Visual Gear Damage

[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.

[Jinko]

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.

They are fixing that though because of the dying system.

The only problem is that when you change gear in this game the character blinks so im not sure how they could change the look of gear without that happening.

Edit:- Now that I think about it when you ready an ifrit weapon it changes appearance so its not the case.

[SnickleWhiskers]

Edit:- Now that I think about it when you ready an ifrit weapon it changes appearance so its not the case.

Technically it doesn't since its effect is still there it just doesn't show while active. They'd have to redo each item to actually show the changes.