AltanaView 2020 Update

https://github.com/mynameisgonz/AltanaView

Please enjoy! Still a work in progress in cleaning it up and I do intend to rewrite this entire program one day. Just thought I'd get something out for now.

A+, the addition of UI element previews alone is going to make my life a lot easier.

Big thanks for the release.

Yass! Sean Connery wants you to know that you're the man now, dog!!!

Are you taking corrections on here? If so, you have Sacro Bulwark shield named Mundus Shield in the PC section.

Yes, noted.

Huge hands very creepy

It's a true pity that Phoenix doesn't have any battle animations.

Are you the original creator of Altanaview?

I hope they make her an avatar, I would like that

At the very bottom of NPC > Objects > ???. The ??? is the Mammeet Wyrmking Binding magic from CoP 2-5. Calling it Wyrmking Binding would be simple enough.

Crappy quality video, but @2:14 it is used.

First, thank you so much for doing this!

Second, looks like you're excluding player's Chocobos.

Since they are "Customizable" you're best off listing them under PCs.

Actions
196/50 mot_

Armor
0/0 None
188/69 Chocobo Armor

Head
169/16-17 Head (Yellow)
169/25-26 Head (Black)
169/34-35 Head (Blue)
170/45-46 Head (Red)
170/53-54 Head (Green)
4/5/12-13 Head (Yellow)
4/5/22-23 Head (Black)
4/5/31-32 Head (Blue)
4/5/40-41 Head (Red)
4/5/49-50 Head (Green)


Body
169/12-13 Body (Yellow)
169/21-22 Body (Black)
169/30-31 Body (Blue)
170/41-42 Body (Red)
170/49-50 Body (Green)
4/5/8-9 Body (Yellow)
4/5/18-19 Body (Black)
4/5/27-28 Body (Blue)
4/5/36-37 Body (Red)
4/5/45-46 Body (Green)

Legs
169/18-19 Tail (Yellow)
169/27-28 Tail (Black)
169/36-37 Tail (Blue)
170/47-48 Tail (Red)
170/55-56 Tail (Green)
4/5/14-15 Tail (Yellow)
4/5/24-25 Tail (Black)
4/5/33-34 Tail (Blue)
4/5/42-43 Tail (Red)
4/5/51-52 Tail (Green)

Feet
169/14-15 Feet (Yellow)
169/23-24 Feet (Black)
169/32-33 Feet (Blue)
170/43-44 Feet (Red)
170/51-52 Feet (Green)
4/5/10-11 Feet (Yellow)
4/5/20-21 Feet (Black)
4/5/29-30 Feet (Blue)
4/5/38-39 Feet (Red)
4/5/47-48 Feet (Green)

update has readded chocobos to PC as well as the dat name fixes requested here and other sites. feel free to redownload.

Any chance of adding furniture?

I can give you some datr location information on this if you need it.

Hi, I'd like to thank you for posting this, I had thought Altana Viewer had been dead and forgotten. I'd like to help with sorting some ancient issues Altana Viewer has been plagued with, so I'll go ahead and list the ones I can remember here and hope they can finally get fixed.

Music: Treasures of Aht Urhgan, Wings of the Goddess, Abyssea and Seekers of Adoulin all do not play any of their tracks when selected. This has been an issue for as long as I can remember and haven't heard of anybody really explaining why this is the case. Also, Rhapsodies of Vanadiel should have a few new music tracks to add in for its own mini folder.

Headgear: I've noticed that a few select headgear displays the gear but removes the face. Gavialis Helm, Rabbit Cap, Eschite Helm, Agent Hood, Terminal Helm, Odyssean Helm, Herculean Helm, Rarab Cap, White Rarab Cap. It's not really even a big problem and might not even be correctable but I thought I'd just toss it in there.

HQ .DATs: When doing some .DAT swapping, sometimes depending on the .DAT file you swap in, the textures for the new higher quality .DAT are an absolute mess inside Altana Viewer, but look the way the creator intended while viewed in-game. This can lead to a lot of problems and might be one of the main reasons that has contributed to FFXI's modding scene fading out of existence. Most modders I've seen no longer even play the game, and they never actually had a way to see their own mods being used within FFXI to check for blemishes or broken stuff, so they entirely relied on others downloading them and testing them out before knowing if they worked or if something was bugged out. Being able to fix the problems with HQ mods being stretched and distorted all to hell in Altana Viewer would definitely be nice not only for the person modding their game, but for the mod creators themselves. I'll attempt to attach an example of this below to display what I'm talking about for reference. Not sure if it'll work though, as I'm not used to forum posting.



If the image worked, then the textures on the left are what's seen within Altana Viewer. The textures on the right are what's intended to be seen in-game.

One final thing I'd like to add is something I've been desperately wanting for years to be possible. I'd like it if there was a tab that let you pick from a list of effects that display on the player model such as Afterglow colors, Weapon glows like Naegling's or Karambits or the small sparkles you see on some of the old VWNM body pieces like Heka's Kalasiris. Being able to pick from a list of those special effects would be a really nice new addition to this program if it's at all even possible.

That's all I can remember at the moment, but if there's anything else, I'll be sure to bring it up. Thanks again for reviving this program, it really has been extremely useful since its creation.

The way the music was encoded changed long ago so I doubt that will ever be fixed. The only action you can really take here is manually re-encode them by hand using the old method and even then, that wouldn't be perfect due to how the music loops. It is possible, but would take effort that nobody has put forth yet and then you would have to upload it somewhere for others to download (and it wouldn't be a tiny folder as that is a lot of music).

If you are bringing in new dats from outside of the game (HQ dats) then that's on you for using assets that the vanilla game doesn't support. Don't expect anyone to change a free tool's code to work for your random outside files you bring in.

Also, I like your ginger mithra face model. Pity they never added any new faces for this game because some of them are basic and boring AF.

90% of every mithra player you see:

If they added some new faces and offered a paid face swap option, they would make a lot of money.

Honestly, I would love to change sizes as well. I was so basic at character creation and made a "Medium". There is no fun in Medium. Smol or larg onry!

Paid face, height, and race changes would make bank!

...but they're too busy making the 15th lockstyle dagger. >.<

Found a few things.

Some faces are listed as ??? and I'd like to give them proper names as to what they actually are.

Hume Male Face 1/239/38.DAT is the head model of Aquila from WotG.
Hume Female Face 1/239/33.DAT is the head model of Portia (Warden) from WotG.
Elvaan Male Face 1/239/34.DAT is the head model of Ragelise (Warden) from WotG.
Elvaan Male Face 1/239/44.DAT is the head model of Haudrale from WotG.
Tarutaru Male Face 1/225/4.DAT is the head model of Karaha-Baruha.
Mithra Face 1/223/49.DAT is the head model of Nanaa Mihgo.
Galka Face 1/255/0.DAT is the head model of Larzos from WotG.


Now a small thing I noticed, Volto Oscuro's Mask 1/328/88.DAT (Hume Male .DAT as reference) is called Cumulus Mask in-game.

Also, there's full sets of "Purple" gear for Male Hume, Male Elvaan and Galka such as Purple Chapeau 1/239/45.DAT. This was because they were all used by the Sprite Wardens in WotG. Since they've all been updated now into Malignance that all races have, I just thought I'd bring these pieces up since they're now outdated.

Edit: There's a shield missing from the list called Coalition Shield. It has its own unique textures, and uses the same model as Camaraderie Shield. I have no idea what .DAT it would be though, just thought I'd mention it since I never even knew about its existence until I saw someone lockstyle it a few weeks ago and was like what in the hell shield is that?

Mithras always gives me the creeps, too ugly and creepy looking eyes/ears, imagine seeing this demon face in person

That's like, just your opinion man.

u wot m8?

It's a shame the developers can't allow players to use the other head models in some way, can mod them in but others can't see the changes then still.

Would there be a way to add the PlayOnline music folder into the compiled list of music we can check out? I know it was made in the old audio format pre-WotG so it should be able to be listened to via Altanaview w/o just being blank.

That would just be the bee's knees.

Even in the new list Corsairs dat double up is shown as 164/61.dat which is just dancers roll again.

Does anyone know what specific dat handles corsairs bust?

Every roll seems to use the specific listed dats as shown in the viewers and double up just uses the same dat, however bust is a different dat file for some reason (even though they have bust textures in the files) Whenever you get a bust it is loading some other dat file and I can't find it so far.

*Nevermind, it seems they updated the corsair files fairly recently and I had the older ones.

Bumping because someone PM'd me about it; as if I have anything to do with it. I just make the memes. Curses this helpful nature of mine.

Note: Nothing from today's update or anything. I just got messaged about it so I figured I'd bump it for the person it was easy(ier) to find.

Bumping because someone asked about a model in the random question thread on this forum when it is clearly labeled in the "current" (since May) version of AltanaView.

Odd. The person asking has actually posted in this thread and the thing they asked about is labeled in this version. Oh well. Bumping for anyone that might enjoy this.

So the Sacred and Profane Alicorn are not in this? Maybe they are and I'm not seeing it. Sometimes called Ixion or Light Ixion and Dark Ixion. Also Alicorn sometimes.

Sorry for the necrobump getting you excited for an update. I'd love it if someone got excited and updated this. I would totally sponsor the effort if your character was on Asura and someone updated this to the current in-game equipment.