NEWS!

I finally made it.

UVW mapping. And fuck tutorial. I learnt by myself hahaha.

I finally made a unique texture for all Ryo's model. There are actually 2 problems but first, take a look:

http://i.imgur.com/qQyl9Hr.jpg

And finally, my 2 problems:

1st: I have to convert textures to GIF to keep alpha mask in the model. Final Fantasy softwares only works with GIF and BMP. The problem with BMP is that if I use it, I lose the alpha mask too. If anybody's able to make a bmp that keeps tranparencies... I'd be very pleased.

2nd: Alpha mask seems to be not compatible with FFVII so Ryo's hair is very bugged in passport and in-game versions. I need one of them. Please, can you guys, make the choice for me? I don't really know witch one I can choice.

Pic of 2 versions:

http://i.imgur.com/G5SVqCJ.png

Done :lol: :lol: :lol:

After 3 shutdowns of the software to unify the model, I finally swapped the battle model. I don't know why but I lost the weapons textures. I'll find the problem.

http://i.imgur.com/avLfngh.png


And now, the in game pics:

http://i.imgur.com/HWTXtTW.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/vCSBr5f.jpg


PS: The bug you see on shoes is actually solved.


Next updates:

- Millenia's katana (the one I use for GTA San Andreas) instead of Buster sword.
- I'd like to rename "buster Sword" for "Hazuki's sword".
- New field and world chibi model.

Oh. I forgot to show the world and field model. Chibi Ryo

Downloading.

You can add DEMUL emulator with playable softwares. It's the best emu for Dreamcast.

And thanks a lot for sharing it

New updates.

Actually I'm trying to find how to open VOB files to put the forklift into the game. Or I'll maybe go to a simple motorcycle swap.
But anyway, I've swapped all Ryo's versions lol. I'm re-playing the game to be sure there are no crashes and all models are placed correctly.

Some pictures:

Ryo chibi (field and worldmap model), motorcycle model and the wheelchair when Cloud falls into the lifestream. The last one is a joke :mrgreen:
Notice the crest of his katana :D

http://i.imgur.com/0ENPGVK.png

Battle model with buster sword (changed to Hazuki's sword).

http://i.imgur.com/kWet1BR.jpg

Avatar and menu picture:

http://i.imgur.com/ncH3qiQ.png

More field pictures:

http://i.imgur.com/oX9Cwtl.jpg

Meeting Aerith:

http://i.imgur.com/lDsfTmX.jpg

Same:

http://i.imgur.com/x4tw6iZ.jpg

Shinra's building:

http://i.imgur.com/NaMsgAU.jpg

Meeting Rufus:

http://i.imgur.com/ZDurK7C.jpg

Motorcycle chase. That's epic hahaha.

http://i.imgur.com/C0AzQ4v.png

With Sephiroth:

http://i.imgur.com/B2xwLAj.jpg

Facing Sephiroth:

http://i.imgur.com/3Bd2wy1.jpg

With a Chocobo :rotflmao:

http://i.imgur.com/oRqQC4r.jpg

I'm actually thinking about the next Ryo's convertion. I think that I can make a mod for the fan game Avalanche (FFVII fighting game).

Oh, and this mod can be shared. As I always say; I'm not interested to keep them for my exclusive use. So if anybody wants to give a try, just ask me.

Last point: I always repeat that this awesome katana's model is not made by me. It's from a modder called Millenia. Hazuki crest texture is picked from a wallpaper of Ricardo.

Hiya again! Haha!

I recently seen that game. When I was a child I used to play a lot with platform games. Specially Sonic, Megaman, some Marios, Contra blahblahblah...

Did you guys knew this fan game? I just downloaded it and it seems preety funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18pALdpK8ec

Mushroom Kingdom Fusion is some kind of crossover fan game with different platform heroes in a Super Mario World. I just tried Zero from Megaman-X series and, in my opinion, Ryo could fit with his style.

So, actually I'm finishing the mod of Final Fantasy VII. Just one model left (Ryo in Chocobo Races) but I'm planning to make the sprites of Ryo Hazuki in this fan game and see the results.

My first try in a few minutes. I'll make a better palette for his jacket :P
http://i.imgur.com/LOFWu2U.png

What do you think?

Please don't stop. Never stop making them, lol.

We'll be there. El_Clown and me. It's not on July it's in June.

We'll try it to talk him about campaigns, yes.

I got my ticket but I wont go there 'til tomorrow. His conference will start at 13:00 (Barcelona's time).

I'm back at home now. And very pleased with the interview but it was so short! We only could ask him 3 questions! And I got my sealed Shenmue and the artbook signed by him.

I'm a little sorry with the forum and I wanna say sorry 'cause of my nerves. I was so nervous that I forgot my camera in the car :lol:
Anyway, el_clown was there and he will post interesting things very soon.

A japanese woman has translated to japanese/spanish. Marvelous and perfect work. She was pretty skilled.

Sure Ziming.

1st:

Yu Suzuki: "I'm ready for Shenmue 3"
The japanese admits to Gamereactor that he will focus on the AI to make it better. There wont be 11 chapters and that they are investigating about crownfunding. A message to the spanish fans.

Yu Suzuki has said that all fans he found in Gamelab asked him for Shenmue III.

"I've made the story of Shenmue 1 and 2 but I've prepared to Shenmue 11 (11chapters). If I wanna continue the game, it would take too much time because there still remains 9 chapters. So I think I'll have to change the game's structure changing it to 2 or 3 parts".

And now, speaking about the crowdfunding. Suzuki said:

"It's posible that we chose crowdfunding, but now we're in a research phase. I had the opportunity to have dinner with Inafune-san and we were speaking about it".

And he finally say thanks for the spanish fans support. This part has already been translated.


Now I'll start with the second.

Thanks Axm.

Anyway if I forgot my camera, el_clown has a lot of material. We just have to wait a little but I promise he made a real good effort to make all fan having the feeling of staying in the conference.

I was sooooo nervous when he appeared, lol. That never happened to me. A funny thing happened when he signed my games is that most of people brought normal Shenmues or even manuals or game's boxes. When I gave my sealed games to Suzuki-san, he changed his face and it seems he was surprised to see it. Maybe he thought I was crazy or something like that.

Yeah they make the out run in the interview today but they did not asked all that questions to him so this one must be from yesterday or a mixed one from the two days.

http://www.elmundo.es/tecnologia/2014/06/27/53ad74dc22601d847d8b458e.html

The title says "There's nothing better than drive a Ferrari with a beautiful girl" \:D/

Google translator.

The star of the last day of GameLab Barcelona comes from Japan and has biker name. Yu Suzuki (Iwate, Japan, 1956) features behind titles that have shaped the history of the game from the beginning until well into the twenty-first century.

His head out of the arcade classic OutRun or as Hang-On, two games to drive a car or motorbike, respectively, became a delight for the senses. But production is not limited to a decade since the 90 led the passage of the two to three dimensions with two projects that forever changed the landscape of the game: Virtua Racing and Virtua Fighter. Straddling the last century and today I gave birth two installments of Shenmue for Dreamcast title that, without being a pure sandbox, laid the foundation for what we see today in any Grand Theft Auto.

- Where did the idea of ​​mixing a Ferrari emerged, a blonde passenger and those roads reminiscent of southern Europe?

Before OutRun, speed games were very serious. All thought in terms of time, you were bound to be fast. If cars collided, exploded. It was too serious. What was intended was to enjoy driving [gesturing with his hands and simulates two cars colliding or being carried out among them] and, despite this, the player was able to win the first prize, which was what they wanted children and youth. A Ferrari is the best sports car, what better feeling than driving with one hand and have next to a beautiful blonde girl [makes gesture of driving with one hand and hug the passenger with his other arm] and also had music background?

- Are you surprised by the cult that causes the game among fans over the years?

Glad. But I was also thinking of me when I programmed the game and when I chose that car-an unofficial replica of a Ferrari Testarrosa-because for me it was also a dream car.

- It's funny because Horizon Forza 2 game that Microsoft will launch this fall for Xbox 360 and Xbox One, is a game that is clearly inspired by OutRun.

I've only seen demo videos, I could not play it, but instead I think it is an extremely realistic game compared to OutRun.

- Do you play now racing games?

I like Mario Kart-laughs and makes the gesture of lifting a wheel at speed. But overall I do not think there are many games that simulate realistic driving. I like to drive real cars so I prefer to be as realistic as possible.

- You starred in the revolution when it launched three-dimensional graphics and Virtua Fighter Virtua Racing in the early nineties. When SEGA realized that they were ready to make the jump for the consumer?

Nothing I graduated from college I joined SEGA, at 83. In the race, while studying, and researching about 3D, especially in the field of architecture. When I arrived at SEGA wanted to do 3D gaming, but the truth is that the company was not ready to launch games in three dimensions. Hang-On estimated the position of the bikes and the different elements of the screen in three dimensions but then the game will look like other racing game in two dimensions. It was not until 1992, Virtua Racing, I could use the 3D at full capacity in a videogame.

- It is called the father of modern sandbox thank both Shenmue Dreamcast titles that came out earlier in the century. Do you feel that influence in today's games?

I met once with the creators of Grand Theft Auto, who greeted me and thanked me for having created and thanks to that game were able to dispose of their titles because they were a big influence.
The saga hung with the abrupt end of the second game and the players have for years asking for a third installment.

- How do you feel when you ask his followers that game instead of outputting other original ideas?

Shenmue was interrupted and many people were left hanging, so I feel a certain responsibility to continue the saga.

- On the previous answer I am forced to ask the question ... Will Shenmue 3?

If there is chance and opportunity and if the right environment for it is there ...
He has lived very large changes in the industry over the last twenty years, the main step of the two to three dimensions.

- Did you get to experience breakthroughs or believes that the time to devote to more conventional projects has come?

Now I am dedicated to games for smartphone [his last titles have come on this platform], but now does not mean that I will devote only small projects because in the past I worked with great games and tech. I have in mind again involved in major productions.

It's not even a case of getting refunded, money's only taken out if and when it hits/exceeds it's goal. Personally though, I don't want them to jump straight into Shenmue III. At this point, not even HD remakes make sense. It has to be a reboot if everyone wants to see it succeed. If all that's wanted is the games themselves for closure, then so be it, but I want to see Shenmue become a fully-fledged franchise.

Then again I'm possibly the only person on the planet that was gutted Shenmue Online fizzled out.

No, you're not the only. One more here.

Shenmue Online could be the perfect game to play between chapters release. For example, imagine Shenmue III appeared. And then, a few month later, Shenmue Online having Yokosuka, HK, Kowloon and Guilin as initial playable maps. Then, when Shenmue IV appears, they could release a big update to the MMO with new chapter maps, new enemies, level map upgraded and more news to repeat the process 'til the end of the game.

Shenmue Online could be a side story linked to the original games sharing this side story with the original one. Playing as our own character in side quests related also to the Chi You Men and finding the main characters during the playthrought.

He's repeating the same as the interview at gamelab. Do not waste time translating it.

All the interview is going to be put and translated in English.

LOL Giorgio, that's AMAZING hahahahaha.

Mitsuzuki wrote: Fenix- did you meet Yu Suzuki recently to get your art book signed?

Yeah. At Gamelab.

And JEWelries.

xhizors92 wrote: Like a Polished Mirror (http://fav.me/d7sx6ra) added.

Wow!

I love Ryo's model. It seems to be the one from Sega all stars racing transformed.

:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

It's been a long time since I wanted to try it. I never could make this 'cause I was always thinking this game is too much for my computer. But I was wrong. I have a good performance at 720p so I said "hey! Why not now?". I got all necesary tools todays and I supose I'll start the beta and 1st try this weekend or monday. Let's pray it works [-o<

Where the hell is Ryo travelling this time? \:D/

http://i.imgur.com/qRV3rql.jpg





BONUS: I did not say anything about it but I make Ryo for GTA Vice City the other day. So if anybody want it, just ask.

http://i.imgur.com/FC8wCVK.png


PS: I still have to finish the sprites for Mushroom Kingdom but that fast to do and it makes me lazy.

Awesome! Could you send me the Vice City mod?

Thanks for all your hard work Fenix!!!

Sure. Remember you have to change 9 models. Everything's on the pack.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/1wmuun

What did you do to obtain the High poly model of Ryo? I cant rip it from the passport disc, only half the geometry. :-k

Rayld ripped it. But I only used this model for FFVII because in GTA, alpha mask are buggy and normal model is better. Modern games like Sonic Generation wont have this problem ^_^

Ryo's also in Left 4 Dead 2 but it's not mine.

After a FUCKING COMPLETE day of working, reseting, failing and watching how horrible are Sonic Generations bone's system I made it.

Ladies and gentelmens, Shenmue fans... Let me introduce you my (hey, it's my 1st try so I supose I can make a better one) lovely, hilarious and wonderful:

RYO HAZUKI in Green Hill \:D/ \:D/ \:D/

https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/t31.0-8/10733841_934261826602611_8405582635317940165_o.jpg

I'm uploading a video, lol.

Another video.

I have changed the anims. Ryo actually is not a chibi or deformed model like Sonic so running animations does not fit him at all. Now Ryo is able to FLY :mrgreen:

About the videos. I'm sorry for the bad quality but my computer can actually run the game at 30FPS. The problem is FRAPS. When I start it my frames goes to 7-15.

In the next video you'll see the riggin wich is actually poor. I'll fix it tomorrow. Another thing I noticed is that the game is not showing alpha mask on Ryo's hair but I know how to fix it too; I was trying to put opacity in the material's gallery of the game and the correct way is doing it directly on 3D Studio.

If anybody wants the mod I'll share it but actually it doesn't have the quality I wanted. I suggest you to wait a few more days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBjik8EVEgo

Here we go!

All is "finished". I mean, I made the HUD, colors and picked the numbers from the game NIGHTS for the HUD. Just to make it different. Take a look:

http://i.imgur.com/Zt60h5x.jpg

The model is far from perfect but in my opinion that's not bad at all. I think I can make a better rigging... Just in case I can find a way to move the bones to adapt them to Ryo's model. If I can realize that, the model will be A LOT better than this one. Sorry again for the poor frame rate in the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTnJz1pXyUo

Anyway, here's the download link. To play with it, download the program SONICGMI, create a folder in main game's directory, name it as "mod" and paste Ryo's file inside. Launch SonicGMI and mark the mod you want. Then press "save and play".

https://www.sendspace.com/file/ghjv50

And last thing. This mod is not tested with Super Sonic. I haven't made his Super Form yet. Just made a copy/paste model. I'll change this in a few days.

SledgeNE wrote: is there a Video about a Shenmue 3 Beta?

I think no. The closest thing I ever saw i just now. A music of Bailu Village wich I supose it's fake.

I can help too.

But that's awesome. You extracted a character model and it's suposed to give errors, right?

Have you tried using the material editor?

Just drag a texture to the material editor (press M to open it). Select the texture and go to MAP, pick OPACITY. A menu will open. Select the BITMAP option and look for the same file. Click OPEN. Then scroll the menu and select alpha.

If you don't find how to do it I can explain it using pictures.

Console modding is close to imposible haha. I'm surprised that Shenmue can be modded like you do, for example. That show how skilled are the coders that made the tools for modding.

You have FF7 with bootleg? This mod works perefectly with old version.

I have never uploaded this mod since I don't was asked to make it but I'll locate the model files and upload them. You guys will have to manually install them using a soft called alii's lgp/unlgp.

Holy shit Esppiral. You're improving a lot!!!

Hi guys. Here are the files. Before installing this mod, please be sure to make backup of all the lgp files you're going to replace. There are more important points you need to know.

1- I put different lgp archives because in some of them, there are models for minigames of Cloud wich I changed. Some of them have only some MB of size so you only have to replace them.
2- I have never unpacked the big lgp files so I'm not sure if the mod will work. Tell me guys if you have errors in the battle maps, normal maps and world map.
3- To install the unpacked folders you need aali's lgp/unlgp. It can be found here with a tutorial.

How to used aali's lgp/unlgp:
http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=9924.0 (shutdown actually).

VIDEO of the tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EosPDeBRbUY

Hope it will work :mrgreen:
LINK:
https://www.sendspace.com/file/je1ai5

I think they're not speaking about violence against women.

Didn't know the model of Joy's motorcycle. Thanks!

By the way. Did you know that Alpha trading office's boss knows the chawan sign??

I'm thinking to start ripping vehicles for GTA so I'm very interested in this thread. I have the motorcycle from Sega all stars racing by the way.

I'll send you the one from ReeceKun.

I was asking if you have extracted the body because I think passport Ryo uses better shoes.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/g6h2pq

Ziming wrote:

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A friend challenged me to see the full video. He lost

My afternoons are pretty long, lol. I'm sorry but here is the mod:

https://mega.co.nz/#!eBIHTQhL!j-_TNJ5cl ... wizUVC2_3w

Try it replacing the files. They are modded with the bootloader so you'll find a lot of things different. Maybe it won't even work. Tell me something.

Axm wrote: Shenmue 3 forum is going to be the most busy now.

I'll stay on modding too

I just wanna make Ryo in GTA V

Taren Fox wrote: With Shenmue III coming to PC. That means there will be mods! We'll be able to build our own towns and quests (like Skyrim).

Depends on the engine