I thought you might like the scythe, also, if you were REALLY grateful.... I couldz post my paypal details here
(hint, hint)
A weapon like one of Zidane's doublebladed ones, that sounds good, I could look up some reference photos and attempt some recreation of it, or maybe I could try to build up your 'experience' and 'levels' modding wise if you have msn and we can talk and i can TRY to show you a few things
To make one, you could in essence use the barog (the weapon in the screen you posted) and double the sword and recolour it too have a quick one, but that itself won't be very good quality or even close to what zidane's weapons are like more than likely.
Making someone that looks like you... Well, considering I have no idea what you look like, I can't really suggest anything to do other than either learning how to make your own models using tutorials (or exporting a FF7 model using Biturn and making adjustments to it in something like blender or 3DS Max before reimporting it) but I suggest having a clear idea of what you want for your design and have your physical build in mind for when you go about making yourself for FF7.
Such as, write down exactly what you want in FF7 for yourself, then post what would be on what, then if you have some knowledge of where you can find it, se those to know what the different parts will come from, this is roughly how I went about the new cloud design.
This part is exactly what we had in mind for the design.
1) red bandanna/shirt, blue-grey armour thas crosses over the chest, fastioned with a belt, shoulder armour pauldron thingies, grey pants, brown shoes and gloves, and the sword in hand [no scabbard]
Now, we look at the design again and decide what probably is or isn;t possible in FF7 to do as a design for 1 reason or another. From that, we say what is on each part of the body.
2) chest: red shirt + brown crossbelt
upper arm: sleeve of T-shirt + pauldrons
lower arm: bare arm
hand: brown gloves
head: custom head with bandanna (forgot to add ><)
waist: black trousers + belt
upper leg: black trousers
lower leg: black trousers
feet: brown shoes
then we have a idea of what we want, then we look for where we could get each.
3) chest: <shirt: high res sephiroth> <cross belt: dragon rider>
upper arm: <shirt sleeve: high res sephiroth> <pauldron: shinra grunt>
lower arm: <bare arm: high res sephiroth>
hand: <brown glove: default cloud hand>
head: <custom head: leon KH2, vertexed coloured>
waist: <trousers + belt: Dyne>
upper leg: <trousers: Dyne>
Lower leg: <trousers: Dyne>
Feet: <brown shoes: Dyne>
using a rough guide like that, you can have a better idea of what you can do in FF7 or how to go about it.
....It probably wasn't too helpful, lol.
Adding a colour to materia, I suppose it is possible via field editing using meteor, although we'll have to use a dummy materia file, which could only be added properly using Wall market by changing someone's default materia.
A Gothic Aeris, that is possible, you'll have to get a feel for how gothic you want aeris, then see what you could use for each part, for Vix (the blue haired aeris) she looks vaguely gothic chestwise (stolen from hades in the magic.lgp) or you could see about getting dark hair, a new hair style via vertex editing with kimera and some colour swaps, but that really isn;t helpful I suppose.
Alright, the chosen mods shall be released.
PS: I forgot the textures
In FF7, its difficult to work with textures since so few are used naturally, but you can add new ones, but then you'd have to allign them in model creation softwear, otherwise you can just change the eyes, but it has to keep within the colour limit and if you want to change colours, you have to change them with the colour table, then change it pixel by pixel for the changes to be made, and ensure you don't go over the limit for colours otherwise you'll be wasting precious time working on it when it won't be imported. (there are ways for them to look fancy and cool, but its better to learn how to do both ways)
