FFXI World Draw Library

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FFXI World Draw Library
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By Genoxd 2026-09-17 23:04:49
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I've been working on a Windower 4 library for rendering 3D in FFXI's world space and I think it's ready for release.

https://github.com/genoxd/ffxi_world_draw

My hope is that people will use this to build cool ***or improve on some of the existing cool addons out there.

Static 3D meshes, some basic shapes, images, textures, and animated textures are supported.
This supports both Lua addons and plugins but it's designed to be easy for Lua addon devs to drop in the library and start using it.

Everything is rendered respecting the games actual depth buffer as you can see in this sample demo gif with my dog Rikku in FFXI.
I have rendered millions of triangles on screen with no impact to performance in testing.



3D Animations were excluded because it's more work and I'm not sure anyone would use it.
In the future I would like to add support for attaching to character bones and nameplates.

More details in the readme. If anything is vague/unclear, if you find bugs, or if there's a feature you think would be useful here, I'd appreciate the feedback.

I have included some precompiled libraries so you can drop them in and go but the source code is all there if you want to build it yourself.

This is absolutely AI assisted but hopefully not slop!
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By Fenrir.Jinxs 2026-09-17 23:48:05
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I recently found a way to draw way points mine were just geo hud on the floor lol.
This is a such a cool idea

If only we had a safe way to make things shareable / multiplayer

We could have the worst version of dark souls messages
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By Genoxd 2026-09-17 23:59:23
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I'm hopeful no one makes the FFXIV addon that does that....but do with it what you will lol
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By Felgarr 2026-09-18 07:25:07
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Very cool idea! ...Now, let's take this a step further.

1.) Trigger an image to appear with /emote, like /sigh with an funny image.
2.) Share this addon/folder of images with your friends.
3.) Now, when you /sigh in game, they'll see the image you've provided them.

Hilarity will ensue. (Personally, I would use to tell people to get their ***together in sortie, like a banner that says "This way, fool!" etc etc.
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By Fenrir.Jinxs 2026-09-18 15:47:54
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There's so many applications for this.

Didn't even notice the perimeter before
Could make a mini game of our own within the game some how
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