New model viewer?Follow

Here you go:
http://tune.ache-bang.com/~vg/modules/gsbbs_zero/upfiles/3978_AltanaView.zip

In addition to your standard model viewer, this one allows you to view maps, spell effects, music, etc.
I don't think theres a translated version yet, so you'll have to navigate through the japanaese menu.

How do you get it to work..i just get a message that says "Playonline ??????"

Yeah this just dawned on me too. You need to add the JP registery entries to your computer for it to work. You dont need the JP version of the game, just the reg entries, which are obviously different from the NA ones.

Anyone know what they are?

I see Tiamat has updated with the registry info. I wrote this over on FFXIDats.com a little bit ago before Tiamat updated.

[edit 2]Hmm, I actually read closer what he wrote, and that seems alot easier then everything I just wrote... Well I'll just leave this up anyways if you can't figure out what Tiamat means or if you just want to make it look like you have the JP version of FFXI.

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Registry Edit
You may only want to do this if you actually know what you're doing in the registry. First, open the registry editor (start -> run -> "regedit". Open the folder HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, Inside that folder open the SOFTWARE folder. Scroll down, if you only have the US version of FFXI installed you should be able to find a folder called PlayOnlineUS.

Now comes the editing part.
1) Go back up to the SOFTWARE folder and right click on it and choose to add a new key, this should add a new folder to the list, call it PlayOnline.
2) Right-click on the PlayOnline folder you just created and choose to add a new key, call this one InstallFolder.
3) Now the right hand should be pretty blank with only a (Default) key in there. Right click in the blank space and choose to add a new String Value, name this 0001.
4) Double click on this new entry and put where you have FFXI installed such as: C:\Program Files\PlayOnline\SquareEnix\FINAL FANTASY XI inside the textbox. If you're not entirely sure of the value to enter here, go to the InstallFolder folder in the PlayOnlineUS folder and copy the contents of the 0001 entry.

When you get done it should look similar to this

http://phabin.noncouncil.com/ffxi/Misc/jpreg.jpg

That's all the info needed in the registry to get AltanaView to run.
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Oh, and there's a spell viewer in there too Spell casting pic


Also, this last bit on Tiamats post

I can try and be your english support. I'm also going to be updating the list files for the AltanaViewer with english ones, but that's going to be a bit later, for now I'm going to sleep.

[edit]Formatted the guide a little bit better

Edited, Aug 3rd 2006 at 4:09am EDT by Phabin

Edited, Aug 3rd 2006 at 4:16am EDT by Phabin

Phabian's technique worked- thanx a bunch. Great find! Just wish it was in english cuz I enjoyed listening to some bgm's that I haven't yet heard.

ok i got the program working but it's really horrible. i far prefer the old viewer. is there any way to get the newest list for the old viewer?

Edited, Aug 3rd 2006 at 2:52pm EDT by superusss

Hi! um... i was wondering if.... you can take screenshots? If yes, how? i have no idea..... i'm loving it so far. Its really awesome. Thanks, would greatly appreciate any help. ^^

Oh nice, thanks for the link and little fixes to make this work.

camera controls are left, middle, and right mouse buttons. It's confusing at first but becomes 2nd nature after a few tries.

I really like this whole layout. I am curious as to why the ToAU music isn't there? I'm assuming this program is using something similar to the winamp plugin and is rejecting the ATRAC3 music?

o.O
messing around with this now

You can use the existing program (see Phabin's site - sadly, I'm at work at don't have the link), a little program called Metasequoia (a google search should yield results), and a plugin for 3ds max 6. With a little bit of tweaking, it's possible to end up with stuff like this.

I wish you did commissions for gil :p

I'd love to have something like that done for our LS, or at least a smaller group of people in it ;;

I'm lucky enough to get the Model Viewer to get me stuff I can do Backgrounds/Sigs with...3D is another level for me.