Deraj8 Modding Block

Hurray! I finally made a proper tumblr for my mods! This tumblr will be used to post about Dissidia 012 mods that I create. Important to note, I primarily focus on costume mods for the characters. I hope you enjoy seeing my work. :)

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How do you make a dlc slot show up in a story mode cutscene like your did with the Operation XIII-2 Trailer

Modeling: The dlc would have to be rigged on the cutscene model. So you would have to completely re-rig the dlc since the cutscene models have completely separate skeletons from their battle counterparts. So for the trailers i made, i rigged the mod a second time.

Texturing: for texture mods, it’s a simple case of locating the model’s texture and replacing them (as well as the facial animation texture and making sure it has the same indexed colors are the main textures).

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How difficult would you say it is to install your mods to the game, I play the game using PPSSPP emulator on my PC. I successfully got all the DLC {except Gilgamesh's Type 0 outfit) onto the game which makes me happy, but if theres something you've made I'll love, I'd just like to know if it would be possible to add more outfits to my game or impossible with the emulator?

yes, I’ve got it running on emulator too. If you’ve gotten all the official dlc on, then simply navigate to the folder they’re located in and drop the mod DLC (ending in .edat) files in. So it’s fairly simple to install.

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So who’s ready for the end?

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Aww, okay ^^ I was always using renders for my videos and whatnot and I knew that I was missing the Black Mage one, then I realized you never made it for Black Mage ^^ It`s okay, thank you for your reply.

Not a problem, it was one of the first models I did, and unlike White mage, it never got updated, so it never got a render.

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Hi! I know you gonna kill me if I`m gonna request something from you but it`s always better to ask than not. Um, are you able to make a render for Yuna`s Black Mage costume? Just like you did with other MODs you released. Okay, you can kill me now XD'

Hmm, I’m actually going to be redoing the outfit, I’ll probably make the render then. I’m not happy with the weighting and overall texture quality, so I’m going to redo it. Not sure when though, probably once I have more time. 

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Trailer for the Mistress of All Evil mod (based on Maleficent) for Ultimecia. Links are provided in the video description, I hope you all like it :)

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Some more updates, and both are available for multiple DLC slots.

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Some updates for these two mods (links are in the video description)

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EVIIIIIIIL!

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I understand. Pity because I wanted to make an AMV movie including Yuna in Gunner Dressphere outfit but since I don`t know much about hex editing besides music loop, there`s nothing I can do. I was about to ask why some dlc models are so complex. For example Yuna`s Gunner. She has a lot of files that includes not only the model but the rest parts such as ponytail, skirt etc.. Why all this stuff can`t be in one file. Is it about physics or something else?

It has to do with the DLC part. Yuna’s original model lacks the bones and physics necessary to use the part, so her skirt was designed to be separate from her body. A standard DLC (battle +assist) is 7 files, whereas Yuna has 10. DLC parts usually have about 3 files (controller, physics, and the gmo). When I was messing around with physics, I did experiment with Gunner Yuna in cutscenes. I think I have the files stored somewhere…

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Oh yes indeed! I didn`t expect you to answer so quick. Thank you so much. Next question, GMO cutscenes models. I noticed that whenever you were making a trailer you also created cutscenes models. I was searching Dissidia Forums for answers and I found one of yours, something about those model being more complicated than the ones you choose for a fight. How do you do that? I also remember seeing Yuna as Gunner in cutscenes that Ultima Espio did but those videos are down and nowhere to be found...

Ah, yes. Allow me to explain. The cutscene models have a different skeletal makeup when compared to the battle models. This mainly includes several facial bones and additional finger bones (some may even have specific bones, like Tidus’s necklace). As such, it takes a certain degree of re-rigging in these areas. They also lack several bones that the battle models do have (such as the dress bones in Yuna’s wedding dress model). There are also multiple models per character (the 013 heroes can have around 10, I believe), and each of them are necessary. In game, during cutscenes, the models are constantly being switched with one another, the only way you’ll tell is if all the models had not been replaced. Cutscene models are not impossible, but they due require more time, and that’s including the many shortcuts I’ve given myself. 

As for the Yuna as a Gunner. It’s a little more complicated. You see, if you want a model like that in a cutscene (this also extends to non-DLC, Cloud AC, Yuna Wedding, etc), you would have to include new bones to each model, if ONE is off, the game will most likely crash. You also have to apply physics that are applied to the battle model onto the cutscene models, and like how there are multiple cutscene models, there are multiple physic controllers for them (the worst part if you have to sift through the ISO contents to locate them). Not impossible, but will require more time and some knowledge on hex editing. (Luckily, I’ve already done all the DLC ones lol)

I hope this clears up any questions you had regarding these. :)

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Greetings! let you know that I was gonna asl you a few stuff so here we go. I`ll just ask one question at the time so I can get everything together and hopefully it`ll be less chaotic for you!! ;-; Anyways, I wanted to ask about assists models. Let`s say I see nice taxture mod but it`s only for player slot and not assist. How can I make this model be also available in my assist slot?

Let’s see, if you are referring to strictly a texture mod (meaning the model’s are the ones found in-game), it would be a simple matter of extracting the textures from the mod and inserting them in the assist model (Ex: A standard police uniform mod over the Guardian Corps mod for Lightning). 

Aside from that, you’d only have to make an assist DLC slot that coincides with the player slot you’d already have. Of course, you’d have to keep in mind that both the player model and the assist model take up 1 slot each, and there’s a limit of 255 slots for Dissidia (Ex: Lighting DLC3 - Slot 101, Lightning DLC3 assist Slot 102). To make DLC slots, the most current method is to us agl89′s DLC creation tool. This would allow you to have a texture mod available as an assist as well. 

The process is slightly different if you want a model-hack as an assist instead. But it is relatively easy. There are a few differences between player and assist models. A) They have different motion data, and B) They lack Ex-mode models and Ex-mode weapons. If you would like more detailed information concerning model-hack assists, I can go into further detail later.

I trust this answers your question for now. Feel free to ask me when you have more questions. :)

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Hellos Deraj8 What tools do you use? I wanna learn how to create/edit models too

Hello there! The programs I use vary depending on what I’m exactly doing, but for the most part, these are the programs I use:

Modeling: Milkshape, Noesis, Fragmotion

Textures: GIMP, Photoshop

Etc: png2GIM converter, Dissidia Modding Suite (New + Old), Game Graphic Studio, HxD, GMOTool (in the Dissidia Tool pack from Dissidia Forums), and finally agl89′s Dissidia DLC Tool.

These are the programs that come to me off the top of my head, I use all of these in one way or another when making mods. 

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Re-release of previous models with fixes and new DLC slots. Go to the YT link for the model links. :)

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Because, Witch Time! Or something like that lol.

-Not yet available

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Pulse Shooting

For those who are unaware about what I am referring to, I’m talking about the Shooting incident at Pulse in Orlando, Florida. Nearly 50 people were killed and 53 injured in a place that was meant to be safe for them. This was a hate crime against gay people, and anyone who says it isn’t is off their rocker. 

In truth, I don’t live very far away from where the shooting occurred, only about a few cities over. I apologize for any delays and if this seems out of character for me, but I felt like I should post something about this. This world needs to be made safe for everyone, this incident was caused by only one person. That’s all it took, one person and 50 people lost their lives.

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ELI5 how to reposition some Costumes. For example, I would love to use your Lightning's SOLDIER Outfit at the same time as her Squall's Outfit, but for some reason I can't understand you decided to put both in the exact same slot :/ .. I would love to, for example, have the SOLDIER Outfit in the DLC3 Slot and Squall's in DLC4.

Well, that is due to when Custom DLC was becoming available, there wasn’t that many modders who dealt with it at the time. So originally, the costumes I released were on different slots. However, issues began cropping up. You see, some other modder’s DLC would conflict with ones I made, and they would complain to me about, telling me to change the slots, thus irritating me. 

After that, I stopped releasing DLC altogether and only released the GMO/GIM files. But inevitably, people complained once again, telling me to make the DLC because they could not do it. So I decided the fairest way to handle the situation was to release my mods on one DLC slot (DLC8). Since you can only use one costume at a time, I didn’t think it would be a problem, and this would mean a far smaller amount of people would complain about conflicting slots. This would also mean I could use other modder’s DLC, without worrying too much about conflicts.

I trust this explains my reasons for it. However there is one more part.

Since there are so many more mods now, I beginning to care less about it, in fact I’m going to make a brand new pack (one for each character), where I will address this. However, since I am aware that some people would prefer certain costumes over certain slots, I’ll be making the costumes compatible for every slot. Due to this, it will take some time to complete this. Oh, and one more note, it someone uses the same slot number (not DLC# but like Slot 158 or something like that), then I will not be able to deal with that as easily. I’ll probably start from Slot 100 and DLC2 for Lightning (she can get up to DLC9), so that will take 18 slots (100-118).

Of course this is assuming each costume gets one. But I have a alternative, I could instead give 4-5 costume slots for each character (going to DLC5, 100-108/110). And the costumes would be compatible for each slot. so you could have: DLC2 Soldier, DLC3 Sleeping lion, DLC4 Type-0, DLC5 Master Lightning. Or something like that. I make this suggestion, because not every character has 9+ costumes like I made for Lightning.

Feel free to leave your opinion on the matter, I’ll consider when making my decision. Sorry for the long response, but I hope this helps a bit. I’m leaning towards the second idea more, but if you have anything else to add/ask feel free. :)

~Deraj8