I did also do a proper swinging animation that seems fairly close to the original, but I couldn't get a screen recording that wasn't choppy. I'll try again tomorrow with something better than the windows snipping tool lol

She is from Xenogears

oh and it looks nicer with the filter applied, if I ever get it working on the hair alone

just uses this texture added on top

oh lol in my hurry to test the functionality I didn't realise the imported model still retained its original vertex colours from Monolith, but they got nerfed when I merged the objects into one actor. A simple checkbox stops that 😅 Absolutely EVERYTHING is a steep learning curve

I mentioned it before, but its nice to basically confirm that my previous thinking that vertex colours on the neck are for blending between the "normal" and "face specific" lighting. I'll have to figure out how to do it too eventually!

This is how it looks with the face receiving lighting normally - truly horrifying. Still tons of other improvements required, but it was a nice little step forward

but yeah I love it. Many flaws but I think its probably my favourite anyway

tbf i think its the most popular. Also most divisive, so you'll see more people saying they don't like it, which maybe gives the feeling of being less popular. But it sold by far the most of the series i think

And thats it for now. Sorry for long potentially boring thread, but I'm learning all this as I go and finding it really interesting!

-(the body won't need this vertex info because its a fully separate object). During my research into anime style cel-shading, its pretty clear that faces can look pretty bad unless handled very carefully, often with custom normals or SDF Shadowmaps. So this may form part of that :) But who knows!

And finally the most interesting to me as its the most mysterious: the blend into purple below the chin on his head. I can only guess, but I suspect this info is potentially being used to help differentiate between "special face shading" and the rest of the skin-