A few weeks ago, I was digging through the depths of my photo gallery and realized there were a few builds in Final Fantasy XIV that I never shared. I can’t actually remember why I didn’t share them, but my best guess is that I put them up on Reddit and forgot to also put them up here.
This build is one of the oldest, and for a frame of reference, it’s in my medium house—so it’s definitely been a while since I did this one. But it’s still pretty, so I figured I’d share it before Dawntrail hits this week!
Creating an indoor sunset
The core of this build is the sunset, one of the neatest things I think I’ve tried building inside. A while back, I saw a tutorial on Reddit for a build that showed how to do gradient light windows indoors, and I was just waiting for an opportunity to try it out.
The theory of it is pretty cool; you use a white screen, because it’s not fully opaque like most partitions, and you tuck a treasure chest into it to create the circular glow. Then, because of the curve of the screen, you end up with the light hitting differently as it moves up, so you get the gradient effect.
That, combined with the coral colour, turned walls into a sunset inside my house!
Building a two-sided fireplace
One of the things I wanted to do with this build was experiment with the idea of a two-sided fireplace. I saw a build from Ashen Bride that used the idea way back when wood slat partitions first came out, so I wanted to have a go at my own version of it.
I ended up being a little limited in terms of the dimensions, which I figured might happen. Because the base and top are Hingan bookcases—a furnishing I picked for the subtle and consistent wood grain—the fireplace pretty much had to be on the deep side, but overall, I was happy with how it turned out.
Framing modern windows
This build was actually one of my earliest attempts at framing windows like this using the cracked windows. I won’t lie, it was a bit of a learning curve, but overall, I love how it turned out—and it ended up being a feature in a lot of my later builds, too.
The trickiest part was figuring out how to float them. Because the hitbox on cracked windows is right at the bottom of the frame, they kept snapping to the walls below them.
I ended up having to find the perfect spacing between the walls and the windows so they would stay put, but would also avoid having an obvious gap between the wall and the window. You can still see it a tiny bit in some of the pictures, but it wasn’t noticeable for the most part in the build itself!
