Ares Spartan Helldivers 2 mod (Warning read description before downloading)

[unique belfry]

looks cool

[digital dust]

are you able to port other people's spartans?

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Siiick @maiden gale

Was going to look into this myself, but couldn't find any documentation lmao

Glad more is being known about the process

I definitely want to try to get my OC in the game

[maiden gale]

I’ll send you the links

No actually I’ll put it here

https://www.nexusmods.com/helldivers2/mods/54

Once you download the mod into blender. (Only works in 4.0) there will be a question icon to get documentation for tutorial and the ID number of assets

[torpid badge]

Oh sick thank you @maiden gale

[maiden gale]

I might have to help you since theres some issues not mentioned in the tutorial

[torpid badge]

Would be nice!

I bet if you even did a tutorial video on it you'd get lots of views for it 😄

[maiden gale]

Yea but not to post publicly

[torpid badge]

Oh? 🤔 I personally would do it publicly, just because I'm not worried of getting banned, but I know others are haha

https://youtu.be/jdz-JeLvCY4?si=IL7QprIXLkxelsMD

Looks like someone made a video already 😄

[maiden gale]

made the first weapon mod

[torpid badge]

so cool!

[torpid badge]

how long would you say is the process for this @maiden gale ?

[maiden gale]

3 days

thats how long it took the first time just to learn

had so many issues I now avoid

which it now just take hours

modding guns is really easy and faster

but theres some things you cant take control of

the assault rife was the bare shittiest issue I encountered. I cant edit half of that weapon since it doesnt pull its info into blender

[maiden gale]

far away model

close

[torpid badge]

not too bad!

My Lethal Company mod took me 500+ hours lmao

[maiden gale]

jeez

[ashen shell]

sick

[torpid badge]

Are you going to make sure these get put up on Nexus??

[maiden gale]

Dont know how to. never posted a mod before

[torpid badge]

You just make an account and upload your file with some screenshots basically

It's really easy

[misty fox]

I got really close but I couldn't develop emissive textures to make my armour texture properly show up. It was just incredibly effected by the shadows for some reason

Did you have to use emission to make yours pop?

[void ledge]

You made a lethal mod?

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https://thunderstore.io/c/lethal-company/p/Plastered_Crab/Black_Mesa_Half_Life_Moon_Interior/

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Yeah I made this one here

Was thinking of doing a halo one next

[void ledge]

This is awesome.

[maiden gale]

https://www.nexusmods.com/helldivers2/mods/100?tab=posts&BH=0

@torpid badge ive done it

actually crab not to overcram your server but you should make a mod forum

or theres a server for that idk

[maiden gale]

so now im modding the sniper as the anti rifle however for some reason most guns in the game chamber is the other side. so mirror it isnt hard

[torpid badge]

ayyyy nice!

Glad you have a spot to add mods to now!
These will def pop off

[lilac quiver]

Thanks for the techsuit you made. Now I can have a Recruit armor.

[sly spade]

@maiden gale Please drop a modding tutorial🙏 The tutorial that’s uploaded skips over information regarding full body models. I stumble when I get to weighing parts of armor on the torso, legs etc.

[void ledge]

I agree, that would be great if possible.

[maiden gale]

@void ledge @sly spade

[void ledge]

That sounds good, thanks for the help.

[maiden gale]

Trying to figure out that some of the ID armor has missing assets, well they do exist but theres no showing reference on how many weights there are and what connects to what

[maiden gale]

I might have to update that techsuit mine I did was just had Normal textures that's too strong causing lighting issues

[maiden gale]

I am currently recording a video on how to mod this game

[void ledge]

thank you so much! My only issues are if the model doesn't have distinct and and leg parts..

It's kinda all merged into two meshes.

[sly spade]

Thank you! I'm trying to make a full blue team and fireteam osiris mod. I'm having trouble finding models for some, but I'll worry about that last. If the halo model doesn't have separate arms and legs(left and right limbs are combined as one full unit/mesh) can we merge both legs on the helldivers model as one unit? I'd imagine you'd need to find a model with limbs separated by left and right due to helldiver models having unique model ID's for left and right parts of the arms and legs.

[maiden gale]

As of right now I record a session on making the mod for this armor. Once I get home tomorrow I have to edit since I did so many retakes

[lilac quiver]

[sly spade]

Thank you for your time and effort to be thorough! I am looking forward to this tutorial 🙂

[maiden gale]

Video is an hour. once exported ill upload it to youtube but unsure how long that will take

I did not did a retake since that will take the entire day to explain so I just watched the video and recorded between steps

[maiden gale]

https://youtu.be/pU3NsVwmt1Q

Now started uploading the video so its not watchable now but wait until its fully uploaded, you will be able to watch it soon as it fully uploaded

[maiden gale]

@lilac quiver @sly spade @void ledge @torpid badge here’s the video

[sly spade]

Thank you! I'm heading to work so I'll try to follow the tutorial when I get home. I've seen the part when you have to pose the halo model to match with the helldivers model and it's so complicated to get the bones to move the way I need it to. LOL. You make it seem so easy to use😖. How did you get those lines instead of the cone shaped bones for the posing? That seems so much easier to move around and rotate.

[torpid badge]

sick!

[void ledge]

I'm gonna be trying to out today, thank you so much!

[maiden gale]

!maps

[fringe flame]

https://haloce3.com/xmf/

[maiden gale]

im gonna fight a for a challenge

im putting this guy in tomorrow

[void ledge]

what did you do if the character's arms are much shorter than the helldiver's?

[wind berry]

@maiden gale umm i did copy it

idk what happened

and now im crashing

wait

oops

lmao

[maiden gale]

You download that from this thread right?

[wind berry]

Ye

Love it though

[maiden gale]

New version is on nexus mods

https://next.nexusmods.com/profile/AresAnimation/about-me

I’m posting as much mods as possible

[wind berry]

Dope it work with vortex?

[maiden gale]

What’s vortex?

[wind berry]

A mod manager made by nexus

[maiden gale]

Ah. Well I just uploaded it to their website

[lilac quiver]

[maiden gale]

Ya know there’s something I’m worried about this tool they released

I don’t think they ever updated it since it was released since there’s lots of issues. I fear they only made it for their YouTube content toaster shoes and would abandon it.

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They probably would lol

Is it a script @maiden gale

Cause then issues might be able to be fixed

But it not then oof

[maiden gale]

It’s an addon for blender

Since you make addons as well think it won’t be hard for you to understand it

I can tell you all the issues I’ve dealt with.

[livid aurora]

Hello, did you used Emissive template for your latest master chief model? How did you make visor like that

[maiden gale]

PBR.

I didn’t use emissive

[livid aurora]

can you show your PBR's RGBA channels?

im struggling with visors

[maiden gale]

I wish I could but I’m out rn

In case

R for metallic
G roughness
B occlusion

[livid aurora]

Np i can wait

[maiden gale]

I don’t think alpha is being used

[livid aurora]

copy that

[maiden gale]

I usually just use the output of the shader someone made from the Spartan packs just to grab those inputs and put into a combine RGB then bake it

You might have to deal with metallic and roughness values to see which one reflects the most the the visor. My suggestion is roughness to 0 and metallic to 1 in value in that area. If doesn’t work then change roughness to .5 or 1

This is a PBR texture but not mine. Helldivers 2 original PBR texture

[livid aurora]

Thanks!

[maiden gale]

A big list I found

[livid aurora]

Hey @maiden gale i saw that you pointed out that your armors crashing game when you change etc. and i think that i know how to solve your problem. Seems like you havent red tutorial carefully.

"We recommend loading the 9ba626afa44a3aa3 archive first, which we believe to be Helldivers 2’s boot archive. By basing your mod patches on the boot archive, you ensure that your modded assets are loaded by the game as early as possible, which we’ve found avoids issues with our assets getting unloaded from memory later, causing strange crashing or additional visual errors, and/or having duplicated assets in other archives (which is quite common, unfortunately) take priority."

you need to use "9ba626afa44a3aa3" for your base patch

so you open 9ba626afa44a3aa3 this, tap on new patch then load the armor you wanna change

[maiden gale]

This this patch used for both helmet and armor at the same time?

[livid aurora]

yeah, thats why you change patch_0's to patch_1 etc.

for example those r how my mods looks like

you do armor, check in game for bugs etc. when its completely fixed close and reopen blender for clean start then make helmet with same patch name

meanwhile change your armor patch_0's to 1

[maiden gale]

^

[livid aurora]

Some of the meshes shares same assets so you have to find a mesh that doesnt share asset and you can make it

when you replace b01 you cant do another variation for b01 again

[maiden gale]

Ok

[livid aurora]

Yeah sadly you will have to redo them

While redoing you can put them into diff armors tho

[maiden gale]

yea.

[maiden gale]

@livid aurora so in case im wrong. Steps I did was I used the base archive as the 519cc whatever and then use the patch you described 9ba626afa44a3aa3 . once patch is written I loaded into the game. there is no crashes for changing armor. it doesnt disappear at launch especially joining others. the only issue is doesn't show in thumbnail armor selection

[livid aurora]

Yeah Original material is required for thumbnails. But it has lots of texture sections and only few of em known also you cant apply metallic through pbr in it so you need to sacrifice 2d overlay for good looking armor

[maiden gale]

i see

[maiden gale]

something weird. I made the patch but. theres no patch in the data folders but it exist somehow?

uh oh

fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck

I messed up

[livid aurora]

What happend

[maiden gale]

its fixed

i just accidentally overwritten the orignal batch

[livid aurora]

Oh ok

[maiden gale]

Now im trying to figure out why its not accepting both the patches despite changing the number but still working on it I think i knew the issue

I managed to somehow combine both the armor and helmet in the same batch

but hey life is good

[livid aurora]

Yeah you can pack the helmet and armor in one patch

[livid aurora]

Btw were you able to find a fix for snow/desert stuff moving around armor while walking etc.

[livid aurora]

yeah original is shit about applying pbr

so we are stuck with basic, i dont mind that thing much but it would be cool if we know what causes that

[unique belfry]

How do you bake these textures?

[wind berry]

whats the file name for the aries TwT im trying to remove it

[maiden gale]

I forgor reinstall helldivers 2

[wind berry]

had to open the files and find all 6 files but got it fixed

[tidal yarrow]

shed