[FF7PC] Chibi Reconstruction Project (2009-08-13)

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Hmm, hey, what about a redesign for Dio? i don;'t really like his...

...peado-ness. :P

(who has a children's theme park and run around and randomly hassle people who visit, IN HIS UNDERWEAR?)

I was thinking something like what odin is wearing, or failing that, just a t-shirt and jeans or something. (darker jeans, either sandles or no shoes with a black sleeveless shirt to show his 'muscles')

as for the psp, i'm just going to give up for now, and i don;t really wanna 'chance' myself by trying to make a pandora battery and would probably just buy one with one of those 'magic' memory cards or whatever they're called..
 
Hmm, hey, what about a redesign for Dio? i don;'t really like his...

...peado-ness. :P

(who has a children's theme park and run around and randomly hassle people who visit, IN HIS UNDERWEAR?)
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Pfft, that's part of his "character"  :-D

as for the psp, i'm just going to give up for now, and i don;t really wanna 'chance' myself by trying to make a pandora battery and would probably just buy one with one of those 'magic' memory cards or whatever they're called..
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You can buy them for not entirely unreasonable prices. I got mine from here (judging from your spelling and the times at which you're online I'm assuming that you're also British)
 
okay, how many votes are we going to get for...

armoured Dio (odin-esc armour, still has his 'thong')
'normal' Dio (jeans, shirt)
peado dio (juuust his thong)

vote now! whoever gets the most votes (at 6pm GMT) will be continued. :P

edit: oh my! this was the 88888th post on the entire forum! YAY
 
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....okay, fine, i'll do peado dio. i can see where this voting is going XD

but for ME, i'm doing armoured dio.  8-)

edit: does anyone recognize this badass mama's boy?  :P

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who was he again?  :wink:

I really like it!
just the eye thing again... i might end up using this mod over my own
:P

XD


and the mouth thing.. like everyone else.. i dislike
 :wink:
 
his eye seemed to corrupt or something.

buuut :P

whenever i put them ingame, i put everything bar the head, the head's rsd and the textures ingame, therefore keeping the original head and texture quality for the final version. (I use clean, unedited char.lgps when i test them)

ergo, for the final ones, there'll be no texture problems as i don't even mess with the heads and make everything else 'fit' around the head. =3

okay, this is a list of everyone i actually need to do before i can release it after testing it.

(also included is a list of everyone i DID do. :P)

done:
(good)
cloud (aaaa) (afie) (ekbf) (eihd) (bhff) (htje) (bhff) (enab) (buge) (dlfb)
Tifa (aagb) (aggb) (buac) (axja) (eqib) (bidb)
Vincent (aehd) (bijd, i think, the turk outfit)
Aeris (auff) (diff) (cqga) (azbb) (cahc)
cid (abda) (aihb) (gzad)
Yuffie (abjb) (feea) (ahdf)
Zack (ibad) (ejdc) (ibgd)
wedge (bxbe)
Jesse (axdc)
Biggs (can't remember offhand)

(bad)
heidigger (algd)
Hojo (anbd) (ekjb)
Palmer (eegc)
president shinra (awhf)
grunt (bwab) (dxbd) (eseb)
Reno (aodd) (mmmo)
rude (anic)
tseng (dbec)
reeve (bpjd)
elena (evfe)
Sephiroth (bkhd)
shinra employees (awcb) (dzgf) (cdja) (fbba)


still to do:
(good)
Barret (acgd) (fqcb) (aiba) (ayfb)
red 13 (adda) (fjcf)
Cait Sith (aebc) (fbge)

optional
Zangan (bnaf)


(bad)
Sephiroth (eoea) (bbab) (bgjc)
 
okay, the only people actually left for me to do is barret and red 13.

...i guess when i said i was putting them off, i MEANT it XD

(and i did do Scarlet, i was checking the files and realized i missed her, so i did her! yay!)

Although i didn't even touch the heads and used a completely fresh char.lgp to insert the  improved models to <didn't insert the 'new' heads or textures) Barret, Vincent, Cid and Yuffie don't have their textures loading for some reason.

i even tried extracting the fresh char.lgp and open it in kimera, and in that, no faces loaded. (even though before I had vincent, cid and yuffie with favcial textures when i was upping their models)

but here's a few screenshots i made when i was testing the mod. <terrible saves i had, i didn't even have one before the meeting that shows 90% of the shinra staff XD>

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They look really good in-game. Hopefully you will be able to fix the white textures.

Unfortunatelly, I don't have any knowledge of modeling so I can't help  :|
 
I was worried that they might look a little skinny, but these actually look brilliant and they fit into the game really well. Kudos to you.  :-P
 
I am having the same problem..
The face textures in about 9 of my models
just seemed to disappear..
oddly enough.
 
....okay, fine, i'll do peado dio. i can see where this voting is going XD

but for ME, i'm doing armoured dio.  8-)

edit: does anyone recognize this badass mama's boy?  :P

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CAN YOU PLEASE,PLEASE!!!Make another mouth for the chibis?they look morons
 
I personally CAN'T... STAND.... those open mouth textures.

And *I* am slightly tweaking the designs of the chibi models to better 'suit' my interests.

(example, see Cid? his jacket goes down to his waist and not to the top of his leg)

As for the open mouth txtures, i'm going to change them to either a slight smile or maybe a sort of smug grin.

and i feel i have to quote someone. :P


'I was worried that they might look a little skinny, but these actually look brilliant and they fit into the game really well. Kudos to you.'

I tested them ingame with 'big' limbs and they just looked like gorilla people that escaped from the zoo, however, with 'skinny' limbs, they actually fit well into the game, see? i knew what i was doing? :P

as for a release, i could upload a 'sample' with just the main people done while i try to sort out the textures and fix the open mouth people.

(and also while i try to get Reno to use matra magic, i got everything else to work, but the animation done is still electro mag rod.)
 
I declare this a bump!

But a useful bump. :P

Okay, all of the 'important' people now have better chibi style models. <including people like Dyne, Dio and some others that weren't shown on the list before>

However, I'm just doing some last minute changes to them <such as better mouths, which is a slight pain as i have to first copy a 'good' mouth to a different folder, then open every single hrc I edited and when i find one with a 'bad' mouth, i have to find the filename, copy and paste the good mouth back into the char.lgp with the texture's name, then rinse and repeat until its done, it isn;t hard, its just annoying and time consuming.> and also trying to fix the texture problems that i personally don't even know why is showing up as those files are completely 'fresh' <including the hrc> and still, some models just dont have a facial texture ingame.

Tomorrow for sure there's going to be a initial release of this so i can have the community test it if they so wish to, and if there's any bugs, i'll try to fix them, and if worse comes to worse and i can't get those textures working, meh, i'll just let someone else handle it, after all, for this i did put in most of the work. :P

also i renamed it to the Chibi reconstruction Project, the mod for the gamer that wants the classic feel of Final fantasy 7, but with better graphics true to the style of the original. :P

...yes i am bored. then again, if i wasn't, i wouldn't have done this blasted project. :P

(i am not doing all the NPCs, so don't even ask.)
 
Hey, that's great to hear.  :-)

BTW,

(i am not doing all the NPCs, so don't even ask.)
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If this takes off, perhaps some other people might want to get involved. Would you be open to other people working on the project? (I'm not offering to do any modeling myself, it's just a hypothetical question? :-P). With several people on the team, getting all of the NPCs done might be feasible (and a lot of the NPC models are reused throughout the game).
 
If it takes off, then there's going to be a lot more modding resources available, after all, I know I personally borrowed models from the NPC RP to splice together something thats meant to look like me or someone off a anime or something, so i think someone might be able to use this, not only to play the game, but also as a mean to further enhance their own gameplay of FF7.

and... if i had a team of some kind, this would be a lot more bearable considering for the past few days, I personally was messing around with meteor, enemy AI, making new materia, increasing the stats and elemental side of enemies, making models for my own mod <Tifa the soldier is one of them> new animations to go with my mod, as well as the chibi reconstruction mod, so if anything else, a team of some sort would be some reason to keep going as on the whole, if i get bored with a mod, I tend to just stop doing it and watch Tv and forget it even existed basically.

in fact, i have some time right now that i'm using to get a head start on redoing the mouths and try somewhat vainly to get the faces appearing on some models, if i do all the heads <and redo the barret models as i was looking at it and for some reason they weren't how i had them before, so i had to remake them.> to have better textures, i might release it tonight as i need to stay up until midnight to take my medicine for my abscess.
 
Sounds good.
 :-D.

My mod fell into a burning heap of ashes....
so, in turn, i will be using your mod!
:D

I do like the chibi affect, as it feels right in FF7, you know?
hahah. Besides...
chibis with hands...
just it looks good.
 :wink:

(still is a tad upset about my mod failing.. -.-)
 
yes, but your mod I myself could have 'done' instead somewhat quicker than this mod if i wanted to <as i had to do it before i recoloured them to suit the natural colours of the chibi models> so in a sense, your mod was pretty much a copy of mine with some changes that were done at the point i went in a different direction;

shared path: get the 'fancy' models over the original field ones.

my path - recolour them to the original models.

your path - restructure the limbs and textures so they're chibi.

although both do have their place and shouldn't be discouraged or put down as it takes time, energy effort and some skill to pull off something that looks good and fitting within the games.

(pats Makubex's shoulder) you'll be alright, from what i saw the problem was, it was somewhat easily fixable and i encountered similar problems myself when i was doing mods like the guard scorpion 13, for the broken limb <once you identified it> redo it with kimera 0.81 as that i find is the most stable one. (aka, causes the least corrupt .p files.>

and i do so like the smell of chibi models in the morning, err, night. :P
 
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