Now this is thinking with portals.

I didn't post a muse yesterday, so I figured I'd finish up with the elemental muses today. Here is Ramuh and Shiva. There are still three more muses to go, but this completes the elemental primals.

Proof of concept confirmed. My next project is going to be Puppet Master. I decided to confirm with the LB3 because it's one of the most annoying parts of this job. It has movement constrained, the shroud, and the avatar. So with it done, everything else should be easier.

Potential proof of concept. Puppet Master.

Unlike Summoner, Pictomancer has lots of summoned weapons at their disposal. So many, in fact, that I'm able to do what most Summoners have been asking for for years: All six elemental summons. Primal Sketch: Leviathan replaces Clawed Muse.

If you've followed the trend so far, you may have guessed the next muse related summon. Titan is replacing Mog of the Ages.

So this job edit has been in the works for a while. It was mostly done before I decided to announce it. Now I just have the HUD left. This LB3 just feels so good I want to share it now. I'll show the rest of the muses later too. I just can't resist showing this off now.

Second Primal Sketch: Garuda. I think she's a very fitting replacement for Winged Muse.

Someone guessed it. Pictomancer. Mod name: Sketch. And for my first Primal Sketch: Ifrit. Replacing Pom Muse.

How about another game of guess the job being modded. If you guess SMN, hi, nice to meet you, this must be your first introduction to my stuff.

DDoS moment Dwemer apparatus forces innocent Shezarrine to zero sum in the middle of kalpic liberation. I got disconnected while making this lol. Compatible with all races. Placed on the Facepalm emote. ko-fi.com/s/f3f451adad www.xivmodarchive.com/modid/153430

Phew, spent almost all day on this. I used to do transformation styled LB3s for MCH. I didn't want that for this. I'm kind of interested in a mounted combat concept. Mechanically I think I could do it. I'm not sure how viable it would be tactically though.

Still not Bard. Really taking a leap here. This is a summoned weapon. It isn't attached to the player. It spawns relative to the target, but shouldn't with it. The original intent with Ranger was to do normal animals. However, normal animals are meh. Anyone guess which job this is? Big hint here.

No, this is not Bard...

Finished. Now just more play testing.

Now just Earthly Star to go. Gotta work on WHM for it because it has several things on Liturgy that interferes with Earthly Star. Since Liturgy of the Bell and Earthly Star are both a single invisible summoned creature. So I have to work out separating them.

A little couple's pose for Christmas

It may not surprise some or none to find out that I'm not pleased with my original Sage mod. Blood is a neat theme, but it becomes difficult to differentiate and the rapier didn't really help New proof of concept for Sage: Psychic. And in my first throwback to FFX-2, Laser Eye for Dosis III.

Happy Holidays!

Learning how to use sub.pap to bypass action.pap offers a lot of customization. Barall replacing Collective Unconscious. I wasn't happy with my original Alchemist concept for Astrologian, so I scrapped it and am working now on this: Crimson Wizard.

Ritualist's dawntrail update has been released! youtu.be/9P1pQLqjf94

The feeling of fixing and changing things in the middle of making a demo video for a mod that is supposed to be finished already.

Archangel's dawntrail update is posted youtu.be/Tlbniv7jsvc

I've held onto several of my DT updates because of UI. After deciding to scrap the idea to do UI and HUD for High Summoner, I've decided to scrap the UI for other things. So much work for very little when I could put more time into something else, like High Summoner. youtu.be/Pl2f8Xwua10

With the completion of Zurvan, my Heavensward Content Update is finished and posted. I have no plans at the moment to do any other content from Heavensward. Perhaps once I get caught up on my plans. youtu.be/r0RAx88WlBE?...

If you see this, QTP with a gif of one of your favourite wild animals. I present this fucking thing... @grellxiv.bsky.social

First, Second, and Third Demiurges finally finished.

The feeling of accomplishing something you've never done before is like heroin. Second Demiurge as a Garuda-egi replacement. I am not sure how to make the hair gold and glow, but I kind of prefer the white.

This is as condensed as I can make it and with deduplication and I'm not even finished with the Heavensward summons

Working on something to accompany Sophia that is pushing me to my limits.

Doesn't hit quite like it does in the fight. The ground being in the way means Zurvan is only on screen for a few frames.

I would know the weight of your souls!

This was a lot.

Age yourself with gaming

This was particularly challenging. I converted and edited animations from four other bosses to make him fly: Hydaelyn, Agrias, Nidhogg, and Golbez.

I am coming up on King Thordan and the Knights of the Round. Last time I did King Thordan, I did Dragon King Thordan in order to avoid making the complications of converting a flying summons into a terrestrial creature. This time around, I am more knowledgeable and have more options, including doing

Dance to the song of ringing steel!

This plus the cool ideas people suggest.

So, going into Heavensward summons, I've run into a predicament. Voice over lines. The summon lists are getting long already, especially with the terrestrial types that need small, medium, and large versions. So, for voiceover lines, I am thinking of trying a new way to organize. Instead of making

I would do anything for just one more day

Yesterday morning @grellxiv.bsky.social and I awoke to find that our dog, Fenrir, had unexpectedly died in his sleep. We are processing the loss still. Modding is something that brings me a lot of joy and helps me get my mind off things. So, I have added Fenrir to High Summoner.

This feels weirdly tame after doing Bismarck

Today's project. I skipped him back when I was planning to do Eureka at a later date, but seeing as I'll be leaving a lot of creatures on the cutting room floor for High Summoner, I'm not sure yet if I will do Eureka anymore. So not going to skip Odin this time.

Up next for High Summoner...

Teaser video for High Summoner Open Beta. Not really anything that y'all haven't seen yet. I do not plan on demoing EVERYTHING for this pack. There's just WAY too much. Like WAAAAYYYY too much. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncgp...

I am no where near my original goal on High Summoner. But, I think I'm comfortable with sending it to open beta. I welcome feedback here in DMs or on discord. drive.google.com/drive/folder...

VFXEditor my beloved 🥰

Just a gay little thing with @sortofarbitrary.bsky.social

Grand Summon (Solar Bahamut)

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑