[Durandana]

Okay the story --

So I'm asked to pull in Dynamis-Windurst [DRK/NIN] which is no big deal, I pull often and am pretty good at it, but I lost all my maps on the path so I went searching for the original site...didn't exist. Alright, well they're everywhere anyway, so I go to looking...and here's what I find.

[Note the Windurst map didn't illustrate it well enough, so here's one that does : ] http://www.detonationls.com/modules....view_photo.php

This gets me to thinking that the NA community has figured out how to pull the areas to be rendered, and I go to looking to no avail, but I come across this [google translated for ease] and by all rights this should, in fact, be just like ModelViewer...but for areas! [Yay!]

http://translate.google.com/translat.../newspage.html
[That tipped me off, Area.lst? Hmmm.]

Here's the program : EWHViewer2
http://translate.google.com/translat...nloadpage.html


I'm looking for expertise here -- long have I rendered models from FFXI for use as signatures to wallpaper -- always missing the Vana'diel backdrop. I've been driven insane every time I start looking for a program that has finally broken through and figured out how to extract the models much like ModelViewer does, and now I see pictures of a top-down that is literally impossible to do in game. If it was self-modeled, then...whoa. If not...

Any takers on this project?

(The original site of the above two links can be found : http://www.geocities.jp/bonetosale/
And the site that the maps come from can be found :
Translated [poorly] : http://translate.google.com/translat...ff_main_5.html

[makina323]

so how does it work <.<?

[Feba]

look up FFXITool.


I think numbe3... it's the most common use for area .dat tinkering

[Hyshio]

Many people have tired to make that thing work and some make it work, others dont. Only person I saw who had a working version was StarvingArtist on these forums. I myself would like to see this program work but I think the problem with it is that it works only for the JP version.

[Feba]

JP version and NA version are the same, with the very minor exception of text files.

[Hyshio]

Your right about that but the system registry is different on which version it is.

[Feba]

eh. reg editing isn't hard...it'll just lock you out of POL until you reset it


I have two installations, lemme tinker wit it

Double Post Edited:
worked for me...try creating a fake japanese registry. And use teh second exe, no idea what's up with the first.


Fairly no brainer once you get the lists open. Although the controls are a pain in the ass...

[Kilandor]

Well, The thing is, Nothing Can Extract Area Dats. And it Likely will never happen (I seriously hope). Likely somone just spent alot of time making those maps. But I don't know. Or they just took an overhead view from one of the Map Viewers.

[Feba]

This program is basically a model viewer, for an area. unlike ffxitool, you can set your weather, and have a PC/NPC walk around it. I don't really recommend it, as the controls are a pain (at least, until someone figures them out)


Their lists are fairly well updated, I had Lion running around the Chocobo Circuit out of boredom earlier.

[makina323]

So i need to create a fake jp pol registry for this to work o_o. meh i think ill pass

[Feba]

Possibly. I don't know, I didn't have any problems when I booted it up from Playonline/SquareEnix/FINAL FANTASY XI/<Model>/<model>.exe


I do, however, have a copy of the jp registry entry setup to redirect, and I have two installations.

Honestly, my system is a mess, but it works for me. I don't really know what to tell you..

I do love the program in concept, but until I can find a more efficient way to navigate areas, I don't think i'll use it much.

[Fayttt]

Soooo how do you make a fake JP registry :X?

[Feba]

Er, if you aren't really familiar with reg editing you shouldn't try it, but short and simple:


Copy PlayOnlineUS
Rename the Copy PlayOnline.

[Fayttt]

I'm familiar with reg editing, I just didn't know how to do that one. Thankies.

[Fayttt]

I don't even see a PlayonlineUS. ; ;