#mod's correspondence

[fucked-up-spellcheck]

I stared at your name for too long and thought it said "spellehecker" and I laughed a bit b/c thought it was ironic and funny, but then I realized my eyes were messing with me and your name was indeed spelt correctly. Now im just confused on how I hallucinated an e

And I'm confused on how you hallucinated an er

It's just spellcheck

👍

[dailypokemoncrochet]

You ever think that actually crocheting one whole new Pokemon every day is really fast? Like sure sure the time spent is still several hours, but to be able to do a different, new one, each calendar day, from scratch, is wild. And I used to do that! What!

[rediimere]

horizon + animorphs dossier [ battle morph || bird of prey || marine || personal ] ▶ Horizon Forbidden West, part 3/5

[couriers-of-the-grove]

Hey Happy, have you heard about other bizzyboys in the Tumblr? What do you think about them?

Happy, so far, has spoken to Mellotonin, and he seems quite nice. 

He’s also spoken to a strange Inspekta. He was less nice.

(… but really, I don’t know any other blogs to talk to! 

Please come talk to Happy so I know you exist! He doesn’t bite, promise! He’d love to have some friends!)

[us-agent-atyourservice]

I heard you've been adopting...may I be added to that list?

- 🥀 (can I be that anon if it isn't taken. My name's Carlos btw)

I'm still trying to get the kids I have settled in. Maybe when things calm down.

[arcandoria]

Hi! Can I ask if you perhaps have a tip for refitting sleeves (or trousers or similar stuff) to Cyberpunk? 😭 I want to port a jacket but trying to refit the sleeves (that are higher positioned and straight, which is like, so far off from cp77) is giving me actual nightmares 😭 Please halp

Oh anon I feel you so bad LOL From what I understand you're trying to refit is what we usually call "T pose", CP2077 uses "A pose" (... but in a very different position than most A pose models you'll find online)

I'll be honest that I usually avoid that type of project myself as it requires lots of patience, most of my ports are done with Marvelous Designer combined with a Cyberpunk Model which allows the software to mostly refit it for me.

What you're gonna need is indeed some patience, and moving things around with the scale/rotation/moving tool whilst having Proportional Editing on (if you're in Blender).

@pinkyjulien has way more practice doing that type of manual fitting between these rigs so I'm gonna tag him, as he's offered to add some proper guidance/visuals to help out! <3

[naomiknight-17]

Wrote and sent an important job hunting email after putting it off for over 24 hours

3 killed, dozens injured, hundreds left homeless

[objectmates]

just to ask before i actually request it, would you be willing to do one for an animatic battle character with influences of a cookie run kingdom character? i just dont know if cookie run characters count or not

character influences/multi-source counts! been a while since we were into cookie run though

🌈 dr. rainbow (any)

[sherlocktember2024]

@justanobsessedpan lol believe me I didn't realize it until it was too late 😆

(I'm debating doing another of these next month and putting Trek in it just to balance it out 😆😆)

[alchemicalterror]

Pick a number from the list

To see an outfit from my wardrobe; my blog photographer is bored.

[donotopendeadinside]

CHARACTER THEME SONGS (links included)

Got bored, decided to make a list of Characters theme songs, at least, all Characters i currently use:

Dr. Leon Fischer: Twin Size Mattress - The Front Bottoms

Edward McCain: Compass - Sail North

Helio Goldenveil: Top of my School - Katherine Lynn

PrettyKitty: Shine - Cassidy Ladden

Some people I thought to tag, as I use these OC's either in roleplays, or apart of their AU's, sometimes both:

@onyxonline <- Creator of Space Riders AU, PrettyKitty is an OC of this AU

@ask-experiment-1006-theprototype, @ab-art-07 <- I use Edward with these 2

@dr-ignis-ashton <- I use Leon with them

@protective-mama-bear/@mod-latte-here-to-haunt-you <- I use Helio with them

[bugs-are-nifty]

By the way, since you have a few different options on who to possibly reach out to from that undeveloped Foundation, your best options are;

Nikolai Frost, pretty much their boss, generally friendly and polite but may be hesitant to accepting allyships (in general, not just with you);

Amanjeevan Kaur, their mediator, friendly but pretty withdrawn and tired of the groups shit;

And Teeth/Nila, the eldritch snake girl, very friendly, enthusiastic and approachable, but also very childlike.

Also available are Aaron Siegel, Magdalena Gauthier/Magnolia, and Julian Volkov, but Siegel has a pretty yikes mindset when it comes to non-humans, Magnolia isn't very social, and we don't hear much from Volkov as a whole.

Do you think you can find a member of your group that might be a good match to talk to one of these guys?

Hmm... I think Granny would be the best bet. The other members usually only show up for the weekly meetings

[couriers-of-the-grove]

who can you beat in a game of cards? (this will affect something later)

Happy is very good at card games. And reading people. Hector is like an open book to him, which means he usually wins- unless they’re playing anything that involves luck, then it’s about fifty-fifty for both of them. Doesn’t mean they never have fun, though! It’s a good bonding activity and great for killing time.

[arcandoria]

joining the anons screaming at u for help hahahah ;] do u know any tutorial for adding physics to clothes/jewelry? i ran thru the whole modding wiki and found nothin

Hey anon! That's fine, I'm happy to help!

Both of these require the same thing: an existing item that sits and moves in the place you expect your custom mesh to be.

Adding physics to garments is limited because most of the NPC clothes use something called Cloth Proxy, which is not a system we have yet cracked to use.

For example, you can't have a jacket that dangles like River's because his jacket is a proxy mesh instead of a rig mesh.

You could, however, base a garment on Judy's overalls because the belt dangle has a rig and animgraph. This however limits you to having a garment/item on the legs, as it'd need to follow the general area of the original dangle - all you'd need is steal weights from it, as you would when handling a regular mesh re-weight without dangles.

Jewelry on the other hand has dozens of different rigs and dangles. I'll give an example with Farren's necklace, which uses Alt's physics.

As you can see, the first step is finding something in game that sits and moves like how you want your mesh to. Some have stronger movement in physics, others don't, and more often than not you have to try multiple meshes to find the one that works for you.

The easiest way to know if a mesh has physics is just to check in its folder if there is a .rig and .animgraph component with it. Items with physics also generally have bones that start with dyng, which you can check in the boneNames entry on WolvenKit:

Then it'll be just like a regular weight stealing process. Pop both meshes in Blender (you don't need to export the dangle entries), make sure your desired mesh is now using the rig of the transfer mesh, and that it sits roughly in the same spot so weight stealing is accurate.

Alt's Necklace:

Farren's Necklace:

I'm not gonna show how to weight transfer, but it's the exact same process of regular clothing/items. You do, however, sometimes need to do some manual painting in the dyng bones just to ensure the mesh won't break when dangling.

Good dangle dyng:

Bad dangle dyng:

After you have your mesh re-weighted, materials fixed, etc etc, you'll need to decide if that's going to be directly into a NPV/NPC+ or an ArchiveXL item. There is no way to simply make a mesh replacer for one of V's clothes because they don't have the means to reach the physics .rig and .animgraph. (At least, I don't recall so.)

For NPV/NPC+, all you need to do is path your jewelry into a regular component, and then its .rig and .animgraph on an animated entry.

You can custom path these if you want, I normally don't because nowadays rarely a mod will go poking into a NPC's dangle skeleton.

For ArchiveXL, you'll be pathing the dangle into an animated component entry of your garment's .ent.

After that, it's a matter of testing!

If the mesh promptly collapses into the floor when you equip/load it, then it's not reaching the rig and/or animgraph, or wasn't weighted properly, or might be in the wrong rig.

Hope that helps!

[would-they-listen-to-that]

Would Kermit the Frog (Sam & Friends) listen to Devil's Lighthouse by The Correspondents

[lesenbyan]

Tomorrow I will get 100 BTN/MIN on Eve Tomorrow