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how do we feel about silver with a fixation, an obsession even, to become something more powerful. a god even. a child striving to surpass his own physical limitations to harness a power that lets him become to sole arbiter of what he deems to be justice, even if it were to destroy his own body in the process. a selfish desire to finally be the one who gets to decide who gets to suffer in this world, masked under genuine care and a wish to do the right thing by any means necessary

#soda offers you a can #can we have more 06-derivative silver in general. a freak who was born in a hell and doesn't as much as flinch in the face of death #who doesn't see anything wrong with killing a guy because that's normal to him #who only spares sonic when he's shown better methods for addressing the problems he's trying to solve

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matched with someone named "furry hater" on forces speed battle while boiling veggies and like. who's gonna tell him he's playing a furry game. i might have some news for you buddy

#soda offers you a can #they were playing mephiles too. a god who Chose to physically manifest as a furry. it was so funny

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sneak peek for next chapter

(warning for gore and other potentially disturbing content)

#ouhh he ouppy...

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im not sure how this is going so far but i certainly hope i can make this work out hoo boy

#soda offers you a can #his quills are... such a headache #not to mention trying to keep things stylized and all #the ears in particular. goddamn

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can't wait for the debut of the brand new character "Series Knuckles(TM)" in the third sonic movie who else is hyped

#soda offers you a can #yeah mobile games i know but this is the goofiest thing to me #they gave him a hat and called it a new character. like that's the lowest effort alt skin ever. doofenschmirtz-ass shit #knuckles the echidna? *puts on funny hat* SERIES knuckles the echidna??!??!

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what if silver was like. 125cm tall actually. what if he was freak-sized even

#soda offers you a can #highkey eyeballing a size chart of sonic characters atm and i think that would be about acceptable #with how long his quills are too #he's be like about a head taller than sonic and imo that would go hard. lanky and fucked up Creature

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frontiers is getting put in gay baby jail for now because i can't make aura shit work and if i start modeling silver for it specifically im gonna get lazy about modeling him with fun custom proportions, which is what i want to do i want to make him the little freak frontiers would never let me have

#soda offers you a can #i need turnarounds first though and hoo boy im gonna struggle with those

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right okay for the time being im giving up on incorporating the aura to boosting because the methods i know how to use are getting me nowhere and the methods that could be helpful are walled behind me having an understanding of C# which i do not have and i don't exactly want to waltz into the hedgemodding discord to look for someone who could do it for me either because this is such a niche fucking mod to begin with. will this bother me? oh yeah immensely. but there really isn't much i can do about things myself atm

#soda offers you a can #like there already exists a silver mod that's universally liked in every shape and form #so i don't see why anyone would want to give a hand in making a mod that recreates what already exists but like. subjectively worse? #i mean if p-06 silver is anything to go by people want him to play like sonic and shadow #which the real silver mod does pretty much #idk i imagine i could put script request on gamebanana for displaying the aura when boosting and hope for the best #not like i put the initial d into the game by myself either

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i hand sonic frontiers a new skeleton and it starts vomiting onto my carpet i love modding this game

#soda offers you a can #i think. what may be happening. is that it considers every animation invalid now #because of the new bone #so if i want this to work i'd just have to export all of the animations over again with the new skeleton #nbd there's only 570+ of those haha. hee hoo. :))))))))) #(i am not doing this)

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yeagh. yup. this is the best i can do with the armature thing when it comes to scaling things up. i did come up with a weird alternative method that could be like, marginally better??

it's the same as above except the "auramesh" is moved back slightly to create a kind of "afterimage" thing, it might work a bit better even if it's not exactly what i want from it?? of course the problem with both of these is that the extra mesh effectively doubles the tri count of the model and hinges on me being able to put in the modified skeleton without it causing problems. the mesh thing i can probably fix when i model silver by keeping it in mind during the process though

guess i just have to slap this shit in and hope for the best idk

#soda offers you a can #however it is occurring to me that i've never tried to put a custom skeleton into frontiers and im not sure how that's supposed to work #time to find out i guess?

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hm. that might not be working!

#soda offers you a can #help frontiers is bullying me So hard

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ough oh man i think if i wanna mess with coding something for frontiers i'd actually have to Learn learn C# not just waltz about with my surface-level understanding of what variables are which is. a bit of a tough ask ngl. and a bummer because i get really caught up on details hee hoo

#soda offers you a can #hrghnh i Might experiment some more with putting the aura into the base model #it is Such a scuffed method but i want to make it work so bad

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"oh hey there's a code in the mod manager that disables the cyloop aura maybe i can get some clues from this on how to apply it to other actions" i say before i open the file to whatever this is

line 5 is a comment and that's about as much as i can gather from this hee fucking hoo

#soda offers you a can #and 12 has a fucking uhhh hex thing on it #“oh i've done a bit of programming how hard could it be” and then my nuts get hydraulic pressed

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grr i tried the trick of including the aurabody mesh in the base model and using a bone to scale it up to make it visible and it kinda works but not really? i need the bone to deform the mesh because that's kind of the point of the whole thing, but i can't have it deform it Too much or it starts messing with the other bones. it works when the vertex group value is a whopping 0.01 but at that point i need to scale the bone such ridiculous amounts that it starts getting inconvenient. if i want the aurabody in animations outside of the cyloop im going to have to figure out something else i suppose

#soda offers you a can #this might be doable with a code mod of some kind which sounds terrifying and it is kind of terrifying ngl #and i have very little idea how to approach that can of worms #but im going to persist for now i really want this to work it would be Very Cool

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hm. i have a Really scuffed idea for how i could maybe make an air boost aura work. i could put an aura model Inside the base model, and somehow tie its scale to a custom bone that mostly doesn't do anything, except for the boost animations where it scales up enough to reveal the aura model. im not sure if i could actually make it work though this is very much a theory, and i feel like something like this would not work in practice, but it might be worth fucking around with anyway bc if it works it'd be a very simple way of adding an aura model to any animation i want it to be included in

#soda offers you a can #the entire premise of this hinges on me being able to sneak in a bone to the base skeleton to begin with #and that it Doesn't fuck with any animations nor the aura model's weight painting and only scales it up #that said i did drop a line to gamebanana abt this so fingers crossed someone gets back to me on that #bc otherwise im gonna get Very experimental with this shit

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okay fun results from the devtools: silver-esque physics are doable but probably need a Lot of tweaking to satisfy me, which is hard because there are so many parameters for everything like look at this list just for the airboost

that's a lot of stuff to fuck with, and a lot of these things aren't very easy to test for or i have a hard time noticing changes. like i tried to make sonic fall slower but i might've been fucking with the wrong parameters because wowie i could not figure out if he was any floatier than before i fucked around

i did however fuck with the air boost and got it to a point where it allowed you to hover around for about 5 seconds or so, with gravity gently kicking in towards the end of that duration. i also made it steer-able which isn't a thing in vanilla frontiers, it's a bit. goofy, but i think that could be fixable if i swap the animation to a more hover-y one. i'd love to incorporate an aura to the air boost too but im not sure how i'd go about that one, if it's even doable. perhaps it could be possible to somehow have some effect files to point to the action but ??? how'st've. also i think i made sonic slower overall which is vital to me for a playable silver, his jump is higher and floatier and double jump gives him more air as well, and the wall-running might also be slower with my numbers. maybe. i need to test it more

like overall this feels doable to me, but im going to have to dedicate a good amount of time for tweaking the finer details of this stuff. and i might want to look around and see if people have figured out some finer details about the effect files and if i could somehow add them to actions that didn't previously have them because despite everything a effect-less airboost Will bother me no matter how nicely it might play

#soda offers you a can #inb4 the trickiest part of this endeavor ends up being the modeling part lmao

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ok bad news about the devtools: they can't save the changes you make as of the current version. they're also intimidating as shit to use like i tried to change a parameter and the game decided i was playing as amy on base game ouranos which was one hell of a jumpscare ngl

#soda offers you a can #i might fuck around a bit more with them but oh boy. shit's a bit spooky for me #it taps into that primal part of me that was terrified of installing games on my dad's pc when i was 8