Modding the game

[Caitlyn]

Many of the mod websites have pics of the mods as well as users who are using them. There are both NSFW areas and SFW areas. I suspect a google search would give you options to look at.

Google search is not official forums

[NessaWyvern]

I dont think somebody is that "brave" enough to post screenshots of their modded characters in this forum.
Reshade is not a mod... .

Okay cool, was just wondering. Saw one person ask someone in one of those threads "How'd you get your character to look that good" (referring to reshade) and the other person didn't answer, while others told him it was a mod.
There is one person I am pretty sure uses a mod, since the eyes, hair and skin textures look quite a bit different, but I am not sure

[Roda]

I dont think somebody is that "brave" enough to post screenshots of their modded characters in this forum.
Reshade is not a mod... .

Oh there are TONS of people posting modded characters in those threads.
Unless there are body hair and nipple options I'm not aware of that is...
Though you can't really prove it's not just a REALLY GOOD edit..

[Anzaman]

Oh there are TONS of people posting modded characters in those threads.
Unless there are body hair and nipple options I'm not aware of that is...
Though you can't really prove it's not just a REALLY GOOD edit..

Maybe I'm just blind, but after going dozens of pages in "Show your X!" -threads, didn't really spot anything out of ordinary.

As for mods, for example in World of Warcraft, people started to use them back in "vanilla", and are still using them - despite Blizzards attempts to cripple their usage now and then. I remember reading news how WoW "killed" their use, but eventually people once again found way to get their mods back in. Sadly each time it just made modding WoW more and more "malicious", as originally they were simple drag-and-drop files, but nowadays you need that cheating program that triggered WoW's latest major ban-wave.

The line between WoW modding and straight-up cheating/botting is so thin due to Blizzards restrictive new settings, that they even went and un-banned tons of active botters. So it begs to question, is it really worth meddling with modding if it's not really harming game? Do we really want to repeat what Blizzard did with World of Warcraft?

[wereotter]

Wait, does that mean I should be reporting 50% of people on the "Show your x!" forums, as some of them are clearly using modded shaders/textures in some of them.

Considering Photoshop is a thing, there's no proof from just a still image that the person posting the image is using any mods, too.

[Canadane]

Wait, does that mean I should be reporting 50% of people on the "Show your x!" forums, as some of them are clearly using modded shaders/textures in some of them.

Shaders and post production effects are allowed.
It'd be hard to prove one is using that or pre-processing filters.

[enthauptet]

Shaders and post production effects are allowed.
It'd be hard to prove one is using that or pre-processing filters.

They are against rules for photo contests but SE ignores that rule it seems since like 4 out of top 5 area always modified photos which is a shame.

I don't really like mods because people post photos of me in outfit I picked and it looks horrible and gross on their screen.

[Yllania]

They are against rules for photo contests but SE ignores that rule it seems since like 4 out of top 5 area always modified photos which is a shame.

I don't really like mods because people post photos of me in outfit I picked and it looks horrible and gross on their screen.

Why are people posting pics of you. Thats weird.

[Melorie]

I don't see what is the big deal about mods tbh. I'm not a huge fan of over-the-top mods like huge modifications or assets used from other games being put on ffxiv (most of these, including hairs, look weird anyway), but some like facepaints and retextures, also color tweaks since there are gear that is not dyeable or it is but in a weird way are very useful and harmless.

I couldn't care less about how my character look for one specific person that decided to mod their entire game tbh.

[Krojack]

Wait, does that mean I should be reporting 50% of people on the "Show your x!" forums, as some of them are clearly using modded shaders/textures in some of them.

Using software to modify the brightness, shadows, contrast and so on of the game? I'm pretty sure this isn't against the rules. I use the Nvidia game filter now which is sorta like reshade. These aren't changing the game files or data, it's adjusting what's being output from your video card to your screen.