Remaking FFXI In Unreal Engine

Howdy do FFXI fans.

I've seen videos of people remaking certain aspects of FFXI in Unreal Engine and I've recently been enjoying remaking certain scenes from FFXI in that engine. I have some pictures on my Artstation page as examples.

https://www.artstation.com/corfios
Same pics with a few additional on X under the11project.

So, I wanted to see if there are any Unreal Developers, Artists, Environment Artists, Animators, Composers, etc. that might want to join a passion project. Not for money, but for glory.

The vision I have, is remaking FFXI in Unreal. It'll be a lot of work and time but I figured with a team, 5 - 7 zones, the core elements of the game along with AI behavior, combat, magic and so on, could be put together within 2 - 3 years. Once the core of the game is built, development of more zones and storylines would move more quickly.

Anyway, I wanted to gauge interest. Anyone up for anything like this? Any nay-sayers? Any interest in seeing something like this come to life?

Wanted to bump this as well as I forgot a key component for this project.
The Eleven Project will be a VR experience.
Feel free to give feedback. I've also received several DM's on this, but still no interested dev help, reach out! Even if you just have a few hours a month, it'll go a long way.

I'm starting this project in earnest in June as I'm finishing a game jam project right now, but after prompting from a handful of people through DM's I'm tossing my patreon here for this project.

https://www.patreon.com/corfiosplays?utm_source=search

https://www.youtube.com/@TheElevenProject

My short feedback is that, as amazing as this sounds, it seems like projects like this always get shut down eventually with the big mean nasty lawyers doing their thing - even if its a not-for-profit experience. I recall to mind a full 3d rendered USS Enterprise D project that got shut down years ago. And its usually after years of work has already started. So I guess my feedback would be, have a plan now for when the lawyers come barking even if its years from now. Lawyers will always show up. (And quite frankly with stuff like this they always win. And only a few ever enjoy the fruit of such labor)

I agree with you, despite the best of intentions I know Intellectual property and copyright laws are not on the side of a project like this.

Ultimately the project will be positioned as being a Portfolio project, which it is.

Very basic example of some vr stuff in ffxi on this project.

Working on West Ronfaure for the project, just sharing an update.

https://corfios.artstation.com/projects/JrQQYd

Looks so good!

Really great work. Very talented and seriously incredible.

I'd love to contribute the 3D models I've created for the 3D printed stuff. I can modify them to have no internal features and just be 1 solid body. Let's connect sometime to discuss if you can use these assets or not.
Link to everything I've created if you've never seen them before

That'd be awesome Drayco! Unreal engine has an option on importing meshes to combine multiple mesh materials, so it's possible they might not need to be one solid body (Unreal can be finnicky,) but one solid Mesh would be best. I'll send you a PM with the Discord server I set up a few days ago to keep track of stuff and let's connect!

FFXIV is introducing ffxi zones and monsters slowly, they will remaster 11 one day.

A group is already working on this in private, no idea who they are or how to reach out. You should probably work with them though

I don't want to rain on peoples parade, but for anyone unfamiliar with using Unreal Engine devkit none of these projects are recreating the game.

They haven't done it yet, but that is what they seem to be aiming for. And yes, I am familiar with unreal engine development.

If they remade the game, not only would it take years, given how many areas and events there are, but SE would send a cease and desist the second it gets anywhere close to playable. And rightly so, as they don't want the actual FFXI replaced with an upgrade they didn't do.

I would love to port over South Sandy to Killing Floor 2


It would make a great sharp shooter map.

Thanks for the recommendation Genoxd! I got in touch with Kwech to collaborate on this project, hopefully we can start sharing resources and work together on this.

VR has always given me headaches, and it seems most companies are abandoning it. I regret getting a PSVR2 at this point... It would still be cool to see XI in that fashion though.