#housing guide

[leonaquitaine]

How-To: Soft Studio Gradient Backgrounds

Want a super cheap way to spice up that studio shot? Indirect Lighting has a great visual effect that you can use, and you can block its light source with other furnitures to give you more lighting control!

Check the guide here!

[dividusyliaster]

How to display weapons in your house using Mannequins

- A FFXIV Housing Guide -

Recently, @ourashenbride​ and I have messed around with a few designs and we discovered a neat trick that was present since the release of Mannequins: The ability to display holstered weapons. With this guide, you can see ideas to built an armory or weapon rack/display.

I used 2 mannequins and guns the picture above to demonstrate the usage. This will work with any short/small shield or gun, and also other weapons to a certain thickness. You can move the Mannequin inside a wall, where only the shield/weapon part is visible. But some great sword, axes and spears work too. The pose of the Mannequin might influence the way the weapon is tilted, but as of right now the difference is very insignificant. I’d suggest you use the arms crossed pose.

Don't forget the most important part: Hiding the tail. This is the only part of the Mannequins that will stick out below the weapon or even clips with it. In this example below, I have books hiding the tail and it looks like the shield rests on them. You can also use shelves on a certain non-grit height to make it look like the shields stand on it. Some surfaces align nicely to the height, like in this example:

 Normally, you will always have the same height for weapons. Of course, the weapon size will differ and you will have to adjust to that. But you could also choose to float the Mannequin with some storage tricks, with permanent surfaces around the house, like the wooden parts of the static walls.I personally like to use the books in the picture below to hide the tail. In a cluttered/messy environment you could easily hide some bigger weapons behind those stacks of books.

Once we have different races available to use for Mannequins, the tail problem will be gone, and we can have more flexible design choices. Shame that they are not tabletop items like the ishgard stand -- that way we would have amazing weapon and armor displays! Please share your own designs, I can’t wait to see them! I only saw a few of those since the release of that feature!

[nozomikei]

No longer works T_T The Loft (and so much more) Glitch

Hello! Nozomi Kei here with my first guide. This one will be covering the new popular glitch that we often see used to create a ‘loft’ of sorts with the troupe stage, but that’s really just the beginning! I know there has been at least one written guide around here by @diskwrite-ffxiv , and I don’t mean to step on any toes, I just have some other tidbits to include. Plus I want to push myself to be more helpful to the community and my friend is encouraging me to go ahead and post it since I already wrote it. I’m gonna try to keep this straightforward so if you have any questions go ahead and toss them at me publicly or in private. ^_^

What does this glitch work with?:

• Anything that doesn’t fall in the rug category of the housing storage *

Where does this glitch work?:

• On the ledges above windows, on the wall ledges, above the door, and certain parts of Oasis house pillars for sure

Tl;dr: Click parallel wall item, drag it where you want your glitch item, hit the subcommand menu key twice

Placements:

• Just above or below

• Straight doesn’t matter (usually)

• Tiny in and out variations exist

Basics

• Set a key of your choice to 'Display Subcommands’ in your keybinds under the 'System’ tab if you haven’t yet

• Know what number your glitch item is in the 'All’ list and have at least that many items in your wall-mounted list (wanna place item #6 from 'all’? Have six items in the 'wall’ tab. #3? Have at least 3)

• Left click on the item on the 'wall’ list that matches the number of your glitch item in 'all’

• Left click on the item now halfway buried in your floor

• Move it over to where you want to place your glitch item (either just barely in the orange or purple at a ledge)

• Hit your new subcommand menu key

• Hit it again to select “Place”

• Tada! Your glitch item is now placed. It can be rotated at will.

Some extra notes!

• It’s okay to leave your

on; it doesn’t mess anything up when you move your cursor to hit okay mid-glitching.

• You need the first box,

, checked.

• You can actually place items slightly further forward and back if you are careful. When the placement arrows go horizontal on the ledge pay attention and choose what you want for some interesting item layering options.

Some things that made use of this delicate layering:

Fake bay windows night scene

Space-saving scenery window

• Initial orientation when taking something from storage almost never matters since you can just rotate afterwards. (But if you’re trying to do some finicky layering from the point above it can help to drop something from storage perfectly parallel to the wall and have your camera looking down from above when you hit 'place’) Be crooked as you like pretty much always though.

• You can give your lofts custom wallpaper! Just glitch a blank partition up and add wallpaper to it.

• Go wild with trying items out! You can come up with all sorts of crazy cool stuff. Make gangplanks, custom shelves, fancy fountains, miniature doors, raised hallways, upstairs baths.

• I can’t afford a 250k stage so I used Royal Plotting Tables at 12k each from the mb. They’re huge and cheap and fancy.

• Use this glitch to fake putting things on a ground level troupe stage! Place your cupboards and bookshelves on the wall ledge so they appear to be sitting on top of it! The room shown is my fc mate Vic Viper’s. Thank you Vic!

•  This stuff only works with the existing architectural features that are not changeable/movable (so no tricking it with partition wall ledges).

• Right before maintenance I discovered another spot in Oasis residences; the corner pillars midway up have a couple slants you can rest items on!  Try the glitch with all the flat and skyfacing slanted surfaces/railings/etc in your rooms and houses and see if you can find more!

* Why does this not work with rugs? Because of the automatic list sorting in the storage, rug category items will always be below any wall items one would use to do the glitch. If anyone figures out a way around this please share! I want a rug loft. TwT

I am planning to make a clear guide video soon too for those who learn better that way.

Please continue to support all the content creators in our community with your likes and reblogs! The writers, artists, guide makers, event organizers, and musicians all make incredible things and we are lucky they share their works with us, often for free!

If you find my guide hard to follow try checking out @diskwrite-ffxiv ’s guide here or @aliceffxivhouses guide here

[leonaquitaine]

How To: Create Sitting Spots on Furniture

Wouldn’t it be amazing if you could make your character sit on that desk? Well, turns out you can - let’s learn how to use surface clipping to create custom /sit and /doze spots!

You can read more at Sights of Eorzea!

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[eorzeanliving]

Decorating Tip

While waiting for folks to have a chance to submit their rooms and homes, I thought I’d share share a trick that some might not be aware of. This guide will allow you to place a <tabletop> item on surfaces that are not considered <tables>. (Alternately, if you’re into making things float, you can do that too.)

To do this trick you will need the <tabletop> item you wish to place. Plus something that is considered a <table>. (Which does include the riviera shelf. So you might need a spare wall partition as well.)

The rest behind the cut for length and being image heavy.

Now. My goal is to put a decoration atop my mantle. So I’ve got my decoration placed at the very edge of a riviera shelf.

While the apkallu is still on the shelf, I’ll need to position it both height and horizontal wise. As I won’t be able to adjust the decoration later unless I use the shelf. Like so:

Next look at your decoration toolbar. You’ll see two small buttons to the side. You’ll want to turn the top one off:

Now while still in movement mode I act like I am moving the apkallu. However I do not place it. Right-click or cancel the movement and let it snap back into place. This will break the connection between the <tabletop> item and the <table>.

I can tell it worked properly because when I go to move the shelf, the <tabletop> item will no longer highlight with my <table> item:

Which allows me to move and place the <table> item away.

And now I have my decoration placed! Feel free to toggle surface placement on again. 

A couple notes: (1) the <tabletop> item is technically floating and is fixed in place. I will be able to rotate the apkallu, for example, but I will not be able to move it beyond that. So I’ll either have to move the item it is ‘on’. Or put it back on the a <table> item and do the trick over again. (2) If I was trying to place multiple items on the mantle, I would have to do each item individually. It won’t work with more than one at a time.

I love using a partition/shelf the most. As it is the most flexible height-wise for taller stuff. HOWEVER. You can only use it to place something above this height:

So to place things, say, on the edge of a bathtub, on a bed, or hiding a chocobo plush in your planter. You will need to experiment with different tables to find one of a similar height:

I hope some of you will find this guide useful. Happy decorating!

[usaish]

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