I find it very interesting how Star Dream, when faced with Meta Knight, summons two opponents who's games he was absent from (this is kinda thrown away when Galacta Knight shows up but whatever)
Posting Planet Robobot facts until the remake releases #43:
The Sectonia Clone battle in Meta Knightmare Returns has one of the biggest reveals in Kirby lore history. When Sectonia Clone is defeated, for a split second, it shows Sectonia's original form before she explodes. She is very similar to Taranza, the only differences being re-colored clothing, differently shaped horns, eyelashes, blacked-out upper eyes, and longer hair.
absolutely losing my mind, does anyone have a rip of taranza's model from triple deluxe or know where i can get one without learning how to datamine the game myself, i am dying to figure out something completely trivial and pointless, i'm trying to figure out how different sectonia clone's spider form model's cape is from taranza's lol
documentation of my descent into madness, the discrepancies about this stupid cape i've found, and bad reasoning for why i even care this much beyond just getting too invested in solving it once i started under the cut, i have spent all day obsessing over this
you know how sectonia clone shows sectonia's spider form for a split second before blowing up? wikirby had a picture of that form with her actual textures and not all purpled and i noticed that the cape is like Entirely Different, which you can't even see in-game, and this peaked my interest
i had never seen anyone use this appearance of the cape before in anything, so i wanted to look into it before i drew her with this cape (or saw what the pattern looked like at a good angle if it was legit) or jumped to conclusions about her being the fourth antagonist with red/orange/yellow triangles on their clothes (dedede, dark matter blade, & drawcia sorceress) lol, so my next destination was the place that 90% of the time will have pictures wikirby doesn't for some reason, the kirby fandom wiki, it had it's own picture of her that had all the same detail changes from taranza besides the cape
and upon downloading the sectonia clone models off modeler's resource (which has the EXACT SAME PICTURES from wikirby, for some reason, no clue which came first) it does indeed have that cape in the latter photo, nothing at all like the triangle cape on the wiki and the model download's very preview
no sign of that triangle pattern anywhere in the textures of that model either
so i assume that was just an error that happened somewhere, no big deal, but now i'm still curious how different her cape is because i still wanna know what she actually looks like because that'd be kinda important and i don't want to just make her taranza 2 more than she already is whenever i get around to doing bad art again lol
in the Rockabilly and Blues celebration picture of star allies it looks like she shares his cape but you can't really make out details (and another celebration picture has a random whispy woods made out of clouds that doesn't actually exist, so I'd take this depiction with a grain of salt lol), and has the same cape design as him in the Stone statue too... but with less lines, which i had to pull my switch out myself to find out
so the obvious next step is get taranza's triple deluxe model and put it side by side with spider clone, right? but there's not any on modeler's resource, the best i can easily find is a rip of his clash deluxe model... on deviantart... which also includes 3DX sectonia and both sectonia clones (had the exact same texture files too)??? and it's in a file neither blender nor sketchup can open to my knowledge nor have i ever even heard of it (PMX), and i don't want to download a THIRD modeling software just for this, and the only other results i found without extensive digging were taranza's 3DX keychain which isn't helpful at all, and his star allies model which isn't really that helpful either BUT EVEN IF I WANTED TO USE IT IT'S IN THE SAME FORMAT I CAN'T OPEN
but i at least have the textures from the clash deluxe model which i assumed is approximately the same as 3DX's, and it DOES look like the capes are slightly different with the same amount of lines???
but it's so SMALL compared to the clone's that i can't really tell how much is genuinely different and how much is just due to like compression and changes between games or whatever, are these supposed to be identical??? (middle are original sizes of both)
like, that big line aside the main thing here is the colors, i don't think i'm colorblind, i can see that clone's is way bluer than taranza's and the yellow a totally different shade but like with taranza's in higher resolution it could be a much closer call since like on his 3DX model it's a much closer resemblance but i ALSO don't know if it's lighting or anything (for all i know taranza uses the exact same texture just only in 3DX and i JUST DON'T KNOW BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE IT)
i'd also get a reference picture from clash deluxe but he has a different design for like the entire game until he's in town where his back is facing away from the camera and fighters deluxe was like one of the few kirby games i couldn't find a ROM i could use without having to like use my actual 3DS to set it up or whatever it was so i can't get one myself i'm really bad at this
at this rate i need to just have the two spiders right next to each other holding hands but i CAN'T until i get an actual USABLE TARANZA MODEL and I'M DYING i NEED TO GET A RESOLUTION TO THIS
i initially tried to open the spider clone's model in blender before sketchup only to be reminded i don't know how the fuck to use blender because the cape was just a flat red color and i couldn't figure out how to fix it but here's the highlights of me torturing sectonia in effigy for doing this to me to limited effectiveness because i couldn't figure out how to actually alter her individual parts
I wanted to see if I could find a way to differentiate Dark Matter's clone from himself. I feel like he'd be weirded out by the clone's existence at first.
Since the clone doesn't have a Zero, he turns into a different shade of purple. And though he does get along with Gooey, the Triplets, and the original Dark Matter (after a while), he considers the Sectonia clone to be his true sibling.
Okay, so basically this is just a MissingNo. version of my Sectonia, who I don’t think I’ve posted yet on this blog. Her design takes elements from both Sectonia Clone and her uncorrupted form.
In the BG is Red from NES Godzilla, since I can’t really make BGs all that well (’cept for that one time with Zan)
I plan on using her in an RP or something, along with some other stuff. Hopefully the Triple Deluxe arc I was planning won’t be in dev hell for too long. (Same goes with Amazing Mirror and Spring Breeze)
