Prince Royal Trion I d'Oraguille (Single era FFXI LH)

Well, even though Sween32, Embryodead and CivArmy all made excellent Elf LH's, my biggest beef with using them in the FF mod was that their ears weren't pointy enough. Therefore, after about a years worth of using Sween's Elf as a placeholder, I've finally gotten around to making my own Trion I LH.

Prince Royal Trion I is the oldest of King Destin's sons, and is in line to ascend to the crown of San d'Oria. In a recent poll of FFXI online players, Trion I is the most popular NPC in all of San d'Oria, so he is well-loved by his subjects.

UPDATE: I have created an entirely new version with better hair props, sking textures and morphing. The new one looks more real and less like a plastic toy, IMO. Click on the pic to download:



Anyways, here's the files: Note: these files were so big I had to use RAR compression, but in order to upload them I had to re-name them as zip files. Just change the extension to RAR and use an RAR extractor to unzip them.

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads9/Trion1.zip
http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads9/Trion2.zip

Preview:


San d'Oria vital stats:

Civilization: San d'Oria
Noun: San d'Orians
Adjective: San d'Orian

Leader title & Name: Prince Royal Trion I

Traits: Religious & Militaristic (Seafaring)

Techs: Ceremonial Burial & Warrior Code (Alphabet)

Preferred govt: Feudalism (note: in the FF mod I fixed Feudalism so that city improvements don't require upkeep, like the civilopedia entry says)
Shunned govt: Fascism (or corporate republic in the FF mod)

Culture Group: Euro (using my Fantasy European cities, that is)

Military great Leaders:

Grandraem (he gets this because he helped me with some of the info about the leaders of the various FFXI factions and because his FFXI charachter is in the San d'Orian army)
Piueje I d'Oraguille
Balasiel
Vilatroire
Norejaie
Rosel
Aaveleon

Scientific Great Leaders:

Destin d'Oraguille
Andelain
Miageau
Eperdur

Cities:

San d'Oria
Ronfaure
Boustaunieux
La Theine
Fort Ghelsba
Selbinia
Ghelsba Outpost
Hortais
Castle Zvahl
Ranguemont Pass
Beaucedine
Fei'Yin
Junger Forest
Ordelle
Oubliette
Yughott Grotto
Xarcabard
Vahzl
Davoi
Monastic Cavern

Unique Units:

San d'Orian Guard (E.D's Wood elf spearman)
Royal Lancer (E.D's Mozarab Infantry)
Temple Knight (Kinboat's High Elf spearman/pikeman)

Well, hope you guys find some use for it. I'm also considering doing a Gil-Galad version for the LOTM, but with different ear morphs and hair texturing.

I like your leaderheads because of the anime feel to them- no other leaderhead creators have been able to do it, and you have mastered it.

Great job!

Thanks, I'm glad somebody likes this guy. The main reason I've got the anime feel down so well is because I mostly use DAZ3D's Aiko3 Anime Doll figure for most of my LH's, and the ones that don't use her as the base (well, I also have Male morphs for A3 so that I can get more mileage from that figure), I usually can manipulate the facial features and textures to look more animeish. I also have a lot of experience with drawing anime type charachters, and it is a defining part of my art style.

@Hikaro - Nice job as always, and if you don't already have them, DAZ had made Michael3 & Victoria3 available for FREE!!

I got V3 as well as the V3 Male pack (many of the V3 Fantasy outfits have matching male morphs, and make great wizard robes/Paladin surcoats), but I'm currently building up V3's wardrobe as of right now. hopefully I'll soon be able to start making V3 based stuff, but it'll take a bit, due to the unfortunate fact that most of the free clothes for V3 tend to be a bit on the slutty side. Plus, DAZ came out with a new male anime figure, Hiro, who happens to use the same skeleton as Aiko (since I have a male morph set for Aiko that pretty well matches Hiro, I can now build up a decent set of male clothes for Aiko, now).

Kerbumpity... I've uploaded a re-done version in the first post... I hope you like it better than the old one....

Looks cool, Hikaro!

Overall he looks much better, but those eyes make me wanna take him down to the basement and beat the living daylights out of him with the blund part of the axe. The old one looks more FF.

Stormrage said:

Overall he looks much better, but those eyes make me wanna take him down to the basement and beat the living daylights out of him with the blund part of the axe. The old one looks more FF.

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Well, since that's the normal reaction most orc(k)s have towards elves, I'd say I did a good job, then

IMO, the new version looks more like FF XI than, say, FF I, plus, since I used a more realistic approach, other fantasy mods could use him as well.

Much improved from the old version. As with your other updates, looks great.

Glad you like how I portrayed one of your national leaders (assuming you still play FF XI that is), Grandraem. I've got one more LH I'm re-doing for now, then it's on to my big, collossal, stupid... er... stupendous unit project.

Yep. Still play. Well, on and off. Definitely not as much as I used to.
I'm glad you're going to get on with other aspects of the mod after re-doing just one more LH. We both need to get our mods done. They're looooong overdue.

Oh, I've still got several LHs that need to be re-done for whatever reason... Namely:

Rufus: Lighting and possibly the hair, if I can find some better hair for him, but the flickering shadows must go

Prince Thief Clan Khee'Bler: Ditto on the bad lighting, plus he needs better skin textures and a bit more realistic morphs to fit in properly with the rest of the set

Queen Hilda of Fynn: Some lighting problems as well as some appearant mesh proplems with her blouse (which is still usable for units, since the glitches don't show up at unit-scale)... I've already fixed the problems (including found a more queenly dress for her), and just need to render her out, which I'll do when I return to LH making....

Rikku: Lighting again.... Also, Frenchman did this LH (the only LH request that I've made that ANYONE has taken) long before I could even THINK about making LHs, and this is done in his signature Leaderbody format, so it doesn't fit in too well with the other LHs.... In addtion, I did not know about the Google image search feature, so the Background needs to be changed too.... The problem is that I'm going to have a hell of a time finding the proper hair for her....

King Cecil of Baron: Currently using Rob's Theodoric LH, which bears only a superficial resemblance to Cecil... WIll re-do once I get a wavy medium-length hair prop... In addition, Cecil's hair was more of an iridescant platinum blonde than regular blonde....

Regent Cid of Lindblum: Currently using Embryodead's Karl Franz LH, which, again only superficially resembles Cid... If I could only find a good goatee prop with a scaleable handlebar moustache (so I can get Cid's ridiculously long moustache done right), I'll re-do him.

The Leader of Lesalia: Currently, I have the hightly controversial Ramuza as leader, but as has been repeatedly pointed out to me, the princess (Ophellia, IIRC) or Delita Hyrule should be the leader.... Since approximately 2/3 of the faction leaders are male, I'll make the Princess leader to help further my gender-equality agenda for the FF mod.... Just need to google up some pics of her and I'll be good to go.

Okay, technically, the last few on the list really fall under this category:

LHs to make:

Emperor Gramis Solidor of Archades... I'm hoping Rob will do him, but wei'll see...

Emperor Paramekia of the Paramekian Empire: He'll be the first LH I do on my next LH run.

Of course, if the FF mod got the kind of unit and/or LH support that certain other mods around here get (i.e. WH, LoTM, etc), it would have been done long ago.... Alas, I have to go it alone, for the most part.