Edits you-know-who's model and sprites into the Black Mask outfit, and changes their Persona to match. I've been working on this on and off for a while, and occasionally posted about it in since-retired channels; this post is here partly for liveblogging/documentation but also for me to post problems as they come up because i only started learning anything about modeling for this one project and i might actually have a psychotic breakdown 
#Q2 Black Mask
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been trying to replace his sword with a lightly-resized ver of the saw saber model in royal...its not going great lmao
im preeeeeeeetty sure i can identity the problem with the textures, im just saving that for after i figure out how to rig the damn sword properly
(the cape animations are also just scuffed in general, but again, want to fix the sword first)
(i know very little about modeling or blender and what i do know is shit ive learned specifically for this, so please be patient with my bs lol)
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observation: the 3d model doesnt have the straps at the start of his sleeves
debating whether to add them to the 2d art for canon-accuracy or leave them out for consistency with the model
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eh, lazy. gonna leave them out
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Transparent lenses.
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counting people ive asked outside the server, that makes 3 people for transparent lenses
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well thats amusing
(ive already replaced the actual graphic, its just very funny because you can see it in the thumbnail for the edited ver too lmfao
...im gonna change it even though it doesnt matter...because.
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wait
checks two of the other characters
lmfao i think its only this one
i dont know how the hell that happened lol
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hmmyeah im trying to test but citra has decided it hates me
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bad idea: test on hardware
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well that went predictably lmao
(the 3ds crashed)
i have no idea whats wrong, i didnt have issue before with that shitty ann mod i made for the contest
tangent, is there a reason aemulus copies every mod file into the romfs folder in addition to making the mod.cpk
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siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh
guess its time to go file by file trying to figure out which one is causing problems
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the broken file appears to be cmn_ppanel.tpc
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also this shit happens when his model leaves a cutscene
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ok the bossfight softlocked because citra is just like that but it all works except for the one file and the scuffed anim
i fixed the file, but now im realizing it looks like ass lmao
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eh, felt like posting the wip https://gamebanana.com/wips/63394
dont know why it uses that screencap in the preview, oh well
btw does anyone have a file for like right before getting second awakening? itd be a little more convenient
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hmmmm i think i shall move him to the left
im being a maniac and testing on hardware again because i have a completed save and have been too lazy to figure out how to rip it
additionally i want to zoom in the ppanel icon because there are some places where it looks good and some where theres too much goddamn empty space
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ah who am i kidding im porting my saves
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tangent, would it be too much to let you select a .cxi file here, i got around it by manually editing config.xml but it seems more user friendly to let you select it in aemulus
this question brought to you by the fact that i bought q2 digitally and theres no goddamn way to get a .3ds file from a digital copy and i was too lazy to pirate and my dumb ass didnt think of the simple solution that was editing config.xml until after id wasted most of my day failing to wring google for shit that could convert my .cia or .cxi
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that left hand is very wrong but my brain wont tell me how to fix it
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(shading on pause until i figure out how to goddamn fix it)
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he
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call this a progress report