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US Naval Prison Facility

From Zero, to Omega

Released the big update for U.S. Naval Prison Facility mod! Big Gate, ported support radio, enemy soldier conversations in English and Japanese, and a randomized free roam!

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY MGSV

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N313 Solid Snake

I revived a long-unreleased model based on @bipedalbastard-blog's "N313" animation and finally released it!

Solid Snake (Plus Variations)

Once again, Snake heads into battle... alone.

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The Man Who Sold The World v7.1

Released a small update to TMWSTW that adds tension map support to the arm! Along with that, I fixed the SV Sneaking Suit's floating ponytail. The .sim file it used was sna2_main0_hair.sim, the one from the original Big Boss, which didn't support the ponytail's physics. I simply replaced it with sna0_main0_hair.sim, which supports both hairstyles.

The Man Who Sold the World

Let the legend come back to life. Put those nine years behind you, and return as Big Boss.

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Enemy Women Soldiers WIP

Here's a project I wanted to do for a while, just with little reason and fear that helper bones would get in the way. Metal Gear Survive has some gear for the avatar that's reused from enemy soldiers in The Phantom Pain, be it directly or by proxy from Metal Gear Online 3, so assembling those into a model with an armature that the women soldiers need to function with was a possibility, and here's what it looks so far.

JimLafleur did a lot of the heavy lifting with the meshes - the pinky and ring fingers reskinned to the middle finger for the enemy soldier animations to actually move them, merged the counterpart meshes that were split in Survive, etc.

I decided to try this now with the advent of helper bones in the .frdv file format were finally figured out with a basic tool, but after exporting, it turned out that the already existing Soviet soldier .frdv worked fine!

The form variation .fv2 file is mostly the same as the vanilla one too, I only just swapped the skin textures out with FvTwool, as they needed a different UV. I did try to retexture it to look the same as the vanilla skin textures, though, even if it is a little rough. I also couldn't help myself but include an Olga Gurlukovich reference. Aside from the arm textures, all the meshes and bone positions, they are just like the vanilla Soviet soldiers.

The PF soldiers are going to be trouble, though. There are a lot of missing parts in Survive, along with it being a far more complex collection of meshes.

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SANTA Camo

Happy Holidays!!

SANTA Camo

Replaces Olive Drab with Santa Camo.

Right on the eve, I'd realized two things: nobody has made a SANTA Camo mod on the TPP Nexus page, and that the Karakul Sheep model's texture has clean, generic, reusable fur.

I wanted to closely follow the MGS3 Download camo, which had fur painted on the white highlights, so I figured this would be a nice challenge to race to Christmas for.

The reason Quiet is wearing a ghillie suit in the screenshots is because I also tried editing some EffectDescriptions of blinking red and blue lights into her .parts file, but it didn't work out, so I left it as is. Cut mod content! ...I realized too late a thing I could have tried to check to possibly make to work, I think.

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And a happy (late) new year! I've updated the page with Zeta and Infinite Heaven versions of the mod that allow you to toggle the mod on and off in-game.

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Aaron No. 893's MGS2 Sneaking Suit

Aaron No. 893's bespoke, lovingly sculpted model has finally been ported to MGSV and released, with an update implementing tension normal maps!

MGS2 Solid Snake Sneaking Suit

Replaces the SV-Sneaking Suit with Solid Snake's sneaking suit from MGS2.Includes the option to install a bionic arm version, and a two-arme

Seeing updates for this mod motivated me to capitalize on Joey35233's recent achievement of finally reverse engineering helper bones and make a simple decompiler/recompiler tool that I thought would be necessary for this mod, but in the end, Aaron managed to port the model using the vanilla .frdv file.

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FrdvTool

Helper bones in the Fox Engine have finally been conquered! ...And it's just the beginning.

Releases · kapuragu/FrdvTool

Fox Enginer .frdv impoter... exporter? Contribute to kapuragu/FrdvTool development by creating an account on GitHub.

Based on Joey35233's reverse engineering work, and guidance from him and with youarebritish's guidance, here is an xml-based decompiler-compiler of the helper bone/rig driver file format, .frdv. I hope it makes custom models a little easier in the meantime, as Joey is implementing visualization of helper bone driving in FoxKit 3!

The trick here is that the compiled .frdv file contains indices of bones from the associated model, which ends up breaking everything if the skeleton is edited in the ranges involving bones used by the .frdv.

I used this tool to make a test/demo mod of the "retargeting" method here:

Replaces Quiet in FOBs with her buddy outfits.

Since I have to add connect point bones for the hip assault rifle and back sniper rifle into the range before helper bones, I have to take the vanilla model's decompiled .frdv and recompile it on the edited model with extra bones in its skeleton to "retarget" it. It's the simplest use case, though - you can kitbash different rig driver units from different files, or if you can understand helper bone drivers' parameters, you can make .frdv from scratch with this mod, too!

Not only does .frdv drive helper bones, but it also drives the model's body's tension material normal map shifting based on a driver unit's source bones' movement! Custom models can now wield this power with this tool!

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SANTA Camo

Happy Holidays!!

SANTA Camo

Replaces Olive Drab with Santa Camo.

Right on the eve, I'd realized two things: nobody has made a SANTA Camo mod on the TPP Nexus page, and that the Karakul Sheep model's texture has clean, generic, reusable fur.

I wanted to closely follow the MGS3 Download camo, which had fur painted on the white highlights, so I figured this would be a nice challenge to race to Christmas for.

The reason Quiet is wearing a ghillie suit in the screenshots is because I also tried editing some EffectDescriptions of blinking red and blue lights into her .parts file, but it didn't work out, so I left it as is. Cut mod content! ...I realized too late a thing I could have tried to check to possibly make to work, I think.