Ok, here’s the SFZ (or Alpha if you prefer, but I’ll stick to the Japanese names) Chun Li China Wall Training Stage mod (yes, I love long names :p). I ended up including both the USG and VG versions of the stage.
This stage is really not much, but try to enjoy it while I finish the whole mod^^. Maybe I’ll take some time to release other stages that won’t figure in the mod, we’ll see later.
edit : @ hunterk
If you happen to update the AE wiki, could you link my 4 vanilla to AE Training stages conversions please. I know they’re not the hottest stages around here, but some people might still want to use them :). Here’s a link to my previous post.
Nice! glad someone wrote a tut because im not very good at explaining things. I’m surprised the head swap turned out pretty well too…i figure Guy’s face regions wouldn’t line up properly with Ryu’s face bones.
Also to people planing to swap EMGs between characters, be warned that the success rate is low. Often times the object swapped will not animate properly. This would be due to characters not having their bones ordered in the same way in their skeleton. Also when swapping loose clothing, long hair, etc… the bones that animate those parts will most likely not even exist in the character you’re swapping into. For example if you try swapping Ibuki’s skirt from her 2nd costume to her 1st costume, it won’t work well because the skirt bones don’t exist in the 1st costume.
Nice! i bet it was difficult to make that mod because my textures were all over the place and my mod was made of overlapping body parts. I’m currently working on a Chun Li where everything is on a single mesh and a single texture. It’s gonna be better because you won’t see cracks in the model from different overlapping bodyparts.
Sloth, here a complete color pack for your gymnast: www.mediafire.com/?vlicya83z3t7sli
I have to modify the n.10 color black/red instead of black/yallow. No more crash on alternate colors
Hey. I did some more homework eISH and LosCakes and found what you’re after. Click here for a suprise; http://www.mediafire.com/?3c988zuw93pzd
And I’m not really into HUDS but you can get more here: SF4 PC: The Custom Skin Mega-thread!
They’re not converted but you know what to do. (if not see hunterk’s 1st post page 1)
(nice Kitty Pryde avatar too Los)
Ok guys, I think I have done all the preporatory work now. All that is left is polishing, putting the bits together and choosing the right music for each stage.
I finally decided to try and stick to the one thing I can’t change : the stage locations (it may be possible to do it, but I won’t go that way, already too much work to do). Because the game doesn’t precisely mention the name of the country, but just some vague “Europe” and such thing, I had a wide panel of options. Here are the original stages, and what they will become (in brackets are the character/music when already chosen ; 3 stages are unsure due to the authorization thing, so I the mod that will get released and the one that I will personnaly use will be different) :
STG_AFR – Small Airfield --> DJIBOUTI – USAF Airfield (Guile)
STG_BRA – Inland Jungle --> BRAZIL – Tropical Jungle (Blanka)
STG_BRX – Pitch-Black Jungle --> PERU – Mountain Cliff (T-Hawk)
STG_CHN – Crowded Downtown --> CHINA – Village Street (Chun-Li)
STG_CNX – Run-down Back Alley --> CHINA – Garden by the Sea (?)
STG_EUR – Cruise Ship Stern --> SPAIN – Dead or Live TV Show (Claw)
STG_JPN – Old Temple --> JAPAN – Temple Roof (Ryu) or Snowy Night (Ryu), depending on my mood later on ^^.
STG_JPX – Deserted Temple --> JAPAN – Crumbling Bath house (Honda) or Sakura’s Home (Sakura), depending on the authorization I get for the “Bath house” art.
STG_LAB – Secret Laboratory --> UNKNOWN – Shadoloo Base (Dictator)
STG_RUS – Snowy Railyard --> USSR – Steelworks (Zangief)
STG_RVR – Overpass --> JAPAN – Zen Garden (?)
STG_SCO – Historic Distillery --> SCOTLAND – Continental Forest (Cammy)
STG_TRN – Training Stage --> NO LOCATION – End of the World (tired of the old training stage, I think I might have fun replacing it with a great looking stage, although not SFish^^)
STG_USA – Drive-In at Night --> USA – Night Crash Scene (Ken) or Back Alley (Ken), depending on the authorization I get for the “Night Crash Scene” art.
STG_VCN – Volcanic Rim --> LOST ISLAND – Pirate Shipwreck (DJ)
STG_VIE – Beautiful Bay --> THAILAND – Old Ruins (?)
STG_VNX – Morning Mist Bay --> THAILAND – Old Fighting Arena (Sagat)
STG_BLD – Building --> USA – Suburban Street (?)
STG_IND – India --> INDIA – Desert Ruins (Dalhsim)
STG_KOR – Korea Festival --> KOREA – Old Cemetery (?)
STG_AFX – Solar Eclipse --> EGYPT – Lost Tomb (?)
STG_LBX – Crumbling Laboratory --> UNKNOWN – Mountain Headquarters (?) or Lost Ruins, depending on the authorization I get for the “Mountain HQ” art.
As for Ryu’s stage, as much as I like hunterk’s Classic one, I was able to bring the one from SFZ back to life, and it looks pretty good, altough more low def than the ripped from HDR. Plus, nostalgia is speaking here, since I spent quite a few hours on the first SFZ back then^^. Here’s a screenshot :
I will check the forums from time to time during my work, so if you have any suggestions or comments, just go ahead. If good enough for me, I could still reconsider some choices I made (of course, you haven’t seen most of the above stages yet, but there’s too much just to post here…).
Thanks for the suggestions Brad86 ;). But as you said, already saw all that great stuff, including the amazing moon temple stage video.
Unfortunetely, blot12345 doesn’t want anyone to use his art in a mod. I guess you could still take it for personal use though, if you feel up to building your own stage (whether I write the tutorial or not - btw, it DOES look good ingame, although not as good as “Steelworks”, which I’m allowed to use^^)
As for the Alex’s stage, I just got the authorization this morning, and I plan to use it in the mod (“Suburban Street”). All in all, the authorization part of the mod already took me more than 5 hours I think. A lot of people involved, and I had to write long messages multiple times, since some didn’t answer the first time (don’t blame them, it’s just a amateurish mod, so for people working as 3D artists in big cies, it might not seem urgent to reply asap).
Oh, and I tried that Moon Temple art too, but the result is kinda meh. I think it’s all those flying stuff, makes the “fixed” screen blurry (plus, don’t have the answer from the author yet).
Just so that you know, I asked every guy at the Brawl Contest, and looked at all the WIP topics for good screenshots. Took a look at google image too (that’s how I got SFZ’s stages mostly).
Good job everyone!