Animated Union Cutins showing wrong "skill" effect

[amber dagger]

Just been told that my animated cutins mod breaks the effect that plays for union skills. It's supposed to be a lightning-ish effect, but instead it's a wind effect. The only file I modified was the gmo inside of the second EPL file so I'm not sure what could've happened.

My leading theory is that because it's a custom import EPL it's loading the textures from effect/hrestex/dummy. I just don't know how to confirm that because there aren't really any other models contained inside of the BED with working textures. If possible can someone test the mod on PC and remove various extra textures from effect/hrestex/dummy and see which one fixes it? I really have no idea what to do

didn’t mean to add it to the post but uh

my mod vs vanilla

[amber dagger]

alright someone confirmed that it is my mod doing this

i don't even think i can work on this considering it's something to do with the external textures?

i' gonna snap wtf

ok reading into the file

it says the syoukan moji file is different

ok well it can't be that because all they did was translate the little japanese character into english

even the gms files are the same

ok well i guess that's a localization fix for later?

but still very annoyin

[amber dagger]

i guess it’s a broken particle due to repackaging the BED?

or EPL?

so i guess i have to figure out how to fix that without being able to mod P4G PC

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ok so i got a better understanding

apparently since 64 bit you've been able to pack EPL files via mdl2 instead of repacking the entire file

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guess ill just wait until someone comes along and lets me know the folder structure for the BED files

whatever is at this path, filling in the blanks when needed
data_e.cpk/mdl2/(something)/battle/union/U15(F/E/D)_A/(something until you reach gmo files)

turn on verbose file logging

go into a battle, fail to kill during an aoa (you can do this easily if you have two party members capable of doing a union attack and using kanji's third tier skill to knock down the enemies on encounter 999) and let me know which files are printed at that path

can be yukari and chie, teddie and yosuke, or kanji and naoto

[amber dagger]

ok well if anyone want to test

just activate a union attack by knocking down the enemy in encounter 939

not 999

[thorn canyon]

rip yukiko

(it is not working)

[amber dagger]

what the fuck

oh my god uhghghdhhsdhcd zjcvka;wc

and the particle is broken STILL

thank you for testing brawler

i don't even know what to do with this infomation

her model just doesn't load, and the particle is still broken

please don't tell me the bed files are STILL in the package

ok they're not

fuck it we're leaving it

only turbo nerds are gonna notice the broken particle

can someone send the updated syoukan moji texture at tex2/battle/union/U15E_A/001

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@thorn canyon fixed yukiko and chie, gonna repack and then send it off

should fix the wind effect

[thorn canyon]

did you fix kanji/naoto?

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not yet

i just want to test if what i'm doing will fix the particle thing

should hopefully be fixed

i guess ill have to figure out how to fix the broken updates after this

[thorn canyon]

I'll test this in a sec, I was redoing some of the textures for the cut-ins

[amber dagger]

oh?

alright lol

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gonna mark this as solved because it was worked out

just as an fyi

even if the bone names are the same across the board including the random use of characters not featured in the files, please use all of the files instead of just one