Hows that for a surprise ?

Hows that for a surprise ?

Chunli barefoot in battle dress is becoming a reality.

Hey folks,

It's been sometime since I last updated the blog, I've been busy with work then The Witcher 3 Blood & Wine got released and then a lot of mods too, it's a busy life.

So making Chunli go barefoot in her battle dress was the most requested mod since I started SFV modding and I too also wanted to do this request but the issue of APEX Clothing destroyed any hope of doing this properly until I found that I can animate her long dress using PhysX instead. It would be ideal if we can use APEX but the issue with APEX is not the technology itself but the tool used to implement it. It's so dated and less functional that it irritates you when you're trying to animate a complex mesh like Chunli's dress so after several tries I decided to dump this idea and choose PhysX instead for the animation.

This led me to test another of my idea that we can actually add new bones to the skeleton and then animate those bones using PhysX, I added 8 bones for each cloth (front and back) resulting in a total of 16 bones and then I animated them using UE4, the result was better than I expected and it also proved the fact that both UE4 and SFV accept new bones and modified skeletons happily.

With some careful work on physics her dress animation will look quite good and that is without APEX Clothing technology.

But until I do it, enjoy this work in progress screenshot.