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    ROM Hack Animal Crossing: New Leaf ROM Hacking

    The game does not use dae files. It uses a special file format Nintendo made. I suggest looking back through the thread for what deishido was talking about, Its the special tool that you'll have to learn as well. I don't use blender but I assume you are attaching materials and texture...
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    ROM Hack Animal Crossing: New Leaf ROM Hacking

    The mesh doesn't come with all the textures attached that make up the face animations. So they have to be re put together in maya/max. Problem is, I thought I had it but it still didn't animate. The game Is looking for something specific, which I think if we had someone who knows more about the...
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    ROM Hack Animal Crossing: New Leaf ROM Hacking

    Sorry I must have made that more confusing then it needed to be. When a modeler models a character they sure as heck don't model it in triangles. You want as much quads as possible. In Nintendo's case they also used quite a few triangles (which is fine when modeling game characters, especially...
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    ROM Hack Animal Crossing: New Leaf ROM Hacking

    Maya/Max are important because the tool used to export the mesh is only for those programs. I suppose you could use blender to do all your editing but it has to be sent back to maya or max for export. Same with photoshop the texture has to be exported a certain way and the tool is only for...
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    ROM Hack Animal Crossing: New Leaf ROM Hacking

    Ya! You can absolutely change gear but if you swap a villager head out with the hat the head will never be able to emote. Polygon limit is weird... But from what I tested a character can't go over 1.5K (for reference no character in the game is more than 1K, or at least any I found) and a...
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    ROM Hack Animal Crossing: New Leaf ROM Hacking

    Work has been really making it hard to work on this project the last week. I'm sorry about that guys. I might be a bit slow for a bit. Is it possible to pm me and get my email? I'll tell you all I know related to model swapping for the game. If you are interested In doing this I'd highly...
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    ROM Hack Animal Crossing: New Leaf ROM Hacking

    Insane amounts of trial and error the last few days. You can even see up there that the lighting may seem off. She is just using the bare minimal material requirements so you can see her lighting looks off and you can see a slash through her face. So still have to find the right way to do that...
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    ROM Hack Animal Crossing: New Leaf ROM Hacking

    Able to swap villagers out with new models of themselfs or really anything (to an extent)! In this case I added a little Gem to Isabelle's hand for a quick test. The game is REALLY and I mean REALLY picky how many polygons are attached to one character. if its over 1.5K or at least that seems...
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    ROM Hack Animal Crossing: New Leaf ROM Hacking

    Hey All! So I made Progress! I'm still looking into character swapping but I can now swap basic non skeletal meshes. The information to do it needs to be emailed probably though.... Someone else can disclose how to do it if they want. I used a model I made for another game just as a test dummy...
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    ROM Hack Animal Crossing: New Leaf ROM Hacking

    Hey again, Is it alright to share model files on here? I believe I have a test dummy Isabelle file cut up to "mimic" the player characters set up. I'm not really sure how one would compress it back into what the game is looking for, but I do have a maya file put together with fixed weights...
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    ROM Hack Animal Crossing: New Leaf ROM Hacking

    Ahh.. You are correct that they use different bones between villagers. Seems they are all able to pull from player animations though with no deformations. http://imgur.com/a/R1RAP
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    ROM Hack Animal Crossing: New Leaf ROM Hacking

    The Players base skeleton is a little taller than the villager skeleton which... Honestly I don't think will make a big difference if weighted well ( to be honest I didn't realize the player human was bigger than the animals...?). Should still be able to re-rout their mesh to the players...
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    ROM Hack Animal Crossing: New Leaf ROM Hacking

    That's a shame! I guess I'm way too late. I hope I can possibly make things more interesting again. Normally when I Work on a project I'm just handed the tools and told to do things a certain way and the tech team does the rest, hahaha. So if anyone knows the more technical aspects that would...
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    ROM Hack Animal Crossing: New Leaf ROM Hacking

    Hey! @deishido I'm not sure if you look at this thread anymore.. its been a while since you made a post, but here's to hoping. I made an account here just to see if I can help with model swapping in brand new models people make instead of just swapping with existing models. I do game...
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