a group of ff14 characters posing together

CONGRATS @lugileo7.bsky.social (and friends) on clearing Dawntrail (Savage) !!! <3
#vgencomm #ffxivart #blender #b3d

Most people end up using a tag specific to their character, or the tag # wolqotdans (for answers), or something similar. That won't flood anything :)

Yet another one has occurred in the middle of the night and I only happened to notice, starting it AGAIN

Anyway if someone knows of a good and (very) affordable hosting service I'd be happy to hear about it

Power outage >:(
Will start the wolqotd-feed back up as soon as that comes back

That's a strange way to spell "better", Rath

Eternal Bonds VR DEMO IS OUT! A FFXIV Otome Game!

...I wish. Happy April 1st!
(the joke is how much money I'd throw at Square Enix for something like this)

Link for YT version AND 360 VIDEO in comments~

#wolgraha #grahatia #FFXIVvideos

They're gonna repair themselves tomorrow and be like "haha jk"

The camera, mounted in a corner on the ceiling of a ramen stand, looks out onto a futuristic street. Sitting at the counter is Fioh Sion, an Elezen in a black jacket with a glowing blue inner collar; and Shizuka Diamah, a Viera in a black and purple coat. Fioh is eating his ramen while being pestered by Shizuka who has already finished hers. She's showing him a funny meme on her phone, which Fioh is looking away from with an annoyed expression. Behind them on the street people are walking past or hanging out at various other storefronts. In the foreground inside the ramen stand, a hooded individual is cooking up more food in a wok. On the floor behind him is a small kitten drinking some milk from a bowl that's been set out for it. In the bottom right corner is a watermark of a bunny, with the text "kaj.blue"

Secret Santa (in March) for @fiohsion.bsky.social!
It's not the most sanitary establishment but by the twelve does it have good noodles. 🍜

Secret santa gift for @mochakaffe.bsky.social
(Yes I know it's somewhat late)

The camera, mounted in a corner on the ceiling of a ramen stand, looks out onto a futuristic street. Sitting at the counter is Fioh Sion, an Elezen in a black jacket with a glowing blue inner collar; and Shizuka Diamah, a Viera in a black and purple coat. Fioh is eating his ramen while being pestered by Shizuka who has already finished hers. She's showing him a funny meme on her phone, which Fioh is looking away from with an annoyed expression. Behind them on the street people are walking past or hanging out at various other storefronts. In the foreground inside the ramen stand, a hooded individual is cooking up more food in a wok. On the floor behind him is a small kitten drinking some milk from a bowl that's been set out for it. In the bottom right corner is a watermark of a bunny, with the text "kaj.blue"

Secret Santa (in March) for @fiohsion.bsky.social!
It's not the most sanitary establishment but by the twelve does it have good noodles. 🍜

Very late running Secret Santa gift for @lordklemmbaustein.bsky.social !

Bikini Knight. #aetherblend #FFGear #Miqo'te

🌕🥷⚔️🐈‍⬛

So glad we have you making the mods that the people really need 🙏

Can you add bounny as treasure?

Good list of stuff: bsky.app/profile/vlin...
A blender repository with most of that stuff: github.com/ShinoMythmak...

A screenshot from Blender where an Au Ra has been given realistic high-detail hair, as opposed to the normal game hair.

I was so incredibly bored the entire time when making all these hair spikes...
But now I'm done and it was all worth it she's so pretty :3

Please inform me if you figure it out

The eyes should ideally be getting set by default, but there's a color input specifically for that on the eye shader called g_WhiteEyeColor, where you can set it to whatever you want.
Hair is gonna be a similar situation, it's got color values you can change however you want!

The grain is from Blender just needing to work harder, since the shader setup is much more complex. When rendering with high settings that should go away.
The sheen can be reduced by bringing the IOR value closer to 1, Blender has it at 1.5 by default for some reason. Or darken the Specular Tint col

Example of this: bsky.app/profile/kaj....

Also make sure that when you're importing everything your Working Color Space in Blender is set to Rec.709 (which it is by default). I've noticed the colors get imported wrong on something like Rec.2020, gonna look into a fix for that.
Good luck if you decide to play around with it :D

For detail FFGear (and I think also Meddle now?) adds the little tiles for fine-grain detail, if you haven't used a shader with that it makes a huge difference. FFGear also has a slider for the intensity of them. If that's not enough try adding a slight sharpness filter when compositing.

FFGear has easily accessible sliders for tweaking material properties like saturation, works on all gear. If you find the coloring lacking on the Meddle shaders those could also just get a Saturation node slapped onto them. Or just up the saturation of things like the skin color, easy to do.

Thank you :) Happy to be able to put my shader knowledge to good use ❤️

A screenshot from Houdini where a ribbon of cloth is wrapped around a character's arm neatly

I installed Houdini

Why would you do that that's messed up

I hate cloth in blender I hate cloth in blender I hate cloth in blender I hate cloth in blender I h

Woke up yesterday wanting to try and simulate the cloth on the new top.

Then spent the entire day on getting one (1) ribbon simmed (poorly)

This battle is not over