Maybe turn the orangish-brown in the center to a medium gray maybe.

**Kohan** · 2012-08-19 22:01

Originally Posted by Yugl

I could see that working if you did neon yellow and only did the line portions (So you would have stripes of yellow on black).

I agree both in the case of the armor and the sword. Rather thank looking gold, they appear bright yellow and artificial; that may make sense in a game with less realistic details, but within FFXI, it looks uncharacteristically cartoon-like.

If you want to perfect this sort of mod—specifically, the sword—it will take time, as you'll have to take texture stretching and the like into account. Also, a quick Google found these tutorials, which are not advanced, and will be a good start for you if you have never made textures before. If you do well, you can always Google for better ones.

http://www.tutorialwiz.com/tutorials/textures/1.html

**Stromgarde** · 2012-08-19 22:57

Speaking at someone who has very minimal talents with textures, something I have observed is that colors in FFXI tend to draw from a relatively small palette. If you find a piece of armor with a color you like, isolate that color range into a gradient, mask the part of the armor that you want changed. For example, if you're looking for that particular shade of yellow, draw from *shudder* Lord's Cuirass.

In a broader perspective, if I had to guess, you went to Adjustments -> Variations in photoshop without masking anything. You can change stuff like that, but masking stuff off and using the Color Match feature will get you vastly better results.

**Sithel** · 2012-08-19 23:57

Well I just started to do this, I tried to tone down the yellows but its a work in progress.

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**Kohan** · 2012-08-20 00:14

Just keep working at it. Fortunately, the Internet is overflowing with art-related tutorials. If you want to emulate specific textures, you should be able to find out how.

**Khajit** · 2012-08-20 08:59

Is there a mooshy .dat blog hiding around anywhere?

**test123** · 2012-08-20 09:24

Originally Posted by Sithel

Well I just started to do this, I tried to tone down the yellows but its a work in progress.

Edit the resolution of the image to 512x512 and redraw the lines so you don't get blurry pixels on the grip of the sword.

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