Redhead girl mod

[Banestalker]

Hello.

After a long hiatus. I have recently come back to the forums to try and do one last project. I am not sure if anyone in here is still active since my last contribution was back in 2014-2015 for the punk girl project (which later as I learned became part of the restoration project, and the fallout 2 appearance mod)

I going to make the necessary setup to create the redhead girl using the sprite from the vault 13 redhead npc. The redhead girl from restoration project doesn't quite look right and I always wanted to make the vault npc redhead a reality.

I do believe that the task is going to be arduous and probably very long, as I recall, we had to make so many sprites for the punk girl project and it had to be done for many weeks non-stop. Nonetheless I am interested in seeing it done, or at least try .

Let me know if anyone is interested in helping, or providing any info/resources that can help. I did some search and realized that this mod is not yet done or finished. But If I am mistaken please let me know.

EDIT: currently studying the modding guide to catch up. I know that there was a WIP mod by Ghouly89 which had the same idea, but to my understanding it was never finished. I was unable to find the files online. Currently looking to find some of the WIP work that was done before so I don't have to create them again from scratch.

Progress :

Primitive Armor : AA (idle stand) animation is done.


I used this as a testing point to see how much needs to be done. the editing is all done in clip studio paint in layers to make it easier to edit frames for other armors as I can mostly use the same heads i cut off previously.

I think creating a progress checklist would be great to show the community what has been already done and what else is left. I am working on that too, progress will be slow at least for the next month as I try to tc of some RL stuff.

 

[Oracle]

oh! welcome back and good luck with this endeavor

 

[Golbolco]

I believe some frames have already been made for a Redhead girl. Last time I played Fallout: Nevada, I played as Redhead girl and I only noticed some missing frames in a couple sets of armor where I became black-hair bob girl.

 

[WraithUV]

I heavily endorse this idea. I doubt I have the skills you'd need to help out, as modeling and animation was never my forte. That said, if you do say you need something I'm actually good at, I'd love to help. The current RP Redhead hero doesn't *suck* but yeah, it definitely needs some love and I'd be quite pleased to see it come to full fruition.

 

[hexer]

Just so you know before you take the plunge, she already got animated from the scratch a few years ago. The only differences on first glance are the saturation of her hair and skin color. You can see her in the screenshots below.

I do know however that some people requested a punk girl with a red mohawk

 

[Lexx]

That one looks terrible, imo. Completely clashing with the rest of the games graphics. "The only difference on first glance" -- I'm sorry, but this critter doesn't look and feel at all like the original stuff.

 

[hexer]

Yes, but let’s be realistic about it. No one’s going to exactly replicate the original style except Interplay’s artists from the 90s.

It’s not 1:1 but it’s good enough for mods. Otherwise we need a time machine to go back in time and get the original 3D models and animations

 

[.Pixote.]

Just head swap the original redhead girl on the female players body. Didn't someone already do this?

 

[Banestalker]

what we did with punk girl was exactly that , we removed punk girl NPCs head and reattached it to the hero critter model using PS, then recreated the frms using the new frames. which managed to get the authentic fallout look. honestly dont like the built-from scratch ones. thats a personal opinion though.

work on this might not be as smooth or fast. ill update the post once i have more updates.

 

[Banestalker]

Just head swap the original redhead girl on the female players body. Didn't someone already do this?

i found a mod that was a WIP from ghouly89, but sadly its incomplete. i am looking for someone who has those files or get in touch with the modders themselves.

 

[Lexx]

Whatever the status is, it's probably not a lot. From a technical point of view, the redhead and tandi animations are the hardest to make, since they have only very few base animations to copy&paste the head from. It needs a lot of manual tweaking and polishing to get it rigt.

 

[WraithUV]

Just head swap the original redhead girl on the female players body. Didn't someone already do this?

I think this is *largely* what was done back in the day. The notable exception seems to be the pure tribal model (pre-suit) which is noticeably 'off' a little.

I think the idea was to make her more pale, but it sorta stands out aa bit much. Not a huge issue of course, since you spend an hour (if you're a n00b), more likely ~10 minutes in-game before you're wearing the vault suit anyway, and then the models match the 'vanilla' pretty well if not entirely I think.

On a semi-related note, it'd be nice if the females could finally have some choices for the Race selector as well. Black, Asian, whatever else. Not that I expect it, but it'd be really cool. ^_^ Oh, and didn't anyone ever do a smoking anim for them? Still annoying I can't use all those stray packs of smokes I find all over the place. xD

Anyways, just dreams and horses. In the end I'll take (and be quite grateful for) whatever comes. Just assuming things like that might be simpler to do in 'batches' where after some base art, you could do lots of various work on frames by copy/paste or the like, but then I have NO idea what's exactly involved in editing FRMs and such so.. if I'm making no sense at all, just ignore me entirely. ^_~

 

[Banestalker]

So, I have an update on the project.

@Munt has contacted me and let me know that he is able to help out. not only that, but he has also done a decent amount already including the primitive (tribal) armor.

I will be working on metal armor sprites for the time being. here's a link of what files Munt has so far, in case another modder wants to download or work with what we have. progress will be a bit slow on my part since I have to finish some RL stuff on my end in the next few weeks.

mega.nz/folder/bZRBSS4J#_UN_o4gjTsCtiWfDuHkrQA