I am trying to make a somewhat normal colored mooncat...

I have made like 6 characters and cannot bare to keep going through these opening cutscenes. Please, for the love of god, help me find a human looking skin color for my mooncat.

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Originally Posted by Cronno

I have made like 6 characters and cannot bare to keep going through these opening cutscenes. Please, for the love of god, help me find a human looking skin color for my mooncat.

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Why does it need to be a mooncat? Also, I find you can accurately see skin tone by switching the background in character creation and getting a spin, lets you see them in a lot of different lighting.

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Originally Posted by Cronno

human looking skin color for my mooncat.

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I have to admit I chuckled a little.

Anyway yeah, just change the background and such in the character creation.

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Originally Posted by MrSmiley

Why does it need to be a mooncat? Also, I find you can accurately see skin tone by switching the background in character creation and getting a spin, lets you see them in a lot of different lighting.

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I like the eyes.

How dare you complain about this, when you clearly haven't spent countless attempts at creating the character you think you're creating in Skyrim, like I have. :S
I swear, I created my character and thought I got it right, then entered the game, ran through the dragon attack and got up close to a brazier. Only to find I was blind on one eye, evil grinned under the beard or simply deathlike in skin tone when I wanted tan. :p
Thankfully, I was wise enough to save the game right before character creation.

Like the others say, browsing the 4 different background settings in ARR will help you a lot. Also remember that you can toggle night/day view there!

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Originally Posted by Leowilde

Also remember that you can toggle night/day view there!

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You can do that?! <Insert PogChamp Here>

I knew about changing the background to Los Noscea, Black Shroud, Thanalan and the Carline Canopy inn room, but I didn't know you can change between day and night!

The left three colors in the top row are natural looking, albeit pale, in color. And the far right color on the bottom row is a pretty natural looking dark shade, IMHO (this is female, not sure if male skin tones are different).

If you want a more medium tanned shade though . . . I haven't had a lot of luck with that either. There may very well be one I haven't noticed though, good luck in your search for the perfect skin color! I like the moon cat eyes, too. ^^

@OP,
I have found that Gridania's forest background in the character creator, gives you the most accurate lighting for viewing the actual Skin tone and hair color for your character. I would suggest using that. I have also noticed that in the skin tone section for Keeper of the Moon Miqote's the most humanoid looking skin for a caucasian person is the first 2 rows along the left hand side, and the first row along the top.
http://i.imgur.com/4SJ0hyE.png

Don't be afraid to use the skin colors in the top left hand side even if they appear to be too bright. Most of the time the game's lighting tones down that "glowy skin" color and it ends up looking pretty good.
Hope that helps. Good luck!

The bottom few rows of colors can give you a nice tone if darker skin is your cup of tea. I find most of the more chocolatey skin tones translate well in most lighting, and overpowers the grey undertone Keepers (and Duskwrights) have.

Don't forget Mooncats have fangs!

There's quite a few options. Lacks that nice Brazillian tan a Seeker can get. Is there a certain tone you're looking for?

I like my nice caramel colored moon kitty. Alas, we can't quite get the nice peaches and cream complexions of our Sunseeker cousins, but I think our darker colorations look better than theirs.

I spent a pretty long time as a moonkitty and honestly I was never that happy with my skin color. It never looked 'right' in many lighting conditions. The way the skin tones of moonkitties have a blue/gray tone which made you look unhealthy always bothered me. I changed to a sunkitty and in general I'm a lot happier with how I look now even though I'm not a huge fan of slit irises.

You rarely if ever see your fangs as a moonkitty either, because of the rarity of situations in this game where you are looking at your character's face and your mouth is open at the time. The only actual instance I'm aware of when this happens is the little celebratory victory shot at the end of a dungeon.

What's a mooncat? Please call yourself miqo'te if you are rolling miqo'te... We don't need catgirls, Eorzea only has miqo'te.

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Originally Posted by Chiramu

What's a mooncat? Please call yourself miqo'te if you are rolling miqo'te... We don't need catgirls, Eorzea only has miqo'te.

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Keepers of the Moon Miqo'te = Mooncat.

I thought I looked pretty normal....

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Originally Posted by Illya

I spent a pretty long time as a moonkitty and honestly I was never that happy with my skin color. It never looked 'right' in many lighting conditions. The way the skin tones of moonkitties have a blue/gray tone which made you look unhealthy always bothered me. I changed to a sunkitty and in general I'm a lot happier with how I look now even though I'm not a huge fan of slit irises.

You rarely if ever see your fangs as a moonkitty either, because of the rarity of situations in this game where you are looking at your character's face and your mouth is open at the time. The only actual instance I'm aware of when this happens is the little celebratory victory shot at the end of a dungeon.

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Your new hair color doesn't match your name anymore.

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Originally Posted by Tsukino

Your new hair color doesn't match your name anymore.

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I'm Kuro now.

I used the pale skintone (top left corner of color pallet) since it doesn't look that pale once your in the game under most lighting.


Under bright lights:

http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w...KitsumiTzu.jpg

No lighting:

http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w...8-28-30-32.png

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Originally Posted by SpookyGhost

Keepers of the Moon Miqo'te = Mooncat.

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Does that mean seekers are Suncats?

Seekers are indeed Suncats!

I think I can help, OP, if you haven't settled yet...

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Originally Posted by Vespar

@OP,
http://i.imgur.com/4SJ0hyE.png

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The skintones along the bottom are actually the 'warmest' of the lot. I would recommend the mid-to-dark brown shades, personally, along with brown or black hair. For comparable real-world ethnicities with similar colors, check out pictures of the Berber people and a handful of other African ethnic groups, who actually have quite the spectrum. To make the comparison even more apt, the naming conventions of miqo'te have a similarly African sound to them.

Further advice: In the character creator, be sure to check all the different locales listed at the bottom, during both day and night, since the color filtration in each is subtly different. To see how dynamic lighting affects you, you can rotate your character around with a right-click.

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Originally Posted by SpookyGhost

Keepers of the Moon Miqo'te = Mooncat.

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Just call the Moon Keepers and Sun Seekers.

No, because 'suncat' and 'mooncat' sound cuter, and we take that stuff very seriously. :I :I :I

Mooncat and Suncat are truly meowvelous.

http://i.imgur.com/279gGfO.png

This is the closest I was able to get a Keeper to a "normal human skin color" let alone one with a tan (With the character and my main, I was going to have them be twins). It seems that the other "darkening" options seems to be adding a blue, green, or gray shade, or go full on chocolate.

I think the default one is the best for mooncat.

I just refer to them as Seeker & Keeper

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Originally Posted by Chiramu

What's a mooncat? Please call yourself miqo'te if you are rolling miqo'te... We don't need catgirls, Eorzea only has miqo'te.

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Newsflash: Miqo'te are catgirls.

By human you mean the many shades of white people?

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Originally Posted by ErnestoGiovanni

By human you mean the many shades of white people?

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That does seem to be what the OP meant.

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Originally Posted by ErnestoGiovanni

By human you mean the many shades of white people?

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lol

And this game shows you almost every natural lighting environment in the game while making your character, i dont get how this thread happened

As a Mooncat user, I can confirm that the left bar looks weird with the celestial background, but the skin tones really flesh (hah hah) out when you start using the character.

My Mooncat was previously blue and, after a year, I couldn't stand it any longer. I changed her to tone the farthest left and three down and she looks great. Also changed her eyes from silver to blue.

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Originally Posted by Korilynn

There's quite a few options. Lacks that nice Brazillian tan a Seeker can get. Is there a certain tone you're looking for?

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Right? Tanned sunkitties ftw. ^^

I don't find myself really liking the keepers' blue/grey palette nearly as much.

I'm a beyond tan sunkitty. The ability to have a naturally dark skintone is why I picked seeker.

Picking Keeper and complaining about their skintone options is like picking Roe and complaining about a lack of petite models. They don't have natural skintones because they're keeper, and keepers aren't seekers.

I don't really get why people bring up these issues, if it's that big a deal, roll seeker. It's not much point in having races if you can just pick traits all willy nilly.

But blue mooncats are the best mooncats! D:

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Originally Posted by Heskett

But blue mooncats are the best mooncats! D:

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Indeed! ♥ ^__^

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Originally Posted by Heskett

But blue mooncats are the best mooncats! D:

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I agree with this

Here come the bluecats

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Originally Posted by Illya

I'm Kuro now.

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I see it now, with the iris change too and all. The forum icon makes the hair look really dark purple though.

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Originally Posted by Tsukino

I see it now, with the iris change too and all. The forum icon makes the hair look really dark purple though.

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Because of the way lighting changes dramatically in this game, it looks darker indoors but lighter outdoors. Working as intended I guess.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post2691348