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Loko wrote

Is there a decent IDE with a dark theme, because my eyes burn

It's probably impossible to recommend an IDE without getting shouted at by someone, but I tend to use PyCharm. It's not ideal unless you're using Python, though it does support some extra languages with plugins.

Article headlines like: Millennials don't want to buy baby boomers' sprawling, multi-bedroom homes, and it's creating a major problem in the real-estate market. Need to stop

Its more. Millennials don't want to buy 700k houses that it cost baby boomers 6000 to buy

Loko wrote

Is there a decent IDE with a dark theme, because my eyes burn

CLion has a pretty cool dark theme if you have the means to get a license.

Angel wrote

Article headlines like: Millennials don't want to buy baby boomers' sprawling, multi-bedroom homes, and it's creating a major problem in the real-estate market. Need to stop

Its more. Millennials don't want to buy 700k houses that it cost baby boomers 6000 to buy

Who tf is gonna want to clean all those rooms? No thanks!

I am about to start modding my v1.0 GTA:SA by having all female peds as anime girls of my choice that match as close to the original ped appearances and make a post-game storyline about CJ discovering the hidden intentions of the Green Goo, aliens disguised as 2D women, and his misadventures with them. I know that I have to get the latest version of CLEO from the library, but have zero experience in it, because I haven't tried it yet. My recent playthrough is already 100% complete and clean, already up to date and romanced all six girlfriends to 100%.

I have all the prepared skins on my list copy-pasted from one of my Word documents, my other Word document contains a partially completed fan-made storyline I made with branching routes taken from GTA IV. Note the serial number and type of ped by its behavior class, where they commonly spawn or appears in, and the replacement character with respective source. Asterisks indicate characters that move at a snail's pace, two asterisks indicates a rollerskater that moves the fastest unless on sand or grass and doesn't stop moving its feet when idle.

List of Skins for my storyline if I get it to work properly
9: Bfori - Rich, always flee if attacked, appears only on certain days of the week and in wealthy areas, sometimes in casinos and train stations (Est from Seirai Tsukai no Blade dance)
11: Vbfycrp - Casino croupier/bartender with dark skin, always flee if attacked, only appears in specific locations and Vigilante missions (Amane from Dream C Club)
12: Bfyri - Rich, always flee if attacked, appears in most locations around the state (Violet Platane from Trinity Universe)
13: Bfyst - Poor, sometimes will attack, appears in low-income areas around Los Santos, the beach near Missionary Hill, and the southernmost part of the main road near The Four Dragons in Las Venturas (Shinobu from No More Heroes: Desperate Struggle)
31: Dwfolc - Possibly poor, sometimes will attack, appears in rural areas around the state (Crested Ibis from Kemono Friends)
38: Hfori - Possibly poor, sometimes will attack, appears around parks throughout the state (Shiro from No Game No Life)
39: Hfost - Possibly rich, sometimes will attack, appears just about anywhere (Fu Hua from Honkai Impact 3)
40: Hfyri - Rich, always flee if attacked, appears only in wealthy areas (Sayaka Maizono from Dangan Ronpa)
41: Hfyst - Somewhat poor, sometimes will attack, appears in most locations throughout the state (Ohana Matsumae from Honosaka Iroha)
53: Ofori - Possibly poor, sometimes will attack, appears around parks throughout the state (Esdeath from Akame ka Kill)
54: Ofost - Possibly rich, sometimes will attack, appears in some locations around the state (Chii from Chobits)
55: Ofyri - Rich, always flee if attacked, only appears in wealthy areas (Tsubasa Oribe from Tokyo Mirage Sessions)
56: Ofyst - Middle class, sometimes will attack, appears almost anywhere except the majority of San Fierro (Taiga Aisaka from Toradora!)
63: Bfypro - Prostitute, always attack if melee unless gunfire is heard or shot at, usually appears in rundown areas of Los Santos all day, otherwise always spawns at night and sometimes stick around longer than usual (Rory Mercury from Gate - Thus the JSDF Fought There!) [Sorry, can't find a darker skin that fits this ped]
64: Hfypro - Prostitute, always attack if melee unless gunfire is heard or shot at, usually appears in rundown areas of Los Santos with a Hispanic feel, otherwise always spawns at night and sometimes stick around longer than usual (Ashley Slow as an OC)
[Sorry, can't find a darker skin that fits this ped]
69: Sbfyst - Middle class, sometimes will attack, usually appears in San Fierro (Momo Veila Deviluke in school uniform with no tail from To Love Ru: Darkness - Gravure Chances)
[Sorry, can't find a darker skin that fits with this ped]
75: Swfopro - Prostitute, always attack if melee unless gunfire is heard or shot at, usually appears in San Fierro at night (Chousen from Ikkitousen)
76: Wfystew - Middle class, always flee if attacked, only appears around airports (Yuigahama Yui from Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru./Zoku)
[Sorry, can't find a darker skin that fits this ped]
77: Swmotr1 - Poor, transgender, sometimes will attack, usually appears in areas with the LGBT lightposts (Saki Mizushima from iDOLM@ASTER SideM)
85: Vwypro - Prostitute, always attack if melee unless gunfire is heard or shot at, usually appears in Las Venturas most of the day due to increased prostitution rate (Miki as an OC)
87: Vwfyst - Stripper, always flee or cower if attacked, only appears in strip clubs and Vigilante missions (Yuzuriha Inori from Guilty Crown)
88: Wfori - Possibly poor, sometimes will attack, appears around parks around the state (Hitagi Senjougahara from Bakemonogatari)
89: Wfost - Possibly rich, sometimes will attack, appears in some locations around the state (Dark Magician Girl from Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters)
90: Wfyjg - Jogger, always flee if attacked unless standing in a wall or sitting down on the steps, after that then sometimes attack back if attacked, spawns around where Epsilonists typically spawn (Casty Rianoite from Ciel nosurge: Ushinawareta Hoshi e Sasagu Uta)
91: Wfyri - Rich, always flee if attacked, only appears in wealthy areas (Umaru Doma from Himouto! Umaru-chan)
**92: Wfyro - Rollerskater, always flee if attacked, only appears on beaches during the day if sunny (Toy Chica as a fanmade humanoid character from Five Night's at Freddy's)
93: Wfyst - Middle class, sometimes will attack, appears in some locations around the state except San Fierro (Kagome Higurashi from Inuyasha) [Only her face will be mushy once in-game, the rest isn't]
129: Dnfolc1 - Poor, sometimes will attack, only appears in rural areas (Aya Dravis from Mad Father)
130: Dnfolc2 - Poor, sometimes will attack, only appears in rural areas (Kousaka Honoka in school uniform from Love Live!)
131: Dnflyc - Truck Driver, sometimes will attack, only appears in rural areas (Dawn from Pokémon)
138: Wfybe - Beachgoer, always flee if attacked, only appears on beaches during the day if sunny, but can also appear in Greenglass College and Verdant Bluffs under the same conditions (Nibutani Shinka from Chuunibyou Demo Koi Ga Shitai!)
139: Bfybe - Beachgoer, sometimes will attack, only appears on beaches during the day if sunny, but can also appear in Greenglass College and Verdant Bluffs under the same conditions (Valensiya as an OC)
[Can't find a darker skin that fits with this ped]
140: Hfybe - Beachgoer, sometimes will attack, only appears on beaches during the day if sunny, but can also appear in Greenglass College and Verdant Bluffs under the same conditions (Diane from Nanatsu no Taizai)
141: Sofybw - Rich, sometimes will attack, can appear rarely in low-income areas around Los Santos, but usually appears in wealthy areas (Kuroyukihime in school uniform from Accel World)
145: Wfycrk - Specialty, always attack if attacked, only appears during the last mission in the crack palace in Los Flores and Vigilante missions (Black Gold Saw from Black Rock Shooter)
148: Bfybw - Rich, sometimes will attack, can appear rarely in low-income areas around Los Santos, but usually appears in wealthy areas (Kashiwazaki Sena in her grey sweatshirt uniform from Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sakunai)
150: Wfybw - Rich, sometimes will attack, can appear rarely in low-income areas around Los Santos, but usually appears in wealthy areas (Izumi Reina from Musaigen no Phantom World)
151: Dwfylc1 - Possibly poor, sometimes will attack, only appears in the northern rural half of the state (Archbishop Ragnarok from Ragnarok Online) [This is the closest character I can get to achieving big breasts with this ped if closely observed]
152: Wfypro - Prostitute, always attack if melee unless gunfire is heard or shot at, usually found in most locations around the state at night and can sometimes stick around longer than usual except San Fierro and Las Venturas (Akitsuki Airi from Onichichi)
157: Cwfyhb - Truck Driver, sometimes will attack, only appears in rural areas (Hifumi Takimoto from New Game!) [She'll look a little shorter than she actually is once in-game)
169: Sofyri - Rich, always flee if attacked, only appears in wealthy areas around San Fierro and in cutscenes involving Woozie (Yuri from Doki Doki Literature Club)
172: Vwfywp - Casino croupier/bartender with light skin, always flee if attacked, only appears in specific locations and Vigilante missions (Nipako from Over Legend Endless Tower)
178: Wfysex - Stripper, only appears in strip clubs and the sex shop interior (Asuka Langley Soryu in red suit form from Neon Genesis Evangelion)
190: Copgrl3 - Barbara, always attack if attacked because she's a cop, only appears in Vigilante missions (Aiz Wallenstein froom Danmachi)
191: Gungrl3 - Helena, always attack if attacked because she's trained in weaponry, only appears in Vigilante missions (Kanzaki H. Aria from Hidan no Aria)
192: Mecgrl3 - Michelle, always attack if attacked, only appears in bike street races and Vigilante missions (Spica from Pangya!)
193: Nurgrl3 - Katie, always attack if attacked, can only appear in Vigilante missions (Shiina Mashiro in her blue uniform from Sakurasou no pet na kanajo)
194: Crogrl3 - Millie, always attack if attacked, only appears in Vigilante missions (Tohka Yatogami in school uniform from Date a Live)
195: Gangrl3 - Denise, always attack if attacked because she's used to dangerous situations, can only appear in Home of the Hills acting as a normal ped that flees if attacked, and in Vigilante missions (Suzutsuki Kanade from Mayo Chiki!)
196: Cwfofr - Poor, sometimes will attack, only appears in rural areas (Nagase Ayumu from Time Leap)
[Sorry, there isn't much art about this character as she came from a visual novel]
197: Cwfohb - Poor, sometimes will attack, only appears in rural areas (Akari Tatsushiro from Naruto Shippūden: Dragon Blade Chronicles)
198: Cwfyfr1 - Poor, sometimes will attack, only appears in rural areas (Sakura Chiyo from Gekkan Shoujo)
199: Cwfyfr2 - Poor, sometimes will attack, only appears in rural areas (Konosuba Aqua from Konosuba: God's Blessing on this Wonderful World!)
201: Dwfylc2 - Truck Driver, sometimes will attack, only appears in rural areas (Umi Ryuuzaki from Magic Knight Rayearth)
205: Wfyburg - Burger Shot Worker, acts accordingly to player's behavior, only appears in Burger Shot interior and Vigilante missions (Applefield Nadja from Ashita no Nadja) [Sorry, can't find an overweight character to fit with this ped]
207: Vhfypro - Prostitute, always attack if melee unless gunfire is heard or shot, usually appears in Las Venturas most of the day due to increase prostitution rate (Monet from One Piece Battle Dance)
211: Wfyclot - Clothing Store Clerk, acts accordingly to player's behavior, only appears in Binco, Sub Urban, Zip stores, and Vigilante missions (Morishima Haruka from Amagami)
214: Vwfywai - Waitress, cutscene-only ped in Caligula's Palace, only appears in Vigilante missions (Maika Sakuranomiya from Blend-S
215: Sbfbri - Middle class, sometimes will attack, only appears in some areas around San Fierro (Mikasa Ackerman from Attack on Titan)
216: Swfyri - Rich, always flee if attacked, only appears in wealthy areas around San Fierro (Ara Sakra Devanam from Elsword)
218: Sbfost - Poor, transgender, sometimes will attack, usually appears in areas with the LGBT lightposts (Yui Makino from Hungry Zombie Francesca)
219: Sbfyri - Rich, Liane Forget of WCTR News but without her "news anchor" voice, always flee if attacked, only appears in wealthy areas around San Fierro (Shizuku Mizutani from Tonari no Kaibutsu-Kun)
224: Sofori - Rich, sometimes will attack but HP is set too low, usually appears in wealthy areas around San Fierro and the small market area east of Las Venturas (Tohsaka Rin from Fate/Stay Night)
225: Sofost - Middle-class, sometimes will attack, usually appears in some locations around San Fierro (Tateyama Ayano from Kagerou Project)
226: Sofyst - Possibly poor, sometimes will attack, usually appears in San Fierro (Shana from Shakugan no Shana)
231: Swfori - Possibly rich, sometimes will attack, appears around parks throughout the state (Lucy Heartfila in school uniform from Fairy Tail)
232: Swfost - Possibly rich, sometimes will attack, can appear in most locations throughout the state (Eucliwood Hellscythe from Koreha Zombie Desuka)
233: Swfyst - Middle class, sometimes will attack, usually appears in San Fierro (Kurisu Marise from Steins;Gate)
237: Shfypro - Prostitute, always attack if melee unless gunfire is heard or shot at, can be found in San Fierro at night (Tiara from Fairy Fencer F)
238: Sbfypro - Prostitute, always attack if melee unless gunfire is heard or shot at, can be found in San Fierro at night (Yaya from Unbreakable Machine Doll)
[Sorry, can't find a darker skin to fit with this ped]
243: Sfypro - Prostitute, always attack if melee unless gunfire is heard or shot at, can be found in Las Venturas most of the day due to increased prostitution rate (Yonaka Kurai from Mogeka Castle)
244: Vbfyst2 - Stripper, sometimes will attack, can be found in Las Venturas most of the day due to increased prostitution rate but also seen in strip clubs (Kirin from Monster Hunter Online)
[Sorry, can't find a darker skin to fit with this ped]
245: Vhfypro - Prostitute, always attack if melee unless gunfire is heard or shot at, can be found in Las Venturas due to increase prostitution rate (Cus from Dragon Ball Super)
[Sorry, can't find a darker skin to fit with this ped]
246: Vhfyvf3 - Stripper, sometimes will attack, can only be found in strip clubs, during bike races, and Vigilante missions (Alisa Amiella from God Eater)
251: Wfylg - Lifeguard, sometimes will attack, can only be found on beaches (Sailor Moon in school uniform from Sailor Moon)
256: Sbfystr - Stripper, always flee if attacked, only found inside the private room in strip clubs after paid enough cash and the Crack Palace post-game (Erio Touwa from Denpa onna to seishun otoko)
[Sorry, can't find a darker skin to fit with this ped]
257: Swfystr - Stripper, always flee if attacked, probably an unused model for strip clubs (Bowsette from the Mario franchise fandom)
263: Vwfywa2 - Bartender, always cower if attacked as she can't move out of her workspace in any way, only found in Jizzy's Pleasure Domes and The Four Dragons (Manpukumaru Chang from Valkyrie Drive Bhikkhuni)

Notes: Catalina is canonically gone since Farewell, My Love... mission with Claude to Liberty City, so I won't add her as a replacement. Kendl isn't on the list either because I decided to leave her be as is.

I hope I can try this just once for a short-term experiment, but if my computer sniffs out a potential problem on my security protection after the install of the latest CLEO version, it should only take some MB of my free space, then I will not do it. Since I am fully aware that CLEO does have an author on its page along with other contributors, but the computer might not trust that executable, as it doesn’t contain a valid electronic signature or its actual purpose behind that file.

Loko wrote

Got my Hobonichi planner! I already fucked up twice with writing things down. Hopefully I get better at this 😛

I'm curious, how is a Hobonichi different to a typical planner/diary? :o

Loko wrote
malmon wrote
Loko wrote

Got my Hobonichi planner! I already fucked up twice with writing things down. Hopefully I get better at this 😛

I'm curious, how is a Hobonichi different to a typical planner/diary? :o

This is actually my first planner, but I assume it's due to the laid back approach of the planner's structure rather than having all of these different pre-made compartments to toss things willy nilly. This way you can have a planner that's "unique to you."

That being said, I'm not nearly as creative as some of the people whose layouts are far more aesthetically pleasing. I just need to remember things and write them down.

Funny enough, that's essentially how my last planner functioned as well. Ended up being a lot more organized and productive than I ever was before. Maybe even happier, too. ^^

Loko wrote

Is there a decent IDE with a dark theme, because my eyes burn

Im a programming noob, but Visual Studio Code has a nice dark theme.

AHHH! I asked someone who makes my clothes who lives with me to make me a dress. I was vewy thankful she took the request and said she'll put it in her calaneder like 2 weeks ago. Ya woulda thought 2 weeks was enough time for someone who just reads books and plays games all day but nooo....I then check a calander she has to see she marked it in October -.-

Success! I now get to see Cleo 4.3 on my GTA: SA start screen on the bottom left and decided to test out the game using my latest and only 100% completion save file, although nothing is happening because I have not installed any mods yet, so it is treated as though I never installed that in the first place. Now if I really want to mix it up safely and get it to activate, I have to get Skin Selector 2.1, which is used to select the skin the protagonist wants to play as, and has been used by others for their own creations. Not only that, I have to get the IMGTool and PEDEditor, allowing me to replace the skins of a particular ped I want, provided I have the skin mods that can fit.

If I can get those three things to work perfectly and there are instruction videos all over Youtube, then I have to make a duplicate of the same save file onto Slot 2 to experiment with CLEO for a little while as a trial. The last thing after that is to make my own post-game story by getting DYOM Mission Editor Mod, unfortunately, it will only let modders have up to eight user-created missions at a time, like the number of save slots I can have for the game. This means I can only do a short eight-mission strand concerning the anime invasion that is taking place after the main events as a non-canon crossover. Good thing the DYOM mod has very good instructions on what it can do once I get it.

My example of a storyline of mine would probably go like this, remember all DYOM missions always start with the prefix DYOM: followed by whatever title that fits a certain character limit shown on the PC. Added subtitles to CLEO-related cutscenes will not be played over, so it will play silently unless the character(s) in question provide the lines needed to fit with the story with the correct modded voice packs, here is an example of two DYOMs with "End of the Line", the final main story mission but with an alternative twist.

Edit: I make a self-note cautioning that IMGTool is capable of replacing original files, but will NOT restore them once gone, and since I am only going to do the female peds, whilst leaving everything else untouched, I have to make backup copies of them and made a nifty backup folder to store them. I already made a safe duplicate of vorbis.dll right before I installed CLEO 4.3. I may have to use the videos that taught me how to install the mods correctly as well as how to do stuff with IMGTool and PEDEditor in a safe way every time I want to mess with that stuff. Now I got both IMGTool and PEDEditor able to work properly, I'm officially set to add mods to my game at my leisure. 🙂

Normally, when that mission is triggered, CJ and Sweet drive up to Los Flores to deal with Big Smoke and Tenpenny. However, in the DYOM twist, after the sequence with Big Smoke dying and Tenpenny lighting up the Crack Palace, that part is skipped entirely to the firetruck chase. CJ is doing his best to keep up with him like normal, this time the player's side is switched allowing the main antagonist being played, following checkpoints the same way he did in the normal game until after Sweet gets in the Feltzer. From there, he no longer requires a route to follow and just go straight to the airport where CJ attempts to block his route, then switching up to ramming, missed by a few inches and careens off onto a striped ramp, hitting an AT-400's front nose, killing them both. The player still gets the million-dollar reward but the riots will not subside afterwards and is non-canon.



Another possible DYOM twist is if Big Smoke's ineffectiveness with his AK-47 is aided by the player not wishing to play as CJ and wants to kill him, Tenpenny, and Sweet, as he originally wanted to from the beta intro. Occurring right after the cutscene CJ meets Big Smoke and CJ's health is adjusted to what he acquired from the Paramedic odd job along with full armor from the Vigilante odd job, though he will have default clothing and stats, and he will use an M4 in the fight. Big Smoke on the other hand will only have limited health and armor for balancing as opposed to the normal game having a lot of health, but he will use the Combat Shotgun and the normal, non-scripted AK-47. When that alternative mission is successful, the player as Big Smoke only gets the pass and a small respect increase, Ballas starts to like him from that point, the riots won't subside like in Tenpenny's ending, but since the key players CJ, Sweet, and Tenpenny are killed this way, it counts as non-canon as well.

 

  1. Inconspicous Paradox - CJ gets a call from Truth between 23:00 and 05:00 he spots something unusual and suspicious, keeping quiet so he won't blow his cover, he needs to go to his farmstead in Leafy Hollow and speak with him behind the hay bales. Truth still has the green jar CJ gave him a while ago from Green Goo mission, so it could be that the girls were looking for the jar, not him. He does not know what they want, but it is a sign of trouble. However, when the jar starts glowing as he takes it out of his pocket since it is night; they spot both of them and were off running. Truth tells him to go somewhere safe, taking care not to get in a vehicle, as it will make things a lot worse. The girls will be armed but they will just be searching for him, and if caught, the mission fails.
  2. Underground Chain - Cesar and Kendl talks about Illegal Street racing that is not heard of in the state's freeways, CJ is tasked to get in a modded Sultan fit with nitrous as before from Test Drive mission to race three unidentified girls and come back to the garage in Doherty.
  3. Strangers in Love - CJ meet up with a mysterious girl who reveals herself as Kuroyukihime, and wants to introduce him to some new friends in Garcia before a formal meeting in Chinatown district. Da Nang Boys suspect this in advance and decides to break in to kill Woozie and everyone there, a short mission.
  4. Queen of the Hill - There is strong rumors of Epsilon gathering new members at the farm for an upcoming annual ceremony, but CJ appears to be the perfect candidate for selection. Kuroyukihime wants him to seek out Ibis, claiming to be a warden that guards Flint and Whetstone's forests. He is required to pay up a one-time 8.75% fee of what he earned through his entire journey towards 100% completion with no refunds, not counting dead people's bodies and asset income. Once done, he needs to follow a long series of steps to become an Epsilon member using standard GTA logic before next Sunday night; hence, the mission is scripted to start on a Sunday at dawn.
  5. The Truth is Out There - Truth goes missing once again, this time being caught by government agents and is holed up somewhere in the state. Kuroyukihime and her friends go to investigate with him and kill the government agents upon a short confrontation cutscene. He needs to get to Angel Pine so that he can take his Camper back to his farm and meditate, but not without handing over the green jar that he has been carrying.
  6. True Soul - CJ and Kuroyukihime strangely affected by the jar's glowing radiation begins to display suggestive feelings to each other but unfortunately, for CJ, he does not feel anything different from his normal encounters with girlfriends, and to spice that up, she simply asks him to go get four powder kegs across the countryside guarded by survivalists. Once that is done, she waits for him by the tree near the Epsilon house by nightfall alone so that she can bestow her power onto him, allowing the player to change skins one time to a generic schoolgirl until the end of the story.
  7. The Leone Problem - Sometime after Salvatore Leone's revenge call from Breaking the Bank at Caligula's mission, the Leone Crime Family hatches a plan to kill CJ, unaware that he has many friends at his side and are on their way back to San Andreas with disproportionate retribution in a matter of hours. Kuroyukihime urgently asks CJ in his new form to steal a tourist bus (Coach), get some girls around the city as quickly as possible, and then drive back up to the Epsilon house to form a convoy with four-seater blue cars behind CJ up to Caligula's to lure them there and kill them en masse. The convoy consists of as many as three blue cars protecting the bus (12 people) and the drive is long and slow, proving it is the penultimate mission.
  8. Happiness is Yours, Kifflom - Truth calls CJ expressing loudly he had enough with the "squeeky" people and their "bizarre" practices, deciding that it is time to face the entity Kifflom and redeem his old form. Kuroyukihime with some form of untold power calls him in advance right after he is done speaking saying that Kifflom is a very powerful entity that controls fate, and killing it would bring chaos to this world. CJ hangs up without saying a word, going along with Truth's plan to head over to the Epsilon house in a Red Sadler as before when he partook the rites, making them unhappy and are waiting for him followed by four elemental creatures before finally facing up Kifflom himself. As CJ approaches the Epsilon house one last time, the twelve tenets of Kifflom is revealed to him in blue text at the bottom of the screen even though he already partook it, yet broken the rules of the Epsilon Program. Once Kifflom is destroyed and back outside, he can now change skins back to his normal self and everyone is back to normal save for the radio station ads and conversations regarding Epsilon, thus ending the post-game storyline.
Loko wrote

Today's gonna be a doozy in more ways than one.

What's in store?

I actually cannot stand how loud my desktop is anymore. It's to the point where I hardly want to use it for anything remotely intensive. At least an upgrade is within reach now.

Another big success for me today, I now got Skin Selector v2.1 to work properly, well... sort of. I noticed an uninvited guest character I would not guess by the IMG files, it is Renko Usami, classified as a small female skin due to her height after holding Tab and hitting Q or E and she pops up replacing him, and I switched back to CJ. I also noticed that the animations on her are a stiff idle pose like a statue with her arms down. This is because my player's stats showing I have a lot of muscle and a bit of weight put on prior to the test as well as the model's poly looking a tad bit low-quality. For me to fix those two little problems, the first of two small fixes I have to get the female ped animation mod, which will work for all female peds in case I want to take over as one of them. The condition to work is as long as my two player's stats are the same as if I started a fresh new game, very low muscle and around 20% body fat to activate. The second fix would be to polish up the normalmap textures of all skins so it would look better like in the remastered version.

Here's a good image link on Renko below.


By now with my list on hand from my Word document, while I do those two small fixes, I will put one of the skins I'm going after at a time to the IMG archive. Using the same systematic videos, I really hope the original .dff and .txd skins are in my game's backup folder at this stage in case. I'm not going to beautify my game on the graphics, because it is a waste of time and wouldn't want to crash it. Right after once I get all these beautiful skins and polished up their textures, I will then run another short test and mess with the anime A.I. They will still talk their original lines, though.

I haven't been posting lately and it's not because I forgot this place exists or anything... I have been really busy. My flight leaves in 8 hours and 6 hours after that I'll be in Japan for quite a long while. Probably won't have access to the internet for a few days or possibly weeks! But the worst thing is that I will have to find a way to s u r v i v e without a computer until mid of June. I'll miss everyone!

@LucianDreamer Renko :>

水面の朧月 wrote

I haven't been posting lately and it's not because I forgot this place exists or anything... I have been really busy. My flight leaves in 8 hours and 6 hours after that I'll be in Japan for quite a long while. Probably won't have access to the internet for a few days or possibly weeks! But the worst thing is that I will have to find a way to s u r v i v e without a computer until mid of June. I'll miss everyone!

@LucianDreamer Renko :>

ooh! what're you gonna get up to in japan?

水面の朧月 wrote

I haven't been posting lately and it's not because I forgot this place exists or anything... I have been really busy. My flight leaves in 8 hours and 6 hours after that I'll be in Japan for quite a long while. Probably won't have access to the internet for a few days or possibly weeks! But the worst thing is that I will have to find a way to s u r v i v e without a computer until mid of June. I'll miss everyone!

@LucianDreamer Renko :>

がんばって friend, take care! <3

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Loko wrote
All in One wrote

I actually cannot stand how loud my desktop is anymore. It's to the point where I hardly want to use it for anything remotely intensive. At least an upgrade is within reach now.

What you planning?

Getting a better CPU and subsequently a new motherboard with new RAM chips. I'm thinking Ryzen 5 2600. Besides being really loud currently my motivation for upgrading is that I have a really nice GPU but I can't do a whole lot with it since my CPU is such a bottleneck. If that wasn't the case I'd just settle for a much better CPU cooler. It'll basically be a whole new machine which is exciting in and of itself after using my current build for nearly seven years.

The anime invasion of San Andreas is getting closer, though I do have to make some adjustments on the characters from my original Word list. Because I have an ad-blocker on, some of the precious characters will not come down to my modded game sadly since they are much harder to find and might lure me somewhere else I will not normally go to, or exclusive only to a small circle of people that knows. Since I'm still not done replacing female peds, I won't release a copy-pasted update from my Word list of the drastic last-minute changes.
 
The first preliminary stage is the uninvited "Renko" character that's always there whenever Skin Selector is installed properly, followed by slowly replacing original ped skins one at a time starting in the heart of cities, spreading anime outward in all corners until reaching the countryside which I'm almost done witnessing the second preliminary stage. The third and final preliminary stage is giving CJ some sort of charisma powers to do stuff (new animations albeit very small and ways of how to contain the new anime populace without resorting to violence and wanted levels). After about three preliminary stages running on the same day (June 12, 1992) as a Groundhog Test Day scenario pass, which is very soon, the anime invasion by that stage goes full circle, will then start after I made my own missions, this is when things get very serious but not to the point of the Riots mission strand.

This is just another long series of thoughts to myself coming out of my head.

i bneed MOre alcoholic drinks. please give me more.