brynna da rosa's Well, I've certainly got egg on my face. I've been frightfully inactive, at least in terms of output and concrete public updates, to this site and others. I'm afraid I got unfathomably burnt out on IV, its limitations, and its crawl speed of tool development... Though i have to give it to these great people, it's finally coming along, after all these years! However, as somebody whose whole thing is pretty focused on character models and FACES, still not being able to export them without crazy mesh distortion no matter what I do has been deeply discouraging. So what I ended up doing was taking a bit of a detour into some former territory...
V Modding! Which, as some of you may know, was how I got started, with my sole goal being fixing Packie McReary's weird meathead face in HC_Gunman. Well, although I'd like to redo that mod from the ground up, eventually— I gave a damage UV to that face, 1:1 with its original.
Well, the thing is, I also ended up going back to a mod near and dear to my heart, Protagonist Niko V, remaking his yft skeleton for maybe the fourth or fifth time, getting him exported, getting his materials issues solved, tailoring all of the heist gimmick outfits for him... And I just think he looks fantastic, him and his pretty, pretty eyelashes, and his turtleneck sweater I plan to backport to IV.
I think I got started on making him his character oriented outfits and got annoyed about mesh normals re: a cloth physics suit i was giving him and then I got burnt out on THAT. So THEN, I started working on protagification of screenname namesake GTA Online protagonist Brynna Da Rosa. Then I got to work on a base body morphed from unused cutscene swimsuit Karen Daniels, discovered it was completely BEREFT of damage UVs, got angry about that, got into a lot of research, decided that I would be ready to make a damage UV from scratch-ish... Eventually. but first I ended up doing another de-stress project, making GTA Online Tony more Tony-like, after I'd defended his appaerance for so long, it was no longer ENOUGH for me!
And then I made Agent 14 shirtless i guess, then started giving him clothes, gave HIM a damage UV because he also didnt have one on his cutscene or ingame models... Don't know who's going to be interested in that, but whatever. Basically, what i'm saying is, i've spent the past several months not posting anything BUT I have been doing some research into protagonist modding for V that I think is pretty valuable, and that, while I don't know where I'll be putting these mods up exactly, the V Mods section of this site is under construction and will debut at some point. What you REALLY want to do is join the discord for general talk and updates as they come, and if you're a patron, be sure to verify yourself to get your exclusive role that grants you early access to downloads and exclusives and things, alright?
Stay tuned!