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gonna document my potentially disastrous attempts to remake some Xenogears stuff - just starting with Fei and Elly for now - i don't want to commit to more than i can manage!
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So for a while I've been wanting to learn how to make game characters, but quickly realised I have no actual creativity 😭
So i've settled on trying to remake Fei and Elly from Xenogears, in the style of Xenoblade 3. SUPER WIP atm but i'm actually kinda happy with how its going now.
the original still looks more charming with its whimsical trailing sparks effects, I don't know how to do any of that yet 😭 #Xenogears
November 24, 2025 at 11:00 AM
didn't actually get the chair finished but its fine from this distance (play Intangible Treasure when looking at this!) #xenogears
November 23, 2025 at 10:36 PM
November 22, 2025 at 9:54 PM
oh i'm really pleased with this one! I got the fake hair highlight working! Things that are just taken for granted when rendering more normal stuff, but with the toons style it needs adding manually
November 9, 2025 at 10:14 PM
love the core crystal "animation"!
November 9, 2025 at 5:45 PM
other effects I've made are the hatching on clothing. Quite like it
November 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
made a funky painterly PP filter (99% copied from a brilliant tutorial, would never have managed it on my own 😭). I intend to only have it affect hair only, but here it is on everything for now. Looks interesting at least
November 9, 2025 at 5:29 PM
And I got that working too :D Just roughly painted the verts to test, I'd spend some time making sure its done properly when doing it for real
November 7, 2025 at 6:12 PM
ah might as well how how it looks with the sun rotating sideways too - before and after in the same clip
November 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
However I've also been trying to put together a toon/cel shader, and I figured out how to lock the sun direction cast on the face vertically, leaving the rest intact (Horizontal rotation of the sun still works as normal, as it should).
The "Before" video is in the next post!
November 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Sorry for the lack of activity here. I have been making a little progress on Elly and Fei, but also been getting distracted with all sorts of other stuff! Some of which has just been playing games - beat FF7 for the first time (loved it)! And really enjoying the Remake too, for different reasons
November 6, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Some super quick examples! Second pic showing the setup - probably far from the best way of doing it, but it works!
October 4, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Spent an embarrassingly long time fumbling around on this today, but I got something I'm pretty pleased with:
October 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
🧵 Here is a look into how Vertex Colours are used in Xenoblade 3!
I've put together a short thread with my best guesses
This first pic is just Noah with the vertex colours overlayed on top of his materials. However I'll remove the materials so its even clearer going forward
October 2, 2025 at 7:06 PM
First set of homemade textures to replace the XC3 ones - eyes! Quite pleased with the result. I won't be happy until I've replaced everything, but its nice to get a start
October 1, 2025 at 7:49 PM
alright this is no surprise to anyone with any 3d art experience, but its cool nonetheless imo; Normal maps do SO MUCH heavy lifting! And they stand up to close scrutiny too - they still look great on a 4k display, which is insane given the game is i think 720p max?
October 1, 2025 at 12:21 PM
One thing Monolith do which I love is blending the lower eyelid using vertex alphas (as kindly demonstrated by A); so where its black will be fully transparent ingame, giving that lovely soft look. Second pic is from ingame - also note the eyelashes and eyebrowns rendering in front of the hair!
October 1, 2025 at 11:44 AM
previous pics were using flat shading atm (so texture only basically), because they look awful with normal shading and no toon shader setup! Tho tbf, the XC3 models look pretty goofy too without the proper cel shading, here is a comparison:
October 1, 2025 at 11:29 AM
So for a while I've been wanting to learn how to make game characters, but quickly realised I have no actual creativity 😭
So i've settled on trying to remake Fei and Elly from Xenogears, in the style of Xenoblade 3. SUPER WIP atm but i'm actually kinda happy with how its going now.
October 1, 2025 at 11:06 AM