Let's bite into this 3.4 version!
Greetings dear humans!
The long awaited collab update has landed! So as you've probably noticed the 3.4 version of the game wasn't so kind with our mods : once again XXMI and WWMI were put in a difficult position and lost their footing. Near the end of the day our softwares then received a quick fix although this one is sadly not perfect.
Until Lucilla lands I'll try to see if there is a way to fix or improve stuff further on my side. First there are the 2 rover cases : Those are sadly NOT (only) hash replacements. Kuro devs heavily edited shapekeys (mostly those related to face expressions). To fix that properly I'll have to adapt my original blender files and redefine everything on those (M/F) rover mods. It's very annoying from a mod creator pov as you must re-build and export everything again (and re-code toggles). If you were to use popular hash fixing .exe despite my warning here (like Moonholder's, Woju's, etc.) you will be left with mods that seem functional at first sight but not so much when stressed into facial animations or cinematics.
I've also noticed a few mods struggle a bit more than others (for instance Hiyuki with her modded weapons included). I'll try to find some time to investigate and see if there are solutions.
Lastly my next plan is to focus Lucilla first. She stands as a very precious unit for all accounts and I will do my best to "Radiant" her the epic way! As for the collab, don't worry, I won't skip on them. I'm a big fan of cyberpunk 2077 and I want something special even if it means something less complex than usual. Because things is : I will quickly run out of modding time during this 3.4. One full-quality Radiant mod easily takes 2 weeks of sweat and you can see math won't add up. I don't want to rush them either so I'll probably fiddle them on the long run as side-projects. I was thinking about giving Lucy and Rebecca new outfit hair/eye/colors, giving lucy a permanent no-jacket option if I can, etc.
In any case I'll try to keep you updated! Cheers.
Comments (12)
Little update here! I've fixed both M/F Rovers and Hiyuki with a careful hash hunting operation. I expect almost no other mod creator doing this because it's long and annoying although it really helps when there are LOD break/updates from XXMI and I believe it's cool to have steadier mods on the long run!
Do we need to re-download the skins?
very excited to see what you'll have for lucilla! when i logged in and saw the state of the mods i felt so bad for everyone's hard work. hoping everything will go smoothly for u :)
Thank you my friend, time will be the best medicine for this but yeah I won't ever be short of work haha! Actually I can't wait to work on Lucilla and Lucy but until Lucy's release I can't help... must... fix... old stuff!
I sincerely hope this happens less and less for the sake of mod creators sanity.. hopefully at some point devs will be content with some permanent final state
Let's hope so but deep inside I'm doubting that... it's been 2 years and sadly not much thing changed with their "bad" habbits. Like changing the whole circuit/address of a character just to update a single texture while also not retaining its previous hash like on other games
Weirdest part is that mods works perfectly fine in character menu, but once you deploy them into overworld skins starts to crash like front part of Lynae/Chisa hair, Hiyuki constantly meshing old/new outfits, wish they stopped messing with those already :/. Looking forward to Lucilla and hope fixes wont be too much work.
I didn't know Chisa was also subject to this... weird since her handling was supposed to be solid. On my end only 3.0 chars are affected (almost all of them) Anyways! Until Lucilla arrive, I'm trying to fix it the best I can on my end and I found a way... kind of stupidly annoying and long but it solves 70-80% of the phenomenon. Rover M/F are now fixed, and Hiyuki also received this first try of custom fix for this mess.
How many times will those devs mess with rover assets?! man I can't stand having him vanilla again on collab quest it's so much better with your mod
Haha yes seeing our favourite characters going back to vanilla is one depressing and infurriating event every freaking time
I pulled for one Lucy n planning on Lucilla too.. can't wait to see what you will do with those! sorry to hear about the mess take your time I don't mnd the wait
Always nice to hear people have iron patience ^ ^)/ ty my friend