Quote Originally Posted by Kailea_Nagisa View Post
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.