[WIP] APZ's New Canon Cloud

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Hey APZ, I've been gone a long time and I'm glad to hear you've been making progress.  Cheers mate.

Shoot me a message some time, I'm trying to get back in touch with the community since my move put me out of touch with everyone.
 
Yall are entertaining  ;D He's chubby? Making progress on wha?

I haven't done anything actually. All I did was repaint the face and I'm not editing APZ Cloud otherwise. Zero progress has been made on New Canon Cloud. All previous work is scrapped. But when I do work on him it'll be fairly fast. Work in progress will shown in this thread. And I'll get APZ Cloud up here soon in a day or so, all I'll do is copy the texture over, otherwise it's the same download it always was.

I'd rather keep APZ Cloud the same, people loved him the way he was. It's charming to hear folks discussing the differences a few pixels makes (I rounded the shading differently on purpose) Mis-en-scene it actually fits his overall style (Which I'd call "I wasn't great at photoshop painting back then" style  ;D ) But I don't see a point in 100% recreating it. Trust me, you won't be able to see the differences except in closeup.

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Im not digging the chubby young face, but great work nonetheless!

Glad I have original Apz Cloud :P
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You mean the one everyone knows about or the first version that was out for about a month (I think) before I made a new head with the dissidia face
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THAT APZ Cloud was 100% original. But since that's not the one folks fell in love with I didn't see the point in sharing it again. (I still have the upload files for this one, just not the source texture and model)
 
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But since that's not the one folks fell in love with I didn't see the point in sharing it again.
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Please do not say that :P I also like the CC secret ending Cloud.
 
Well, you have to consider APZ that I have in fact not seen any of the WIP since you started this in the first part (the one you just announced the scrapping of.) Also, if you can get the original APZ Cloud (the one that is 100% original) online, let us know. I very much like the screens you dropped in the thread.

Cheers,

Corigne
 
You mean the one everyone knows about or the first version that was out for about a month (I think) before I made a new head with the dissidia face
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you mean the face of The Onion Knight
 
you mean the face of The Onion Knight
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If that's a joke then right on! Otherwise, there's the first head on the right of the first picture here, and under the red X on the second picture. I did not rip it from anything.


And Corigne, It's all good man!  :D


I've had a long day today and it ends at 10 pm (then maybe some beer and Star Wars with my buddies after that) But I wanna get that APZ Cloud packaged up for you guys tonight  ;)
 
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I really enjoy the original cloud you did much better, with original hairrstyle.
 
I really enjoy the original cloud you did much better, with original hairrstyle.
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I agree. Old hair style + new face would be perfect imo.
 
Sorry guys  :oops: Can't do that for ya, don't have the files or the motivation to. More stylish or better or not, I simply can't...

**sigh** Didn't get to it tonight ran out of time. Got the files converted but can't get FFVIIPC to run on my new PC yet to test (Never release anything without testing it!!!)
 
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Its a wonderful model!!
I like the first and the new model!!
I hope view the finish version!!!
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Good news everyone! I'm using my phone right now because a bittorrent of "The Phantom Edit" a star wars fan re-edit carried a trojn virus onto my computer that currupted my antivirus! Yus!

Don't worry, I immediately unplugged my internet and backed up my work files on my external in safe mode. APZ Cloud WILL be back online soon and no one can stop me!

I wanted to do it tonight because I can time  :| Oh well... No surprise to you guys with me, if I was a fan I'd call b.s. but unfortunately it's true.

Hang tight folks! I'll get'r done!
 
Okay. I finally got my computer up and running and all of my programs reinstalled. I'll try to get this out tonight if I can get FFVIIPC running. I've never gotten it running on Windows 7 yet... I'll figure it out somehow, I mean... I figured out how to do all this in the first place so it shouldn't be so hard.

(Sigh... I hate having to go back on my promises... But I have a month and a half until school starts again, a first, so I'll have some free time that I'll spend filling my art portfolio. And New Canon Cloud is a part of that)
 
If you're running the 1997 PC disks, you just open up the disk contents and run an application titled "FF7inst" in administrator mode. It bypasses something that made installing it from the setup.exe not work for some reason. -shrugs-

Well that's what worked for me. I hope it helps :).
 
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Thanks allot! I'll look it up  ;D I haven't gotten my boy asleep yet... I'll start to get this done after everyone's asleep
 
I wish you a fond good luck in your efforts. Your cloud models are iconic, it'd be a shame not to have a working model floating about anymore.

Also your new texture likes rather nice, next to some of the other high-res models that are floating about, I think it'll compliment the game quite nicely.

I also rather liked the model you showed with just polygon coloring; it seemed to fit the FF7 current style quite nicely o.o;; Just lots of details in the mesh itself. As it is now all these high-res details kind of clash with all the other battle models. It's a shame really. I suppose that is what team avalanche's goal is to rectify though. ^_^.

Anyways, again good luck!
 
Alright folks... It was a pain to get FFVIIPC running on Windows 7... And it was a pain to figure this stuff out again with some of my old tools inoperable now...

The new texture keeps coming out solid white... Sheesh! I'm giving up tonight folks, sorry, I need some sleep. What's a new modern way you guys are getting the .tex files into the game? A new program perhaps? I'm still using biturn to convert a bitmap. I'm sure there's something along the line I'm doing that's screwing it up. Last time I ran Photoshop 7 and Windows XP... Now CS5 on W7 so a few things are bound to be different (Not to mention the agonizing placement of everything in local/virtualstore/blah blah blah...)

I'm out tonight! I'll butt my head against it tomorrow... I hate to letcha down.. but I've been crackin my head against it for hours... Trial and error. Figure it out, that's how I got through to get him up the first time (I remember this problem plaguing me over and over again last time too, too bad I never left notes for myself)
 
open the model in kimera. on the right column theres a button that says show texture options. then add texture. and save the model. just make sure youre tex id from pcreator matches the tex id in kimera default is 0
 
Thanks bro. I'm totally a noob again!  ::) Kinda always good to be knocked down a peg or two every now and then.

Took forever to get mscomct2.ocx and msstdfmt.dll registered since it's way more complicated in Windows 7 then it was on XP... I couldn't run Kimera without those.

Alright! Got the texture converted (FREKKING FINALLY) Just give me an hour or so, I'll rewrite the readme to include the newer tools and a bit explaining the history. Then I suppose a screenshot or 2 to make the package complete. Upload it and provide the link for all... I didn't forget you guys... and it took allot of staring at my monitor in frustration to get this done  ;) Just for you guys
 
no problem.  we all have things to learn from each other. if you look at my cait sith weaopons and my dragon buster theyd probably give you a seizure due to how poorly they were modeled and textured. cant wait to see this in action
 
Times up... My son woke up from his nap  :) I'll upload it tonight. I wanna do it now, but he's already in my lap. (There were some issues and I just figured it out... something wasn't copying or something and it kept looking like the files never got written over)

I'm a noob again at all this FFVIIPC modding stuff, but I'm on top form with my art skills, I'll show off once I make some more portfolio pieces and get my web-site up

Whatever. The new face is in proper format and ready to be implanted into ffVIIpc, I just need to make the download package

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AHHHHRGH FOR CRYI OUT LOUD

After running Aali's driver Kimera won't open because: "Component 'comdlg32.ocx' or one of its dependencies not correctly registered: a file is missing or invalid"

And I can't get it working again... Maybe running everything on the portable Windows XP would solve allot of these issues... This has been one huge battle with Windows 7...
 
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