please help

[Rainlily]

Ok i have been trying to change armor as show on this web site http://www.geocities.jp/burumakun/arufa1.html no matter how hard i try to do this it wont work. I've tryed a doing things differently also but still no luck does anyone have a way to explain or show me because i cant read that i was just going by pictures. Could anyone please exlpain how to do this for anything?

[dabadking]

Re: please help

well that depends.... if you're looking to change the WHOLE armor... then from what I can tell... thats only half the tutorial... that only shows how to alpha map things (make pieces invisible). If you're looking to do that then you shouild already know how to change armor and maybe you just misworded the request. I know it doesnt help much but... it will help to understand what your trying to do more clearly and then I or someone else can explain how to change GEAR, or how to alpha.

[Imkindalost]

Re: please help

You're wanting to know how to edit alphas? Ummm ok well you need GC3 first, aquirable here http://homepage1.nifty.com/open-prog/warehouse/gc3.lzh

You'll need a program capable of unzipping lzh files, if you dont already have one i recomend 7-zip, which you can get from http://www,downloads.com for free, just search for it.

And model viewer, i cant remember where i got it but you can probably find it pretty easily.



Alright now here's what you do. First open model viewer and find the fishing tunic. Click the DAT to MQO button near the bottom right hand corner. Open up paint, or another image editing program (I only have paint, nothing else, so everything i make is done with it lol... thats why my stuff is no good i guess) and paint the part you want to be "invisible" black of the bmp. Then the rest you have to paint white. Save this as something different than your normal file. The name of the bmp depends on what you chose when you exported it with model viewer, so if you used FishingTunic then people would usually save it as something like FishingTunic0A for alpha. Alright now open up GC3, goto file >> Open. And open the bmp of the tunic, and then goto file >> open as alpha channel and select your alpha (FishingTunic0A). Go to format >> S3TC Format (Me Encode Engine) >> DXT3 (4-bit alpha non-premult) After you do that it will convert your bmp's together into 1 dds. Now save it as the same file name it has in there (If you used FishingTunic it will be FishingTunic0.dds). Now you just open up model viewer agian, goto file >> convert MQO to DAT and click on the name of your Tunic. And there ya go, you're done.


Note that unless theres a texture already under what you're making invisible, your character will just have a see-through spot there. You'll have to edit the model and the texture if you want somethin like that. So you can only, for example, make the flaps below the belt on the tunic where there is the legs already there without it looking like your character has a hole in it.

[Rainlily]

Re: please help

Hmm well i kind have forgot the part about changing gear compleatly like how there was a request earlyer

http://www.ffxionline.com/forums/dat.image.rendering/54580-request.hoodless.black.cloak.html

to change stuff like that or to compleatly change it i can not figure it out no matter what i do

Double Post Edited:
Thank you Imkindalost i got that down thanks so much that helped a lot

[Imkindalost]

Re: please help

Well for that you'd need VRS which i cant really help ya with seeing as i cant figure that program out myself.

[Sinbreakerblade]

Re: please help

VRS is pretty hard to understand even in JP. No manner how hard i try i just cant get it right

[Imkindalost]

Re: please help

Yep, somebody should combine the simplicity of meta, and the power of VRS to make a kick ass usable program lol.