[lsp] reconstructed thancred waters v2 - a 7.0 resculpt and retexture

- kartoffels for upscaled human textures
- ulli for vanilla bites devkit and resource
- ky ganbureika for inspiring me with the spirit of his customizable thancred mod in 6.x
- artemis for her endless emotional support

did you know i still haven't finished dawntrail? how could i, with his face in shambles?

see more previews and access working files in the google drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1GoIuGQ2d5C8YKwPbpMewSMs3NYJHLYZY?usp=sharing

revamped reconstructed thancred: now better than ever.

feel free to use #lspmods on socials! i'd love to see what you do with him.

this mod is an attempt to take thancred's dawntrail sculpt and try to restore some of his former 6.x charm. while i have taken great care to restore many of his unique features as close as possible, this is not a 1:1 recreation of his 6.x shb/ew sculpt (for that, see the mods linked below!). the most notable differences are his eyebrows (they appear more relaxed), his philtrum, and his jaw somewhat.

from reconstructed thancred v1, i have widened his nose, modified his eye shape, tweaked his lips, and reshaped some of his jaw and neck while leaving the neck seam in tact. speaking of the neck seam, i have also adjusted his base textures to eradicate the neck seam as much as possible, his neck seam is now identical to what you would see with vanilla. apart from this, his face textures have seen another big change: i baked his 6.x diffuse normal and used parts of it to enhance his dawntrail textures. i also upscaled and tweaked his multi to reduce some of the shine above his upper lip.

as with v1, i have prioritized cross-mod compatibility with v2. you should be able to mix and match this mod's model and texture edits with other thancred fix-it mods, assuming that the other mod preserves the dawntrail uv.

current features:
- upscaled and repainted 2k face textures, including rebaked elements from 6.x textures, espeically the normal
- modified sculpt in attempt to restore spirit, shape and charm of 6.x sculpt, including moe hyur ears
- tooth options: vanilla, vanilla lite fangs, vanilla fangs, ulli's vanilla bites, ulli's mini fangs
- optional asymmetrical eye textures, using kart's upscaled vanilla textures from characters touched by hydaelyn (word of the mother, ryne, a certain endwalker character)
- optional continuity patch for heavensward and stormblood thancred to provide him with asymmetrical eye textures to match shb+
- optional customize+ profile to lower thancred's brows if you miss that cranky look - check google drive!
- working files: .psd for fac_a textures

planned features:
- after i see what they have or haven't changed for 7.1, i intend to tweak thancred's etc textures, meaning: darkened eyebrows if square doesn't deliver + dyeable lash option
- new mask option to match body texture mods with shimmer (shimmer file provided in .psd, if you wanted to go ahead and make your own)
- possible future sculpt or diffuse tweaks if the lip demons win
- more teeth options if there's interest (feel free to dm me to make a request!)
- in the event that square retcons thancred's 201 and 209 sculpts, i will restore them to their original 7.0 patch states

requests for future updates? questions? concerns? bugs? contact me:
- twitter: https://x.com/elspie_
- bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/elspie.bsky.social
- tumblr: https://elspie.tumblr.com/ask (anons allowed, no need for an account--will crosspost answers to twitter and bsky!)
- discord: elspie_

i will also make sure to check my bug reports on xma in a timely manner this time (thank you to everyone that sent one in last time!).

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want heterochromia, darker skin, or scruff like in the preview image?
- use glamourer to create a design. then apply that design to automations. be sure to make an automation each for thancred (event npc), thancred (battle), and thancred's avatar.
- be attentive to what you have enabled in these automations. under 'application rules' in a design, the safest way to ensure you aren't interfering with thancred's various glam changes is to ONLY select 'apply left eye', 'apply facial feature 1' (for scruff), and 'apply skin color'. that way, his glams should change through shb and endwalker without an issue, and he should appear roughed up where applicable.
- guide for navigating glamourer basics (and other aspects of modding): https://reniguide.carrd.co/#glamourer

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technical info:
- this mod is fully compatible with eye mods like elegy's bright eyes.
- thancred's left eye is assigned to a new material called iri_b. if you choose to make his eye textures symmetrical, iri_b uses iri_a's textures. if you choose to make them asymmetrical, then iri_b will have a unique base only, and will still share iri_a's normal and mask textures.
- optional hsw/stb sculpt works exactly as above. whatever eye texture options you choose for shb+ will apply, as long as you have the patch toggled on. the continuity patch ONLY includes a model edit to assign the new eye material, and only the new eye material: thus, it should be compatible with texture edits.
- thancred's normal and multi are shared by male midlander face 1. as such, i highly recommend giving thancred his own collection in penumbra. otherwise, male midlander face 1 is going to be affected by this mod.
- i considered making his normal and mask unique, but then that would break cross-mod compatibility.
- in the google drive, i have provided a .psd file for thancred's fac_a textures for further personalization and editing.
- this resculpt is built off of the vanilla dawntrail 219 sculpt, so it has the new uv and all those new bones and tongue.
- legacy .pmp included in the google drive if you prefer anything from v1

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not quite what you were looking for? worry not, my fellow members of thancred nation likely have you covered. check out these other fix-it mods from other distressed thancred enjoyers:

- ittybitty8bit's old new thancred: https://xivmodarchive.com/modid/115202
- lizar's rescrunkled 7.0 thancred: https://xivmodarchive.com/modid/109654
- izzy's thancred workshop: https://xivmodarchive.com/modid/109670
- izzy's thancred rewritten: https://xivmodarchive.com/modid/117008
- winter the weirdo's old thancred face port (w ears): https://xivmodarchive.com/modid/112559
- shiroesuna's still waters - a 7.0 thancred edit: https://xivmodarchive.com/modid/109686
- mothman's thancred 7.0 resculpt: https://xivmodarchive.com/modid/110054

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tos:
- don't repost
- do not use as a base in mods behind any kind of paywall, even temporary
- credit me if you use this as a base for another public mod. feel free to let me know and send me a link, i'd love to know what people do with him!
- if you're paying someone as a comm to work on this, fix it, or otherwise use it as a base... that's your prerogative but i'm more than happy to work on new features or fix bugs for free
- do not use in harmful or bigoted content, including nsfw poses or mods with minors (even aged up) or minor-coded characters, including lalafell

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wcif / mods used in preview:
- elegy's bright eyes
- kart's upscaled human textures (hair, face, eyes variants)
- kart's character de-blur
- kart's upscaled equipment textures
- personal, private edit to silentbunny's tbse retexture
- personal, private colorset edit to thancred's jacket