[cinnabunffxiv]

Cinnabun's Mods

Hello! I'm Cinnabun (they/them), a FFXIV modder in their 20's. All of my mods will always be free. If you do want to support me monetarily, I have a mirror of all my mods on Ko-fi.

You can find me at: XMA: [link] Heliosphere: [link] Ko-fi: [link] Bluesky: [link] If you use my mods, I wanna see! I check #cinnabunmods both on here and bsky.

If you have questions, comments, or concerns about any of the mods I make, feel free to send me an ask! (Please be respectful.)

Terms of Use: • Do not use my mods for NSFW LaIafell/underage content. • Do not use my mods for racist, homophobic, transphobic, slave, or rape, bigoted, and otherwise harmful content. • Do not paywall / vault / re-upload my mods. • Do not use my mods in or to train generative AI content of any form. Additionally, do not "upscale" textures in my mods with genAI. • Do not port my mods to the following bodies: O​top​op, Che​rie, Mel​usine, and derivatives. E​ve and derivatives. A​B bo​dy and derivatives. TB​SE Ori​on, Ann​abelle, and derivatives. N​eolit​he and derivatives. • Please credit me if you use my mods.

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Modding Tips: brought to you by a lazy modder

Under the cut since this is going to be a longer post - also, I'll be trying to update this with tips as I remember them!

Paths:

If you don't like typing out paths or manually making folders for your mods, you can copy all but the file name (ie: chara/common/texture/eye/), click create directory (I usually go to the Texture editing tab since that's fastest for me), and paste the path in, like this:

Also, if you want to temporarily remove a path from your mod - but NOT delete it, you can put any character at the end of it to make it an invalid path. I personally use underscores but anything works! ie: chara/common/texture/eye/eyebase_01.tex+

Textures:

If you're using a solid color for a texture in your material file, you can use placeholder dummy files to make the mod much smaller! If you've looked at the files of my mods, you'll notice I don't pack the files either - which is a generally better practice (especially since Penumbra updated to restrict modifying certain common files). Here's a non-comprehensive list of some dummy textures you can use, as well as some possible use cases. Remember to not actually save the texture to your modpack! Just referencing it in the material is fine.

chara/common/texture/black.tex - Index texture, if you want your entire mod to be set to colorset row 1B. chara/common/texture/red.tex - Index texture, if you want your entire mod to be set to colorset row 16B. Also maybe mask for shiny/metalness. chara/common/texture/blue.tex - Not sure? If you have ideas, let me know. chara/common/texture/green.tex - Index texture, if you want your entire mod to be set to colorset row 1A. chara/common/texture/white.tex - Diffuse/base, mask. chara/common/texture/transparent.tex - Note: also black, so if your material uses color stored in transparency, keep that in mind. chara/common/texture/null_normal.tex - For normals, or maybe base/diffuse if you want a nice blue color. chara/common/texture/skin_mask.tex - Skin mask dummy.

Also, here's a skin base dummy texture I use for some mods that reference the skin shader, but don't necessarily need to use skin textures (ie: nails, horns, etc). I like calling this chara/common/texture/skin_base.tex to follow vanilla pathing. This may need adjusting for Viera and Au Ra (Raen).

alt text for the image above since it's too small for me to click on the alt text button: a square of a salmon color.

Models:

Custom attributes very useful! They are very very versatile! I like using them for hair and faces especially, to toggle pieces on/off. To use custom attributes, you can assign them in the Penumbra model editor, or in TexTools under the model editor.

One example of custom attribute usage is the ability to turn facial features off/on without tying them to vanilla toggles, allowing more versatility. I use custom attributes on my WoL's sculpt to turn horns off/on, as well as Archon marks, facial hair, etc.

Also, neck connectors seem to be a sort of permanent solution to adding features onto your WoL without having to always wear an accessory. The downside is, not every race and model combo have working neck connectors (as of 7.4) - off the top of my head: both models of Midlanders, both models of Lalafells, masc model Roegadyn. Additionally, it seems you can use the Midlander neck connectors in addition to your race's neck connectors (as far as I can tell anyways - it worked on my masc Viera actor?)

My shagcoat cat whiskers mod uses neck connectors to add permanent whiskers to WoLs, and I have a couple of neck connector mods that add claws, horns, and even tails!

The downside to neck connectors is the pathing is very.. specific, and if done incorrectly, can crash your game. Treat your paths like a body material (ie, like TBSE or Bibo+), and it usually works.

[oneiroy]

make your au ra fatter NOW ‼

double chin faces for all f au ra faces, vanilla + for spiswel's horns roulette

[blackfandom]

Racism in fandom spaces is actually insanely bad and if you ever try to downplay or avoid conversations about it because "fandom is supposed to be fun" then I'm not sorry to say this: You're adding on to the problem.

[blackfandom]

If POC speaking up about a fandom's racism issue offends you more than the racism itself, you need to think about that. You need to think about how POC fighting racism offends you more than the racism.

[cinnabunffxiv]

Clown Story-teller & Story-spinner - Fixes Orientalism by replacing it with Clown attire. - Also makes white people really mad on XMA apparently. 🤡 ✦ https://heliosphere.app/mod/0dhhf0148s4q9d9yvq9p5j3xew ✦ https://www.xivmodarchive.com/modid/157252 ✦ https://ko-fi.com/s/e8ec23b0bb

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v2 has an alternate item swap as an option! I was considering covering other pieces of gear, but mods apparently already exist for that.

[cinnabunffxiv]

Never believe anyone when they say you can't edit normal or mask textures in anything but Photoshop. You can actually do so in any art program that has layers and layer modes (add and subtract). The steps will differ slightly for other art programs, but the gist remains.

Step 1. Duplicate the original texture three times, and make a solid black layer underneath all three. Step 2. Create layers of solid pure red, green, and blue over each one. Set the colors to multiply / darken.

Step 3. Merge the colors into each layer, and set each layer to add, OR, put each layer in a group and set each group to add. This makes it so you can paint over the texture non-destructively.

I also use an auto-action for this for CSP: https://assets.clip-studio.com/en-us/detail?id=1486733

You can also use this to create a chromatic abberattion effect on images by shifting the color layers around! I've used this method in CSP, Krita, and FireAlpaca without much trouble. This works for any textures where properties are stored per color.

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Prop Cube replaces Plush Cushion (sorry the thumbnail sucks I'm tired) Toggles for each wall. Solid colors: white, gray, black, red, green, blue. Premade patterns: Custom & in-game walls, texture size options (see description for list). Material slots for each wall. Optical Illusion options. ✦ https://heliosphere.app/mod/3d113h3tz97nnanhtddmkdn024 ✦ https://www.xivmodarchive.com/modid/157305 ✦ https://ko-fi.com/s/85ce97a04b

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Brightlily & Champa Crown Toggles available for the flowers or leaves. Or both if you want to wear nothing? ✦ https://heliosphere.app/mod/nwrxym2q297jqb0g1cade8pyr4 ✦ www.xivmodarchive.com/modid/144899 ✦ ko-fi.com/s/765cc4f499

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Dyeable Edenmorn Accessories v2.0 Optional new textures & materials. ✦ https://heliosphere.app/mod/ba8qy7ttg12p5feq0wx7ejkpz0 ✦ www.xivmodarchive.com/modid/115905 ✦ ko-fi.com/s/412949beb0

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House Fortemps Kite Shield Handpainted textures! No Reshade, no AI. ✦ https://heliosphere.app/mod/hcc8xjefbs5jv1hqf7q3bb97a8 ✦ www.xivmodarchive.com/modid/153513 ✦ ko-fi.com/s/1f9421aba2

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[CHF] Holographic Oil Spill Requires my Character Hair Framework mod to function. ✦ https://heliosphere.app/mod/03sdc9dqfh0v1cyrvjvp5k0v14 ✦ www.xivmodarchive.com/modid/154166 ✦ ko-fi.com/s/624c05173a

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[CHF] Character Hair Framework Materials Use gear shaders on your hair! ✦ https://www.xivmodarchive.com/modid/154133 ✦ https://heliosphere.app/mod/p7fygvt96d5ff2q7q11ryj2sdc ✦ https://ko-fi.com/s/ceb8938026

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Shagcoat Cat Whiskers on Neck Connectors* & Accessory for All - Neck connectors only work on the following combinations: fem Miqo'te, Viera, Elezen, Au Ra, Roegadyn, Hrothgar, and masc Miqo'te, Viera, Elezen, Au Ra, Hrothgar. ✦ https://www.xivmodarchive.com/modid/154302 ✦ https://heliosphere.app/mod/t6mfg1cr1d5jdd8y3abr3km8b4 ✦ https://ko-fi.com/s/d2e9e8d715

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Starlight Gulp Variety Pack 4 base drink textures, 2 new cup colors as well as the original cup textures, and optional furniture replacements. ✦ https://www.xivmodarchive.com/modid/152840 ✦ https://heliosphere.app/mod/xgsv8r2w6h3vz21zs2mpxpsdmw ✦ https://ko-fi.com/s/0eedc646f7

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Electrope Tablet Screen Textures Arcadion Streams M1 - M8 Compatible with all Custom Screen options. ✦ https://heliosphere.app/mod/dr3nw6yw9n1978yvjcberjg4xc ✦ https://www.xivmodarchive.com/modid/156526 ✦ https://ko-fi.com/s/5aa48b1ce7

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Electrope Tablet for SMN & SCH Dye options: - Tablet: Single & Double (Glamourer only) - Optional Glowing Screen - Optional custom screen with presets - Logo: First or second, with pre-made options ✦ https://heliosphere.app/mod/6j24afwc5532d8xv6b5mt8gfxc ✦ https://www.xivmodarchive.com/modid/156519 ✦ https://ko-fi.com/s/c9af8f7f38

[cinnabunffxiv]

Clown Story-teller & Story-spinner - Fixes Orientalism by replacing it with Clown attire. - Also makes white people really mad on XMA apparently. 🤡 ✦ https://heliosphere.app/mod/0dhhf0148s4q9d9yvq9p5j3xew ✦ https://www.xivmodarchive.com/modid/157252 ✦ https://ko-fi.com/s/e8ec23b0bb