Sonic Generations Hacking (and More!)

In a way this is why I would actually be ok with paying for Mods. They really are the DLC SEGA never provided. Might as well pay to get them done and polished like you would anything else.

 

Its okay that life got in the way Dario.

Open Sourcing is always a good idea, please do it.

Thanks for stopping by and giving us the updates guys, we appreciate it.

And I agree on what Dark Sonic said, I would pay for your guys mods too.

 

Lanzer asked me to sound off on what's going on with my project. The answer is simple - I'm waiting for better tools. The current development pipeline is painful to iterate/prototype with, and the lightmapping never works right. Since I also have a full time job now, I don't have time for slow development.

 

Thanks man. Dario may open source Glvl soon, would that help?

 

Probably. I know the current Glvl build has new features and bug fixes. I'd be willing to give useful feedback to whoever picks up development, and maybe a little actual development assistance. I know the only way to get the modding scene to pick up again is if a good editor goes open source, so here's to hoping.

 

Sorry guys I bailed Sonic modding because I'm working on

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Well you don't count Mr. anonymous famous composer. :v:

But what were you working on Falk? if you did announce something I forgot it entirely.

 

Well I assume he can't tell us since he didn't explicitly state it. :v:

 

No I meant his modding project, now that I recall I think Falk did say he was working on a project.

 

I'm not working on any modding project. Outside of the engineering/production aspect of FFXV and a few other NDA things from Japan I'm also doing a JRPG soundtrack for a yet undisclosed game.

e.g. no more time for mods.

edit: You may be thinking of Lake's Spark the Electric Jester, which is still on the table as soon as it starts moving again That's not a mod though.

 

Basically Falk's a big boy now and don't work for free no more :P

Yeah apologies to anyone who's been wanting more UP stuff to come out; SOL's been doing a great job keeping everything as quality controlled as we did, and now all 3 of the original devs are in college for, funny enough, the same stuff they were working on for the project. So time is kind of being focused on other things :B

Though in my free time I AM trying to cook up something you guys might enjoy... (though to be quite honest my "free time" is basically every other Saturday at this point, or if I'm not doing my homework like I should be.)
[inlinespoiler]my little something both is and isn't generations related btw[/inlinespoiler]

 

Does it have anything to do with the recent survey put out by the creators of Grandia and Lunar? (Just askin')

 

Sorry, no comment. I'm not about to engage in JRPG hot-and-cold.

 

Would be great to have it open-sourced, even for purposes besides modding. With all the research done, it might be possible to replicate HE lighting and rendering system in custom engine. Going Qt also seems a neat idea to me, since it'll allow to have GLvl ported to other platforms besides Windows.

 

I've been working on stuff too. I just haven't been talking about it on here.

Working on porting a level. This time a level most people don't really remember.

https://twitter.com/TwilightZoney/status/593614304684834816

Been working on redoing the Unleashed Project HUB. I bought some software that UVUnwraps Geometry much better then the 3ds Max Standard so if anyone need better unwrapping for their levels to get the most out of it let me know I can unwrap stuff for you.

This is how the old hub looked.



This is how the new one will be looking like.



Also working on providing an update to my Unleashed model mod. Since there were some people who didn't like the shoes and I'll provideo support for both Unleashed Shaders ( if those ever plan to get released when finished) and a Generations style one.



Also along with the Lost World Sonic Mod I did, I edited Lost World model just like Sega did and made Sonic Runners style out of it as well.



So yes, I'm still working on things I just don't really speak about them since I have a full time job and school to go to.

 

Holy shiz, the new hub looks amazing! I'm assuming the biggest change is a higher quality canyon? Because, if so, hot damn.

Since I've been wanting to do something Sonic/Wipeout crossover-y lately, I think I'm gonna start with a Sonic model based around one particular team. If it evolves from there into anything else, then I'll make a thread about it. My two main questions are:

1. What team would you like Sonic to be dressed up in support of?
-AND-
2. Is there anyone here who would help me in model rigging after the model is created?

 

Looking good Twilight! Btw, did you ever release the Lost World model mod?

 

The model in runners isn't really a model right?

If not is there anyway to compare the runners model to a regular game model? I'm highly doubting this but I figured it was worth a shot asking.

 

I plan to release it along side with this Runners Sonic since they both kinda use similar skeletons. I edited Lost World's Skeleton positions to fit with the Runners Sonic I edited.