This can happen, and I'm sorry about it and will do my best to fix any issue reported.

I'm always very grateful for reports, so please de not hesitate reporting an issue through one of these options:

• Contact form
• XIV Mods & Resources discord

Thank you to people reporting, it means a lot!

Unless the mod has an issue that needs fixing for everyone, I won't be editing any of my product or fit it to anyone's taste. You are free to edit the mod yourself to your liking though.

As for commissions, consider them closed in general. If they are open, I will be notifying it on one of my platforms and will use my carrd to take form applications for commissions. You can check my carrd here:

• Carrd link

Some races are being way less popular than others, and I tend to sometimes skip them as I rarely have requests or even see people using them.

I am doing my best to offer here and there items will all races but this will not be the case for all releases. If receive enough requests for an item to get ported to a given race I will eventually port it though!

Miqo'te vanilla ears are separated in two parts: the skin (ear flap) and the fur. To use modded / custom ears, you will need to hide both of those parts.

Ear flap:

To hide the skin (ear flap), you will need to edit the face model in which the ear flaps are included.

If you use vanilla face models, you can use one of these options to get rid of the ear flap:

• Female Miqo'te ear flap hider
• Male Miqo'te ear flap hider
• Female & male Miqo'te ear flap hider
• Female Miqo'te AsymFaces ear flap hider

If you use a custom sculpt, you will need to check your sculpt's details about the ear flaps: for my sculpts, the ear flaps are a toggle-able option on the face toggle G. (customisable through the Aesthetician)

Ear fur:

To hide the ear fur, you will need to edit the hair model you want to use.

If you want to use vanilla hairs, you can use one of these options to get rid of the ear fur:

• Female Miqo'te ear hair hider
• Male Miqo'te ear hair hider

Although these options will only get rid of the ear fur and will not patch the holes in vanilla hairs.

For custom hairs, most of them will offer "earless" option that will get rid of the ear fur, if you are using custom hair models please check the description to know more about the available options.

The current engine of XIV has issues rendered transparency (layered or not) and has very limited depth slicing. Any shader based on depth or AO will display issues especially with transparency.

In addition to that, transparency even with backfaces is not correctly rendered, triggering Ambient Occlusion (AO) issues and misreading of the layering. (bottom layers appearing as top layers, etc)

This will result in visual issues such as misplaced shadows / AO, blurring of front elements instead of back elements among other issues.

There is currently no fix for that for hair (for gear, there is a trick with opaque backfaces but this will result in not rendering the back behind the front items ie no transparency, just a visual trick) so you will need to make the choice between visual glitches or disabling depth-based & AO shaders such as aDOF, MXAO and etc.

Know that iMMERSE shaders and RTGI will help with rendering AO and light with less visual artefacts.

Races without a tail in the vanilla game will need a custom skeleton & animation swaps or custom animations to have an animated tail and posing options.

Illusio Vitae Custom Skeleton (IVCS) will be your only option available for now.

• IVCS Skeleton
• IVCS documentation

• Female body base (Bibo+)
• Male body base (TBSE)

• IVCS for Lithe+
• IVCS for Bibo+
• IVCS for TBSE

You installation priority order should be:

1. Body base (TBSE or Bibo+)
2. [IVCS] Illusio Vitae Custom Skeleton Base
3. [IVCS] Unique Racial Bodies Base
4. IVCS for your body base (TBSE, Bibo+ or any other variant)

Priority numbers can be whatever you want them to be, I recommend using negative values for bases.

Ex: for Penumbra users

• (-10) Bibo+
• (-8) [IVCS] Illusio Vitae Custom Skeleton Base
• (-6) [IVCS] Unique Racial Bodies Base
• (-4) IVCS for your body base

So you will not encounter conflict with makeup, texture, clothing mod as long as they are 0 or above.

In addition to your custom skeleton, you will need animations that are including tail bones. Vanilla animations outside Miqo'te, AuRa and Hrothgar do not include a tail bone, making your tail static and default posed.

I recommend using Saenomae's custom animations:

• Female Midlander custom tail animation pack
• Female Highlander custom tail animation pack
• Female Elezen custom tail animation pack

(Not needed but neat)

• Female Miqo'te custom idle tail animation pack
• Female Miqo'te custom grounsitting tail animation pack
• Female Miqo'te chairsitting tail animation pack

• Lalafell custom tail animation pack

• Female Roegadyn custom tail animation pack

(Not needed but neat)

• Female AuRa custom tail animation pack

• Female Viera custom ears & tail animation pack

(Not needed but neat)

• Male Miqo'te idle tail animation pack
• Male Miqo'te groundsitting custom tail animation
• Male Miqo'te chairsitting custom tail animation

• Male Viera custom ears & tail animation pack

For races/genders not having a custom animation pack available, you can use the vanilla animation swap & swap your animations for either Miqo'te or AuRa:

• Vanilla animation swap for all races all genders: "Everyone's emote"s

Recommended swaps (models sharing the same body armature):

• M Hyur midlander → M Miqo'te or M AuRa
• M Hyur highlander → M Miqo'te or M AuRa
• M Viera → M Miqo'te or M AuRa
• M Roegadyn → Hrothgar

• F Hyur midlander → F Miqo'te or F AuRa
• F Hyur highlander → F Miqo'te or AuRa
• F Roegadyn → F Miqo'te or F AuRa
• F Viera → F Miqo'te or F AuRa

SWAPPING WITHOUT ANIMATION RESCALING WILL NOT WORK FOR ELEZEN as their skeleton is not the same as Hyur midlander.