Recreating an NPC character

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10-12-2020, 04:10 AM
Asuna_Haze

Recreating an NPC character

Hey

Sorry if this is in the wrong place i don't use this forum a lot and i had no idea where else to post a strange question such as this one.

So i used to play pso2 a long time ago. In that game if you saw an npc that was cool there were a few places where you could get the NPC data which would let you basically make a carbon copy of that NPC save for some really minor details.

I have been trying to re-create my favorite unnamed NPC using as clean a screenshot as i can but i feel like i am just not getting things completely right.

So i just wondered if there is something similar for this game that would help me get it all as right as possible?

For those wondering the character i wanted to re-create is zealous yelowjacket that gives you the blue mage quest as i always thought she had a unique look to her among the legions of unnamed NPC's that you meet in the game.
10-12-2020, 04:15 AM
ItMe

Try this:
https://garlandtools.org/db/#npc/1026885
10-12-2020, 04:17 AM
Asuna_Haze

Thanks for that i'l give it a go. Also 2017? I had forgotten i was even aware of the game's existence back then.
10-12-2020, 04:19 AM
Asuna_Haze

What do those numbers mean? Is it 6 from the top and then 4 from the left?
10-12-2020, 04:36 AM
Fredco191

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Originally Posted by Asuna_Haze

What do those numbers mean? Is it 6 from the top and then 4 from the left?

Yeah, I believe that it means go down 6 spaces from the very top and go right 4 spaces from the far left side.
10-12-2020, 04:53 AM
Asuna_Haze

Yes i see, Thanks. Too bad you can't color the gear the same. At least for the helmet you can't. The one that garlandtools links cannot be colored to look like hers.
10-12-2020, 06:17 AM
Asuna_Haze

I can't get the hair color right either, Seems to be a shade of grey but maybe that's the lighting?
10-12-2020, 06:28 AM
Mhaeric

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Originally Posted by Asuna_Haze

Yes i see, Thanks. Too bad you can't color the gear the same. At least for the helmet you can't. The one that garlandtools links cannot be colored to look like hers.

It is dyeable according to the tooltip:
https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/W...let_of_Maiming

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Originally Posted by Asuna_Haze

I can't get the hair color right either, Seems to be a shade of grey but maybe that's the lighting?

When choosing colours it is best to use the La Noscea scene in the character generator in most cases rather than the other ones, particularly the default aetheric stream one which has odd lighting.
10-14-2020, 09:05 AM
Asuna_Haze

I ran into another problem. I only just noticed that the helmet garlandtools gives (Warwolf Sallet of Maiming) Is for lancer and dragoon. Does that mean there is no helmet that looks like that for warrior? I can't find one at least.
10-14-2020, 09:12 AM
Iscah

If you click on the equipment piece it will open up a data box for the piece, then look in the Stats tab for a list of shared models.
10-14-2020, 09:40 AM
Asuna_Haze

It looks like that helmet the NPC has does not actually exist as something players can find.
10-14-2020, 09:43 AM
Iscah

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Originally Posted by Asuna_Haze

It looks like that helmet the NPC has does not actually exist as something players can find.

Possibly not the exact model, no. But it looks like you have quite a few approximate options.
10-14-2020, 09:45 AM
Asuna_Haze

No way to color the same parts either.
10-14-2020, 10:02 AM
Asuna_Haze

Well It seems like buying the cobalt sallet and coloring it rust red is as close as that gets. Now if only the god dam pants would drop i could work in nailing the hair color.
10-14-2020, 10:08 AM
ItMe

A pretty shocking number of NPCs use pieces or colors the players just don't ha e access to.

I'm personally fascinated by the rainbow sheen on the armor of the little Lala marching around the artheryte in Mor Dhona. Wish I could get THAT!

Good luck and hopefully you'll be able to make it work.
10-14-2020, 10:24 AM
Iscah

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Originally Posted by Asuna_Haze

Now if only the god dam pants would drop

Again, shared models are your friend (and the Sipahi sarouel is only a guess anyway). From the icons, it looks like the Buccaneer's sarouel has the same colours and it's either tradeable or reliably claimed from running Dzemael Darkhold, especially if you buy the definitely-tradeable bits of the set first.
10-14-2020, 10:47 AM
Asuna_Haze

Yeah i'l take a look. I've been trying to find the haircolor but the closes i found was this site where that has some color codes if you hover over it. Now that i think about it i'm not even sure about the hairstyle either.
10-14-2020, 10:55 AM
Asuna_Haze

I think i more or less got the hair color right but that hairstyle might not be a default one. I can't find on that has bangs that long that's not a long hairstyle.
10-14-2020, 02:44 PM
Iscah

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Originally Posted by Asuna_Haze

Yeah i'l take a look. I've been trying to find the haircolor but the closes i found was this site where that has some color codes if you hover over it. Now that i think about it i'm not even sure about the hairstyle either.

Hmm, Garland used to show hairstyles but it looks like that part of their data has broken down. I'll try to remember to look at the NPC next time I log in on a character that hasn't taken the quest. Generally though, if you're trying to recognise an NPC's hairstyle then its best to do it while equipped with whatever hat they are wearing, since that can change the look of things.

As for colour, there shouldn't be any guesswork at all. Row 4, column 6. Unless you switched the numbers by accident, it shouldn't be able to go wrong.
10-14-2020, 10:41 PM
Asuna_Haze

Well the helmet makes it hard to see what her hairstyle is. I can confirm that it is not a default hairstyle but that's where it ends.