This is a test release, feedbacks are welcome. I still don't understand much about the shader or material editor in general, so I may end up as confused as you are if something's going wrong. I should have used Surface Painter for proper workflow but I don't have it for now, so it's a workaround solution using Photoshop (that may end up causing problems).
I consider those who used Graphics mod and Next-Gen Shader as advanced users who know their way around but either way please ...
2021-05-11 23:05:10 +0000 UTC
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Starting the project now, interestingly the neck is around the same size as HS2 neck that makes my job slightly easier. The hair is around 26k and that's after I cleanup the doubles, but at least it's nicely rigged with relatively simple but nice armature. The shadow you see on her forehead is from occlusion map, easy to remove so we can have her without the bandana.
2021-05-09 15:15:52 +0000 UTC
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This time I used Seong Hui. No neck seam now, while it's covered in shadow in the pic I swear there's no seam lol. So it's a progress, but also a confusing one since I use the same method as Miyako. Maybe Miyako is just cursed, idk. Unfortunately I found some mistakes on Seong Hui's basic textures in this testing process so I may have to release updated mod of her first before releasing the next gen compatible card.
I'll pick a less troublesome subject for the experiment, and hope...
2021-05-07 09:04:33 +0000 UTC
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Profile from Wiki
This character is from Judgment ("Judge Eyes" in Japan), a Yakuza series spin-off. I did other character (Mafuyu) before for HS2. I actually worked on Saori first before Mafuyu and only now I decided to finish the project. Good timing to celebrate Judgment remastered release on PS5 and XBox Series X and rumored sequel announcement soon.
2021-05-05 17:15:13 +0000 UTC
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From Judgment, Yakuza series spin-off. Glasses included as separate accessories. Some expressions may look stiff but it's accurate to her character. For same reason I didn't apply any make-up except very faint lipstick on her card but custom make-up included should you want to doll her up (which the game actually allowed you to do at certain point).
Requirements:
If you build your HS2 setup from scratch you need:
-Bepinex
-Bepis Plugins for HS2
-...
2021-05-05 16:57:01 +0000 UTC
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Jessie from Final Fantasy VII Remake won the poll.
Well, that's kinda expected isn't it. So yeah, Jessie this month. But she won't be the first release. After Lidia and before Jessie I wanted to do something simple and familiar. The character is super obscure and I bet almost nobody here knows who she is but she's another character from a game I've ported before. After that then Jessie and maybe I'll have time for a commission or two.
I still have next-gen shader compatibility pro...
2021-05-02 14:50:28 +0000 UTC
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I managed to make custom textures necessary to work with Hanmen's next-gen shader, using Miyako here as test subject. I still got neck seam so I may have to refine them. Please don't mind the veins in her body, I still haven't figure out setting next-gen shader properly. Since just activating it drop my frame rate in chara creator by 10 FPS and the fan started to sound like jet engine :(
2021-04-30 04:04:26 +0000 UTC
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Lidia's Profile on Tekken Wiki
Here's newest character from Tekken that I really like. Ass-kicking Prime Minister that is also a hot blond? Sign me in. I was dead set on porting her the moment she's announced. Unfortunately as you can read in release post I had many difficulties on porting her. I may revisit this project in the future to fix some stuff. Thanks for LorisCangini at DeviantArt for t...
2021-04-27 15:48:28 +0000 UTC
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I did Nina and Julia before but Lidia here has more difficulties than I expected. The hair does not playing along with HS2 dithering. You can see some blockiness if you zoom in around the nose and eyelids, I wanted to smooth them but I found that it would change the face profile significantly. Expressions are difficult to make and one of eye expression has one noticeable error. Then I couldn't make the eyebrows angled straight as it should be, I suspect it's because the differences in how HS2...
2021-04-27 15:39:11 +0000 UTC
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Time for me to be lazy again and post literal screencap of patron-only poll, now featuring new set of characters.
For those new here, the poll used to be available for public but one time someone tried to cheat by using bots. And that's why we can't have nice things (blame that guy).
2021-04-23 08:44:43 +0000 UTC
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This time we have completely new of set of character now. Here's the plan. two representatives from a game, when one of them win another will be pulled off from the poll temporarily for a month and return later. The idea is to avoid two characters from a same game in a row. For variety. This is weighted poll meaning higher tier patrons will have multiplier to their vote.
Happy voting
2021-04-23 08:39:52 +0000 UTC
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First, I'm working on third character of the month. It's more difficult than I initially thought, but for now I think I can handle it. I'm also busier than usual this month so that slow things down as well. We still have around a week or so and I think I can release the third character before that. Assuming there's no unexpected problem, like this particular technical one that worries me recently.
You see, my graphics card is old (my PC is potato in that regard) and in last few days it ...
2021-04-21 22:45:09 +0000 UTC
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Some of you are probably aware, or even use, next-gen shader mod by Hanmen. I'm not gonna explain what it is for those who never heard it, you can ask around in Illusion games community about it. If you know, you know. I consider it as something for advanced user, as you need graphics mod and some tweaking to get it right. And if your PC is already struggling with HS2 then it may tax it even more. So don't worry for missing out if you're using HS2 casually.
Thing is the shader is not co...
2021-04-18 01:58:31 +0000 UTC
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Miyako is a non-playable character from DOA universe
This is a commissioned project. I don't have plan to do any Dead Or Alive characters a they're already done by other modders. And I don't like those new girls from XVV either (NEVER ask me for them). Miyako here doesn't seem to be in anyone's plan that I know of, so I agreed to do the project. Funny how in 2012 I look at DOA5 character model and a...
2021-04-17 11:31:46 +0000 UTC
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This is a commission project. I'm not doing any DOA characters since they're done elsewhere but Miyako doesn't seem to be in plan so I agreed to do the commission. The hair is more awful than I expected, I had to do some fixes and rig some parts. The way HS2 handles hair doesn't help either.
Requirements:
If you build your HS2 setup from scratch you need:
-Bepinex
-Bepis Plugins for HS2
-Resource Redirector
-HS2API
-HS2ABMX
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2021-04-17 11:14:44 +0000 UTC
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From The Evil Within 2. She's also in the first game, but I pick the model from the second game since I like that one and the model quality is better (presumably, haven't check the model from first game). I think her design looks like something out of older Resident Evil games, which makes sense since creator of RE worked on The Evil Within series. That's one reason why I li...
2021-04-06 16:38:01 +0000 UTC
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The base model has good quality meshes and textures but some parts are troublesome. I initially plan to keep all the details but I had to smooth out the face's normal map because it always look awful in certain lighting situation no matter what. There's also problem with normals in eyelids but that's only visible when they're fully closed. Longer neck is definitely necessary to capture the original look so as before I've include a card with neck modified by ABMX.
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2021-04-06 16:23:18 +0000 UTC
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Juli Kidman from The Evil Within 2 won the poll. We will have new set of characters for the poll this month, so look forward to it. As for the the remaining two character that lost to Juli, I'll find a away for them somehow.
The plan for the rest of the month is the same as usual. Poll winner, my own project(s), and commission project(s). I can't say If can do more than one commission this month, but we'll see. By my documentation I have 9 commission on waiting list. And that's not coun...
2021-04-01 12:45:12 +0000 UTC
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This character is from Yakuza: Like A Dragon. However unlike Saeko she's not playable and unlike Seong-Hui is not an important character in the story. She's an NPC that handle job change system in the game (in other words, job center staff). However Ririka here is more special than random NPC as she's modeled and voiced by real actress (same name).
Also it's possible to romance the character in...
2021-03-27 14:01:18 +0000 UTC
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This is a commission. Had to rig the hair from scratch, and I made the moles as separate make-up entry (paint 1) so you can adjust and color them. Like some of my other mods, I include cards with normal length neck and longer neck (using ABMX). Longer neck looks better in my opinion, but should that gives problem you can use normal ones.
Requirements:
If you build your HS2 setup from scratch you need:
-Bepinex
-Bepis Plugins for HS2
-Resource Red...
2021-03-27 13:26:03 +0000 UTC
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Three remaining. This is the last poll featuring these characters, next month we'll have fresh set to choose from. If your favorite here is losing don't worry, I'll find a way (or schedule) to have two losers of this poll to be made somehow later on.
I'm sorry that I'm late, should have made this on 23rd. But I'm quite busy these days. Next time feel free to remind me if I'm late on stuff like changing patron tier or making poll. This time since only three left I guess few days until th...
2021-03-25 23:48:39 +0000 UTC
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First of all I've contacted one in commission waiting list. If you got the message (in any platform you messaged me first) then please confirm so we can start. Now I only pick one at a time because I learned my lesson from last month. And related to that, I want to be more flexible with my work and scheduling. So no more hard quota I set up to myself that ended up frustrating me out. My motivation is still high, don't worry. Sometimes I have to told myself to take a break ("why are you openin...
2021-03-18 03:56:13 +0000 UTC
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Profile from the wiki
From Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water
Apparently if I wrote her name in the title with only one "u" as it should be, I got a warning. Seems that word is banned here. Oh well.
Anyway, this project is quite nostalgic for me. She's my first character I tried to port to HS1, feels like yesterday but also long ago in a way. My reasoning to pick her was because ro...
2021-03-16 17:04:03 +0000 UTC
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This time I enhance 's her hair meshes and texture. That and UV flipping aside her model is easier than I remember back in HS1. Although that one is my first ever mod project for an game. She has thin long neck in the game and as always I had to recreate that with ABMX but again as always I also include normal neck version of the card.
(As I wrote this post Patreon throw warning about character's age somehow, just to clarify, 2021-03-16 16:42:48 +0000 UTC
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I don't remember where I got them and when, but I have files of Nioh and Nioh 2 character model
To be honest I haven't play Nioh 2, haven't got far with the first Nioh even. But I always like Tecmo-Koei character style, Team Ninja made the best character model in the industry in my opinion. I did Okatsu for HS1 a while back and I can always do that. But I'm thinking to do something different.
2021-03-12 13:34:04 +0000 UTC
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This is a commission. And unlike my usual mods, this is NOT a full head mod. The pack only contained hair and eye mod that you can put into vanilla head. We initially planned to do full head mod, but then I found out that the model's head is (to put it simply) too anime for HS2. I've seen this solution of ported hair + HS2 head for other anime-style character. So we decided that...
2021-03-11 18:02:47 +0000 UTC
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This is a commission. And unlike my usual mods, this is NOT a full head mod. The pack only contained hair and eye mod that you can put into vanilla head. We initially planned to do full head mod, but then I found out that the model is (to put it simply) too anime for HS2. I've seen this solution of ported hair + HS2 head for other anime-style character. So we decided that is the best solution for this particular model as well. There are some good Lucina cards out there that you can combine th...
2021-03-11 17:30:12 +0000 UTC
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Karin here is the classy upper class rich girl character type, complete with her own butler and all. Also despite her blonde hair she's actually Japanese. Huh, the more you know.
As for the next Street Fighter character, I haven't decided yet. Maybe they will be in the poll or maybe they will be my personal project. I want to take them in my pace to avoid burning myself ...
2021-03-08 17:09:02 +0000 UTC
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Karin here is no different than other Street Fighter character so far. Meaning that I had to split the scalp from her head since the original model just directly molded them together. Now I can use the original hair armature now for those drill parts and the ribbon. As always you can tweak the hair physics with HSPE advanced mode.
Requirements:
If you build your HS2 setup from scratch you need:
-Bepinex
-Bepis Plugins for HS2
-Resource Redirector...
2021-03-08 16:48:28 +0000 UTC
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It's been a while since my last Street Fighter character, and here's Karin so far. I still have to clean the textures, create the make-up set, and applying expression morphs. But no major problem so far. Expect her soon.
2021-03-06 17:42:52 +0000 UTC
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