It cooled off just enough to get this small piece finished up! We even had a small recording session! I’ll tear back into it in a day or two, when the weather isn’t roasting, much like this picture. I’m not sure if I’ll have the video done by the 4th or not., especially with these heated delays. But I’m sure it’ll see the light of day sometime in July.
Yesterday I started back up again on my Broforce video, and managed to export one scene! Now I’m going all Michael Bay on this map while waiting to do some script writing/recording. Unfortunately, it was too hot for me to work on it today. I had to suffer with boba tea instead! 😛 I think that is going to be my new summer drinking ritual. I brewed some ginger peach tea for a peach boba tomorrow, it’s supposed to be warm again and I like the idea of tea AND a snack.
I spent my final day of peace doing a little online shopping, animating (more on that tomorrow!), and trying some of the teas I ordered! I recently purchased a raspberry mojito and a mango strawberry tea. Both equally delicious. I’m even planning ahead and brewing some royal milk tea for some after work boba tea tomorrow! Then of course I also have a couple pints ginger peach tea for my work commute tomorrow… There was a lot of tea today. I’m drinking the raspberry mojito one right now, it’s an herbal tea — it offers a nice, refreshing tropical taste on a nice summer evening. It’s looking like it’ll be another one of those tomorrow, good thing I have plans to stay hydrated! 😛
My adventures in modding Yakuza games has been sated for now. I have a better understanding of how to play with the game files. Unfortunately it’s looking like I can’t swap models over just any character, well… I can, but it can break different aspects of the game. For example: I had to revert Nishiki back to vanilla, otherwise the Karaoke game mode would crash the game. Kuze didn’t seem to like having his model changed either (to Eggman at least). I’ll need to set some time aside to play with these files more, and see if it’s possible to swap models out with a little less crashing.
I also learned that Yakuza 0 and Yakuza Kiwami mods can be swapped around since they share the same game engine! Making things like, 100% times more interesting! Perhaps if I come up with an interesting enough ensemble of characters I might livestream one of these… after I remember how to livestream. 😛
I’m going to jump back into my animation project tomorrow, that’ll give the blog a break from any Yakuza related posts. 😛 But it was nice to not only play a game, but learn a little more about the game internals.
I got the Deadpool mod running! I also experimented with replacing different characters with different mods, despite most of the mods being aimed at replacing Kiryu or Majima.
The Eggman model is supposed to replace Kiryu, but for the hell of it I decided to try replacing Kuze with it. He didn’t show up as Eggman in every scene though, which means I missed some alternate models. I’ll have to experiment with that some more.
By the time I get this modded up the way I like it, it should make for a real nightmare inducing story! A nightmare inducing story that will look amazing on a 65″ 4K TV!
I guess I just couldn’t wait for the weekend to start tinkering mods. One minute I was telling my friends about what I’ve been reading up on Yakuza modding, and the next I’m privately streaming a test to my friends that inevitably turns into endless laughing (Seriously, the karaoke part fucking killed me). I also have a fun model for Majima… but so far I can’t seem to get it to load. I’ll have to experiment with the files and see if I can get it to work, or at least have fun breaking these games in the process.
My original plan was to continue my animation, but I guess that can wait for another day or two. Instead, please enjoy this lovely piece of modded nightmare fuel.
To celebrate completing a render tonight I decided to treat myself to a bit of Yakuza 0! I’ve made it to Chapter 3, but I’m thinking of starting over again to try and find some sidequests I missed, and I didn’t really do much with the minigames. It would give me an excuse to give it the full 4K experience! 😛
Animation on the next Broforce video is underway! I’m thinking I might even be able to finish the intro within the week! I still need to hammer out the details for the ending, but I should have at least one video up next month, two if I’m lucky; The second one is looking more involved than the first.
I brought up Broforce at work recently, no one has ever heard of it… not big surprise! Most of the recent indies I’ve played are pretty unknown outside PC. They know nothing about AER: Memories Of Old, they barely know about the Shadow Warrior games, but they do at least know about The Amnesia Series, except for Machine For Pigs… which I had to make them aware of.
Yeah, yeah… I’m evil. 😛
I’ve been binge drinking decaf white raspberry chocolate tea all evening, enjoying every warming droplet all the way down to the last bit. I mixed a cherry pistachio puerh for work and wanted something to counteract the caffeine. It tastes good with or without milk and sugar! I’ve been guzzling it without, cuz hydration.
We had some nice weather today. It would have been perfect for trying my boba tea giftset! But by the time it would have cooled down and have been ready to drink it would have been later enough in the day to keep me awake. I’ll have to see if I can predict the weather in advance and do a preemptive brew for the next day. On the bright side I have been cleaning out a good chunk of my tea collection, which is good because I have a few new teas on the way! Along with some specialty cocoas since the cold snaps still haven’t been letting up, especially at night.
Open Thread!
I’ve decided to shift my video making focus on Broforce. Having gone over the footage a few more times I’ve knocked it down to about ten minutes, and that could net me at least two videos. Staging it will be easy for the most part, since I still had the stage built from the previous Broforce video:
I’ve already changed what I needed on the character models, and exported the audio for the animated bits. I’m planning an opening and a closing scene, and I’m not sure how long those will take, but my goal would be to have at least one of these videos ready by next month. Tomorrow I’ll get started on moving some bodies around!
I even made a little time today to play Yakuza 0! One of my co-worker buds reminded me that I still need to finish it, lol. He came back to work recently after being out with an injury for a couple months, and I guess he had time to finally finish it. I didn’t do much tonight, other than treat some homeless people to a round of drinks in exchange for information, and up’d my skills as a master brawler! Now I’ll have a small status update when I talk to him again at work! That, and a mentioning or two of the other games I played yesterday. I wonder if he’s ever played any of the Call Of Juarez series…