WIP: Starting over!

Hello! How is Dawntrail for everyone? Won't talk about it in details here, but if anyone finishes the MSQ and wants to talk about and share opinions, just message me either on twitter or here and I'm always available. :)

That's a screenshot from the game after the update, by the way, not my Blender rigs! The goal will be to get as close as I can to that look. He looks so pretty~ the eyes look beautiful. I hope I can achieve that look!

Now that the MSQ is finished, I will be back to working on videos and models...but first, because of the graphical update, I feel like I have to learn how to make things work all over again!

Textools was updated and, probably because I'm not used to it, feels a little less friendly to use. It's like when I was starting back last year!!! Just clicking everything to see what happens until they work. It will take me some time and testing to find where things are, but as soon I feel like I got the grasp of it, I will do my best to make a video on it to make it easier for everyone.

They do have a dedicated discord, but most of the people there seem to be focused on the modding aspect, so it's not all that easy to find the specific answers I want there. I have mentioned it before, but I usually try to simplify the information to work for the purpose I want instead of going in depth on all the technical details of it...

So far, I'm just trying to rebuild Lizard's model with the graphically updated one!

We have a tongue now!! This will definitely make lip syncing easier. It's hard to convey certain sounds without a tongue, like the "L"! I struggled when I tried making G'raha say "Allagans" without one. It just didn't work.

Limbal rings are now a shader and not a geometry, so that's also something I have to figure out how to make it work.

I could still make videos with my older models obviously, but eventually this has to be updated. And the game looks stunning now, so I want this for my videos as well!! So I might have to focus on this for a while before making new animations. I admit, this is...not my favorite part. I want to animate!!!

If it takes too long, I will just make very short ones to keep myself motivated. I'll give myself one week of purely testing.

As for ideas, I have a few. The next one will depend on how successful I am on building the models again, but chances are, it's either one related to the start of Endwalker, or yet another one of "no G'raha in Tural". Might go with the Endwalker one to not get way too repetitive on the Tural theme... :P

I'm considering picking up a healer this time to level, because I've never really played healer, and I have an idea that might come from that as well.

There's also scenes in DT's story that I feel like animating my own take on those, the way I did it with the promise scene in Endwalker!

I'm very excited to work on all of that, but I first have to overcome the technical barrier of graphical changes...

I hope to bring good news about it soon! Thank you for your support!