Where'd you get that?

[tawny sonnet]

My Sibling in Santa where did you get that model of Ted? I need to know for a thing I'm working on.

[median heron]

I found the model in SFM.

Using the Source-IO addon for Blender, I went through my SFM files and ported him over from SFM, to Blender, and finally to Roblox.

[tawny sonnet]

Hm, alright thank you, much appreciated.

[median heron]

You're welcome. The user who ported these (..Theodore Peterson himself, somehow.) also made an alt for the Hello Neighbor 2 model with the Hide and Seek sleeves. (In other words - Gloveless Theodore)

Also, since Ted's mustache is fully rigged in Search & Rescue.. You can go from this, to this. Or even just this.

[tawny sonnet]

Oh God I was not ready for stacheless Ted

[median heron]

Oh and also Search & Rescue Nicky has one of the ugliest default faces i've ever seen in a model

In all honesty it IS better than the HN1 model where they just copy-pasted Adult Nicky's head on a basic child body, but it still doesn't look super appealing

I'm not sure who made these models - either designers from TinyBuild or Steelwool Studios (The eye texture kinda reminds me of Cassie's model in FNAF: Help Wanted 2)
but even when Nicky's design is admittedly upgraded, it still looks a bit uncanny.

I might even say they copy-pasted his face from Aaron and just tried to make him look more like Nicky. Shorten Nicky's nose and they look almost the exact same.

[tawny sonnet]

God that is uncanny

[median heron]

If he WAS designed by someone at SteelWool, I wouldn't be surprised if they had to re-cycle assets from Aaron as a result of time constraints or something.

For Cassie's debut in Security Breach: RUIN, i'm pretty sure they re-used Gregory's model and just tried to make him look like Cassie. In comparison to Gregory's model, Cassie is a lot more detailed, but that face is just ugly.
By the time we got to Help Wanted 2, she got a more unique and far more appealing look.

[tawny sonnet]

Makes sense

[median heron]

Going back to Theodore, I think the Search & Rescue model is the most detailed and appealing yet.

..Even if he is a little wonky in execution, but, that's to be expected of these games at this point. Specially if Steelwool is involved.

[tawny sonnet]

I agree, I love this new model, I've been looking all over for a Unity friendly one that's fully rigged and yknow, been really hard

[median heron]

I recently found one on Sketchfab. It was the HN2 model and had a bunch of the animations from said game

[tawny sonnet]

I've already used the HN2 model, worked out pretty well, but I figured I'd do it over with the new model

[cyan lava]

they did just edit aaron's face for that nicky model
i think steel wool just isn't very good at modelling characters

the neighbor is an edit of the hn2 model
gregory doesn't exactly look like how he does in most artworks
and you know how vanessa and cassie's models were
even cassie's new model has plenty of room for improvement

[median heron]

Yeah- Even a friend of mine managed to make a more accurate Gregory model using the original SB design as a base. It's still a WIP, mainly the hair's proportions need to be tweaked a little bit, but it's still a lot more accurate.

He also wanted to improve Cassie's HW2 model a little bit, mainly in the hair for more accuracy to her original design where she had a more "curly" hair style

As for Vanessa not only does she have what I like to call "spaghetti hair" but she has like 4 different hair textures that don't actually properly fit into her hair mesh.

I still don't know if the Rescue Squad in HNVR just re-use their models from Secret Neighbor though. I've been looking at the designs for quite a while and still can't tell.

Yeah it does look like they just re-used the models from Secret Neighbor. At most i assume they got some higher polygon count or something

[cyan lava]

that does look way better

and hnvr just uses the models from sn
no changes whatsoever not even to the rigs
they remodeled their hands separately for vr but that doesn't show on their third person models

[median heron]

To be fair with how often Steelwool has to recycle stuff (Either out of laziness or time constraints) I suppose neither dev team had any time to upgrade the SN models to a more detailed look.

And the SN models aren't that bad either, though they do sometimes "clash" with the more polished art style we've seen as of recently, it's not super relevant.

Like - do Nicky and Ivan look like they'd fit in the same world? Yes.
Does Nicky look like he'd get bullied for his vacant stare? Also yes.

I really only used Ivan as an example here because I don't have any of the models of the Rescue Squad besides him and I only used him for a "I miss my wife Tails" kind of meme.