AsymFaces - Dawntrail Edition

SQUARE ENIX - base 3D head models & textures
Spiswel (myself) - extracting assets, 3D editing, texture editing, resources compiling, overhaul of the UVs & topology of Vanilla Bites
Kartoffels (Kart) - base face texture upscales
Ulli - original Vanilla Bites (DT) teeth models & resources

Makes player character head models & textures asymmetrical.

---- IMPORTANT, PLEASE READ (!) ----

Due to SQX's repeated major changes to player assets, this mod may or may not be up to date with vanilla models and textures standards.
This mod uses vanilla asym textures and materials for performance reasons. Older, outdated face texture upscales are available for download at this mod's original download page.
3D teeth options from the Vanilla Bites library may be restored at a later date.

CURRENT STATUS : assets up to date with Patch 7.3

Please report any bugs or visual issues on Heliosphere, XMA or via Discord !

---- ABOUT TEXTURES ----

This mod uses custom-named materials (FAC_ASYM) and human-readable texture pathing conventions for each face.
In accordance with the original vanilla assets' distribution, certain textures like masks are shared between different materials in order to lighten mod size & improve performance.
Please use PENUMBRA's race or character-specific mod collections system for further splitting how different races look.

The core pathing is as follows :
'chara/asymfaces/GENDERRACE[FACE_]TEXTYPE.tex'

Note every component is written in LOWERCASE letters
with NO special characters like hyphens - or apostrophes ‘ and NO spaces in any of them in the entire path.
---
[GENDER] = character model's gender
male / female

[RACE] = character’s race identifier, between :
- midlander
- highlander
- elezen
- miqote
- roegadyn
- lalafell
- aura
- hrothgar
- viera

[FACE] = lowercase "f" + character's facetype number identifier, between :
- 001 - 004 (first clan ie Raen, Wildwood, Seawolf etc)
- 101 - 104 (second clan ie Xaela, Duskwight, Hellsguard etc)
NOTE : Assets are reused across multiple faces, such as Roegadyn Males - and mask maps are very often shared for all faces of that race/gender.
FOR HROTHGARS OF BOTH GENDERS : player characters materials' use numbers 005-008 and 105-108 in the vanilla game files, however this framework respects the 001-004 and 101-104 convention for them still out of QOL concerns.
Most race/gender combos have 4 face choices, but Hyur Midlanders have 5 and 7 face choices.

[TEXTYPE] = type of texture, identified between :
- base
- norm
- mask

EXAMPLES :
chara/asymfaces/male_midlander_f004_norm.tex
chara/asymfaces/male_miqote_mask.tex
chara/asymfaces/female_hrothgar_f104_base.tex

STILL CANT FIGURE IT OUT ?
Open "Advanced Editing" on your mod
Go to the "Import from Screen" tab
Click "Refresh Character"
Find your "face" model in the list of assets
Unroll the list of headers for your face until you find the header for the "fac_asym" material (may be labeled as "Material #X")
Unroll it and click on the texture paths to copy them to clipboard
Go back to "File Redirections" tab and paste the paths

---- CREDITS & CONTACT ----
Spiswel (myself) - 3D editing, texture editing, modpacking, testing
Nylfae - vanilla AsymFaces texture library
Ulli - Vanilla Bites teeth devkit
Kartoffels (Kart) - pre-7.2 face texture upscales

Discord : @spiswel
Bsky : @orchestrion.etheirys.social
X/Twitter : @orchestrion_ltd (defunct)

--------- PERMISSIONS (June 2024) ---------
Public edits & derivatives - OK
Private edits & derivatives (ie "server exclusive" and other hidden or non public content) - OK
Temporary Paywalls - OK + READ BELOW
Commercial Profits, reuploads, reselling, claiming as your own - NO
Vaulted (permanently paywalled) edits & derivatives - NO
Unsure? - ASK ME

--- ABOUT TEMPORARY PAYWALLS ---
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Early Access and temporarily paid mods (such as Patreons, Ko-Fi memberships, etc) are allowed.
However, any temporarily paid works MUST be made available to the general public for free eventually.
A period of grace of up to SIX (6) MONTHS will be observed before considering works to be "permanently paywalled."
"Server-exclusive" and other private, VIP or otherwise hidden contents are not considered public and fall under Private and/or Temporary Paywalled content permissions.