[P5R PC] Take Your Time | [FEMC & Yuri] Story and Gameplay Overhaul

[fresh mulch]

i imagine this is in one of the tutorial threads?

[grand cipher]

yup.

Here's also a image of the things for the animation IDs

for the animations I gave you,

6 is Magic A, 7 is magic b, 8 is magic c, 9 is magic d and 10 is magic e.

As long as you follow that order, the animations should play smoothly (as shown by my Reaper boss, using the model and anims from reloads)

I named the animations to make it easy to match em

[fresh mulch]

boooo

[grand cipher]

ah, had a feeling that'd happen. hold on.

which one do you wanna use? Grey, pink, white or the fourth I can't remember

[fresh mulch]

the 000_000 one

[grand cipher]

so grey?

[fresh mulch]

sure

[grand cipher]

Here.

Basically Reload has a transparent layer mask on every enemy/personas so you gotta use a program to remove it.

[fresh mulch]

which program

[grand cipher]

Me and Ark use GIMP.

basically another photo editing software

[fresh mulch]

i'll try

[grand cipher]

Once your in, add the texture image in, then right click the layer on the bottom right, click Add Layer Mask, then click Transfer Layer's Alpha Channel.

It'll remove the transparent layer, then click Delete Layer Mask. the transparent layer will be completely gone, then you just gotta export it as normal.

Make sure it's one of the reload models, since currently I think they're the only ones that do that

[fresh mulch]

https://tenor.com/view/ishowspeed-try-not-to-laugh-gif-7682731162751353849

[grand cipher]

If you get lost, I can video how to do it

[fresh mulch]

bruh the face

[grand cipher]

did dude predict Hanged Man or did Hanged Man predict the dude

[uncut depot]

i mean you can do that, but you can also just try a different blender version

[fresh mulch]

anyway it works

[grand cipher]

yey.

[fresh mulch]

which version?

im having the same problem when i export as fbx though noesis, load on blender, then export as gmd through blender

[grand cipher]

how come your exporting thru noesis then loading it back on blender?

[fresh mulch]

well, it fixes the white texture issue

[grand cipher]

white texture issue....

you mean the transparency?

or you mean the model is pure white?

[fresh mulch]

this

[grand cipher]

did you export thru noesis, then loaded the _out version?

New Model > EM0122_out (or whatever its named)

[fresh mulch]

yes

this one aint much better

oh nvm

i didnt even do the noesis thing

just loading a fbx works

[grand cipher]

that works, I guess.

whats strange is I did the noesis and mine is normal size.

[uncut depot]

i hear 3.6 tends to be stable for gmd plugin

[fresh mulch]

okay, now for the moment of truth...

TIL

i dont remember needing this. but maybe i did

[grand cipher]

pretty sure any custon enemy needs that

[fresh mulch]

well before it had loaded with ose's model becasue i forgor to change in the unit and it was fine. so its only if you are using a new model

[grand cipher]

yea that

[ruby garnet]

Are you using CBT?

[fresh mulch]

yeah why?

[ruby garnet]

Okay so, have you heard of "EXIST.TBL"?

It's essentially a file that tells the game what other files exist.

[fresh mulch]

i know it exists

[ruby garnet]

That file determines things like if an enemy has a motionse file or Swordtrack or etc.

[grand cipher]

thought cbt had exist tbl nuke pre-installed

[ruby garnet]

You do not want to nuke exist.

It tells the game a lot of things

CBT sets all new enemy slots to have stuff like motionse, so you have the options

I think.

[fresh mulch]

yeah im trying to add a file from another enemy and see

[grand cipher]

old af, ik

[ruby garnet]

That warning is why you don't want to nuke it

[fresh mulch]

i imagine motionse has unique sounds per enemy?

[ruby garnet]

For the record:
Swordtrack is the trails that appear when the PTs do their melee attack, for example.
MotionSE is a file that applies sound effects to always play when an enemy does a specific animation

[fresh mulch]

🤔 is there an enemy with chains in this game?

[grand cipher]

reaper?

[fresh mulch]

wont it be full of gun sounds too tho?

[grand cipher]

I mean, his groaning has chains.

like when hes romaing

[ruby garnet]

MotionSE is an extremely simple file, for the most part. Making a blank one, atleast as a placeholder, shouldn't be hard

[fresh mulch]

yeah just wanted to see if i could get a matching one too while we are at it

[grand cipher]

careful with the motionse shit btw.

for some reason, my yukiko boss decided to change the bgm while summoning a persona. I managed to stop it but idk what caused it still]

[fresh mulch]

queen shit

[ruby garnet]

She’s just that cool

[grand cipher]

changed from reach out to the truth to beneath the mask.

[fresh mulch]

[grand cipher]

Awesome! Glad to see the animations and textures work

[fresh mulch]

thank you for the rip

one day i'll figure it out

[grand cipher]

It's not hard. I can teach you now if you want

[fresh mulch]

added to the post

[fresh mulch]

sure

[grand cipher]

Aight, so you have Persona 3 Reload and FModel correct?

[fresh mulch]

oh btw @uncut depot can you pin this?

[fresh mulch]

yup

[grand cipher]

Do you have P3R already set into FModel? Like you got the AES key?

[fresh mulch]

yeah i can see all the things inside it and stuff

[grand cipher]

click the top or bottom WindowsNoEditor, then hold down shift and click the opposite one so you have all of them selected.

then click Load.

you should now have a folder called P3R

[fresh mulch]

i didnt see any load but right clicking gave me this

[grand cipher]

open the P3R folder.

You now should have Xrd777, L10N, localization, and Astrea.

[fresh mulch]

yeah i know the files

i was navigating them individually tho

[grand cipher]

Alright, back out of 3d viewer.

in the EM0122 (Jotun), right click the Models folder, then click Save Folder's Packages Models. they will all be saved on your Export folder.

Next same thing for the AnmBattle folder.

right click, then click save folders packages animations

Next, go to your FModel folder. the same folder your FModel.exe is in.

[fresh mulch]

i know where it is

[grand cipher]

then follow the filepath:

Output\Exports\Game\Xrd777\Characters\Enemy

You'll see EM0122 in there.

Next, open Blender, and Import PSK. (you should have the plugin for that)

[fresh mulch]

oh so thats the format i needed to use

you forgot to say i have to change the settings

[grand cipher]

sorry lol

Find the model in there, and import it.

That model is the TPose.

the rest is simple.

Add in the animations one by one and export them one by one.

In Blender's export menu, export it as a FBX. make sure to tick OFF All Actions, it'll be in the Bake Animation section.

That's basically it. You don't have to since it looks like it worked fine, but I export my FBXs through Noesis, but again you don't have to.
Load your FBX into GFD, and boom, Reload Model ported.'

All Reload enemies and personas can be ported like that. Party members is a different situation all together, even i don't know how to do that

lmk if you have anymore questions or issues. ❤️

[fresh mulch]

wait how the animation i thing do

do animatio thing thingie

[grand cipher]

the what now.

[fresh mulch]

import

[grand cipher]

Import PSA

should have come with the PSK import

well, depending on the one your using.

[fresh mulch]

oh right i forgot to specifically click the anim folder

[grand cipher]

You click Import PSA (Skeleton Anim) then you find the animation, it'll be in the Anmbattle folder.

if you exported both the model and animation, they'll both be in the Enemy folder, with their ID, in this case EM0122

here's Amicitia for reload if you need to know the IDs for enemies or personas.
https://amicitia.miraheze.org/wiki/Persona_3_Reload

[fresh mulch]

how am im missing a boner

[grand cipher]

did you check to see your not trying to add in EM0122's animations on the table?

cuz I'm playing the animations on him just fine

[fresh mulch]

100%

[grand cipher]

what animation are you playing on him?

[fresh mulch]

any

[grand cipher]

so you clicked his model in Collections, then you imported EM012's Idle and that appeared?

Mine's playing and loading the animations just fine.

[fresh mulch]

i imported this model

[grand cipher]

Yup I got that one too on my screen

[fresh mulch]

interesting...

[fresh mulch]

blender 5?

[grand cipher]

3.4 actually

[fresh mulch]

there's a psk plugin for that?

[grand cipher]

that there is

psk/psa

[fresh mulch]

ok now works

i just have to find a gmd plugin for this version

[grand cipher]

this work?

believe it's the same one as my current one

[fresh mulch]

i just downloaded the latest and it works

[grand cipher]

alright

[fresh mulch]

gosh i love being strong and independant

[grand cipher]

Good stuff mate

guessing you'll be making Sleeping Table as much as a bitch in royal as he was in fes

[fresh mulch]

nah its just a shadow enemy (that will fit the magician archetype by being extremely versatile and using agi/bufu/zio/garu to down your party :3)

[grand cipher]

kewl.

I believe you got everything sorted out so have fun.

Lmk if you got any questions or issues about reload porting.

[fresh mulch]

i kinda wanna wait and see for p4r before porting the feesh. wouldnt wanna all my effort porting from p4g to go to waste

[grand cipher]

I've ported some golden persona models already, but up to you.

I believe Revival will be like Reload so it'll be like FModel, it'll just be a wait until the AES key is revealed.

[fresh mulch]

holy shit its late im gonna sleep

goodnight to the homosexuals

[grand cipher]

night gay

[fresh mulch]

Morning to the str8s

Good mornin gays

[fresh mulch]

lets go

[fresh mulch]

🤔 im struggling with this

for some reason it exports without animations, but still has the first frame pose

[grand cipher]

what table is this

[fresh mulch]

the 00 one

[grand cipher]

triple 0?

[fresh mulch]

i dont think it matters but yes

[grand cipher]

I mean each table has their own floating items

[fresh mulch]

yeah but they all share the same animation

must be something i havent toggled correctly on the fbx export

[grand cipher]

true.

I just loaded the model and animation on Blender. they all load.

[fresh mulch]

the animation loads when importing from psa, but after exporting to fbx, there's no animation at all

(exporting and loading the fbx)

my fbx export settings

[grand cipher]

looks like mine, weird.
Need me to port them for you?

[fresh mulch]

i wanna figure that out myself, but it would be helpful to at least have one of them ported to test, so the idle one?

[grand cipher]

Alright, hold on

out is Noesis exported (I always do it)

[fresh mulch]

it does work...

[fresh mulch]

can you give me a screenshot of your settings, just in case you missed something?

[grand cipher]

geometry/armature doesn't matter

[fresh mulch]

i wouldnt count on armature not mattering

the thing is that my export just has no animation included

what are you selecting when exporting the animation?

[grand cipher]

I export it to FBX, rename it whatever, tick off All Actions, then export.

[fresh mulch]

i mean like this. do you just highlight this?

maybe i can try using noesis for this...

hmmm something is not quite right here... couldnt tell what

[grand cipher]

ah I think I know what.

In the Animation tab of Blender, do you go to Nonlinear Animation and make sure the box is out? Like this

[fresh mulch]

IT WORKS

[grand cipher]

aye nice

[fresh mulch]

holy this animation goes hard

[grand cipher]

watch that be a jojo pose

[fresh mulch]

nice they all work

[fresh mulch]

i just need to give it some ai logic and i can test it

hm i should probably use the icons in the skill overview for persona and enemies

makes it easier to read and separate the skills visually

this is... easier than i thought it would be

it helps they all share the same animations. i fear that something like smt5 will not have all the staps of the magic animation

in that case i'd have to edit a bit myself

nothing too bad but still a bit annoying

[fresh mulch]

first things first, see if it even works. so i'll just copy an existing ai script

yay it works

i still have plenty to adjust

maybe the table could be a bit bigger too

i should be able to include every shadow

if im ever running out of enemy slots, i can just substitute one of the many clones of existing enemies, and use CBT to edit them in real time instead

so instead of a separate incubus boss enemy, just use the normal incubus and changes its properties with cbt on the battle init

[weary rapids]

The Sleeping Table…

The legends are true

[fresh mulch]

>sleeping table
>looks inside
>not sleeping

https://tenor.com/view/cat-stare-staring-cat-gif-25643529

[fresh mulch]

btw its the laughing table this one

[weary rapids]

Is it the easier one than the sleeping table

[fresh mulch]

first version

reload calls it the 'terminal table' for some reason?

why is it bigoted is it stupid?

[weary rapids]

Didn’t call the Justice League

[fresh mulch]

holy jumpscare

today the femulator for the ai decided to work

it should probably be best to create multiple files for different ai behaviors that i import from

this way i can update them all at once

(my english feels bad today idk why)

NICE

once i finish this i'll no longer dread having to make new ai

what language flowscript was the closest to again?

can i even make arrays...

[grand cipher]

Damn you made him big

[fresh mulch]

the flowdump doesnt seem to have any array/list
hm... the flow dump doesnt have switch cases either, but i can use them in flowscript 🤔

[potent geyser]

it's C#

[fresh mulch]

time to try out c# arrays then

[potent geyser]

was that p3 table?:?

or reloaded version?

[fresh mulch]

reloaded

[potent geyser]

ahhh

just need material a lil bit and it will be as good as reloaded

polish it later 🙂

what matters is if it works first

[fresh mulch]

good enough for me. about same quality as the rest of the p5 stuff

i could polish after the demo, i have a lot to do still

[fresh mulch]

not having the best luck...

[fresh mulch]

nice got it to work

[fresh mulch]

very first very basic ai implemented with this system
4 actions/turn
1st turn of battle: 50% do nothing or cleave
all other turns: random skill between cleave/agi/aqua/teraz/garu

i'll be expanding on it but the very basics work now

[fresh mulch]

this is more to get an idea of the expectations than to vote for the mechanics

[jovial turret]

Is it possible to change the ai based on difficulty

If so then it might make it more interesting to make enemies smarter higher up then just increasing damage

[simple knoll]

that'd be some exe editing atuff

the difficulty logic is inside the exe

[jovial turret]

Ah ok so at least it can be done

Sorry I don’t know much about what is/isn’t possible

[fresh mulch]

it wouldnt require exe if i can just check the difficulty through flowscript

since my ai logic is inside a flowscript, not the exe

now, if you were to remove damage modifiers, then that does require exe editing

[fresh mulch]

doesnt seem like there's a function for it tho...

[simple knoll]

there's a function to check difficulty in the flowscript?

yep lmao

[fresh mulch]

i'll be trying to use a difficulty modifier that checks the 'difficulty level' set by each different enemy, and do targetting logic based on that. so if i can ever eventually hook the game's difficulty to the script, simply having different difficulty values add different points to the 'difficulty level' should be an easy feature to add later on

my brain is pudding me speak bad

ig its time to program a very robust targeting logic that i can just plop down on any ai by calling uh idk TARGET_LOGIC(difficulty, element, ailment) or smth like that.

[vast nest]

peak

[fresh mulch]

https://tenor.com/view/happy-cat-gif-10804346947536782797

[fresh mulch]

rn its targeting randomly and it doesnt have designated 1more skills (so it doesnt otk spam as we can see here :p), but the core idea is finished

fun fact, for the randomness here i actually roll twice and average the results to get the random number
also for the first cleave-only turn, if the table ever rolls cleave 3 times in a row, the 4th action will always be watching, vice versa if it watches 3 times in a row, the 4th will always be cleave

im trying to avoid stupidly ridiculous rng

i'm looking forward to testing the palace with this new enemy

[fresh mulch]

gosh i hate how barebones the ai functions are in flowscript 🫠

[fresh mulch]

no dynamic arrays

i did quite a janky roundabound way but hopefully it works

https://tenor.com/view/breaking-bad-chemistry-experiment-scientific-walter-white-gif-17820266

me making the biggest atrocities known to programming

hey it didnt crash!

https://tenor.com/view/yes-yes-sir-yayy-kataman-gif-12260883688244422951

seems to be somewhat working...?

tho looking at the logs there's something weird going on

oh it was just a faulty ailment check

OKAY OKAY i think its now working like a charm

https://tenor.com/view/fast-cat-cat-excited-jumping-gif-5054843775616689213

[grand cipher]

So is laughing table gonna be a mini boss?

[fresh mulch]

no

[grand cipher]

Jeez.

Also why does the dormina sound actually work so well for a water skill.

[fresh mulch]

because its literally bubbles

thoughts?

yknow, enemies and personas should play the melee attack animation when they use phys skills...

literally unplayable

[fresh mulch]

actually i think that the personas actually do? i dont remember

[fresh mulch]

btw this guy is really vulnerable to Forget, so there's a counter if you cant out dps

[strong moat]

don't the personas have different animations for phys vs magic?

[fresh mulch]

yeah now that i think about it, the personas def do (at least the party member ones)

[fresh mulch]

how to know without looking it up:
see arcana of enemy
this one is magician
magician is weak to forget and resist sleep
see the thing inbetween [] at the beginning of its name
it says 'neutral'
neutral has no extra ailment affinity

in conclusion: this guy is weak to forget

(... you might need to look it up sometimes)

res + res = null btw

[fresh mulch]

hehe im so happy rn

i finally have a pretty decent ai system that will speed up their development

[grand cipher]

Maybe change watching to laughing in the wait text?

[fresh mulch]

and if i update the mechanics? it updates on all of them

[fresh mulch]

true...

i was thinking that but it wasnt priority before

[fresh mulch]

the wiki says that this is priestess, but the mask is of the empress

priestess is II and empress III

but this is the empress...

[grand cipher]

wiki is wrong about a lot of stuff

[fresh mulch]

this is the good wiki btw

[grand cipher]

that mask is priestess

[fresh mulch]

i'll just boot up p4g and see for myself

[grand cipher]

flower bird is empress

[fresh mulch]

why there's a III tho?

[grand cipher]

not sure. Oversight?

[fresh mulch]

🤷‍♀️

[grand cipher]

Yea, Priestess mask is II, so I believe it's a mistake.

they look very similar

[fresh mulch]

wth how do you turn your camera with keyboard+mouse

q and e

https://tenor.com/view/fadding-dog-traumatized-gif-10801559770686219962

i wonder how many people played through one of the persona ports in its entirety on mkb

[fresh mulch]

the render is just wrong then

probably from og p4?

[fresh mulch]

oh god i just realized how ugly this version looks

i love having actual polygons

🤔 this is not too bad tbh... i think i can port it as is

[grand cipher]

gotta be careful with golden models.

[fresh mulch]

when p4r launches i update later

[grand cipher]

idk how to fix it, but textures only go one way, so if they're textured outside, they won't be on the inside.

[fresh mulch]

turn off backface culling

[grand cipher]

idk how to do that

[fresh mulch]

im certain this must be why

[fresh mulch]

an option on blender i think?

idk if i saw on gfdstudio too

maybe for kamoshida's i go all the way to empress? so table, pesce, and bambino

he's the king so idk about having other emperors

[grand cipher]

Why not make it so mainly Lovers shadows are in kamoshidas palace.

his sin IS Lust

[fresh mulch]

well i can have this lovers

[fresh mulch]

thats way closer to devil than lovers lol

[grand cipher]

we ain't got Devil shadows though since it's a minor arcana. :/

[fresh mulch]

ig i dont have to strictly follow the tarot order

[fresh mulch]

what

devil is one of the major arcanas. the minor ones are the ones you see in the shuffle times, cups, swords, wands, and pentacles

they just forgor 💀

[grand cipher]

o.

well still, no Devil shadows, just personas

[fresh mulch]

i mean, i can still change them. specially with the mask being its own separate mesh

what

hmmm i could use the shadow bosses from p3 for my will seed boss fights

[grand cipher]

You're gonna need FES Priestess, Reload Priestess doesn't work.

[fresh mulch]

why doesn it?

anyway i already have that one from p5r2

[grand cipher]

Basically I think there's too many bones, and the model freaks out.

It flattens itself and basically has spikes.

I didn't take a image, but it's horrible looking

[fresh mulch]

a finger of the monkey's paw curls

[grand cipher]

She's the only full moon model besides Magician that doesn't work.

[fresh mulch]

the magician is the amalgamation in the beginning?

holy shit they have way too many magician and justice shadows 😭

[grand cipher]

correct.

the one who gets destroyed by Thanatos

his model IS in the game, but the animations don't work

[fresh mulch]

yeah its not much of a magician besides being the first one

ig might as well map the shadows in advance

[grand cipher]

you know how to port them, so you do you

[fresh mulch]

idk the p4g ones, but it seems relatively easy

and there's tutorial for that im sure

[grand cipher]

It's basically the same as Reload, except you use Amicitia and Noesis to get the models out.

[fresh mulch]

good to know

[grand cipher]

maybe I'll make a guide on Gamebanana

[fresh mulch]

priestess as well

https://tenor.com/view/gato-cat-gif-6886058388125904351

[grand cipher]

wonder how he keeps those keychains on him.

[fresh mulch]

>shadow named tower
>looks inside
>hierophant

>shadow that is a literal tower
>looks inside
>justice

[grand cipher]

little legs

[fresh mulch]

... why sae has these shadows?

sae you have anything to say? 🤨 🏳️‍🌈 ❓

[grand cipher]

A better question is why is Sae's "true self" a Goth girl? Or basically a knight when it goes berserk

[fresh mulch]

bet 50% of the reason is because it was hot

[uncut depot]

i dont think you know how tarot works

[grand cipher]

idk how a lot of shit works. x~x

[uncut depot]

i wouldve said fucked up metal thing lol (which actually kinda mirrors johanna in a fucked way)

[fresh mulch]

... how does that work?

[grand cipher]

It's really our palace.

Game files even say MYPALACE.

Plus, ||Maruki|| has one, so why not us?

[fresh mulch]

maruki spoiler tag in the tyt thread

[grand cipher]

you'd be surprised people get spoiled from mods and threads.

[fresh mulch]

heh... tyt...

[fresh mulch]

skill issue tbh

[grand cipher]

anyways imma go lay down.

stayed up way too late last night thanks to me having to do laundry

before I knew I had to do laundry, I thought me teaching girl how to port reload shit was gonna be the last thing before I went to sleep, but NOPE.

[uncut depot]

does it matter if its non-canon

[fresh mulch]

true ig

its from the noncanon cheating ending obviously

but yeah this p5 mod thread is not safe from even p3 and 4 spoilers

[jovial turret]

I watched my friend play through all of p5 and he’s almost done with P3R both on keyboard

He’s a freak 😭

[fresh mulch]

at least p5 with mouse is not too bad... its the keyboard shortcuts that are disgusting

[jovial turret]

Also was wondering if it would be possible to change movesets with difficulty? Feel like it would be cool if on higher difficulties the enemies had more moves to take advantage of the better ai

[jovial turret]

Real

IJKL to move the camera is cursed

[fresh mulch]

cant you move with the mouse?

[jovial turret]

Can you? Idk

Never saw him do it so I don’t think so

[fresh mulch]

yeah you totally can

looks like he just prefers the keyboard...

[jovial turret]

Ok that’s cursed

[fresh mulch]

https://www.wikihow.com/Break-Up-with-Your-Friend

[lunar vector]

A true PC gamer never speaks ill of IJKL.

[fresh mulch]

tbf i use controller for most games

[fresh mulch]

the idea for the will seed bosses 🤔

i still have to actually write the will seed stuff so idk what may change

but this is the idea as of now

[fresh mulch]

(reminder that futaba is a trans girl here)

honestly, a nyx avatar battle sealed away at the third will seed from maruki's palace would be quite fitting

not the same nyx avatar, like these are also not the same shadows from the full moon bosses

[terse shadow]

ajda

[Reply to:](#1440097821834612838 message) A true PC gamer never speaks ill of IJKL.

Rirurin

(the most insane part was that i had the wiimote bound to IJKL)

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#EVTUI (Visual event editing tool)

[fresh mulch]

[fresh mulch]

🤔 hmm i have enough time to think about this. but i do have to decide on at least on these shadows for this demo (yes the entire castle will be playable, as well as april itself. kill me)

(if anyone's curious, this is a reference to the Abduction of Persephone)

a statue with the willie covered? well thats a first

oh well its getting late. gnight yall

Oh, right. Tomorrow i might not be able to work at all, because my computer will be taken for a while

I've been getting quite excited about working on this again tho. Hopefully this doesnt hit the breaks too much

I remember when i first tried evtui and did a custom event, my brain just exploded with ideas and excitement about the possibilities of what i could do. Now that i have a better idea on how to port models myself, a similar feeling is happening again.
The sky's the limit now

[fresh mulch]

I love lesbians <-(biased)

[mellow pecan]

Well, chastity would seem more akin to ⬛⬜🟪 than 🏳️‍🌈 .

I say this, knowing that one version of the myth had him survive and marry a woman regardless.

[fresh mulch]

Btw latest addition for those who didnt see it

Goah i woke up so early...

[fresh mulch]

bruh why are these p3 renders so dark

[fresh mulch]

🤔 seems like a good lineup for the kamoshida palace?

i still dont have the will seeds written down, so idk if i'll change this later. but for now this brings the idea across ig

i think that maybe the full moon shadows im using for the third will seed fights could end up being unlockable group persona fusions?

any shadow has the fool mask?

huh, never realized

but this has the magician one still 🤔

bruh no way

reload changed them to fool, they were always magician

but for some reason they kept the mask the same

me overthinking about having the correct masks on my shadows
meanwhile, atlus:

[uncut depot]

common reload L

[fresh mulch]

literally unplayable smh

tbf this is a nothingburger on its own but once you notice you cant really unsee the lack of polish

its like if they had not fixed the priestess mask that has a III instead of a II. like who really cares? but it would still be a bit uh... mildly disappointing?

ig depends on the perspective. if you like the game, its more like a 'lol' situation. if you dislike the game, its an example of the lack of care or smth

worst game of the year right here 😤

[uncut depot]

ps4 reverts

[fresh mulch]

bruh gfdstudio refuses to save some specific changes im going insane

[grand cipher]

@fresh mulch Pretty sure you saw before me but that unused lab shadow's got found by Croissant.
So maybe he could be a miniboss? Like replacing Hastur?

[fresh mulch]

i mean, i was the one who brought it up first lol

idk tho. does it thematically even fit?

[grand cipher]

idk

[fresh mulch]

okay so, it seems that saving to fbx does not bring unused textures over? and it somehow thinks one used texture is unused?

[grand cipher]

what are you tryna save to gmd?

[fresh mulch]

THIS PIECE OF SHIT REFUSES TO SAVE THE TEXTURE I PUT HERE AAAAAA

https://tenor.com/view/cat-gif-26024732

is there a way to apply the texture on blender?

gfstudio is being a major cunt

[uncut depot]

yea you mess with the material, it should have a field for diffuse texture in there

[fresh mulch]

...same here, same here...

[fresh mulch]

im only seeing diffuse color

lets goooo

[fresh mulch]

okay it works

why is the hand so oiled up tho

[ruby garnet]

Are you remembering to scroll up?

[fresh mulch]

scroll up?

[ruby garnet]

Idk if it’s still a thing now, but there was a bug awhile back where your edits would only change if, after making them, you then clicked on the node and held the up arrow until you hit the very top of the list (the filename)

I make it a habit to always do it, and haven’t had any saving issues since

[fresh mulch]

funnily enough i was doing this with the textue maps folder, but didnt think about going all the way up too

[fresh mulch]

🤔

i should probably change just a bit more

[fresh mulch]

🙂

[grand cipher]

Lol

[fresh mulch]

🤔 thoughts?

[fresh mulch]

I think i'll only have the golden hand be Fool, and the other types of hand have different arcanas

which means i need to do some surgery to bring the mask i made to wealth hand

wow....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHo9P0WVohQ

i think i want this for the will seed boss theme

hmmm im thinking...
first will seed: https://youtu.be/OFfqT-T3_Pg F. O. E - PQ1
second will seed: https://youtu.be/6OkRFNJJIM0 Hunted, Hunting - PQ2
third will seed: https://youtu.be/eHo9P0WVohQ Hunting - DDS2

[fresh mulch]

wth why cant this be straightforward????

[fresh mulch]

holy shit is it legit hard to just have an option of changing a mesh without having to do some voodoo shit?

https://tenor.com/view/fell-gif-11242683397767497522

like cmon, its right here!

[simple knoll]

gfdstudio moment

time to hop on blender

[fresh mulch]

but thats also the problem

blender cant easily do it without having to do some konami code bs

im searching but nothing i try works. and there have been multiple different recommendations

omg i finally decoupled this

LETS GOOOOOO

[fresh mulch]

oh gosh im not done

[fresh mulch]

only one wants the cbt experience

... i didnt even do anything yet

[fresh mulch]

rip. i have to take the computer somewhere today so i wont be having access to modding stuff

didnt even get to figure this shit out

[grand cipher]

Back up your stuff on a drive so you don’t lose it.

Even if it’s not to a repair shop, do it anyways

[fresh mulch]

I did backup to google drive actually

The mod folder and the docs

Some time ago I had already lost years of progress in previous mods from forgetting to backup :3

[fresh mulch]

Hmm if there is something i'd like to 'de-cartoonify' would be futaba's hacking thing. A problem, however, is that i dont really know much about hacking in the first place to write something a bit more grounded

Oh well i wont have to worry about this for a while anyway

[uncut depot]

ur probably better asking a cybersec specialist than just some internet rando who took a couple courses at the behest of an undergrad cs program, but for something like a data breach which is what futaba tends to do in the game "elevated permissions" is a good phrase to know. think exploiting a bad api or tricking an admin out of their account details

[fresh mulch]

This 'internet rando' is quite specific

[fresh mulch]

I guess an easier way to hack some systems would indeed be to hack an admin account

The end goal at the end of the day is to get high enough permissions to do what you wanna do?

[uncut depot]

often yeah

[fresh mulch]

Futaba tricks a tv network ceo into installing a free vbucks and robux cheating tool, the .exe infects the systems, and now futaba has access to the broadcasts, and thats how we get the shido calling card

[uncut depot]

lol

well, hm

[fresh mulch]

Im honestly surprised we didnt get a 'hacking...' loading bar even. Does futaba at least say 'mainframe' once?

[uncut depot]

nope :v

but she does have that matrix-ass monitor display on some of her extra monitors, so it evens out

[fresh mulch]

Maybe thats just a wallpaper

[uncut depot]

wait actually tgirl with matrix wallpaper is really funny

[fresh mulch]

She doesnt wear a hoodie either

[fresh mulch]

Honestly i can see it

I have to give her programmer socks at least

Trans flag colored

[uncut depot]

should i explain the joke or

[fresh mulch]

Matrix is a trans allegory and the creatores are trans i know

What distro would she use...

[uncut depot]

arch, duh

[fresh mulch]

Idk enough about linux so ill take your word for it

I also have a feeling she'd be an insufferable smash bros melee purist(affectionate)

[uncut depot]

"for his neutral special he wields a GUN"

[fresh mulch]

Thats ulticringe 😤

[uncut depot]

hm, actually now im thinking about the logistics of the specific individual hacks that happen

honestly ive wanted to use "do you know how many gray hats can penetrate a system this secure without tricking someone out of their password" as a joke in a fic

[fresh mulch]

Let me see uh...
Speedruns celeste, has every golden strawberry
Has 1000 hours in fallout new vegas
Has one ridiculously obscure game that is her favorite...

[uncut depot]

was celeste out in 2016

[fresh mulch]

It is now

[fresh mulch]

Lmao

I dont get it

[uncut depot]

B)

[fresh mulch]

I think im running out of terminally online trans girl stereotypes

[uncut depot]

(white/black/gray hat: refers to the malice of the hacker, a white hat will try to break into a system to find vulnerabilities so that the people maintaining it can make it more secure while a black hat is the kind of PII-stealing asshole you probably think of when you hear the word "cyberattack")
(penetration in a hacking context is just the act of breaking into a system)

[fresh mulch]

I wish i had a white hat to penetrate my system

...for security purposes

[fresh mulch]

https://tenor.com/view/rigbi-cat-gif-8241730945528351263

[strong moat]

she is particularly passionate about how persona 3 fes is the best version of persona 3

[weary rapids]

How passionate are we talking

[fresh mulch]

Tbf thats just objectively correct

Hm now i wonder if this futaba would have a different wardrobe

Maybe at least 1 skirt from her early transition building up dust

(No im not surfing random trans subreddits atm, why would you think that?)

...

Skirt go spinny

Ugh when computer back... (tomorrow)

[fresh mulch]

Makes me wonder what would be a good shadow to persona ratio

[grand cipher]

what persona would they give? themselves?

[fresh mulch]

Lets start with the first scenario
More Personas than Shadows: More opportunities to negotiate and obtain masks, as well as auto full analysis the moment you acquire one of these personas. The shadows you need to try stuff out since they arent obtainable for you to wield.

[fresh mulch]

They are fully unegotiable

[grand cipher]

Hmm..... I should get back to my reawakened one day.

[fresh mulch]

Second scenario,
More Shadows than Personas: Fewer opportunities to negotiate, as the persona-shadows dont appear as often. Gives less opportunities to farm resources that is not from direct combat, enemy affinities are harder to pinpoint without a guide or without trying stuff out, since most of them arent ontainable as personas

Then 50/50 which is self explanatory

Basically
More personas = easier
More shadows = harder

[grand cipher]

will you providing the guide for Take your Time or will the community have to make one? Like as they go along, they make their own notes instead of using yours

[fresh mulch]

I'll provide the docs because the other alternative is unrealistic

However, i'll emphasize that it is recommended to not look up on the docs on your first playthrough, only if you are needing its extra technical info(of course, you do what you want. But the intended experience is not guide-dependant)

[uncut depot]

hm, well youre already making negotiation somewhat rng to avoid it being a get out of jail free card, so too many non-demon shadows i think risks going overboard and making negotiation borderline irrelevant
maybe early game skews toward more demons and late game skews toward more shadows? since in early game you dont have as many demons to fuse away while in late you can buy from compendium more and have unlocked personas that are fusion-only anyway

[fresh mulch]

I mean the system can be altered. If i am to introduce more shadows, then i'd accordingly increase the odds

There would still need to be risk in negotiation, otherwise you'd be able to cheese every shadow fight that has a persona in the middle by asking for money

[uncut depot]

but of course

[fresh mulch]

I wonder how interesting would a confidant ability that gives these shadows a low chance of negotiation be. Of course, they wouldnt give themselves as persona, but i wonder if tying each shadow to a treasure demon would work, and you get that demon on success

Ohya would fit well for this

Smth like Dirty Scoop? Idk you get the idea. Thematically a 'contract with the devil' in a way

Have i elaborated a lot on my 'overworld shadow fights' idea?

[uncut depot]

youve brought it up a couple times

[grand cipher]

like the full idea of it or bits and pieces?

[fresh mulch]

The full idea. Is the concept understood?

idk whats in my head and yalls

[grand cipher]

looks fine to me.

Why not see how it looks in game to make sure whats in your head actually works

[fresh mulch]

Maybe after porting these shadows i'll work on the concepts of a plan of the idea

But fr there's some information im holding back because im not 100% sure yet and you'd have to see to know if it works

[grand cipher]

oooo, me likey infomation

[fresh mulch]

When i write down my idea: and then she cry, and they go 'wow', and he goes 'fr?!', and then she...
When i actually execute an idea:

basically, the idea is that anything written down looks like the worst idea ever, because its missing the tiny things you can only see on execution

And yes, I'll toot my own horn. Cry about it /lh

So i dont really like sharing stuff im not sure if i'd be able to deliver. I dont wanna look like an 'ideas guy'

[grand cipher]

Still love how you actually made custom events. I can't do alldat

[fresh mulch]

But yeah, uh, the thing im holding back would be a bit... huge and would change a LOT that i'd already done or set up, so i wanna make sure it works first before sharing the concept

[fresh mulch]

Make videos or music or any media that is sequential like that, because evtui uses the concept of a timeline of nodes, so if you can wrap your head around this concept, then editing events comes very naturally

It is pretty simple. But with anything, you need to want to learn

And also be motivated enough to spend days working on only a few minutes of content :p

[grand cipher]

ehhhhhhh

[fresh mulch]

It is a lot like doing animations actually

(Because it literally is that lol)

Btw this is the theme that would play in the overworld battles probably https://youtu.be/L4IyZwZXJrI

[fresh mulch]

I'll elaborate again cause why not (my pc will only come back tomorrow afternoon and im bored 🙂)

Basically: stuff happens through the city, and if you locate the spot, you can begin a scripted battle.
This ranges in complexity, but think of them like mini-quests. It is expanding on the scrapped idea of the metaverse being more intertwined with the real world

There are two ways i could go about this: only you and mona would be able to enter these fights (party temporarily gone), with the navi switching to mona. But i wonder if i can use the npc follower system in a way to have the party member following you as part of the fight... 🤔
The other way is for you to 'call everyone' and have the battle be like normal
Either of these have their pros and cons that i can elaborate more on

They wouldnt advance the day, but maybe a 'fatigue' system that only allows one of these per day?

[grand cipher]

so kinda like the unused way of getting mementos requests

[fresh mulch]

Unused?

[grand cipher]

Not sure how true it was, but before you could go out in the city and hear people talking, that would give you a reason to go to mementos instead of relying on mishima.

There's even a set of NPCs in the game that still somewhat have that code as their dialogue bubble is a different color then others.

[fresh mulch]

This would work much better with the themes of the game. Conceptually you are an outcast that blends in and overhears what others are talking about after all

But this would not result in mementos, because it wouldnt be someone's desire you have to steal, but more like actual rogue shadows

Think yokai watch or digimon

🤔 how limited are battle fields in this game? Could i just use any field?

[grand cipher]

you can turn anything into a battlefield

[ruby garnet]

Theoretically yes

[fresh mulch]

Oh yeah, the idea would also be that in the theatre, there are different screenings per month, and you can bring one party member with you to watch that movie (only once. Raises social stats and confidant points). Each screening ends up in a shadow fight that will be with you, mona, and that character you chose

[ruby garnet]

In practice, you are likely to spawn in walls in unintended fields

[grand cipher]

The trick is you gotta find enough space for the characters, camera, and enemies

and also make sure the camera doesn't let you see cut off walls or anything

[fresh mulch]

So i could have a battle happening in the middle of a highway in shibuya...

[uncut depot]

thats a nice argument senator why dont you back it up with a source

(i do think at least some of the requests working that way would be cooler though)

(i think theres one or a couple you can get early by snooping around but mishima does give it eventually)

[fresh mulch]

Im kinda liking the idea of car accidents happening because of a competition between turbo granny and hell biker in the metaverse (yes its intentionally stupid), and you have to fight them to make it stop
Stuff like this just for funsies, exploring the shadows for plotline more focused on the monsters themselves (something very rare in p3/4/5)

[ruby garnet]

Fight them on a moving vehicle

[fresh mulch]

Honestly i could do that with enough effort? Reuse the tricks they use on the 'walking to school' intermission scenes for the movement, and have a top-of-the-truck battlefield

[grand cipher]

I can't find the video, but there was a image where NPCs dialogue bubble above their head was blue.

[fresh mulch]

Tho maybe it would not be applicable for a field on itself...

[ruby garnet]

Do what the ship does.

[uncut depot]

thats quite a leap to "you would get mementos requests by exploring"

[fresh mulch]

Oh yeah the ship

[ruby garnet]

The truck would be the field, the rest would be an animated ‘object’

[grand cipher]

I'm pretty sure it was gonna be a thing I just can't the video right now

I don't remember the name

[fresh mulch]

I would only have it be in the middle of the highway tbh. But i would give the concept a spin, and if doable enough, do for flex points

Rule of cool triumphs all

Triumphs over all? Trumps all?

Idk english

[uncut depot]

either would be gramatically correct though the latter is an established phrase

[ruby garnet]

Bringing back memories of some of my earlier field mods

[uncut depot]

i still gotta make the cemetery field for royal restoration smh

[fresh mulch]

The royal restoration stuff will be usable in other projects?

[uncut depot]

if theres something worth using elsewhere ig

the cemetery is just gonna be one of those pngs though lol since its event-only

[fresh mulch]

🤔 i said that a team here is not worth it. And i still think it isnt, but tbh for modelling stuff in general im not opposed in getting help from others (i despise blender)

Just havent needed much because rei deliberately looks identical to jonke

[fresh mulch]

Thinking about it...
No one has done a mod that replaces one of these png field with something funny?

Only seen sayuri replacement

[uncut depot]

i guess you could do that huh

i feel like itll prob be cc-by-nc-sa? i dont see any reason to have something more restrictive
in which case you can just sorta borrow shit if you remember to credit

[fresh mulch]

Your idea for gb download farming

When you start typing, deletes, continue typing, deletes again, and now you dont know what else to say. But you cant stop and have to come up with something because you have been typing for so long and it'd be awkward to just... stop, because of the 'x is typing...' thing

[uncut depot]

mood

[grand cipher]

Sayuri is the best one for replacement.

Though what other pngs could you replace? Besides the phantom thief poster in your room?

[fresh mulch]

Maid cafe png field replacement with adachi true

[uncut depot]

oh right i also need to unfuck shadow okumura anims so hes not melted into the chair lol
i guess technically i kinda did that but then i realized itd look less weird if i just grabbed from one of his event anims

[fresh mulch]

Me finding ways to realistically bring the p5x navi girl just for the ship with her and futaba (its adorable and it'd at least save one character from being stuck in p5x hell)

Welcome to the girlkisser yuri ride, the ride that never ends

https://tenor.com/view/rikotaba-futaba-sakura-persona-5-riko-tanemura-yuri-gif-9951209269859302604

[fresh mulch]

Oh yeah i was gonna elaborate on pros and cons

[grand cipher]

nah, if anything it'd be yusuke and futaba

[fresh mulch]

Begone, het

[grand cipher]

i refuse

[fresh mulch]

Pros of a more 'individual' approach: its more interesting, provides a different dynamic to these battles compared to the normal ones in the metaverse
Cons: a reason i came up with this idea in the first place was to give you some non-time commital space to test out some of the many skills your party members gain inbetween metaverse visits, because it can quickly pile up without you getting to try em out by the sheer amount of things that can give you skills. So this idea will not work that well for that goal

[fresh mulch]

(But fr i already said that, and this is just not the place for het shipping. Like, pick your audiences better)

[fresh mulch]

So yeah, i have no idea what i should do here

[grand cipher]

didn't know it was het.

my bad.

[fresh mulch]

Yusuke best girl

[grand cipher]

...I thought that was ryuji

[uncut depot]

akechi

[fresh mulch]

Oh btw theres a poll here if anyone missed

It would be nice if you could 'pin' a poll like in a livestream. So have it appear on top until it closes regardless of how far away the original message is

[fresh mulch]

Ow i got hand cramps

Have i been typing too much

[grand cipher]

how you do get hand cramps by typing? XD

That's some feat right there

[fresh mulch]

... Because typing uses your hands?

Do you type with your feet

[grand cipher]

I meant like I've yet to hear about someone typing so much they got a cramp.

then again I rarely talk to anyone

[fresh mulch]

My mom has arthritis because of her old job

[grand cipher]

Guessing her old job was office stuff?

[fresh mulch]

Plus, any muscle you repeatedly use will get tired

Yeah

[grand cipher]

sorry to hear about that.

But yea my mom also works in office

[fresh mulch]

Good night to all homosexs. Im 'bout to pass out

I wanna go back to modding so bad...

Is it perhaps apparent that i may, perchance, experience heightened romantic and carnal desires towards the feminine?

https://tenor.com/view/sleep-sleeping-sleepy-cat-cat-cute-gif-5647373625706459185

[uncut depot]

https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/increasingly-verbose-memes

[grand cipher]

what ep even is that meme from

[fresh mulch]

Mornin

[fresh mulch]

I love women

My computer should hopefully be back today

I'll lock tf in and port all the shadows i need

Then once thats done, i'll begin the prototyping of the overworld shadow fights idea

[fresh mulch]

Bumping this poll

I could theoretically start with a very low shadow ratio, but gradually closer to the end of the game, personas end up having a lower ratio instead

Ig enemy personas already dont have much variance at the end of the game, because they are designed to be acquired through fusion instead

Funny that in the third sem there's the super shadow variants of early game shadows, because they needed some new enemies to pad out that section, and there arent many options for that by then i suppose

These will probably go first if im running out of slots for new shadows

I think that with cbt i should be able to basically remove any boss that uses a normal persona model?

It allows me to edit all the data at the start of the only battle they appear

Ig i could also use cbt to 'clone' early level shadows into higher ones, by calling its commands in the ai script

Maybe this allows me to introduce enemy scaling, by checking at which point of the game you are, then modifying the data accordingly 🤔

There are pros and cons to each of these i'd have to throughly consider

After deadline and at mission start are relatively close, but there's quite a bit of difference still
Mementos opens up more after the deadline, right? Meaning that all early enemies have been buffed when you go there as soon as possible, after mission start is slightly easier because of that, giving you a short window with weaker enemies
You'll kinda need to go to the earlier paths still for the quest bosses, so there's that

This brings to my next thought, limiting quick travel in some way in mementos. How to do it in a way that doesnt suck.... I wouldnt know

Well you dont even get mementos in april, so thats something for future me to think about

[fresh mulch]

Yknow, if yokai were real, you'd think japan is a hellhole that you cant walk two steps before having to do a dozen different weirdly specific rituals to ward off dozens of different monsters

Fnaf irl

[fresh mulch]

COMPUTER IS BACK BABY

lets see what was the state i left wealth hand in

OMG THIS IS SO CLOSE

i just need to fix the orientation

what if i rotated the root node on blender

oh uh... can i save this

man why is everything related to modelling so unnecessarily confusing

https://tenor.com/view/cat-crying-cat-cat-meme-cat-crying-meme-crying-cat-meme-gif-1182720488497099882

in today's episode i'll be liveblogging my descend into insanity

how difficult can it be to just rotate a model without breaking anything??? 😭

[uncut depot]

are you applying transforms

you parented all the meshes to armature?

[fresh mulch]

yes im sure

[uncut depot]

all ur vertices are weighted?

[fresh mulch]

idk whats that

just found this

[uncut depot]

basically how much the movement of a bone in an anim affects that part of a model

[fresh mulch]

ig i'll compare to the other hand that is working

[fresh mulch]

i have no idea if this changes much but they are quire different for some reason

the thing is that the animations do work, but the moment i try in any way to switch its base orientation, everything breaks

what

okay this does nothing

[fresh mulch]

oh my god...

i just need to turn it around

oh no wait i think its facing the right direction

i just spammed 'retarget animation packs' until something worked

one problem is that wealth hand is floating, but honestly i can just bruteforce a fix by making its root lower to the ground in its animations

[fresh mulch]

okay...

do the fingers normally look this weird?

💅

hm.... i think something is a bit... wrong

sigh...

i'll see if i have better chances by just substituting the other hand's meshes

OH RIGHT i had this one

the problem: gfdstudio absolutely REFUSES to let me add any textures

[trim onyx]

Kinda big

[fresh mulch]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-gif-11711113271445441641

[fresh mulch]

this is atually maddening

[fresh mulch]

FINALLY

now, to change the mask model

🙏

no way... it worked

ez clap

im FINALLY free

time to design these enemies ig

after that i'll take a break from model stuff by doing the overworld concept i keep talking about

right i still have magic hand to add

[grand cipher]

Didn’t even know they had nails, ew

[fresh mulch]

render of the redesign

[grand cipher]

What's he smiling about? thinking he's gonna easily win the battle

[fresh mulch]

i think this is it

time to work on it ig

[fresh mulch]

least undistinguishable oldsona sprite

playing them is an exercise in squinting holy hell

why is enemy health in this game so low

nice

[fresh mulch]

gosh writing ai has actually been fun now that i can do it quickly

that's... not a magic hand

bruh dont tell me that i cant do this over enemies that share a slot with a persona

[grand cipher]

Yea I had the same issue.

[fresh mulch]

so i can only do this on persona slots with reserve (which would clog the persona slots, obviously), or i can use the enemy-only slots for this

hmm i wonder what i'll do... /s

https://tenor.com/view/cat-fall-cat-bite-fall-cat-falling-cat-cat-bed-fall-gif-9157680254592124187

[grand cipher]

looney tunes ahh

[fresh mulch]

https://tenor.com/view/falling-gif-15126670824425260555

[fresh mulch]

HOLY SHIT

i have to test with baton pass on

the extra chain damage makes a huge difference

its getting late. gn

[fresh mulch]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-cute-silly-adorable-kot-gif-20944743

mornin bitches

[fresh mulch]

https://tenor.com/view/lesbian-lesbians-yuri-lesbian-kiss-lesbian-roblox-gif-25368958

wrong gif

i never played roblox

[fresh mulch]

Tf is this from anyway. Looks like toxic yuri

https://tenor.com/view/carole-carolepepper-honkai-honkaiimpact-honkaiimpact3rd-gif-765809393464502012

Meant to post this

[fresh mulch]

Honestly, enemy scaling wouldnt be too difficult to implement. Might as well

im out this entire morning
Its time i could instead be using to get my demo closer to completion

[fresh mulch]

Honestly, i wonder how much of the reputation jrpgs has is from skill issue of the average player

I havent played a ff game yet tho

[fresh mulch]

yeah. as expected, the fight becomes trivial

i think i should dabble in the encounter files a bit. trying to balance these encounters to be challenging both before and after baton pass is impossible

[fresh mulch]

https://tenor.com/view/gato-cat-gif-6886058388125904351

no way this isnt on purpose

...nice

[fresh mulch]

bruh what

man this damage formula is scuffed

~~btw thoughts on the floof's moveset? :3 ~~

[fresh mulch]

gosh im tired and my head hurts

https://tenor.com/view/signalis-ariane-elster-dance-apnoiac-gif-9807235051634731525

have dancing lesbians meanwhile

HOLY

FUCKING

BASED

i go feral at the slightest hint of yuri

homophobia 🥀

(but fr mod-feed is lowkey kinda toxic)

@ornate summit thank you for blessing this land with more much-needed yuri 🙏

[ornate summit]

got slightly jumpscared by the notif! i couldnt even respond because i hadnt verified my number

[fresh mulch]

lmao

[simple knoll]

oh that's your discofd

[ornate summit]

me too, its why i try and put yuri in every game i play

[simple knoll]

I made a gamebanana comment on what you need to do for auto updates and the reloaded 1 click

[fresh mulch]

https://tenor.com/view/waow-based-wow-thinking-doodle-gif-12262272166408784207

literally me

as you can see, this is the yuri thread

[ornate summit]

i think I did it right?

[fresh mulch]

my lesbian ass was rekindled
its time to lock in... for the yuri

(... its looking like the demo will still take a few more months )

gosh i finally found the exact encounter lists

i'll be taking a while to map the entire castle. yay.

https://tenor.com/view/makoharu-yuri-persona-5-makoto-niijima-haru-okumura-gif-13645795013217268932

[mellow pecan]

https://tenor.com/view/makoharu-persona-5-yuri-makoto-niijima-haru-okumura-gif-12673604137537655050

[fresh mulch]

https://tenor.com/view/good-morning-morning-makoharu-okujima-makoto-niijima-gif-14988794195704654848

[fresh mulch]

finally

i think its time to restart the whole thing from the beginning

im sorry shiho

right i have to find where the animated movie of jonkler waking up on the train at the beginning plays

at the end i'll be changing that to a whole event instead

https://tenor.com/view/cat-this-is-a-cry-for-help-help-help-me-lord-help-me-gif-1631346409026690561

it is def right after the scene of you setting joker's name at least

found it

IT WORKS

i wont be doing this event anytime soon tho

okay so i'll be substituting a 3minuteish cutscene with an event...

what am i doing

[fresh mulch]

ig now i just need to redesign the beginning of the game... oh boy i have my work cutout for me alright. i'll be in my spreadsheet dungeon

🤔 what theme should i use for the castle undeground tho

well i think i at least found a good theme for the subway area, at least for good weather
https://youtu.be/XEtRzDYYBuY

still trying to find a good one for the calling card of sae's palace

[fresh mulch]

... i think i found it

[fresh mulch]

okay im pretty sure i have the beginning music stuff done. just need to record

oh ffs using cheat engine to speed up just one part of the game breaks the sound of the entire recording from steam

[fresh mulch]

https://youtu.be/NTT2Z5RjIHg

i'd like to hear yall's thoughts

also gn, for i'll sleep

(fr please do tell me if you have any thoughts)

[jovial turret]

the return of "vulgar boy"

[fresh mulch]

Mornin yall

Why is sleeping so tiring

[fresh mulch]

Reminds me that i'll be editing the name tags at the beginning to be more like the ones in my custom event

Which reminds me that, if i want to add the phantom thieves name tags, it has to be now to save the headache later

[fresh mulch]

https://tenor.com/view/uni-unico-uniuni-unicouniuni-unicouniuni3-gif-12798344145506295943

[uncut depot]

uni!

[fresh mulch]

https://tenor.com/view/uni-uni-cat-unico-uni-uni-cat-cute-uni-cat-comb-gif-1038712284212645603

[fresh mulch]

🤔

btw i thought this would be fitting :p

[terse shadow]

context:

[fresh mulch]

editing the cutscene to substitute one of the oses to my custom shadow is being quite the pain in the rear

[fresh mulch]

okay i just have to nudge a bit im almost there

[strong moat]

I understand the intent here, but for me personally I've used "dude" as a gender neutral term hahaha so I've never thought much of it. I'd stop if someone told me they were uncomfortable with it but no one has asked that of me yet...

(I think the thing that actually bothers me about that line is that it's the only unvoiced line there lol but not like you can do much there...)

I feel like the term has been used in a more gender neutral context as of late but maybe that's the circles I'm in...

[fresh mulch]

you are kinda missing the point here

there is a lot that can be discussed about dude being gender neutral, but this is just ryuji saying 'dude' and futaba, who's trans here, reacting with annoyance

this is also foreskinningshadowing the deal with futaba later

[jovial turret]

Ryuji would def keep calling her dude even after being reminded a million times not to

[fresh mulch]

https://tenor.com/view/fade-away-oooooooooooo-aga-emoji-crumble-gif-20008708

futaba

HOLY SHIT IT'S HERE

for one frame wth

[simple knoll]

lmao yeah

I mean she still calls kasumi "bro" in Rose and Violet my guy thinks of everyone as dude and bro

[jovial turret]

bc everyone IS bro

its basically gender neutral at this point

[strong moat]

I think I got the point lol, that's why I commented that

[strong moat]

for him that's how it feels yeah lol

[fresh mulch]

i see

https://tenor.com/view/unico-uni-cat-unico-cat-cta-cat-gif-14756350193200576605

[strong moat]

I do see what you are going for I promise 🙏

just had me thinking about how I generally use the term in a gender neutral way

[strong moat]

oh

[fresh mulch]

makes me think about how i sometimes neutrally use 'girl' similarly to 'dude'

girl wtf

[strong moat]

no same 😭

[fresh mulch]

girl same

[strong moat]

real

[fresh mulch]

https://tenor.com/view/get-real-cat-skate-funny-meme-gif-18666878

almost there

[fresh mulch]

lets goooo. i edited a cutscene to add my new shadow

i could probably adjust the thing a bit to look more like the rest, but its good enough for now

[uncut depot]

"dude" is one of those words that is only contextually gendered for me at this point lmao

[fresh mulch]

i mean, i sure hope people saying that dude is neutral mean it contextually

"you're a dude" is not neutral for example

it's still funny when games pretend your player character 'couldnt win this fight' for narrative reasons

like, bitch i can

[uncut depot]

incidentally please beef the shit out of akechi

[fresh mulch]

what does that mean

i think the prologue is almost done now

https://tenor.com/view/yes-yes-sir-yayy-kataman-gif-12260883688244422951

idk what else i could change

ig i can mess around with the difficulty screen, at least to say that its really not recommended to play with merciless

[strong moat]

yeah that can't be argued lol, I think whenever I say "dude" it's like "dude no way" or something where that's very much not gender targeted

[fresh mulch]

ig this is like saying 'god', most dont really mean the christian monodeity

[strong moat]

same way you mentioned "girl" before

linguistics is really cool bc you can see how language evolves with time like this

like 10 years ago most people would only use dude to refer to someone male
nowadays, yea

[fresh mulch]

the one good thing to come out of modern slang has to be scrungly

https://tenor.com/view/what-the-cat-doin-sheepboye-gif-22386505

scrunkly fits this so well

[uncut depot]

i feel like the average person who says "my man" when someone does something cool is not actually trying to imply anything about the cool persons gender. its just an exclamation

[fresh mulch]

https://tenor.com/view/kevin-mohawk-kitten-evil-wisp-aggressive-gif-3788442544152779116

[fresh mulch]

hm i could def implement these scrapped events

so... all i need for checking/setting difficulty are these flags?

hopefully it works and its not scrapped

IT WORKS

...it was already documented

https://tenor.com/view/taiho-shichau-zo-teehee-anime-youre-under-arrest-ova-gif-21342147

now difficulty impacts the odds of ai commiting a blunder

bigger number = better

for bosses in specific i might have specific logic for differend difficulties at times

[grand cipher]

Can’t remember if asked before but will bosses be different in difficulties?

Like say for kaneshiro, if on Safe, piggytron won’t be a thing but on hard or higher, he will? Sorta like cuphead where phases don’t happen if on regular difficulty

[fresh mulch]

there is no point in going through all that effort

if you are on safe, then you are already very safe. no reason to change anything dramatically anyway

plus any difficulty changes would be a normal vs hard sorta thing. i'm not gonna be caring for easy

the special logic i mentioned is stuff like, on normal, bosses avoid unfair deaths like repeatedly targeting joker, but on hard, all bets are off(sometimes)

[grand cipher]

ok king dice

[fresh mulch]

i'm changing the difficulty select rn

(i already fixed this box btw) you'll be prompted after this to confirm the difficulty too

(it also says 'youve chosen easy' cause i havent made the other messages)

[grand cipher]

Instead of having her silent, what about having her do her usual grunts or smth? or the 'hmm'

[fresh mulch]

i'll worry about this on the pre-demo polish

slows me down too much otherwise

[grand cipher]

pre-demo?! How much is considered the actual demo???

[fresh mulch]

pre-demo is what im doing rn

demo is the thing i'll release

just saying i'll polish before release

[fresh mulch]

holy im so overwhelmed rn

[grand cipher]

Focus on one thing at a time. I feel like your trying to do multiple things at once.

Slow down and focus on one thing you feel needs to get done, then work on the next thing.

If you still feel overwhelmed then perhaps take a break?

[fresh mulch]

its mostly that the difficulty thing is a huge branching spaghetti tree

it'll take a while to connect everything

[grand cipher]

Then focus on that instead of battles/events.

Take breaks so you don't get overwhelmed/frustrated by it to the point where you give up

[fresh mulch]

https://tenor.com/view/mizumafu-mafuyu-asahina-mizuki-akiyama-pjsk-project-sekai-gif-14260082995731714363

mizuki yuri posting

https://tenor.com/view/mizuki-mizuki-akiyama-mizuki-project-sekai-mizuki-pjsk-mizupochi-gif-8985788375054729011

ig im good for today. will be reading some fanfics

[sharp yoke]

I wonder, will you remove the x3 damage from Technical and Critical damage in Merciless? Cause that easily exploits that difficulty

[fresh mulch]

merciless is not an intended difficulty in the first place, so i'll just leave as an option, but warn about it

[sharp yoke]

Was it not? huh

[fresh mulch]

not in this mod

[fresh mulch]

man... the mc community can be so negative to mods when they do something they dont personally like (and of course, act like their opinions are objective). well, at least the one on youtube, which is already notorious for being kinda trash. hopefully this is not that bad here... right......?

there'll be plenty inherently controversial features in this mod

anyway, gn. hopefully tomorrow i finish the difficulty select thing

https://tenor.com/view/akiyama-mizuki-mizuki-akiyama-pjsk-project-sekai-prosekai-gif-4986150247139065238

[grand cipher]

"Don't let them bother you, just be true to yourself." - Yusuke

[fresh mulch]

True to yourself... is that a p4 golden the golden refrence??????????? 😮

[grand cipher]

prob

[sharp yoke]

Musstt.... have.... SMT-like Difficulty...

[jovial turret]

wait you actually added the ai thing holy W

[jovial turret]

would be a cool middle ground if it affected the bosses main mechanic but not too dramatically

like on hard maybe throwing a good item only stuns for 1 turn instead of the usual 2

or maybe not at all and it just stops him rolling you again that turn

[grand cipher]

maybe maybe.

My idea was ripped straight outta cuphead and don't even know if it'd be possible

[jovial turret]

idk if its possible either but id assume it would be a lot easier to make minor changes like that versus getting rid of it altogether but both would be cool to see

maybe expanded movesets too on higher difficulties but idk how hard that would be either

[jovial turret]

yea if they pull a jin and actively go after your weaknesses/go for techs thats gonna be a nightmare

[jovial turret]

If you know its gonna be controversial maybe down the line once the mod is done it would be cool to see separate mods for all the changes

Like for example the music additions, story changes and the new enemy AI would all be separate downloads so people could pick and choose which ones they wanted

and possibly a R&V compatible version if the story changes don’t conflict too much

[fresh mulch]

There isnt a clean way to separate the story changes, since they are instrisically interconnected with everything else here

R&V compatibility would be too much work, since the story changes do indeed conflict a lot

Example: the story constantly addresses rei's tomboyishness

Just because some changes might be controversial, doesnt mean i'll go out of my way to please the hypothetical people the mod is not even aimed towards in the first place

[fresh mulch]

Smt difficulty is overrated

Its not that hard

[fresh mulch]

Would not be hard at all, but there is the issue of the analysis screen

Tho i guess i can always use cbt to change that on the fly

Anyway, morning. Still havent had my covffee

[fresh mulch]

What i'll probably do instead: simple toggle in the configs for bgm changes, and toggle for the color changes. This is it about options, however, i'll try to add gameplay options clearly marked as cheats, if implementing them is not too unreasonable. So customizability while also making the intent clear

[fresh mulch]

https://tenor.com/view/mizuki-akiyama-cupcake-pjsk-frosting-akiyama-mizuki-gif-7977568786499265474

[fresh mulch]

time to see in how many ways it breaks

it is... working surprisingly well wth

first try even

holy shit its working REALLY well

https://tenor.com/view/yes-yes-sir-yayy-kataman-gif-12260883688244422951

its a spaghetti of conditional messages and framejumps to get the loop going in this format

[fresh mulch]

the text is a bit wonky, but the difficulty select is fully operational

btw all this difficulty info i got from the wikia, so if anything is wrong, you know why

(the mistake part was my addition)

[fresh mulch]

ugh i want to use this template, but increasing the file size breaks it, and i cant for the life of me find where it is hardcoding a specific value instead of using the one in the ftd

p5r_ftd has no labels but it is working fine

i have no idea how these work...

well, it is still doable without labels...

where is this "end of file'??

anyway, it is working well

i'll probably lower the volume tho

im still figuring out the exact bgms i want, but this is the one i used in the video https://youtu.be/sQPDe1mU31s

https://tenor.com/view/pjsk-pjsk-stickers-project-sekai-mizuki-akiyama-mafuyu-asahina-gif-3971951741084225505

[fresh mulch]

okay its... working now? so weird

hmm what would be a good theme for shujin

it cant be the average upbeat school theme tho

[fresh mulch]

same...

[weary rapids]

Mood

[fresh mulch]

i'll prob lower the volume of the shibuya one, but this is the proof of concept