Heya all, I've been a lurker on this site for a while, mostly for the job guides and auction house features. But this thread in particular caught my attention as I love the HD mods for FFXI.
I first off want to say thank you to both Kireek and Amelila for the amazing mods. The two of you have given this game the much needed visual overhaul that it deserves.
Due to Summoner being my main career job and Siren being added this update, I decided to create a customized fully HD version of her. I've been working on up-scaling the textures from Kireek's HD avatar pack with the A.I. Gigapixel software. The results are pretty amazing and I haven't noticed any negative impact on performance from them being implemented into the game.
For Shiva, Garuda, and Siren I've also been modding their mqo files to give them a bit more curvy figure than how Square originally designed them. For Siren specifically, I also created a separate DAT model for her with a more human like skin tone to go along with her original grayish FFXI skin.
I personally prefer her human looking skin, as with every other Final Fantasy game that Siren's been in aside from XI she's always had the more human looking color. I'm not really a big fan of her gray color in this game, as to me she looks too bird like. I wanted to give her a bit more uniqueness, as I know a lot of people have said she seems too similar to Garuda in her standard design.
I did however create HD modded DATs for her original skin tone as well. I figured some people would want to keep her original XI appearance so I've included both version's DAT sets in my download link. I also included an installation ReadMe for the locations of all 5 of her different DAT models in the game's folders.
I've tested this Siren model out in-game and it looks great while not causing any noticeable impact on performance from what I've seen. Let me know if you guys like the mod and if you would like for me to share my Shiva and Garuda custom models on here as well.
Again credit goes to Kireek for the base HD textures for this Siren mod, a long with the rest of his avatar HD pack. I just further up-scaled the textures and modded the 3D mqo files from there.
https://tinyurl.com/SirenHDFF11