NPC_Tool - Animal Villager Customization

[Riku98523]

DsPet can you rip and email me Rovers textures (from the loading screen) if not Ill just try to recreate him.

[dragonboy269]

DsPet can you rip and email me Rovers textures (from the loading screen) if not Ill just try to recreate him.

Moe looks almost exactly like Rover, if you can't use Rover for some reason you can use Moe

[DsPet]

> DsPet can you rip and email me Rovers textures (from the loading screen) if not Ill just try to recreate him.
The "special" NPCs use very different texture mapping.
If interested, here are special models ripped into a similar (but mostly unusable) format:
http://aibohack.com/wii/special_characters.zip
Read the README.TXT for a name guide (eg: SPEC00 is Rover, SPEC01 is Joan, ...)
They require significant editing to work as regular NPCs. You need to make the special textures fit into the size and layout of the "Export Textures".

For example, the Rover model ("SPEC00") is a cat, but has has a totally different body layout than the regular NPC cats (like Moe). The eyes and mouth are totally different (Rover only has half his face/head, but the regular cat model has both sides).
As suggested, you may be better of starting with Moe (or any of the other normal cats), and moving over the colors and artwork from the SPEC?? bitmaps.

[Riku98523]

That is what I am planning to do DsPet. Thanks for these .


*EDIT* Ok so I finished my first attempt at Rover and I have to say It looks nice. I messed up on colors slightly and the eyes look kinda pixelated (or at least like squares) but all its a pretty good edit. I am going back to fix some mistakes and try a few things Ill edit with a picture afterwards.

*EDIT* Ok well here is my second version http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/a...3/RUU_0018.jpg (colors are still a little messed up and eyes are obviously to big up and down wise. (long? lol) Also you notice Moe is a chick so now Rover has chick clothes on, the easy fix for that is just replace the textures with a guy cat.

Each texture is 100% edited with nothing left from Moe what so ever so I actually didn't need to use Moe at all but just did since it was suggested.

Here is version 2 http://www.sendspace.com/file/7bkmp4 download if you like and do w/e . Ill do a version 3 later with proper purple head color etc. etc. Oh and tell me what you think please.

[kronau]

A thing you could do is make something on you're websight that allows users to upload and download there own custom textures and screen shots of the ending result tho you might need to ask for donations due to bandwith useage

[Riku98523]

To bad my old domain got closed down for a while I could have just made a sub and hosted there. Ill ask my friend if he will make a sub domain for me.

[kronau]

To bad my old domain got closed down for a while I could have just made a sub and hosted there. Ill ask my friend if he will make a sub domain for me.

I have a domain but I'm all ready paing $150/mo for it I dont think I can afford much more

[DsPet]

>...allows users to upload and download there own custom textures and screen shots of the ending result...
I was considering that for a future version. The ability to use one of the popular custom characters as well as the Nintendo provided prototype characters.
There are a few more things needed for a complete custom NPC character (like room contents, shirt design etc). Expect most of it in the next version of NPC_Tool.
Website bandwidth isn't a problem. Increasing awareness is more important (and increasing the number of AC:CF hackers)

NPC editing is relatively new. Right now the best thing IMHO is to increase awareness on high-volume non-hacker BBSs, like:
http://www.animalcrossingcommunity.c...sp?BoardID=152
Brag about how cool hacking is, and how easy it is, show off your new inventions, get the general AC:CF users salivating for new NPCs.
WARNING: don't talk about how to hack on that particular BBS.

If regular Wii users see how cool NPC hacking is, and after they have a few 'hacked' NPCs moving into their towns, who knows...
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> I have a domain but I'm all ready paing $150/mo...
Friendly advice, unless you have an amazing monthly bandwidth (ie. terabytes), or have limited options in your country -- I suggest shopping around.

[kronau]

Is this your new main hobby now that Sony stopped development of AIBO or are you still hacking them and whatnot?

[Riku98523]

Really $150 a month seems a little high I am sure you could find a very good host for less than that. My friend Alex's site has 5TB of space and pretty high BW for much less than that a year.