Show me those .dats!

**Ezhno** · 2009-10-17 12:41

So I hope this is a good place to ask this question, seeing as this thread seems to have a lot of really pro modders in attendance.

I have been using the body off of this full .dat mod set for Hume M of Odin's armor to replace Nuevo coselete:

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However, the separation between the body piece of the and the legs piece of the .dats leaves a large noticeable space on other pairs of pants, such as homam here:

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So I thought to myself, I can just take the legs and the body into metasequoia and make a new MQO from the body, import enough of the legs MQO to fill the space and make a seamless body for use. Here's what I managed to do in Meta.

Original Mesh:

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New edited mesh:

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However, the problem I have is when I convert the MQO back to DAT, I come up with the same thing as before the edit; nothing changes.

Because I added foreign mesh to the MQO, is there something additional I need to do before converting it back to a single DAT? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

**Khajit** · 2009-10-17 13:23

Originally Posted by Nishida

ROM4/8/116.DAT

Download 116.DAT

Filefront says the file doesnt exist or or undermatinence.

**jimbobsonofgod** · 2009-10-17 16:01

Originally Posted by Ezhno

So I hope this is a good place to ask this question, seeing as this thread seems to have a lot of really pro modders in attendance.

Could start by asking the guy who made the dats in the first place

godlytarutaru · 2009-10-17 16:21

To answer Ezhno, if you're adding objects/vertexes, you'll want to use VRS, not meta.

Meta is great for moving them around, stretching, resizing, reshaping, and for making texture maps, but for adding things to your dat you'll want to use VRS

To be honest though, you'll probably get better results starting from the valhalla breastplate model, and making it look more like the odin armor. Since this was based on the actual Odin mob, I kept the body shape and proportions from the mob Odin. To make it look right with other leg armor, you'd need to do some serious reshaping of the torso, as it is quite a bit different from normal hume.

**Khajit** · 2009-10-17 21:10

You guys got any idea how i would go about viewing random .dats without swapping them manually?
I found a few of my old downloads on a Harddrive and a couple of em dont have any labels whatsoever to let me know wtf they are.

**Ezhno** · 2009-10-17 22:08

Originally Posted by jimbobsonofgod

Could start by asking the guy who made the dats in the first place

Yeah, that would've been a good idea.

But it looks like he's here too! Thanks for your reply, Godly, I might just call it quits on trying to play with it. I'll fool around in VRS a bit with it and see if I can make anything work, but after that I'll try playing with Valhalla instead.

Thank you!

**Drac** · 2009-10-18 21:43

Anyone know if there's a recolor of the Aurum Cuirass? It's not the best looking thing really.

**Nishida** · 2009-10-18 21:52

Originally Posted by Khajit

Filefront says the file doesnt exist or or undermatinence.

Well that's dumb..anyone know of a filehosting service that doesn't expire downloads? -_-;

**Pikarya** · 2009-10-18 21:53

www.mediafire.com

**Nishida** · 2009-10-19 11:32

Toucan Sam Colibri rehosted:

ROM4/8/116.DAT

Free File Hosting Made Simple - MediaFire

**Karbuncle** · 2009-10-19 12:04

I was wondering how long it'd take for someone to Toucan Sam a Colibri =)

**Ezhno** · 2009-10-19 12:15

Originally Posted by Drac

Anyone know if there's a recolor of the Aurum Cuirass? It's not the best looking thing really.

What color do you want it to be? It's rather easy to do recolors.

**Corrderio** · 2009-10-19 12:25

Originally Posted by Drac

Anyone know if there's a recolor of the Aurum Cuirass? It's not the best looking thing really.

Have a color scheme in mind?

**Drac** · 2009-10-19 13:55

I was thinking something that would fit with Hecatomb or maybe Black?

**Corrderio** · 2009-10-19 14:16

Originally Posted by Drac

I was thinking something that would fit with Hecatomb or maybe Black?

I could give that a shot later

**Ezhno** · 2009-10-19 18:17

I will work on my own entry for the heck of it when I have the time, I may have an interesting idea.

I guess you can pick whichever one you like out of ours.

**Nishida** · 2009-10-19 18:47

I was going to put a version out too, but the OP didn't post what model :3

**Corresapolonia** · 2009-10-20 09:46

i want those crystal staves without glow. those looked very cool. mooshy still didnt put them at ffxidats.com?

**Drac** · 2009-10-20 12:12

Forgot to add that I'm a hume male >.>

**Ezhno** · 2009-10-20 15:07

Here's my recolor. I was starting to actually reskin the whole thing with Hecatomb's harness's designs, but it started turning into a headache because I'm not as good as a lot of other people at stuff like that.

So hopefully Corrderio has something better than this to showcase when he finishes.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...5/Untitled.png

Download here: Download 1 28 43.DAT

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