So after a lot of research and trying to filter out everyone just repeating the same "check your ini file" I discovered a dead project started by Savok that was semi-resurrected by Rainbowdash on the P99 forums:
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Velious Texture Replacement
A recreation of Savok's work here (http://www.project1999.org/forums/sh...1&postcount=34). Since his links seem to be dead and I had someone ask about this I recreated it and reposted it.
All credit for this goes to Savok, NOT ME.
There are two possible downloads. Velious 1 or Velious 2. Velious 1 has leather, chain, and plate (1, 2, and 3 respectively) set to the new Velious leather, chain, and plate textures (17, 18 and 19 respectively). Velious 2 has leather, chain and plate (1, 2, and 3 respectively) set to the Velious cloth, ringmail, and scale textures (20, 21 and 22 respectively). Both have the old monk textures (Texture 4. Human/Iksar only) set to the Velious Monk armor (Texture 23). This does not and will never change helmet graphics.
You may only choose one of the sets of 3 at a time. Choose wisely and swap back and forth as you see fit.
For reference:
http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/6439/darkelfxd.jpg
Can download Velious 1 pack here (http://www.mediafire.com/?xet00zfk3baeoxu).
Can download Velious 2 pack here (http://www.mediafire.com/?g2bd9p6hmoo1ebf).
Simply extract from the .rar and move the two files over to your Everquest directory. No eqclient.ini changes are needed.
You must make backups of global_chr.s3d and global4_chr.s3d before doing this. I will NOT be providing backups of the base files (for obvious reasons). That means if you fail to make a backup of the original files and decide later you want to revert back, you'll have to completely reinstall Everquest. You've been warned.
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This totally works. I installed each set of files and cycled through #texture on a few different races and it works exactly as advertised. There are a couple major drawbacks. Being that each download includes global_chr and global4_chr, you only get to choose one set at a time. This also changes ALL similar armor types (leather, chain or plate) to look like the corresponding velious armor texture regardless of their origin for as long as the files remain. Simply put, this is a bandaid for an issue that seems to have no easy solution but it's a pretty damn good start.