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GUYS!!!! A new DLC leak is out, Phoenixflare kiss is here 🥰

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Omg guys, they released Clive and Torgal as funko pops 😲

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Omg so lucky!! I'm jealous you got them early 😫

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They couldn't help themselves from just one slice but they wanted the whole cake

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Terence did this to himself.

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So some updates i’ve been working on. I really wanted to start Josuke much sooner but i’m actually glad I didn’t mainly because I had some issues with using the more updated Blender and the Smash exo plugin. I managed to figure it out but it caused a lot of headaches in the process. So going in order...

Megaman.EXE + Lan Hikari I actually randomly decided to start with as he felt like he was going to be an easier mod to start on for using updated programs and make sure everything is working out as intended. Lan actually wasn’t planned at all but from when I got the model from the XDiVE game, I forgot that it comes with Lan on the monitor with a few expressions and I thought to myself, well Megaman is going to have his mask on majority of the time with most attacks so you won’t really see any of that but I could use Lan to do so. The only expressions I gave to Megaman was blinking but Lan covers everything included also blinking. I made a few expressions of my own with some editing and also one of my friends I met through Smash related stuff who is obsessed with Megaman named Frosty actually helped make one expression for Lan which was really cool. At first for the cross fusion in the final smash I was making the textures but then I gave them to Frosty and he finished them and they came out really clean. He also gave me a couple ideas for the voice mod on them which was awesome! A mod that was going to be way more simple then originally intended but i’m extremely happy with the outcome! The only thing that was really annoying was the Cross Fusion FS as I had to rig that on Corrins dragon form and trying to rig a humanoid looking character on that is a nightmare and making them look decent. It does give me ideas for future characters to give stuff like that too (One being Tommy the Green Ranger giving him the Dragonzord as I made him over Corrin earlier on about a month or 2 ago). Oh I almost forgot that I also made my own custom render again and i’m very happy with it and I learned some new stuff so i’m definitely improving on making them look more Smash accurate.

So Xehanorts Armor I decided to make as there is 2 mods of him out there and the ability to change Sephiroths wing to something and no one fully took advantage of that. DSX8 whos Xehanort that I used in this just had Sephiroths wing which looks really wrong to me. My friend Dusk who instead gave him the X-Blade changed his wing to make it a little more unique and more KH themed but just seeing other Sephiroth mods like Vergil or Jin being able to change their appearance made me really want to see that happen with Xehanort. I will say this mod was an absolute nightmare and I didn’t think it was going to take as long as it did, the only issue I came across on the final version is sometimes his head clips through the neck of the helmet but nothing I can really do about that unless I removed his expressions but I really don’t want to do that. This mod paired with my Leonard Nimoy voice mod just feels too good to be real. Oh another thing that was a pain with him was I had to shrink his arms down to scale with Xehanort/Sephiroth has they were too big and adjusting the bones with that was a bit annoying. But it worked out and i’m so happy with it!

So finally Josuke, this is another mod I want to dedicate to Billy Kametz as Josuke is such an amazing character and the more I look back at him, the more I really appreciate the work Billy put into his character and honestly Josuke probably has moved up on my favorite Jojo characters a lot as I went back and watched some of just Part 4 when I wasn’t feeling too great. This mod will probably take a bit of time but it should go a lot smoother than Maruki as I know a general idea on how to keep Crazy Diamond with him, I just need to refresh myself on what to do and probably clean up their skeletons as Smash has a limit on how many bones on characters you can bring into Smash before it crashes. He is going over Ken as I want variety from the other main Jojo characters as Jonathan I want over Ryu, Joesph is over Richter, Jotaro is over Terry, Giorno is over Joker along with DIO. Jolyne, I haven’t seen part 6 yet but i’m interested in making some point after I see some of it unless someone mods her first and I can’t think of any better ideas although I would love to give her a stand considering. Too many Jojo characters I want in Smash, Mista is a pretty high priority too and also modding Sex Pistols/Six Bullets over Morgana to go with Giorno since he has Mistas gun and there isn’t really a good way to include them with Bayonetta at least that I can think of since he would be modded over her. Too many mod ideas, never enough time to do them but no matter what Josuke is next and even though unfortunately he won’t be getting a voice mod i’m going to try to give him expressions if I can get them to look right. Plus as usual now he’ll be getting his own Render and Stock icon that i’ll make as well in the end too!

I completely meant to make an update post the past couple days but stuff kept coming up so didn’t really get a chance too but here we are now! Probably be a bit before my next post, it will most likely be either when Josuke is mostly done or when he is done for sure then I get to decide on what to work on next! (Leaning on KawoShin over Aegis or Tifa) Probably Tifa first since she’ll be a lot quicker to get done and can probably finish her in a day easily but also depends on if her materials are annoying to work with and how her skeleton is for posing for a render. I’m still debating what outfit to focus on for KawoShin, probably the Eva-13 plugsuits since they’ll match. Meanwhile Toji will just sit in the background in his typical outfit xD I would love to give him his plugsuit, maybe if I can scale him onto Kaworus or Shinjis and recolor him and edit the number, i’ll see what I can do! I got so many render ideas for KawoShin and the day Arc 4.0 happens and I can add more slots, I want to give them 3 outfits and they’ll all have unique renders based off of official stuff but i’ll also see what I can fit in the Smash UI!

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Random Updates

So about a day after I posted Marukis mod on here I wasn’t feeling too great like worse then usual plus some stressful events happening and only started feeling better just a few days ago. I didn’t really get to do too much during that time either modding or gaming but I did play some Three Hopes and i’m not too far but i’m enjoying it and hope to play some more soon, maybe later today, will see as I have a lot of modding plans as well so I’ll probably try to find a good balance of both. I do feel slightly off as I got woken up really early and normally I am up early lately like 4-6AM but haven’t really had as much sleep as I wanted but here I am anyways >.>

I finished making Marukis voice mod a couple days ago and some stuff i’m quite happy with and other things i’m disappointed I couldn’t do like Dr Mario doesn’t have any taunt lines so that limits the amount of quotes I can really give him, he also only has so many grunts and everything since he isn’t a playable character but I managed to make it work. The only thing I hope to do one day is learn how to adjust the camera for him on the victory screen as it pans a lot lower due to it’s aiming at where Dr Mario would be standing but Maruki is much taller. I’m still happy with the mod overall.

Before I worked on Marukis voice mod just to get into the swing of things again, I worked on one of my friends(Dusk) KH mods voices just for some personal touches and one with improves as they agree with that as well. The first one was Winnie the Pooh just changing a couple of lines to some meme ones from KH2 for when he appears and wins (Hello Somebody I-don’t-know) and (Oh bother, what’s this, who is everyone?) he thought it was funny too. I also remade the Ventus mod voice completely as the original person who made it from him only shifted soras pitch of his voice and just threw in a couple voice lines. I know Dusk wasn’t too happy with the final result of the voice either but adding in proper BBS lines made things better and more accurate which is nice. I went through other KH characters and they all sounded good. The last one I worked on was Master Xehanorts voice where I gave him Leonard Nimoys voice in Birth By Sleep and a couple lines from Dream Drop Distance and i’m really happy with the final results of that, Dusk enjoyed it a lot too. There was nothing wrong with the original voice for their mod just was a different VA.

Today I plan to update a lot of my mods since i’ve been behind on that and I just have a folder stockpiled with stuff so I should probably do that before I start anymore model imports (about a month or 2 worth of mods). I plan to also update Blender and the Smash exo tool so that will be interesting and I really hope no issues show up with that. Thinking about it now I have to go through all my plugins on blender and update those too probably so fun >.> After that though my plans for model imports goes as this. First to get the hang of things again plus more familiar with the latest Blender is looking into giving Master Xehanort his armor over Sephiroths wing which I haven’t done before but i’ve seen other mods do that like Jin and Vergil. After Xehanort i’ll finally start Josuke as i’ve really been looking forward to seeing him in Smash plus on why I want to make him as well. I’ve also been in a Battle Network mood since the announcement a bit ago so I might make Megaman.EXE over Corrin after Josuke since I could include the sword and buster plus maybe incorporate the mask with expressions or by replacing parts of Corrins dragon form, will see how it goes. Ever since Maruki i’ve been looking into more custom renders and stock icons so that will be fun to try out. A few other mods i’m trying to find time to start as well are these:

-Zagreus over Dark Pit (I got a custom model and custom weapons although I need to make my own bow and shield but I got ideas on that)

-Black Cat(Marvels Spider-Man) over Sheik(I think ZSS works better but due to no space from other ideas, Sheik works too, also she was the first mod I was ever trying to make so I would really like to make her)

-Tifa (FF7R) over Terry as 2 mods exist for her over Terry but I really want her in that outfit as it’s my favorite design, one custom model of her looks really good but it’s based off of her classic look which is still cool (there is also one mod of her in the remake outfit but it has some issues with the hair and textures plus I want to make a custom render as well so I hope that goes well, i’m confident since I made Law from Tales of Arise already over Terry so I got experience with Terry mods)

-Shinji and Kaworu + Toji over Pyra & Mythra and Toji being Rex(they’ll wield their Eva lances, still debating which outfits to go with, Eva-13 is tempting, Classic plugsuits too and even their casual outfits, one day I can make them all though once Arc the Smash modding plugin updates in the future as I know that is the next update for it but it could take months or even the rest of the year before that’s even released, maybe longer going off of what the devs said)

-Dimitri Time Skip over Byleth (There is 2 Dimitri mods for his Time Skip design in Three Houses and one is over Ike but he looks too pale and I really like the concept better over Byleth, There is a Byleth version but it doesn’t have hand rigging, the skin tone has issues again and the hair is the new game plus hair but I prefer the other hairstyle but still like both(although Three Hopes I like his design a lot too), one day i’ll make Dimitri alts for favoritism lol

-Roll.EXE over Dark Pit (I actually already made her over Pit with a fan model that looked really good but like 2 weeks after I finished her, her official XDiVE model was posted online plus I want to have her on Dark Pit due to space reasons (blame an idea I got for Zoro from One Piece)

Oh and I can’t forget making Yoshikage Kira eventually, i’ll see how Josuke goes before making him, I got some good ideas whenever I get to him either it being not long after Josuke or eventually after I finish some other characters i’ve been really wanting for a long time in Smash. Xehanort and Josuke are my top prioritys plus maybe finding time to look at Zhonglis wing, I would love to put his Archon outfit there but no released model that I can find but I really want to fix the wing as my other friend Cybertron had issues with it at the time.

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So modding Maruki over Dr Mario is finally complete! I’m really happy that I was able to make something to dedicate to Billy Kametz. I actually learned recently Billy was a Wolf main in Smash which is pretty cool, I kind of wish I would of had a character to mod over Wolf that I could dedicate to him but Maruki worked out really well. Getting the Persona to show up with him took abit to figure out and to get both of the models skeletons to work properly but now it doesn’t seem too difficult. I had to delete about 60ish bones as Smash has a limit of 512 or the game will just crash and it includes the original character that it’s modded over as well.

Since my very first mod, this was the first time I ever made a render and i’m quite happy with both of them. I based his original design off of his official render and his palace design off of his idle pose in game. The thing with Smash renders is you typically always only see about waist up or higher of the render so unless you’re making a smash banner, there isn’t much of a point posing the entire model. Both got custom stock icons which are pretty fun to make and i’ve been making them more often since about a few weeks to almost a month ago now. Normally I would just ignore making stock icons and my own renders and just google something up quick.

I still have his voice mod left to do which will probably take me a few days as it’s going to be a bit difficult hearing the voice lines and also hearing them over and over again but after that i’ll be working on my final mod that i’m dedicating to him which is Josuke from Jojo Part 4 which will have the same concept as Marukis Palace Alt. Even if this mod took longer than most mods i’m used to making it was 100% well worth it.

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Updates in general

So I just finished working on the Maruki mod, all I technically have left is the voice to do which I saved for last since it’s going to be the most difficult thing to do. Voice mods aren’t tough but this one will be for obvious reasons listening to quotes and lines very often. I’m quite happy with how he turned out and i’ll get into that in a post after this that just focuses on the mod.

It took me a bit longer to work on him due to the past few days I haven’t been really well from the heat, allergies have been keeping me up at night and not feeling 100% in general but i’m trying to push through it all.

After the voice mod I do plan to make Josuke which i’ll post pictures on once he’s finished but that will probably take a while. Unfortunately there really isn’t any great sources for clips for a voice mod for him so I don’t think i’ll be able to make Josukes but whenever I do a rewatch of Jojo because i’ve been wanting to do so in general from the start, i’ll probably be taking notes of lines as well as for other characters as well since there is a lot of Jojo mods I want to make and it will be a lot easier doing so just watching it on my computer and writing down some timestamps of some lines for some characters from all parts.

There is a few Jojo mods that exist but not many have english voice mods which is my preference so being able to do that with all of my wanted characters to add would be perfect. A few mods that already exist are Joesph(part 2), Jotaro, DIO, Yoshikage Kira(first design) and Giorno and I think that’s it off the top of my head. I made a Giorno english voice quite a few months ago and that was really difficult but that did take too long to do so I might even adjust some of those lines when I rewatch Part 5 as well.

Like I said in a previous post, I do want to add Personas and Stands to Jojo and Persona characters just like Maruki and the Jotaro mod so that will be a goal to work on overtime. Probably not at once as after Josuke and another mod i’ll probably shift to some other mods for a bit that i’ve been wanting to make. I’m leaning on making Yoshikage Kiras final design with Bites the Dust over Snake after Josuke so one day making a voice mod of him will also be pretty amusing.

Anyways happy Fire Emblem Three Hopes day and I was hoping to finishing Maruki today so that worked out pretty well!

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So I just finished up the Maruki mod, he does have some issues still but with limitations of the exo tool plus my own skillset, I think he turned out pretty well, he doesn’t have any expressions because the model never came with any. He floats still a bit and clips a bit into the floor but not nearly as bad as he originally did due to scaling him from Dr Mario. His neck has a small issue I only noticed on the no contest screen so far. Overall though he seems to play really well and i’m really happy with how he turned out.

I made the render and stock icon from scratch, i’ve been making stock icons more so lately for my mods but renders I typically just google one and use that but for my reasoning on making this mod I wanted to make it myself. Along with the model itself, his arm/wrist and leg joints were really strange to move for both the model import and posing for the render. I definitely had to base it off of his render though in the end and I think it turned out great!

I do plan to work on one more Maruki mod now after this but this one will take a bit as I want to include his Persona and I have no clue how that works but it will be great practice as Josuke i’ll be making right after and I want to use the same concept for any Jojo and Persona mod ideas that I have. This way all characters can still feel unique yet they don’t have to be modded over Joker to have a Persona. I’m really happy I was able to dedicate this mod to Billy Kametz.

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Maruki mod progress

So after I worked on him for about most of the day yesterday and last night I stumbled across a google doc I forgot about that has a bunch of game dumps, I didn’t realize Persona 5 Royal was on there(or if I did when I first discovered it I forgot) and all the royal stuff wasn’t sorted but I was able to find a new model for Maruki plus all his other models and his Persona. (This means I had to start him over after all that work but it’s a much better model to work with and the joints move way better too as before it looked like he had broken ankles)

I’ll probably end up making 2 mods in the end, one in his default outfit and one in his palace design but it’s the one with his slicked back hair and he’s all in white. The other outfit with the mask and cloak and everything tbh would be too much to work on and too difficult, i’ve seen some other models like and it’s giving me nightmares to Yae Mikos model from Genshin as that was a nightmare to setup and was struggling and it still didn’t turn out perfect but it at least got to the point where I was happy enough with it(that one I want to remake eventually or at least adjust a few things). Anyways back to Maruki.

For that palace version of him i’m going to setup his Persona alongside him kind of like how Arsene works and how the Jotaro mod is setup but the default one will just be him. I got the default version of Maruki mostly setup in game, all I have left besides the render/stock icon/UI and voice is to adjust his leg/knee/foot/toe bones to prevent floating which I can only really do after I fix up the coat some more, it clips through his outfit a lot when he walks, i’ve been at it for hours but i’m not giving up on it. I was hoping to share a screenshot tonight but i’ll wait until that’s solved. I did also scale his size to Jokers smash model as well and he looks a lot better than before as well.

I haven’t messed with Dr Marios pill item yet for the apple juice but that I will have to adjust quite a bit as well to get the size looking accurate to Marukis model and also adjusting where it is since Maruki is a lot bigger then Dr Mario, it won’t exactly shoot out of his hand by default. Unfortunately I couldn’t find his apple juice model (after searching through about 400 models) but I did find a different apple juice box model online that looks good and has the straw the same just the design is a little different but should still get the point across. I have no idea how long this coat will take to finish up but it’s the main obstacle I got for finish this mod.

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So this mod is very much WIP and just started it not long ago but have been meaning to get to it since I heard about the unfortunate news not too long ago that Billy Kametz passed away. I want to dedicate this mod to him. He really was an amazing individual and especially ever since I heard about him having cancer I was ontop of the news about what was happening with him and seeing all the support he was given on twitter that I really had a lot of hope that he would get through it and it sounded really promising that things would work out at least for now when I heard that he was sent home.

He’s characters in some of my favorite stuff, Josuke from Jojo part 4, Maruki from Persona 5 Royal, Ogata from 13 Sentinels and even though I never picked the path with him, Ferdinand from Fire Emblem Three Houses which I definitely look forward to playing next and have been meaning too. He’s definitely a one of a kind person.

Maruki i’m currently modding him over Dr Mario and I do plan to do some fun stuff like changing the pills to apple juice. I still have to fix some issues like floating and setting up his coat. I also plan to scale him to close to the size of Joker as of course Dr Mario is a much smaller character and that would look very odd. His model was really tough to find but i’m glad I found it and also I was lucky enough to find some english voice clips of him too to setup a voice eventually although it looks like it’s from his boss battle. I’ll probably try to find a few lines to mix in online. Also the glasses make him look cool right now but Blender won’t show the transparency of them lol. When he’s out of it they should look normal after I setup materials.

As for another mod I plan to do afterwards who along with Maruki was already on my wanted to do list is Josuke and i’m very interested to try a concept to get Crazy Diamond to appear with him which the idea is taken from a Jotaro mod that’s about to release recently and from someone else who has an unreleased mod of Josuke from at least a year ago, except i’m modding him on another character. I hope to find some english dub clips as well for him too, even if I have to dig them through the show and try to isolate background sound which isn’t easy.

Anyways this is what i’ll be working on for the next bit but i’ll definitely make a post and maybe a small video of gameplay of them in action once they’re done. 

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So it’s been about 6 months since I last posted on here but I wanted to try posting some stuff back on here as twitter being one of the bigger platforms for Smash and tbh quite a few people are toxic in that community and I really don’t want to be surrounded by people like that but I do want to be able to share stuff i’ve been working on as most of these (besides Axl) I haven’t showed off before publically. I wanted somewhere to be able to post stuff that i’m working on as my next mod is pretty important to me which i’ll get into in another post.

The only mods I didn’t make here are the Dark Training Stage, Futaba Inkling and Tatsuya(although Tatsuya was a private commission I paid for last year before I got into modding) I did make him an awesome voice though! Apollo over Arsene I learned to make myself with using custom parts. Even for Luz I made that staff from a picture from the show actually and brought it into a program and cleaned it up and turned it into a proper model which is still insane to me. It’s not perfect but it definitely does the job.

I hope to keep improving as modding Smash has helped me bring out my creative side of things again which I haven’t realy felt in a long time, bring characters into something that I enjoy and also learn a lot of new skills that last year I never thought I would even be able to do. Stuff in programs like Blender, Photoshop and various other Smash related ones I didn’t have the most experience with but Photoshop I knew the bare minimum.

I’ll probably post here every now and then with some updates on mods as I get into them and a lot of them don’t really take me that long to make either. There is plenty of others I made as well but these ones i’m more so proud of then others.

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dimitri looks

[lynune]

Drew some Zhongli fanart for good luck when the new banner comes out!✨

[arcalaho]

yea miko

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arataki itto ♡ taurus iracundus

[tizzymcwizzy]

hey, im still thinking about this,,

god, this took me so fucking long shhdhfg i actually don't want to look at it anymore im just done with it,, i like how it looks tho!

anyway, THE ADRIEN ANGST THIS SEASON ACTUALLY OBLITERATES ME EVERYTIME I THINK ABOUT IT

look forward to more crying adrien i guess