Creating the XIV nude male mod, Schlongs of XIV
Some time ago, which seems quite a long time for most people in the Textools, and even perhaps to the Neko Sentai community there was no male mod for men in Final Fantasy XIV— and for women, the main mod was Naughty Weaver.
With that background in early 2018 the Textools Discord was overly filled with many, new exciting mods that were made for female bodies, and a few shy ones for male characters— when 3D Importing and Exporting support had improved at the time, it opened the possibility to import custom models, and one of them was PrettyKitty's DILDOZER mod, a simple weapon mod that replaced some weapons with a pink-colored sexual toy.
Creating the male mod was done in a background of uncertainty; people had well-received the alpha versions of a quite-requested female body with male genitalia, and there was a basic mod that turned one of the swimsuits into strap-on. However, mod support for male bodies was generally lacking, just a smaller piece of the modding scene at the time.
Of course, the model that I used at the time from the DILDOZER (later had to clear up things with Pretty Kitty, and also that contributed to the creation of a standard where permissions are involved in the XIV modding community) wasn't the most detailed, or high res one, as it was mostly an experiment in itself.
"Creating the male mod was done in a background of uncertainty; people had well-received the alpha versions of a quite-requested female body with male genitalia, and there was a basic mod that turned one of the swimsuits into strap-on."
When that happened, and I shared that I was working on the male body mod, Casaria approached me, offering to do model; at the time Casaria was unfamiliar (like most people) with implementing custom models into XIV with 3DS Max, so they created the model, and what I did was rig it into 3DS Max— attach it to the male bodies, and at the time there was also an existing Ken Body mod, by BeeWise that had proven, and established a few things as a requirement.
Making the male body mod was actually the first time I had tackled a more complete modding project; the mod had to work, and had to also be presentable, as Casaria had thrown hours into creating the perfect model at the time, clear credits were given where due.
Today, male mods in XIV have expanded greatly, there's a dedicated Discord that solely focuses on male mods, their development and sharing while also a lot of mods also exist in the Textools Discord. Later on improvements on the work that was done on Schlongs came out, such as Dong City, the texture mods like Adonis, and even recently the hairy textures, Roegadyn bodies and textures and the package that is NBP by Tzarev.
All in all, I am happy to see that my fears at the time while working on Schlongs were proven wrong; there was interest in creating, and supporting male mods, but it just had to be started. Schlongs still exists as a modder's resource so people can use the meshes and improve them on their own. I’m also happy that the community supported me at the time, from Casaria who provided the models, to the people who answered all my questions.
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