Duplicate characters: On meshes

If you started re-mapping characters you should have noticed that there were a couple issues. I didn't notice them until I actually tried clicking on Torn/nude and then it became pretty clear that I haven't loaded the whole character properly.

Essentially, all of the semen shows on the body and a lot of the extra features like blush, tears, or highlights don't work. These have to do with meshes, and most likely the options toggle their transparency. Well, however they're handled, it's definitely a mesh issue.

So I looked around and noticed that in mo00_00_00_06.lst, it loaded all of the frames, bones, and meshes for the character. If you pay attention to the mesh names for, say, Viara and Ruidia, you'll notice that all of Viara's meshes start with "km" while all of Ruidia's start with "de".

The lst loads the meshes based on name, and whatever else uses these names for further functionality. The fact that you are not pointing to the correct name means whatever functionality requires these names, do not work. Such as maybe making semen transparent.

An easy solution would be to do the same thing you did with mo00_00_00_00.lst: just copy the entire entry for your desired character and replace the target character.

It should also be noted that in mo00_00_00_07.lst, it loads up the corresponding materials. I'm not sure what this does, but you could always copy those as well.

So in order to make a seemingly perfect duplicate of your character in another slot, you need to

1: copy the entry in mo00_00_00_00.lst
2: copy the entry in mo00_00_00_06.lst

**entry refers to the corresponding line that loads up the meshes for the character. You can identify it by its index because they match the ones in 00.lst (6 is Viara, for example)

And maybe the entry in mo00_00_00_07.lst

Afterwards, you'll see that all of the functions work as they should.

3 comments:

  1. Can I replace Saga by a girl character using this method?

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  2. No, there still seems to be some files that rely on certain properties about the character. For now I just distinguish between male characters and female characters.

    I haven't figured out which files are causing the problem though, because you'd figure if we replace the entire entry it should be fine.

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  3. You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar. I can't believe how simple it all really is, once you get the right directions :>

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