Archliches will have her flail, one extra back hair from her informal/civilian appearance, another whole hair set from her goth one, and the head accessories that come with those costumes.
2023-10-29 16:13:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Shoot, so I'm five days late. Sorry again.
Probably the hardest and most frustrating model I've worked with. First I have to rig the face and hair from the ground up and then there's errors in the texture that the devs have seemingly overlooked. It was countless trial and error, like all mod porting processes, but more so than all the other mods before this.
Luckily, I had help to m...
2023-04-12 08:32:15 +0000 UTC View Post
There's no fitting phrase for this one as "biting the bullet", 'cause that's what I did.
Hence, the very late post. Sorry, but low poly is just too ugly. The braids were just like long strands of thin paper. Luckily I know someone who is more proficient in 3D. I am still trying my damnedest to replicate her cut-scene model from pictures so this still isn't the final look.
Her braids wi...
2023-03-10 07:51:38 +0000 UTC View Post
So this was bothering me for a while. I noticed she was somewhat cross-eyed but I didn't mind it as it was accurate to the original position. Then again, the original game must have different eye rotation mechanics. As I was looking for images using my mods in another site, I saw someone's work and the issue is very noticeable; someone also mentioned it in the comments. That's ...
2023-01-25 16:00:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Expect in-game preview this coming January or February.
Finally, she's here. Probably the hardest and most frustrating model I've worked with. First I have to rig the face and hair from the ground up and then there's errors in the texture that the devs have seemingly overlooked. It was countless trial and error, like all mod porting processes, but more so than all the other mods before this.
Luckily, I had help to make a few things possi...
2022-12-13 12:22:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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First of all, let me apologize for the long wait. I did say I was going to be in a hiatus for about one or two months, but actu...
2022-11-30 09:00:24 +0000 UTC View Post
So far, only the back hair is left to be weighted; as you can see in the gif above it's still very stiff. I felt compelled to separate the side hair into two roots (a pair for each side which is four in total) because the ends point in the opposite direction as seen in more detail in the second gif.
The weights names starting with "hair" are the ones I made and the others with "cf" except...
2022-08-31 15:34:19 +0000 UTC View Post
The loose hair, like most Nioh hairs, had no proper rigging so I had to copy smoothly from one of the HS vanilla hairs. Honestly, that method is more preferable
than weight painting them from scratch and it saves time. Stiff hairs need at least a decent rig in any case.
The ponytail ribbon is part of the hair so if you want to replace it, just slide its transparency to 0 then pl...
2022-08-27 08:25:21 +0000 UTC View Post
The model had no face rig unlike all the heads that came before. Naturally, I had to learn some to make a good poseable face and make it work for the additional bones.
Archliches will have more extra makeup: cheeks, lips, eyeshadows and lots of eyebrows.
When the mod is released, please do read the preview text to see which items are included for their corresponding tier.
Pledges will be paused next month and probably the succeeding one.
Expect in-game preview this month or the next.
2022-07-07 14:15:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Phew, took way longer than expected. There were so many issues and mistakes that managed to slip by that I had to go back to just to fix them. To be honest I took some breaks, hours or sometimes a whole day. The loose hair, like many Nioh models, had no proper rigging so I had to copy smoothly from one of the HS vanilla hairs. Now I'm hesitant about making another Nioh port.
Winging it or...
2022-04-29 12:41:54 +0000 UTC View Post
This is actually the first mod that came from the same game as another character I ported. I thought it was gonna be easier, but then I found the side hairs have no proper rigging.
Expect some clipping of the hair, mostly the front left side, in various positions and clothing. The reason being the original model has a long neck. Extending the head any further will cause more issues so I d...
2022-02-28 08:30:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Some stuff still need fixing before proceeding to the tiresome morph work.
Archliches will get an alternate loose hair, aside from the usual stuff.
Pledges may be paused again for the next month.
2022-02-14 15:53:12 +0000 UTC View Post
I said in a comment that the next one wouldn't be a Nioh character, but the situation changed.
Expect in-game preview next month. Pledges will also be paused at that same time.
Work on the next girl will start at the first week of next year, since I have been in a break
these last few months. Also, expect the announcement of the character on that time.
Pledges may be paused for either January or February. Highly likely for the latter.
I adjusted the side hair bones for Oichi to lessen the clipping a bit.
Original links have been upda...
Expect some clipping of the hair in various positions and clothing, the reason being the original model has a long neck. Extending the head any further will cause more issues so I did my best rigging the right side and back/left side hairs from scratch again.
Additional eye closing morphs are added to the corresponding ones so the eyebrows don't drastically change when blinking. The defau...
2021-10-30 21:05:03 +0000 UTC View Post
This has been the most tedious work I've ever done for a mod. 118 out of 130 bones were used for the blendshapes/morphs. I've scoured Japanese Google, viewed hundreds of pictures and watched many videos including a complete TV series so I could find and match a specific facial expression. The fact that this model is based on a real person (with a few tweaks by the original developers of course)...
2021-10-27 15:43:11 +0000 UTC View Post
At default pose the left side hair (actually the back hair hanging on the left shoulder) still clips through the shoulder of the HS body so the hair still needs some weighting magic.
Pledges may be paused this coming September.
Face textures are done but still needs some touchups. Hair is yet to be ported.
Side hairs have no weight so it needs to be rigged from scratch.
Expect in-game preview this month.
Let me start by saying I'm very sorry for the long wait. This has been the most tedious work I've ever done for a mod. 118 out of 130 bones were used for the blendshapes/morphs. I've scoured Japanese Google, viewed hundreds of pictures and watched many videos including a complete TV series so I could find and match a specific facial expression. The fact that this model is based on a real person...
2021-06-30 15:43:09 +0000 UTC View Post
NOTE: The attachment below is an UPDATE ONLY. You need to have the original files first which you can get from here; https://www.patreon.com/posts/31949048.
New card has adjusted skin, lips, cheek and hair color properties to look more accurate so you can use this as reference ...
2021-05-09 14:26:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Pledges are paused for May to be sure everything is in order and not rush this before the release in June. I am still doing my best to make everything almost perfect. What you see or make in Blender sometimes just doesn't necessarily translate into HS a hundred percent for obvious technical reasons. Then you are left with issues that are very annoying to deal with.
Things...
2021-04-30 14:10:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Long story short I ended up binge-watching a whole drama series just to pick up most of the actress' facial expressions since most of the time she has no bangs blocking her eyebrows. I can only get a handful from the game; the rest I searched through googling. I wish I could replicate those crumpled brows (bottom right image) but a long enough time is already spent.
T...
NOTE: The attachment below is an UPDATE ONLY. You need to have the original files first which you can get from here; https://www.patreon.com/posts/31949048.
New card has adjusted skin, lips, cheek and hair color properties to look more accurate so you can use this as reference ...
2021-03-21 13:44:43 +0000 UTC View Post
This is definitely the most outdated model I've ever worked on. I did everything I could to make it look good. It seems every mod I make has a unique problem but then again every head I have ported since are from different games. In this case it's the lack of hair bones so I had to learn and build one from scratch.
At the request of the client this has 2 eyeb...
Yet again there's a slip that went through. Apparently the list file provided did not include the LRE face skins but the texture assets themselves are intact. Download the attachment below and just copy the abdata and overwrite. If you don't need them just ignore this post.
It will only replace the list file TC_lynn_00.unity3d. If changes in the IDs are already made then ...
2021-03-06 20:48:16 +0000 UTC View Post
This is undeniably the most realistic face I will have to work on. Since it's based on a real actress the face's symmetry is a bit off so some parts were adjusted accordingly. It was very hard to nail the make-up it took a headache inducing amount of tries. This has the most numerous bones of all the heads I've ported so far I may end up working with most of it to make some good facial expressi...
2021-02-27 21:21:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Pledges will be paused for February as these coming months I'm gonna be busy with yet again, the most difficult head, along with other things.
Next girl will be Mumyo from Nioh 2. Work on the face textures has already started. The mod preview itself will be posted on or before the end of the coming month.
Nico's ponytai...
2021-01-28 19:34:33 +0000 UTC View Post