FFT Lancer

[Schubes]

Well, I liked the look of lancers in final fantasy tactics, so i wanted to make that look in ffxi. i took the liberty to change a few things to ffxi-ize it, but here is the original picture that i based the armor upon.

http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/4121/drgnkngt9ht.jpg
from first glance, it kinda looks similar to the im cuirass, so i decided to use that as the base for the reskin. Here's what i ended up with.

http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/2976/lancercuirass1vx.jpg http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/1012/lancercuirassback3fu.jpg

i'm pretty happy with how it turned out. what do you all think?

also, in-game, the leg and butt armor from the cuirass is still there, but they are gone in the model viewer. what's going on?

[OG Night]

sexy:D:D, make the earry things bigger and convert to kitty!
dude, could someone pleaseeeeeeee try to make the female on there, it looks crazy, and P.S you did very good work

[Nautica]

Not bad at all, Taz like! ^_^ I think I'll work on one similar for female hume and elvaan

[Lunaryn]

also, in-game, the leg and butt armor from the cuirass is still there, but they are gone in the model viewer. what's going on?

Were there transparencies involved in the model? The most common reason for a discrepancy between game and model viewer on transparencies seems to be a question of the alpha encoding engine. The old instructions on phabin's site suggested to use the 'S3 Encode Engine' option for merging transparencies back into the files, but while this may work in-game it is known not to work in the model viewer. 'My Encode Engine' option is said to work in both. The instructions have since been modified.

[Ammera]

very very awesome!!!

make it for Hume female now please!!! ^_^

[Ascher]

Great job.

[Schubes]

Were there transparencies involved in the model? The most common reason for a discrepancy between game and model viewer on transparencies seems to be a question of the alpha encoding engine. The old instructions on phabin's site suggested to use the 'S3 Encode Engine' option for merging transparencies back into the files, but while this may work in-game it is known not to work in the model viewer. 'My Encode Engine' option is said to work in both. The instructions have since been modified.

i used the 'My Encode Engine' everytime. certain things don't want to be transparent in-game though. in example, the arm flaps on the IM cuirass right underneath the shoulder armor is completely gone both in-game and in the model viewer, but the leg flaps and the butt flap is still there.

[Kaylik]

Finally someone did what i've wanted to do but was to lazy to ask someone to do it. XD I think it looks awsome, but as a request if you want to, could you cover the mouth and nose with like a mask but still have the helmet, kind of like in the original pic, and could you make it green armor with gold trim. I know it may sound like a lot, but it would be cool to see i and you dont have to do it, just a request. Thank you and again good job on the armor it rocks ^^.

[Matsiko]

Very nice. Makes me jealous that I can't make them worth a darn. Need to find to time to practice. Again, great work.

[Tamashii]

it looks good. gj.

[Colenzo]

Just recolor the DRG armor to silver :D

Double Post Edited:
Just recolor the DRG armor to silver, that would probably look alot better D:

[Nautica]

Sadly, my attempt to make the female armor for hume females wasn't as successful >< The dress more than anything else. I'm not giving up, I'll continue to try ;)

[Puerilis]

Please try your best Nautica. I'm planing on going Hume Female Dragoon on Odin once I get going.

[dabadking]

heres my version of the lancer helm (I know it isnt perfect ...hey it took 5 minutes whaddaya expect? lol...anyways with that dress...i can make that easily but... Only if someone who uses VRS can add the armor part from the top to a cloak...then I can make the dress almost exact

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Ok I added the file in case ayone wanted it ..it works for hume males only..sorry but changing the whole model to every race takes forever for me, as im still new to this whole making .dats thing..converting skins is easy but...the only way I know to make a model for all races...is to remake the whole thing every time so ... If anyone knows a quick way, Id love to know, then I can make my stuff for all races before I release them.

[Spazz]

OMFG yes!!! Thank you for the face guard! Its awesome!

[dabadking]

heh, thanks :) Im actually turning that model into a full on ninja mask hood as well, but i DID save the .dat just in case someone liked it ^^.


EDIT: Okay seeing as how the FEMALES are the ones the person asked for ...I will show a picture of the helm ONLY.....the armor I changed so as not to ruin the suprise but I will say this...I DID find a piece that has a armor on top exactly like the pic you posted ...and ALSO has the ability to make the robe on the bottom...I havent started texturing the helm, or even modding the body piece but...I am starting now :)

[dabadking]

sorry, wasnt going to double post but...seeing as how edit doesnt move it up...and I AM going to post this dat very soon..I believe this thread should be moved up in case someone would like the dat when it is finished..As you can tell, this gear is almost done ...or at least half way ...it all depends on if theres any complications in this ...Hope to have this up soon :)

P.S I used the pic in this post as a reference so, let me know if you see anything that I should change to make it look more like the pic ^^.

Okay rather than just "recolor drg AF" as someone suggested...I decided to make the real deal. Hopefully someone knows of a fast way to make this for other races as....It was hell meshing the neck and the helm seeing as how they were two completely different pieces and you could not just line them up as you can only open one file at a time using meta, but there is very very minimum clipping..I would have made the cape full wrap around but my goal was a VERY close replica as well as no legs popping out of the armor etc so..i believe I have done that rather well...there is very little of that unless you kneel but.. it is believable since the cape is 3 pieces it looks like your legs fits through the slit in the cape, and doesnt just pop through the cloth. This is for hume female only ....I made this because this was asked for on this forum. I would have made a male version but..then it wouldnt exactly be true to FFT then would it? Also I used alpha in the visor so you can see through the face shield although... I havent tested this in game as im not a hume female ..anyone test this let me know if that works please. I tried to be as close as possible and this is the first set of gear ive made this exact, as I modeled every point of this armor to fit exact, the best I could and didnt just make it "look" good...they all fit as if it came with FFXI :)
I spent a lot of time trying to get everything perfect so ...I hope you like this and the female humes finally get to enjoy being the female version of dragoon/lancer :)

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re-uploaded the zip with the newer version of the boots (they no longer are ALL the same color.. the black parts are now black again so it looks a lot better)

[DeathFromAbove]

I guess im just a classic kind of man. I value the artistry or your re-datting, but i love the in-game DRG armor too much to ever change it.

[OG Night]

*drooling* please please make that female lancer to mithra