Rent-A-Hero No.1 developers tried really hard to meet deadlines.
Such a rush caused a number of partially-implemented code and 3D modelling issues being mastered into the official GD-ROM release.
Thanks to our Beta testers Pichu and Guimli we got busy with fixes, but for today let's talk about the
Bottle Cat:
As the story progresses you'll eventually meet Ms.Chae,
a wealthy old lady with an adorable
multi-colored cat clipping through her dress... Wait, what?
For some reason, devs
didn't pack the poor
cat texture but used a
bottle image instead!
Since the cat texture didn't exist and its U/V were unusable, we decided to redo the cat model.
Here's the task list (in order):
- Locate texture, identify model format (Egregiousguy)
- Extract and convert it in .NJ (Egregiousguy)
- Redo U/V in Blender and design a new cat texture following the art style (VincentNL)
- MODEL_ALL.bin PVR Extractor / Reimporter script (VincentNL)
- Recreate by hand new face index U/V data as per model format (Egregiousguy)
- Rotate / align model in order to fix the clipping issue(VincentNL)
It's a lot of work for such a tiny cat, but I hope you'll appreciate the final result!
Regarding second Beta testing phase, I'm happy to announce it'll start this week!
For those who are interested, before sending a PM please read
guidelines first, Thanks!