WIP The Viera race of Ivalice

I've begun construction of the Viera race for the game, and figured I'd share my progress. Thus far, I've completed the female gender and the basis for the male gender (yes, there has been at least one male Viera). I've made forty-six hairstyles for the race, their first of four starter outfits (the white wood warder gear from FFXII being the first which is pictured below), their first tier gear set (Fran's armor from FFXII pictured below), and I've replaced the "undy color" selection from interface with ear color. I'm sticking close to the lore, giving only two skin color choices due to there only being two different races of Viera, the Feol being the fairer skin toned race. A great deal of the hairstyles were inspired by concept art and in game Viera models from FFXII and the tactics games. I created a specific color blend for the natural hair color of the Viera (which is white) and made other colors available for choice since lore-wise the Viera who leave their sacred land to venture into the world tend to color their hair to blend in better with the humes.

Among my plans for this race, I wanna go pretty in-depth and implement the following:
- Codexes
- Complete sets of gear for every tier and ore
- Furniture
- Blocks
- Custom ore
- Opening cinematic
- Rebirth sequence
- Viera villages and spawners
- Ear shape choices in character creation
- Possible specific biome
- Viera ship
- Vanity costumes of job/class outfits from the Tactics games
- More that I can't think of right now lol

Anyway, screeeeeens:

Character Selection


Wood Warder Starter Gear



Tier One Gear Set: Fran's Armor



Random Viera female



Viera male

Viera male (again)

 

Woo, topless bunnehz. >D

Good work so far on the clothes and the ears, it's certainly a worthy effort.

 

New starter outfit and a weapon, both from Final Fantasy XII! It's one of the costumes worn by one of the Viera in the opening to Final Fantasy XII. The weapon is the Diamond Sword (this is a rough mock up of the weapon):

Screens of mine:

Better shot with the Diamond Sword:

 

oooo so far i like this design over the other bunny race mods...

keep up the good work and 12.

 

Hey, wanted to ask is there any easyer way to make custom armor apart from actually painting them pixel by pixel, coz i'm making some cool stuff but it really takes alot to do with all the leg/arm animation pieces

 

Thanks so much! If anyone's interested, let me know and I'll try and get a basic download together for y'all!

On a side note, I've finished the tier two Viera armor. I designed it myself. I'll post some screens later today!

 

Not that I know of. I've had to break everything down like that. It tends to be time consuming but the end result is worth it. Perhaps they'll implement an easier way to modify armor later on.

 

Ooh, I remember you were saying that you were making a Viera mod in another thread. Fantastic to see this making progress!

A little bit of a pedantic nitpick - and I suspect that you're using artistic licence - with regards to this image, the typical Viera doesn't have fair hair or skin that light . There is the Feol Viera that has blonde hair and lighter skin, but they also have ears almost half the size of the standard Viera.

It's a trivial detail really, though. Just me being fastidious I guess, haha. Anyways, I am interested to see where this goes. Especially the villages. Ivalice architecture? Yum!

 

Gotta be honest, I didn't think much when I saw "Viera Race Mod", but after seeing the IG images I'm pretty damm impressed. The race looks unique, interesting, and you didn't fall into the trap of "female only" which I see too much.

 

Lol I understand the nitpick completely! When I started this I did my research to rediscover the lore of XII and the tactics games. As I said in my first post here, I made only two skin tones. The darker one which is pictured as well, and the lighter skin tone of the hybrid Viera race, the Feol. I'm gonna delve deeper into ear shapes, sizes, etc when I begin editing the interface to include the ear shapes of the tactics Viera, etc. at the moment I've tried wrapping my head around how/if the ear shape changes will affect the helmets I'm implementing for armors, or any of the hair. I figure, so long as I don't change the base of the ears much, everything will be ok. Another thing I had to tackle with was the fact that Viera are *much* taller and longer limbed than Humes, but I realized fiddling with the height would lead to my also having to find a way to increase heights of all doors to compensate, so I had to let that idea go, which I'm totally fine with. Besides, all the original races in Starbound were made the same height for a good reason.

But anyway, I'm curious to know what any other fans of this project hope to see? One thing I haven't mentioned is that I'll also implement the clothing of Fran's sisters, perhaps as starter outfits, if that piques anyone's interests. Also expect to see architecture of Ivalice, as I've even went in game on FFXII and taken hundreds of screenshots for ideas. The slightly disconcerting thing is that you can't go inside ANY Viera homes in XII, so creating furnitures will have to be completely designed, which will be fun.

 

Thanks so much! Honestly I pondered the idea of female only, but remembered that there are male Viera. The fact that only one has been present in any game gives me room for a lot of artistic freedom and fun. Expect to see the males decked out in the same high heeled footwear as the females. As any fan of this race will know, the Viera prefer this footwear due to their rabbit foot shape to provide better mobility.

 

I must have missed the Feol part in the original post. My bad.

Ooh, ear shapes would definitely be a cool thing to have. Judge armour making an appearance would be awesome. I mean, it's badass. Of course, for the sake of lore it'd be from the Judge of Wings angle, of course. As I recall the Arcadian military (and by extension the Arcadian Judges) only allow Humes. And if there is Judge armour, there has to be the wings to match!

Town wise, it'd be nice to go for a similar thing to what the Apex have going... In other words, a contrast of architecture. It would certainly keep things fresh to have more naturalistic dwellings (like Eruyt Village), and the more urban dwellings.

Hostile NPC wise (if you do go down that route too), nethicite could be one reason for hostility. I am not sure if the engine allows for conditional hostility based on race, so the reclusive tendencies of the nature-loving Viera may seem a bit off if they suddenly start attacking a fellow Viera...

... But on the other hand, perhaps the Viera in the natural structures could be motivated to attack a fellow Viera for being corrupted by the outside. Having a peaceful looking dwelling a place where hostiles lurk would certainly be an interesting design decision, haha.

 

Figured I'd post my tier two armor for the Viera female (gettiing to the male versions soon), before I went away for the upcoming holiday. This is the first one that I designed completely. Hope ya like it! I can't help being proud of it ^_^


With helmet:



Without helmet:

 

Viera...I love them!

 

Ooooh, Judge of Wings! Thanks for telling me about this. I had to wiki it, and now I *must* find a way to bring in the armor! I was already gonna create Mydia's pink attire for the game, but I had no idea of that storyline till ya mentioned it. Thanks for that.

The idea of nethicite causing a berserk status effect on Viera would be incredible. I feel like that would have to be implemented at the final stage of this mod. It's going to require a better understanding of coding than I currently have lol.

Any ideas for ore? I still need to do more research on ores from Ivalice, and only know of nethicite, and the magicite: auracite.

Your idea for having both reclusive, traditional Viera settlements and more urban settlements is great. As it is, it would fit with some story ideas that I've had for the lore of why the Viera would've headed to the stars, etc. Based on the look of Eruyt Village, the Viera settlements will share some similarities with the Floran, what with their homes being built into the trees of their sacred Wood. Finding ways to channel their spirituality and deep connection with nature into architecture and more, will be interesting, and definitely something I'm looking forward to.

 

Id like to see one ear kinda flopped over.

 

Well, off the top of my head and having a quick look at armour/weapon lists at finalfantasy.wikia

Metals (not in Starbound):
Mythril
Adamantite
Orichalcum
Bronze

Ores (not in Starbound):
Magicite
Nethicite
Crystal (non-magic)

I may have forgotten a couple though. There's also diamond and silver, but those are already in Starbound.

Yep. That's a good technical reason for a starting point too -- because there's a good amount you can recycle from the Florans, there's a nice base to build on to start with.

 

as a suggestion for racial armor ideas, take the designs from their tactics armor. the exclusive jobs of summoner, spellblade, green mage, elementalists, assassins, and sniper outfits.

i feel sniper, elementalists, and the summoner outfits are really iconic in their tactics games. or maybe sarah's outfit from ffta.

 

K! I'll keep that in mind when I sort out ear shape selection ^_^

 

Eeee. I'd love a download for this as a WiP but at the same time I kind of want to wait till YOU are ready to release it. xD As you saw in my other thread, this is right up my alley, so one way or another once you finish this mod, you'll definitely have at least one download!