What is Anamnesis?

Anamnesis is a standalone tool that is used to modify certain clientside-only values and allow the user a greater degree of flexibility for making creative and interesting screenshots. It confers no advantage to players who utilise it, and the developers have gone to great lengths to make sure that no part of the tool's functionality can be abused to affect anything outside the scope of the project.

In short, this tool allows its users to temporarily change their race, gender, appearance, equipment, etc. in game without actually making any changes visible to other players. It also provides the user with access to a greater selection of emotes in game that would normally be available, as well as the ability pose as monsters, NPCs, and more. The most widely used module, Posing Matrix, allows the user to tweak existing emotes or create your own poses. As such, this tool can be looked at as a valuable resource for both the beginner and advanced screenshot lovers.

A Brief History of the Tool

This tool and its base code were originally created by LeonBlade. In the early ages of its lifetime Johto took over, maintaining and updating the SSTools project. Krisan Thyme and Seria Myouna would join the project after beginning work on a new branch- CMTools- which has since been merged into the main SSTools repository. The two were eventually combined to become the base of Concept Matrix 2. After creating a customised version of Posing Matrix which came to be known as SimplePose, Yuuki would eventually begin a rewrite of Concept Matrix 2 to incorporate cleaner code from the perspective of an industry professional. With Johto's departure of the main project, Concept Matrix 2 entered its final stage of development, to be succeeded by Anamnesis (under the project name 'Concept Matrix 3'), and LeonBlade took over the Concept Matrix 2 project as a whole again. The Anamnesis project is currently being run by Yuuki, with contributions and project management from Ani-ki, and assistance from Damp Hands.

As with any standalone tool, Anamnesis should not be used in conjunction with anything that would violate the Final Fantasy XIV ToS, and failure to abide by any restrictions, limitations or rules laid out by any relevant bodies is not the responsibility of the developers of Anamnesis. Any damages that result from misuse of either the tool in its entirety or any of its component functions or code snippets are additionally not the responsibility of the developers of the tool.