Bloodstained Modded!

fatihG that looks like it could potentially work better than I was expecting as I had thought more of the detail to be included in the actual skin. Is it considered watertight?

fatihG you are correct that I'm considering attempting to put together a 3d print. My skills are more geared towards mechanical drafting, so I'm not as good with complicated meshes although I've had reasonable success with stuff I've gotten elsewhere. I wasn't really expecting it to start out completely watertight, although if each part is individually watertight it's not terribly difficult to combine them. Usually the intersections are easy enough to deal with, but if there are areas missing that make it so that an individual mesh can't be converted to a solid the results can be kind of weird if you don't close it off properly. Sometimes in that instance you can fake it to a degree by printing at a specific scale.

L...Lolita?!? Oh my god

(that is exactly what i asked from santa claus in my letter to bring me for christmas, 1xlolita!!!)

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fagurd.com/BSMods/MiriamTexturesMasks.zip

These are a bunch of PSD's that should make making texture mods for Miriam easier.

They do not contain any of the original textures as I want to avoid copyright stuff.

The way you use them is pretty simple.
There is a group called 'Place original textures here'. So if/when you unpak the game files, simply get the corresponding textures and put them in that group.
This will now act as your base.

The other groups all have masks. I basically separated each material type by groups/masks.
In these groups you can put any edits you want, for example you can play around with hue/saturation to change the colours of the base texture.

Some textures are not included, like all of the skin textures or the 'rose' texture.
As with these I pretty much hand painted my edits on Lolita or the Vampiric mods. So creating masks for those isn't very useful.

And then there is a 'BloodstainedWaterColourOverlay' texture, with this texture I tried to recreate the watercolour overlay as best as i could.
There are 2 reason for this:
When creating original assets, like the Tophat or the parasol on my Lolita mod, it needs to have a similar look to all the other assets in the game.
And the other reason, oftentimes when I edit the base textures allot of detail gets lost, so with this texture i try to win back some of that.

Easiest way to use this texture is to open it up in photoshop as a separate document and make a pattern out of it.
It is tileable so you can use it on any size document.

In your main Texture edits, simply create a new layer, fill it with the pattern and set the layer mode to multiply.

And finally i recreated the eye texture using mainly shapes and layer styles, so recolouring them or editing them is very easy.
Resizing the pupil or the iris can be done easily and will not result in data loss that comes with up or down scaling.
Changing colours is also very easy as allot of the effect are done via layer styles.

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I should really record a video of this at some point as well. =]

A program for enabling them? I think that's in the video already.

Familiar progression is a gameplay mechanic something that out of my scope.
It could be done... if you manually create and change mods during story progression...

So far the only things I can mod are some limited visuals, like textures, models, materials(to a certain extent) and possibly animations. 

Anyway a little something I was working on:









Since I am not aware on how to mod particle effects, I had to do some trickery with the flames of the sword.

No coding, a little bit of 'scripting' as in node based materials in UE4.

Keep in mind I have used UE4 for other projects in the past so I am familiar with most of the 'artist tools'.

For the sword, like I said, I did some trickery as when modding you do not have full access to all the tools the engine has.
As allot of the assets have references to each other, so if you mess that up, you'll break things.

For example I would have loved to be able to use particles, but it is not possible to mod particles. As the particle system has allot of variables that you need to mess around with.

Here is the sword without any materials/textures applied:


And a screenshot of the node for the material that I used for the flame:

Kawaii af, man. I think it looks better than last time, but that might be just the cut scenes showing off more detail. Looks nice and bright. Crisp. Of course, last time the ribbons were pink, but you're not done.

I hope you can figure out the physics again. I wonder if what changed is final anyway. The fact we can still replace assets makes me very happy with this build and gives me hope for extending the life of the game though mods.

All these complaints about textures and graphics shows people want to control how it looks. Well if they want it bad ebough, they can make it look exactly how they want!

Yeah the hair looks fabulous now hahaha