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"You are the love that came without warning. You had my heart before I could say no."

A little respite from all the stress and anxiety with Ren and Kiipaa. He's her rock in all the mess she's found herself dealing with.

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HOW are you dealing with the new expression bones

for me and the type of gposing i do, less is more when it comes to expressions. still, i've tried to set myself up for success when adjusting them, so i'll share what i've got here.

quick preface: i use ktisis to pose. i've seen the layout for anam, but haven't used it, and i find brio's posing a bit too finicky for my liking. i use it for supplemental features, but not posing.

blue tips will be pretty accessible, and red tips are for those who don't mind fucking around and finding out, or putting in a bit more effort.

Filter the Visible Bones in Your List

No brainer, right? Looking at the left is a nightmare.

Do yourself a favor and only activate the group you’re working with, like the mouth group on the right.

Make an Expression Pack (or several!)

When it comes to expressions, the best advice I can give is: go through the vanilla expression emotes with your character and save them as .pose files. It’s a little time-consuming, but it WILL be worth it if you’re making enhanced poses often enough. And you don’t have to stop there–if there’s a full-on emote with an expression you adore, pause it during the expression and save it the same way. You can load that face onto other poses.

A note on pre-made expressions with the new face bones: Expressions will not carry across races, nor will they carry well across faces of the same race. This is particularly noticeable for the mouth. For that reason, you may want to label your expression folders like this:

Gender > Race > Face –or– Female > Viera > Face 4

Eye Movement with Sibling Linking

This has always been the go-to, but I think it’s good to share. There’s a button that lets you move one bone while also affecting its sibling bone (for example, you can move the left eye, and the right eye will move too).

“Link Rotation” will move the bones in the same direction. You will use this the most. “Mirror Rotation” will move them in opposite directions, but the amount of movement will be the same.

I use this for eyes and eyelids to ensure I’m getting even movements and looks across the board (like below), but it works for ears, limbs, hair, you name it! If there’s a left and a right version of the bone, they can be moved in tandem.

Mouth Movement with Position

With the new mouth bones, I’ve found position to be far more helpful than rotation. Switch your transform mode to position, zoom way in, and lift those lip corners, or shift them in or out.

Here's the expression we just made from a blank face!

Adjust Some Settings

Consider adjusting your settings so that the bones and their connecting lines fade or disappear while you’re mid-movement, so you can see things more clearly. Some folks don't want to dabble in settings at all, which is fine!! But if you have the time and inclination, try it out!

Try Bone Offsetting

This is a lifesaver. You can adjust the position of each dot, for a more clear view of them. This takes some time and patience, but I found it to be worth it because I'm always on that damn gpose.

ESPECIALLY useful for the eyes, where the bones’ default state is stacked on top of each other. I’ve also adjusted the abdomen/waist/lumbar area and viera ear bones to my taste.

Bone Offsets only affect the specific race and gender you adjust them on. Here you can see the pile of dots on the unadjusted fem miqo's eyes, and then the fem viera's bone dots spread out to more legible placements.

Hopefully this was somewhat helpful! Feel free to shoot questions my way anytime! 💗

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❝Look at her. I would die for her. I would KILL for her. Either way, what bliss!❞

Couldn't resist doing some posing of Ren and Kiipaa just being cute together.

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Thinking of updating my icon but picking a Kiipaa face is like choosing my favorite child. Look at her.

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❝ Occupation: aspiring beam of light. ❞

Kiipaa Gotou, White Mage.

She's so damn pretty; I love looking at her face.

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Ren and Kiipaa, for the first time in a long time. I love them dearly. He's so huge compared to her, but I always did like height difference ships.

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Sisiya ("Sisi") Siya, who's going to be a Ninja. Absolute little terror who Can't Help Doing Sneaky Things.

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You see this cute girl vibing at the festival, WYD?

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I didn't expect Penumbra to be so much harder to use than TexTools but it's fine I got it working.

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Mod I desperately wanted for Ren finally updated. There's a reason this boy doesn't use his given and family name.

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a light that never goes out.

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Playing around with a potential BLM for when I finish WHM with Kiipaa. (Her name is Avaluna; she's in baby level hell for now.)

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Eventually I'll take very nice screens and talk about them with some lore stuff involved, but for now I just enjoy looking at her face while I play through the story.

(Need to get over my anxiety over being a Baby Healer and finally do the Crystal Tower raids...)

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here is my hand, he said. here is my hand that will not harm you.

Doesn't matter where I put them, these two have a vice grip on me in every universe.

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Saving the world and trying to look cute while doing it.

Can't wait until I can get higher level glams but tbh she still looks really good so no complaints.

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I genuinely think as she gets to know Haurchefant, Kiipaa's reaction is very much "Well you're very nice and you've been very helpful and I do appreciate your FRIENDSHIP and-"

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So since I'm finally actually having a good time and enjoying the game and making my way through the whole story, meet my lil main, my White Mage Kiipaa Gotou. Usually accompanied by her best friend (who is massively enamored with her) Ren Hasegawa, she's not particularly keen on hurting anyone, but will do what she must to protect those around her.