Anime has a lot going for it. There is good, bad, masterful, inane, and mediocre anime... but one thing they all have in common, that alone supercedes all other human art and culture, is the hair. It is brilliant and wonderful. I am always in awe when anime characters can tell that some other anime character is a foreigner, due to the 'blond' hair... as opposed to Japanese characters, who are restricted to black, brown, blue, green, pink, orange, yellow, red, and turquoise hair.
But! Color is only a small fraction of the character of anime hair. There are also enormous pigtails, anti-grav Christmas ornaments, dice, bunnies, hairbands, ribbons, braids, antennae, spikes, afros, mohawks, poufs, super-long ponytails, full-body straight, and... well, anything. I realize that anime was not widespread in 1257, but computers now are powerful enough to handle anime hair. And thus, I announce...
The Anime Hair Mod for Mount and Blade!
Goal: Incorporate anime hairstyles and colors into Mount and Blade. If possible, allow them to interoperate with Native and all other mods.
Restrictions: No gameplay alterations are allowed. Probably, nothing will be altered except for the hair... though if it is possible to make other changes to the face generator (adding additional parameters [such as eye color] or increasing the existing ranges), such superficial changes may be incorporated.
I am an expert computer programmer, fairly experienced modder, and decent 2d artist. I have never used Python, made 3d art (though I have used Autocad 3d), or examined M&B's mod system. As such, I may need assistance - and even if I don't NEED assistance, I am slightly lazy and would LOVE assistance. Since this mod has no hard-set mathematical rules (about which I am very strict and do not like to rely upon others), has no effect on game balance, and basically has a "the more, the better" theme, I will enlist anyone who wants to contribute.
Furthermore, contributions from experienced M&B modders who have may no interest in anime hair, but are interested in expanding the M&B community, are welcome.
My preliminary expectations are:
1) If nobody joins, I plan to release a mod that allows additional (unnatural) hair colors for Native, in whatever version is currently the latest.
2) If there is a lot of interest, I may release a couple additional hairstyles, and maintain it through patches.
3) If there is interest AND multiple people enlist to help, I plan to put a lot of personal effort into making 2 complete modules; one that is standalone (for Native) and one that may be installed over other mods to allow a multitude of hairstyles and hair colors proliferating throughout the any game; and to maintain the mod until v1.00.
Would anyone like to volunteer? I offer 10 denars as a sign-on bonus
But! Color is only a small fraction of the character of anime hair. There are also enormous pigtails, anti-grav Christmas ornaments, dice, bunnies, hairbands, ribbons, braids, antennae, spikes, afros, mohawks, poufs, super-long ponytails, full-body straight, and... well, anything. I realize that anime was not widespread in 1257, but computers now are powerful enough to handle anime hair. And thus, I announce...
The Anime Hair Mod for Mount and Blade!
Goal: Incorporate anime hairstyles and colors into Mount and Blade. If possible, allow them to interoperate with Native and all other mods.
Restrictions: No gameplay alterations are allowed. Probably, nothing will be altered except for the hair... though if it is possible to make other changes to the face generator (adding additional parameters [such as eye color] or increasing the existing ranges), such superficial changes may be incorporated.
I am an expert computer programmer, fairly experienced modder, and decent 2d artist. I have never used Python, made 3d art (though I have used Autocad 3d), or examined M&B's mod system. As such, I may need assistance - and even if I don't NEED assistance, I am slightly lazy and would LOVE assistance. Since this mod has no hard-set mathematical rules (about which I am very strict and do not like to rely upon others), has no effect on game balance, and basically has a "the more, the better" theme, I will enlist anyone who wants to contribute.
Furthermore, contributions from experienced M&B modders who have may no interest in anime hair, but are interested in expanding the M&B community, are welcome.
My preliminary expectations are:
1) If nobody joins, I plan to release a mod that allows additional (unnatural) hair colors for Native, in whatever version is currently the latest.
2) If there is a lot of interest, I may release a couple additional hairstyles, and maintain it through patches.
3) If there is interest AND multiple people enlist to help, I plan to put a lot of personal effort into making 2 complete modules; one that is standalone (for Native) and one that may be installed over other mods to allow a multitude of hairstyles and hair colors proliferating throughout the any game; and to maintain the mod until v1.00.
Would anyone like to volunteer? I offer 10 denars as a sign-on bonus
