Visual Gear Damage

[Mushy]

I think it would be a cool effect that gear matches its condition. Possibilities of 3 visual tiers.
FABULOUS
Gear has seen better days (Orange)
Looks broken and nasty (red)

How outlandish would this be? And it would only need to be on primary items like Body/Legs/Head

[Kailea_Nagisa]

that would be way to much for the little gain it would give visualy....

there would have to be three versions of every piece of visable gear, for every race. now unless the way things are displayed is simplified alot in 2.0, it would be to much demand on systems.

[Jinko]

that would be way to much for the little gain it would give visualy....

there would have to be three versions of every piece of visable gear, for every race. now unless the way things are displayed is simplified alot in 2.0, it would be to much demand on systems.

Thats not true you can do gear damage by textures and shaders.

[Kailea_Nagisa]

Thats not true you can do gear damage by textures and shaders.

in other games yes..... but FFXI and FFXIV use a DAT file for each armor piece for every race/gender so in relation to FFXIV right now, it could not happen, maby when 2.0 and their new engine

[viion]

in other games yes..... but FFXI and FFXIV use a DAT file for each armor piece for every race/gender so in relation to FFXIV right now, it could not happen, maby when 2.0 and their new engine

No it doesnt lol Textures are completely separate to the models, which are seperate to the skeletons, even shaders and bump mapping is seperated within the dat file (if you dont know, Dat file is just a container, its just several files that have been melded together as 1)

Infact there is kind of this already, the illusion of it anyway. Look at the gear from when you start, say the Pugilist set, it is worn, it is torn, its dirty, then look at velveteen pugilist gear, its same model, just a better texture.

There are a lot of textures that are currently not being used that could give this affect, and it would not be hard to do really if you're just switching between textures.

[Kailea_Nagisa]

No it doesnt lol Textures are completely separate to the models, which are seperate to the skeletons, even shaders and bump mapping is seperated within the dat file (if you dont know, Dat file is just a container, its just several files that have been melded together as 1)

Infact there is kind of this already, the illusion of it anyway. Look at the gear from when you start, say the Pugilist set, it is worn, it is torn, its dirty, then look at velveteen pugilist gear, its same model, just a better texture.

There are a lot of textures that are currently not being used that could give this affect, and it would not be hard to do really if you're just switching between textures.

yes I know what a DAT file is, I used to mess around alot with FFXI DAT modding. and again, it is not that simple, the archaic way SE has done DATs in FFXI and in FFXIV would not allow this to be done easily. Again could not happen now, but maybe in 2.0+ would be an interesting thing to see too, but again, not something I would want them focusing on.

[Mushy]

Can we just get rid of gear condition then?

[redmage]

Though this is something that wouldn't necessarily be needed in the game, it would be a pretty nice added touch down the line! In Vindictus, they have a similar feature -- armor gets dulled, rusted, and scratched, woven items look worn and the color fades with wear as durability goes down.

[Eldaena]

I'm not certain but I think there is slight visual gear damage at least on some thaumaturge weapons. I recall having a ivory staff at 0% and quickly repaired it and it looked brighter.

[Rau]

PS3 Limitations


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