Kuroda Masahiro's mini mods (Requests closed) Latest: Rock Harmony hair and eyes

[xenokain]

I got the files. I'll be testing them shortly. Thanks for all the hard work you put in.

 

[Kuroda Masahiro]

I spent most of the day doing chores, but not too long ago, I was helping Chasedark with his MP Cloud's animations.

Anyway, I'm feeling somewhat less depressed, so I'm working right now on the somewhat project (not going to be a major one, but maybe just a normal project? It'll have new dialogue, MAYBE a new event, as well as some cameos and secret bosses here and there.)

I do believe you'll be content with the changes. O0

 

[xenokain]

Got it working looks amazing. I can see the other characters you put in there too. Also saw the changed leg/arm on 2 guys xD Cant believe how crisp the models look. Overall everything is working and im having tons of fun playing this mod. Just the little eye problem i mention at the bottom.

I'm mirin those aesthetics. Those bulging thighs,mountain calves and moon sized triceps. Even the robot is making a sharp right to run for his life.

Only problem I noticed is when I walk around on the field zyzz has white eyes and mouth. Not sure if its my computer/steam but aeris and tifa's eyes looks fine.

Its only zyzz and the whole avalanche crew that show the white eyes and mouth.

 

[Kuroda Masahiro]

I edited those models with Kimera 0.97a, maybe there's a bug in the coding that renders the field eyes to not load? I edited the rest of the field models (such as Malvado Aeris, LP Tifa, etc) with Kimera 0.95, and I myself didn't get a chance to test it ingame yet, mainly because I was trying to see what I could 'cut' for the mini mod version. =P

Also, would you mind if I changed the magic system a bit and tried to do a mini enforced class system?

Ie, Zyzz is Earth (Because he can probably lift and throw a mountain at someone)
Barret is Thunder
Tifa is Ice
Aeris is Holy
Nanaki - Fire
Yuffie - Water
Cait Sith - Non-Elemental
Vincent - Darkness or 'Space'
Cid - Wind

If I do it this way, everyone will have 8 materia slots on their weapons and armour and I'll set them up with somewhat classes with appropriate materia, support materia, commands, buffs and summons.

But I'll look into why Zyzz and co have white textures, might just be something as small as saving with kimera 0.95...

But from what I have planned, I'm going to leave Shinra as is, but I'll change the Turks up into a new mini organization of sorts, which will make battles more interesting, mwa ha ha haaa!

 

[narcku]

Whoa, nice
It's been a while since I last saw chibi models, they look good!
Are you still accepting request?

And uh, a bit off topic here but I remember there was a hand patch or something a long time ago(it changed the chibi's blocky hands with normal ones).
Anyone knows if it's still available?

 

[Kaldarasha]

I edited those models with Kimera 0.97a, maybe there's a bug in the coding that renders the field eyes to not load? I edited the rest of the field models (such as Malvado Aeris, LP Tifa, etc) with Kimera 0.95, and I myself didn't get a chance to test it ingame yet, mainly because I was trying to see what I could 'cut' for the mini mod version. =P

Also, would you mind if I changed the magic system a bit and tried to do a mini enforced class system?

Ie, Zyzz is Earth (Because he can probably lift and throw a mountain at someone)
Barret is Thunder
Tifa is Ice
Aeris is Holy
Nanaki - Fire
Yuffie - Water
Cait Sith - Non-Elemental
Vincent - Darkness or 'Space'
Cid - Wind

If I do it this way, everyone will have 8 materia slots on their weapons and armour and I'll set them up with somewhat classes with appropriate materia, support materia, commands, buffs and summons.

But I'll look into why Zyzz and co have white textures, might just be something as small as saving with kimera 0.95...

But from what I have planned, I'm going to leave Shinra as is, but I'll change the Turks up into a new mini organization of sorts, which will make battles more interesting, mwa ha ha haaa!

Don't use 0.95. In 0.97 is the blending issue resolved, which made the character in the temple scene in visible when they should be transparent.
The problems with the eyes is a missing texture link in the RSD file or a wrong texture ID for the groups (ID 0: left eye, ID 1: right eye and ID 2: mouth).

 

[Kuroda Masahiro]

I've been using 0.95 for ages without problem, including full playthroughs, and I can't say I came across the temple scene issue before, in fact, I never eben knew about it.

But different things call for different versions of kimera, I don't use anything other than 0.81 for actual splicing, which is on the field skeletons, since I noticed multiple times if you try to splice on battle models directly, it has a tendency of corrupting, which I also tested on the 0.97a.

Although, how do you explain that the face textures aren't loading ONLY on the models that I edited with Kimera 0.97a?

I can just restore the textures and rsd from the unedited ones if that's the issue, but why do they show up in kimera? If there's an issue with the rsd or texture, it normally comes up in Kimera as a broken texture.

And I am very well aware what texture is what for the field models.

@ Hakuryu, yes, requests are still available.

 

[narcku]

Nice
I was wondering if it's possible to make something like this(with Yuffie's skeleton).
And this for the color.

Thanks!

 

[Sega Chief]

About the missing textures, in 0.97a an issue with textures can sometimes occur when saving a field model that has had parts added to the bones and then confirming to 'compile multi-p files' (not exact wording, I'm away from my PC at the minute). The textures will display correctly in Kimera but be missing in-game. To avoid it, I usually just hit No when prompted for the compile but it leaves the field model with some extra files/clutter (these extra files are usually denoted in caps rather than small case letters). This problem doesn't seem to occur with battle models, though.

 

[Kaldarasha]

I've been using 0.95 for ages without problem, including full playthroughs, and I can't say I came across the temple scene issue before, in fact, I never eben knew about it.

But different things call for different versions of kimera, I don't use anything other than 0.81 for actual splicing, which is on the field skeletons, since I noticed multiple times if you try to splice on battle models directly, it has a tendency of corrupting, which I also tested on the 0.97a.

Although, how do you explain that the face textures aren't loading ONLY on the models that I edited with Kimera 0.97a?

I can just restore the textures and rsd from the unedited ones if that's the issue, but why do they show up in kimera? If there's an issue with the rsd or texture, it normally comes up in Kimera as a broken texture.


And I am very well aware what texture is what for the field models.

@ Hakuryu, yes, requests are still available.

I only mentioned the ID values for the sake of completeness not to teach you.
There was a problem that you couldn't changed the texture IDs in prior versions of Kimera. Maybe this effects now your models (?). I use Kimera 0.97 now very long and I haven't encountered this issue. But some of the PRP models did had this white face bug, however there were built with older versions of Kimera.

What exactly do you mean with corruption? Have you tried to save the model in a new folder without any file in it? Sometimes it works for me when Kimera can't merge p files correctly.


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@Sega Chief
Have you checked if Kimera masses with the texture ID or more probably is that it dosen't update the rsd with the texture information of the other parts, maybe the texture loader needs to be cleaned from the textures and then they need to be re-added.

I've been using 0.95 for ages without problem, including full playthroughs, and I can't say I came across the temple scene issue before, in fact, I never eben knew about it.

Possible. You reclore the the pices with the color pallete, rigth? This might hadn't corrupted them .

 

[Kuroda Masahiro]

@Kal - They corrupt as in the physical parts become twisted due to corruption, or they might look fine, but as soon as the game tries to load it, instant crash.

In Kimera 0.95, you can change the textre ID, but IIRC that's the first build where you coud.

@Sega Chief - That sounds like the most likely suspect, and would perfecty explain why it happened, since in those models, I did things like add eye patches, and the chest sash, etc

@Haku - To confirm, you want Yuffie wearing a black hoodie with blue trim (hood down) beige shorts and black sneakers with white soles?

 

[narcku]

@Haku - To confirm, you want Yuffie wearing a black hoodie with blue trim (hood down) beige shorts and black sneakers with white soles?

@Kuroda Masahiro - Yep and if possible, with the cap as well... and maybe a throwing knife as weapon but just default shuriken is good too I guess. Thanks again

 

[Kaldarasha]

In Kimera 0.95, you can change the textre ID, but IIRC that's the first build where you coud.

Yeah, but it didn't saved it so the ID stayed unaltered.

 

[Kuroda Masahiro]

@Kal - Other than imports, there's really no need to even change the texture ID, so I never even need to use it since 90% of my mods are splices, or it's just something like scratch hair, which when I import it, I don't make it become a texture and I just vertex shade it.

Although, I myself didn't even touch the texture ID, although the issue most likely is because I added additional parts and hit the compile button, so we know what the issue was and it's essentially resolved, I'll just readd the normal rsd and textures.

@Hakuryu - Alright, I didn't even notice the cap in the picture, that might be complicated to do since there's no battle hat naturally in thegame, what colour do you want it? I can battle convert and shade the NPC baseball cap, might not work perfectly though.

 

[narcku]

@Kuroda - Ahh I see, I didn't know that. The same color as the hoodie would be good.

 

[Kuroda Masahiro]

In that case, I'll make the baseball cap black, but with a blue... thing, the thing you grab that can keep the sun out of your eyes, I forget the name of it.

Since she already has a sort of sneakers and shorts, all I need to do is add the hoodie and cap and she'll be golden.

Should the thing on the hat be facing forward or backwards? (as in, over her eyes, or behind her head)

 

[narcku]

Forward, as in over the eyes, yes.
And uh, it's a "he" by the way, but I guess it makes no difference since Yuffie is about as flat as a boy anyways

 

[Kuroda Masahiro]

Bear in mind at no point, did you say what gender the new character was going to be, just a colourless sketch that could be either a boy or girl (if nothing else, hoodies are able to completely hide details like that)and it looked to be a younger person, which meant the gender was basically obscured since there would be no difference, other than what's below the waist, but I'm not going to model down there.

As for the 2nd pic, colour references are simply colour references, and in the first one, it could have either been a girl with short hair, or just a boy, if nothing else, she reminded me of Karin from Bleach.

 

[xenokain]

I edited those models with Kimera 0.97a, maybe there's a bug in the coding that renders the field eyes to not load? I edited the rest of the field models (such as Malvado Aeris, LP Tifa, etc) with Kimera 0.95, and I myself didn't get a chance to test it ingame yet, mainly because I was trying to see what I could 'cut' for the mini mod version. =P

Also, would you mind if I changed the magic system a bit and tried to do a mini enforced class system?

Ie, Zyzz is Earth (Because he can probably lift and throw a mountain at someone)
Barret is Thunder
Tifa is Ice
Aeris is Holy
Nanaki - Fire
Yuffie - Water
Cait Sith - Non-Elemental
Vincent - Darkness or 'Space'
Cid - Wind

If I do it this way, everyone will have 8 materia slots on their weapons and armour and I'll set them up with somewhat classes with appropriate materia, support materia, commands, buffs and summons.

But I'll look into why Zyzz and co have white textures, might just be something as small as saving with kimera 0.95...

But from what I have planned, I'm going to leave Shinra as is, but I'll change the Turks up into a new mini organization of sorts, which will make battles more interesting, mwa ha ha haaa!

That's good to hear it may just be Kimera. I thought it was a setting i didn't have turned on or something like for my graphics card. Yes you can change the magic system 

 

[Kuroda Masahiro]

For the new magic, I have the actual spells changed and renamed (I can name them normal things if you dislike the new ones) I have the new materia setup(not for the new ability trees though) and I have 5/9 people setup for their materia, and I'm not going to lock down their materia, so you are free to edit them if you wish, but the changes I put on it were there for classes. =P

In terms of the other changes, I'll include a mostly new intro that'll require you to think on your feet and will be a harsher intro to it.

Other than that, it quiets down for a while, until when we beat Air Buster., at which point it picks up again, etc.

but while the game itself is harder, the characters are going to be more skilled to compensate, to make it feel as if they were really soldiers or whatever.