Show me those .dats!

**Esvedium** · 2013-02-01 09:13

Lightning ALmace and fire Shikargar would make me a superhappy (Elf M) BLU.

**godlytarutaru** · 2013-02-01 09:43

Originally Posted by Prothescar

Shikargar. I suppose I could look for a cooler looking sword to stick it onto first though, I hadn't thought of it until now. Actually, a fire Hofud would be pretty tight.

Originally Posted by Esvedium

Lightning ALmace and fire Shikargar would make me a superhappy (Elf M) BLU.

Am I correct in assuming you guys want the hofud and shikargar as offhand weapons?
And also I'm not too sure what the shikargar model looks like, do you know which sword's model it shares?

**Esvedium** · 2013-02-01 13:25

I believe that it's the dat that's labeled "Gold Sword" in altana viewer, last I looked for it. I'm at work, so can't verify that, but both gold sword and shikargar have the same icon pic on ffxiah.

**Draylo** · 2013-02-01 13:58

Can you do the lightning for Hume M on Tizona too? Also, do these effects work with afterglow relic/mythic/emp?

**Darkmagi** · 2013-02-01 14:15

Hate to overload you with requests, but would love it if the tenkomaru lightning effect could be ported over to Hume M/Mithra Spharai. Thanks for all of this!

**Kohan** · 2013-02-01 16:02

Given the growing amount of requests, I suggest posting your methods, if you can. That way, others can make these modifications as well.

**Howie Roary** · 2013-02-01 16:10

or stop being so damn lazy and just make every effect for every weapon and every race, so selfish

**Darkmagi** · 2013-02-01 17:07

Also want to add that the lightning effect is really awesome. Thanks again for doing this.

**godlytarutaru** · 2013-02-01 18:16

I'll do up all these requests tonight. To answer the question about afterglow, it's not too difficult to have both, I have a couple amano dats done with thunder effect and the afterglow.

Tonight or tomorrow I can post an overview of how to add the effects, it's not horribly difficult if you have done any dat modding in hex workshop. It wouldn't be practical to do a step by step but I can definitely point you in the right direction.

**noodles355** · 2013-02-01 19:07

Originally Posted by Kohan

This is an off-the-cuff recommendation, as I haven't looked at the staves and their textures, but you could probably take the Light Odin Staff and slap the Chatoyant texture onto it. If it's as simple as I imply, even someone who has never edited DATs before could likely do it without too much trouble.

Specifically, here's the steps you would take:

1. Export and open the Chatoyant Staff texture in the graphic editing program of your choice.
2. Copy the texture for the crystalline ball on top.
3. Export and open the Light Odin Staff texture.
4. Paste the Chatoyant texture onto the respective area of the Odin staff.
5. Save and enjoy.

Naturally, that's an over-simplification of things. You'll need to know how to do the exporting and editing to make use of those steps.

This archive, as its name implies, contains both tutorials and the tools themselves: http://tehkrizz.net/FFXI/other/FFXID...s_20110526.zip

There are a few tools missing, but you should be able to find them without much trouble.

Feel like this link/download deserves a bit of publicity. Great help for the basics.

**noodles355** · 2013-02-02 05:15

Tried my hand at a simple reskin using these guides. Used Recolor 101. Exported the dat, edited the bmp, applied the alpha thing in cg3, saved it. Went into Model Viewer and hit convert mqo to dat.. and nothing changed, it's still the original color. Am I doing something wrong?

**Mairja** · 2013-02-02 06:25

Kurr, I've tried recolouring by following a guide too, and went through all the steps like you did, and ending up with the same result as you - i.e. nothing happened. After like 10+ tries I gave up. :/

**Yugl** · 2013-02-02 15:32

Recommended lagless dats for avatars? Would like WoE tier dats.

**Stromgarde** · 2013-02-02 18:10

If my memory serves correctly, there's an old thread on the ffxio forums that covered this... ah, here it is.

http://www.ffxionline.com/forums/moo...ow-begone.html

**Yugl** · 2013-02-02 18:42

Invalid file.

**Stromgarde** · 2013-02-02 19:13

Use this link then, it still should work for what you want to do.

http://www.mediafire.com/?dgausdluuhdgawu

**Yugl** · 2013-02-02 19:24

Thanks.

**godlytarutaru** · 2013-02-02 21:58

Sorry so late, was a busy day but here are the requests:
Darkmagi- Spharai with lightning effect for hume M and mithra:
http://files.bluegartr.com/f9ab72892...41fa1aab41.zip

Draylo- Tizona with lightning effect with and without afterglow for hume M:
http://files.bluegartr.com/1210c4989...3db341c1bc.zip

Esvedium- almace with ltng mainhand and shirk with fire offhand for elvaan M:
http://files.bluegartr.com/b6426135f...78bc4b7399.zip

Prothescar- almace with ltng for mainhand hofud with fire offhand for hume M:
http://files.bluegartr.com/2d51364c2...ca7bb8eeed.zip

I'll work on a little guide a bit later. basic effect adds to the same weapon type should be within most people's reach, with a bit of practice moving to different weapon types aint too bad.

**Darkmagi** · 2013-02-02 22:36

Thanks, you're awesome!

**Prothescar** · 2013-02-02 23:32

THese are awesome, thanks much sir!

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