Face Defined

Face Defined

Face Defined replaces the vanilla face textures for FFXIV for every race and gender and includes Defined Eye textures. Face Defined is designed to be a “Must Have” for any FFXIV fan willing to dive into some basic modding.

Face Defined changes the base vanilla face & Eye textures in the game which repeat constantly especially in high population areas like Limsa Lominsa’s main square. Performance degradation is not expected.

Before an update to FFXIV, Make sure you backup your mods and use the “help” > “Start Over” button to clean your index for the next update.

It’s a good idea to do this anytime there’s an update or even server maintenance. Failing to do so could corrupt your index files and in worse cases force a re-download of the game to fix.

[DX11 Crashing]
Disable all mods.
“help” > “Start Over”
Double check that the game works on vanilla. Indexs might have been corrupted.

[if corrupted indexs]= Find the latest clean indexs from TexTools Discord or redownload your game entirely. (Always make manual backups don’t always let TexTools do it for you.)

[If game works]= Proceed to install Face Defined as instructed.
After done check “Help” > “Look for problems”
If all good, You can continue to install any mods you had Or just play the game.

If errors persist= ???? I have no clue it might be an error with TexTools or the download might have gotten corrupted.

Download the main file.
Download TexTools and make sure to go through the process of setting that up and making backups of your index files. (Automatically done by TexTools)
Inside TexTools click the “Mods” button in the top left and then “Import modpack” Find the .ttmp2 and open it.
You’ll be given an import screen to confirm the files to import. Go through
the options like you want and read carefully. This should be pretty
easy. Once done It’ll start importing the files you selected.
Congrats! The mod/s are installed. Feel free to fire up the game and have fun~

Open Textools
Click “Mods” In the top left.
Click “Mod List” in the following menu.
Click on “ModPacks” to open the folder view of all the ModPacks you’ve installed. Click on “Face Defined”
In the bottom right you can Disable or Enable and also Delete. Disable the modPack then Delete it, To fully uninstall.

Will I be banned for this?
No. Client-Side modifications are not detectable by SQUARE-ENIX at the time of creating and publishing this mod.

What is the difference between the defined series and the new “Works” mods I see popping up? Why should I use one over the other? Can I use both?

Face define accurately corrects each asset to retain the original look that Square Enix originally intended for them. While “Works” sends them through an AI program. While this to a degree upscales the assets it causes a color shift and loss of detail in areas as seen here
AI processes are known to cause artifacting or other issues when correcting textures. They are trained to fix pictures and images, not game textures. If you prefer the look of them though then that is fine. Face Defined however does not rely on that and does not suffer from those deficiencies.
You can use either Face Defined or Works. They are incompatible. Installing one will completely replace the other.
For best results however it is recommended to use ALL of the defined mods in conjunction with each other for the best looking game.

Why should I use this instead of 2K Facelift?
Outdated, Mod support has been dropped since late 2018
Broken MipMaps can cause crashing
Simple PS image resize, Does not actually enhance the textures.
Missing textures for Hrothgar and Viera
Hasn’t been properly updated since late 2018
Does not upgrade the Eye textures

I think I found a broken texture, How can I help in that report?
If possible take a screenshot and make a report on this page with a link to it. I can determine which face it is from there.
My game crashes on startup.