Perfect Groove

Version: 1.0

  Hair by Roux


Contributor Information:

SE for assets
krenbot for the melanin edit link to the original : https://www.xivmodarchive.com/modid/134001
Various artists on bsky and twt for drawing Dancing Green with afro textured hair that inspired me to make this mod

Author's Comments:

Update 1: added "v2" files that have ~28% lower face count than the original and may be friendlier in high traffic mare situations. These are on the trello with the dls for the original hair and boss only mods. I'm keeping the original files up for those who may want to still use them or edit from them. There's little to no difference in appearance in the two and I will leave a comparison photo in the trello.

Perfect Groove is a mod to give Dancing Green afro textured curly hair in both his normal and boss forms. I wanted to make a vanilla mash up that was closer to the vanilla hair shape but afro hair textured basically since I really like that interpretation of him and I wish its what we got in the base game. This was originally a personal edit I decided to release as I thought others might enjoy it as well. Because this affects M Viera hair 14 it absolutely can be used on player characters if desired. There's a link under the files tab for just the hair if you only want that. also one for just the boss as well (see edit1 note).

noteworthy: this mod has a Lot of vertices and faces. I tried my best to minimize it as much as possible while also having it look good. I personally didn't run into any issues with this but this may be an issue in situations with a lot of mare traffic and data transferring so please keep that in mind.

edit2 : M & F elezen port by workingelezen! dl : https://heliosphere.app/mod/c7btsa4ech5js046f13b2fpzqm

This by default uses Krenbot's melanin edit on Dancing Green's boss form thank you so much to them for letting me use their work in my mod!

I also adjusted boss Dancing Green's hair/ear textures to be a slightly different shade of green ; I feel like it suits his design better and goes with his overall color scheme better.

It IS hat compatible, but there is a bit of clipping. I wish I could have done a cleaner job but xiv's vertex limit made it difficult orz.

It also has weights and poseable bones. The weights aren't perfect (I'm not the most experienced at weighting hair but I tried my best to adjust it to look nice) but they function, can be posed and can be scaled with C+ if you'd like more customization.

It also has highlights. (Not on boss Dancing Green though, just on M Viera hair 14).

More preview pics taken in neutral lighting here: https://trello.com/c/AtMldHyG/16-perfect-groove

Outside of some clipping and weights looking a bit funky in certain movements/hair poses I haven't come across any major bugs or issues but if you happen to find something please let me know!!!!


Other than that, as usual refer to my tos for use: https://trello.com/c/Y5OS28dM/6-tos-must-read

quick edit1: I was having some trouble in penumbra trying to get it to recognize only the boss in a collection so I made a separate file for the boss only as well thats also on the trello card.

Primary File or Link:

Perfect Groove.pmp : [ via Direct Download ]

Other Files and Links:



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Last Version Update :
Mon Apr 14 2025 03:53:26 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Original Release Date :
Mon Apr 14 2025 03:48:04 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Contributors :
krenbot

Affects / Replaces :
M Viera hair 14,Dancing Green (boss)

Races :
Viera
Genders :
Male

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