P4TA Animated cut ins

[prisma verge]

Is there a reason why I can't see it on GB?

[jovial kestrel]

it’s not public yet

[prisma verge]

Oh got it

[jovial kestrel]

i gotta get a thumbnail going

and some showcase footage

[jovial kestrel]

actually i meant to say this earlier

i made a thumbnail already technically

but even i know it’s kinda bad

lemme dig it up

i made a few versions

[crude vector]

teddie erasure smh

[jovial kestrel]

my boyfriend actually drew up a concept in ms paint

lemme find that too

bless his heart

sorta made an idea from it

i don’t know photoshop

[crude vector]

use this as the thumbnail

unedited of course

[jovial kestrel]

done lol

that'll really get peoples attention

[crude vector]

peak

fr though i think a less busy thumbnail would probably help a lot, you could actually probably cut down the name to Animated Cut-Ins or something and still get the point across too

[jovial kestrel]

yeah maybe

idk i feel like P4TA Animated Cutins just feels right in my head

like it feels official in some way lmao

[crude vector]

up to you!

[jovial kestrel]

i've never really been that good with thumbnails so i'm hoping some people can spitball some ideas

i think i'm pretty proud of the anubis and idun one

maybe loki's saw saber

what do you mean by less busy thumbnail btw

[crude vector]

more simple, less stuff going on in the thumbnail so that it isn't so overwhelming to look at

[jovial kestrel]

yeah you're right

i kinda like what pixelguin did for the colorful cutins mod

which was just two of the cutins, but with some color

so maybe something like that

[crude vector]

yeah, you could just show off Yu's cut-in

[jovial kestrel]

yeah something like that

i have photoshop on the mac side of my laptop, i can cook something up later today

would a gif like this look good for the preview page?

it has to be under 6 mb so i had to crush the resolution and cap the framerate

[crude vector]

it looks fine to me. if you want I could also just get you a clip from the beginning battle to avoid spoilers but I'm not sure how many people care about that

[jovial kestrel]

i also have a preview video of a bunch of them

[jovial kestrel]

i actually have the yu clip from the first battle

i was kinda hoping to just have a naoto clip lmao

naoto and yukiko look the best out of all of them to me

[crude vector]

oh fair enough lol

[crude vector]

this would be better if it just had one music track
i can rerecord them for you if needed, just let me know which ones you want

[jovial kestrel]

yeah this one here

[jovial kestrel]

if you get a chance sure, id love that

preferably the same ones in that clip, since it has the widest variety

but don't burden yourself if it's too much to try and get in one

[crude vector]

i just need a bit of time, it shouldn't be too bad

[jovial kestrel]

alright, i appreciate it

[crude vector]

this still looks kinda ugly so I would expect this to be further changed but for the thumbnail a part of me was thinking of something roughly like this

[jovial kestrel]

oooh i kinda like that actually

maybe instead of a background like that

you just take a background image from the anime, blur it a little bit?

[crude vector]

also the white background for the text is cut off so oops let me fix that

[jovial kestrel]

same color though, i like that choice

[crude vector]

have a preference for an image from the anime?

[jovial kestrel]

struggling to find a good example

one second

like this from the P4AU mod

it has a background from the game, blurred a bit

and has the assets layered over it

maybe something like this, but without the watermark 🙃

i'm struggling to find exactly what i mean, sorry

maybe this?

oh wait that's literally just your thumbnail again

[crude vector]

something like this?

[jovial kestrel]

yeah like that perfect

that actually looks really fantastic

[crude vector]

idk what you'd do for the r2 thumbnail lol

[jovial kestrel]

we already have an R2 thumbnail

wxnder made one

remember?

speaking of which

[crude vector]

oh yeah right

i forgot

[jovial kestrel]

unless you wanna take a stab at making one that matches?

i think the two being different is fine for me

[crude vector]

honestly I am not a fan of using FOT-Skip-B for the title here I wonder if I should use a different font

[jovial kestrel]

you can use the shin megami tensei font

i forget the name of it

it's what i used here

[crude vector]

i dont think i have birch regular :')

[jovial kestrel]

i can find it, gimme a second

https://archive.org/download/1.5_million_font_files_collection

if you wanna look too

it's birch regular?

not birch std?

[crude vector]

according to smt wiki it's birch regular, although well, the smt wiki is known for misinformation at times...

[jovial kestrel]

i mean considering the P4 and P3 fonts are also std

it could be correct

birch std

[crude vector]

it looks rly narrow doesnt it

[jovial kestrel]

oooh yeah it does huh

[jovial kestrel]

not sure about what other fonts would look good

[crude vector]

how does this look

bahnschrift semibold (i literally just looked through fonts i had lol)

[jovial kestrel]

hmmm

can you try black with the white shadow like before

[crude vector]

yup

i just made the text white so i could read it before applying the white shadow lol

[jovial kestrel]

ah right myb

do gifs really not animate in gamebanana

why are they even an option wtf

[jovial kestrel]

oh i love that

that's amazing

yeah that sells it for me

[crude vector]

do you think the font needs to be more bold or is it fine?

[jovial kestrel]

font looks fine to me

[crude vector]

size is fine too?

[jovial kestrel]

could be a smidge bigger honestly

but i think it's good as is

[crude vector]

does that look good as a preview

[jovial kestrel]

yeah i think that size is way better

[crude vector]

if you're gonna be nitpicky do it now lol

[jovial kestrel]

less negative space

i like that better lol

one more thing

can you remove the - in Cut-ins

[crude vector]

sure

[jovial kestrel]

perfect

love the look of that

now i gotta figure out why gamebanana won't upload gifs as gifs

oh it's a "feature" not a bug

fuck off

[crude vector]

😔
i guess you'll just have to embed it in the body

[jovial kestrel]

that means uploading it to an image hosting site 😭

[crude vector]

yeah lol

just use imgur or something idk

[jovial kestrel]

imgur sucks balls because the redditors took over

but i guess i have to

[crude vector]

funny enough the site was originally only intended as an image hosting site for reddit posts

[jovial kestrel]

yeah and then people started trreating it like it's own social media

when it was always just an image hosting site

[crude vector]

yeahhhh I just tend to ignore that part....

[jovial kestrel]

now you go on there and people are engaging with posts like they're upset about the content

sorry that i'm not posting half naked women with facebook quotes, i'm making a phishing report for a TF2 website

can't have shit in this house

ok got it embedded

one more thing brawler

can you enable colorful cutins and get a screenshot of any of the cutins?

i wanted to have a screenshot saying it's colorful cutins compatible

and the only screenshot i have is from before the cleaning of the assets, and it really shows off my bad job

or if anyone can lol

i could technically do it but id have to merge the textures with the EPL and rebuild

[crude vector]

yeah give me a sec

which character do you want for that

[jovial kestrel]

either chie or yukiko honestly

[crude vector]

well

that does not look very red to me :')

[jovial kestrel]

what the

[crude vector]

is there a particular order needed? bc i currently have colorful cut-ins below animated cut-ins (so higher priority)

[jovial kestrel]

that should have done it?

does chie work?

[crude vector]

let me get back to you on that one

[jovial kestrel]

ok so for some reason, yukikos things went back to normal

uh weird

easy to fix though

[crude vector]

yeah chie's was fine

can you send that preview video again btw so I don't have to scroll up

[jovial kestrel]

sure

shit now i gotta check all of them to make sure they all have the backgrounds

[crude vector]

oof

[crude vector]

ty

[jovial kestrel]

yosuke's was also messed up somehow

[crude vector]

getting a crash rn but it likely isnt this mod so let me narrow that down

[jovial kestrel]

oop

[crude vector]

lol

btw this mod was not the culprit

[jovial kestrel]

oh thank god

[crude vector]

to clarify, neither dungeon save points nor animated cutins was the culprit lol

i just found the error message funny

[rare rain]

wait thats my error

whats causing it

[crude vector]

something shit it's pants

[rare rain]

tf

is the mod working?

[crude vector]

does not appear to, let me test the others to confirm though

[jovial kestrel]

what

ughghghghghghgh

that's not the right aspect ratio wtf

[crude vector]

yeah it seems none of the cut-ins are working anymore

[jovial kestrel]

what

[crude vector]

confusion

they're all enabled too

[jovial kestrel]

wtf

what did mudkip do

[crude vector]

lmao

[jovial kestrel]

the epl file is correct?

[rare rain]

Nothing

It worked before

[crude vector]

^

[rare rain]

Your reup did something lmao

[jovial kestrel]

i'm looking at the model data and it is scaled up

[rare rain]

What files did you edit

Just paste those into what I sent

[jovial kestrel]

i edited the amd file inside of yukikos epl

so it would contain a different background file so it'd work with colorful cutins

the file is scaled up wtffffff

[rare rain]

use this

paste files in there

dont touch config or anything

[crude vector]

yeah i reverted to that release and everything is working again so hmmm

[jovial kestrel]

ughghghgh

[crude vector]

which files did you change exactly

[rare rain]

you messed with the config

dont do that

[jovial kestrel]

maybe compressing as an archive broke something

[rare rain]

change the name sure

[jovial kestrel]

i didn't even touch it!!!!

[rare rain]

dont edit the dependecies

you did

im looking at it

its different lol

[jovial kestrel]

i just extracted the EPL files, extracted the amd

wait how

all i did was extract the EPL files and modify them

try this

opened as 7zip and just dragged and dropped the files in

is there a proper way to compress the mod folder as a 7z?

[crude vector]

normally it shouldnt be an issue lol so idk what happened, maybe you had an old config file in there by accident or something idk

[jovial kestrel]

i guess different compression methods with 7z and zip?

[rare rain]

did you drag and drop the config too

[jovial kestrel]

very confusing

[rare rain]

[jovial kestrel]

all i did was drag and drop the epl into your 7z file up there

and sent it again

no recompression

[rare rain]

Weird

[crude vector]

well it's working now i think so we good

[jovial kestrel]

lemme try to recompress as just a 7z not a zip

weird

yukiko has a colorful background?

[rare rain]

If that happens again brawler, add cri-fs and persona essentials as a depedency

[jovial kestrel]

same with yosuke?

[crude vector]

testing them rn

[rare rain]

is she supposed to be a pixel up

[crude vector]

that's the case in the original cut-in too actually lol

[rare rain]

atlus moment

[crude vector]

but if it can be fixed then that would definitely be kinda nice

[jovial kestrel]

alright good yukiko is working

it could probably be fixed but it would be CBT

[jovial kestrel]

perfect

hoping this screenshot looks good enough for the mod page lol

thanks for getting that worked out brawler, appreciate it

i think we have everything we need for the mod page now?

got a thumbnail, an animated showcase

colorful cutin compatible screenshot

[crude vector]

didn't you want to have the video redone?

[jovial kestrel]

oh yeah right my bad

that too lol

[crude vector]

i can send the individual videos if you don't like this lol but i figured i'd make something fun out of it bc why not

[median mango]

Nice, that looks very cool

(Also I love Amagidyne )

[crude vector]

[jovial kestrel]

oooh i love that

that’s fucking awesome holy shit

one small thing, do you know if it’s possible to better distribute them around?

there’s 3 union attacks and 8 ish normal cutins?

maybe trim off the fat like teddie and someone else and have it be like

2 cutins, union, 2 cutins, union, and so on?

sorry if that’s uber nit picky, just curious

i can imagine that not working due to the whole loop you got going though

either way, i think that’s fucking sick

[crude vector]

yeah, I could, got a particular order in mind?

[jovial kestrel]

nah not really

[prisma verge]

These look awesome

[crude vector]

someone pick two party members who aren't kanji, rise, or yu

[jovial kestrel]

naoto and yukiko

[crude vector]

ty

[jovial kestrel]

oh that's perfect oml

i love that so much

thank you for making that

god i'm geeking so hard watching this

[crude vector]

it was fun :) i wanted to not cut the song down in the second version but then i realized there was too much non cut-in fluff

i snuck teddie in there too even though he's not animated bc he has a different cut-in now lol

[jovial kestrel]

true

i like it though

it's a good touch and it still flows well

[crude vector]

i can export that at a higher resolution if you want btw, i just think discord won't embed in that case

[jovial kestrel]

yeah if you can

then send it over GD?

actually

do you want to upload it to your youtube and i can just link to it on the page?

or should i upload it to youtube

[crude vector]

up to you

if I uploaded it rn it would probably be quicker if you care about that

[jovial kestrel]

true lol

you probably have a beefier PC with better internet lol

you can go ahead and do it then, just send a link in here

[crude vector]

the former most definitely, the latter idk :p but sounds good

[jovial kestrel]

now i need to go back in and adjust the union cutins for colorful cutin support

then it's done done

like officially

huh so uh

good thing i checked this because uh

somehow kanji and naotos union attacks were in teddie and yosukes folders

and vice versa

[crude vector]

https://youtu.be/1Hoo8ToA28Y

video is still processing, but if you have a desc and a link to the GB page, lmk so I can throw those in

[jovial kestrel]

https://gamebanana.com/mods/475099

i do not have a desc one second

probably just copy paste from mod desc

This mod adds the Animated Cutins from Persona 4 The Animation to Persona 4 Golden. Cutins aspect ratios have been scaled up to better match the anime and also prevent abnormal stretching and warping.

[crude vector]

ty

[jovial kestrel]

ok mod has been updated to add support to the colorful union cutins

good there

video has been added

i think that's everything?

do i just click publish lol

[crude vector]

i mean, yeah probably lol

[jovial kestrel]

huh

so it loaded for a while and the page isn't any different

did i miss something

oh wait

i'm supposed to actually add the files myself, whoops

mod is live!

https://gamebanana.com/mods/475099

@crude vector added you as admin btw

[crude vector]

sounds good

you wouldn't care if i posted this on twitter too, would you

[jovial kestrel]

oh no please go ahead

get the word out lmao

you're free to do whatever with it considering how much you put into this lol

[crude vector]

yeah given the work i put into it I would like the mod to get some attention lol

is there a vita release to link to as well? since that's kind of your thing

[jovial kestrel]

that should be pretty easy to do lol

i think it's actually done already

since i just modified the remaining EPL files

so all i have to do is just copy the stuff over

[crude vector]

yeah if you have a link to that, I can link it in the video and in my tweets although I get the feeling almost no one rly plays p4g on vita anyways lol

[jovial kestrel]

yeah i'm getting it up dw

i'm gonna get like 2 downloads on the vita version

shit

i kinda need a second picture for the vita version >.>

[crude vector]

why not copy over the same picture

[jovial kestrel]

the thumbnail twice?

[crude vector]

the yukiko picture

[jovial kestrel]

the second picture has the colorful cutin background

which i haven't added yet 🙃

to the vita version i mean

[crude vector]

hang on

[jovial kestrel]

i mean i took this from your video lol

so i can use this

[crude vector]

i was just about to send that exact screenshot actually

or not the exact exact screenshot but the same cutin ykyk

[jovial kestrel]

https://gamebanana.com/mods/475374

vita page is live

OH AND THAT ONE EMBEDS

ok discord, whatever, i'm totally not mad or anything