Agung Paramtapa's Journal

Pretty much what the title says on the tin. While I found out skin mods in H.A.W.X. works in H.A.W.X. 2, the modding in its entirety is highly focused on H.A.W.X., and even then it was pretty much limited, bare bore, and there's nothing new to come by in 2025 (going 2026 in 2 months). On top of that, Microsoft ended Windows 10 support by the next day (it probably has happened on the other side of the world), and I'm not gonna bother my ass off on switching OSes to like, CachyOS, whilst doing modding works and/or video editing that only works on Windows (such as 3ds Max and VideoStudio), even though SOG (SomeOrdinaryGamers) encouraged people to  not  updating to Windows 11. TBH, I'm fairly surprised that the Rafale skin mod from Skyline only works in H.A.W.X. and not H.A.W.X. 2 due to different UV map used, and that the Super Hornet skin has wrong mapping on the tail rudder and flipped UV map. It's even no surprise that Nexus has only 2 mods in place for H.A.W.X. 2 , and...

 Welp, TBH, I didn't want to expect the worst because it's 2025 and AI is evolving, but here it is. For tonight, I spent my time figuring out how the hell I can make the raw H.A.W.X. 2 models  readable  in 3D modeling environment, but it pains me to say that Google spits out  nothing relevant to my searches  😞, to the point that the only possible way to do this now is to rip the models  directly  while the game is running, which is by no other way than using Ninja Ripper. Yes, Ninja Ripper. I've already talked about it several times already in several posts before and to me, it's nothing new. The Lock On Mod Manager (ModMan) is quite universal when it comes to read CDDS archives, but not with the old AdA-Mod that I managed to pull out before LockOnFiles website was no more (Tom_Weiss has A LOT to answer for 😅). The CDDS archives the AdA-Mod author (BarbsMan et al) made is, for some reason, using new algorithm that weirdly enough, works flawlessly in ...

I'm back with good news and bad news, to start with this blog post. I'll just start with the bad news first just to explain what the title is all about. TBH, my loyalty over the Blazededge's "Get Home, Be Home, Stay Home" Discord server, especially since my first ARSON Squadron rodeo back in 2021~2022, was worth it, to which I established a fame and a name for myself as one of the pioneers of advanced modding through trial and error procedures. I spent 3 years frequenting myself in that server that Blaze claimed to be  his  home, and I was quite happy that all these years, everything was sailing smooth... until  I got an announcement that the server owner himself, Blaze, has gotten his new low that I do not want to disclose more. Initially, the admins and moderators agreed to let him out of the server to sort things out, but it didn't go according to the plan as Blaze has come down having mental breakdown, going to turn away against the truth so that he will c...

 Idk if I should be doing this, but I think I should because what I create is quite revolutionary. I'm pretty sure you have heard or  at least  played with Skies Restored mod by now. A revolutionary mod created by the one and only, Calamitous (often known with the display name CloakedEnigma on Nexus), that brings you improvements over the overall AC7 gameplay. Although I dare say what he created is enough to impress lots of people within the modding community, there's a good chance that it's not as polished or perfect as I hoped to be. Sure, there are some issues pertaining dialogues in missions, and some original dialogues might've been cut in favor of cut content restoration, but get this; as much as I love Calamitous' work, ofc I wanted my own fixes and improvements. However, as of this writing, I've been asking for permissions in improving his mod on Blaze's "Get Home, Be Home, Stay Home" (G[B]S) Discord server (now I'm not in there anym...

 I have to say, the way I write this in the title is related to what I write back in 2021 . Why do I say so? Look no further than SomeOrdinaryGamers, the one channel that is best described as the anti-mainstream gaming channel that talks about anything and everything.  So, what happened? If you haven't noticed recently, most, if not all, YouTube videos out there (it might happen to anyone who have subscribed to certain channels), have automated translations to video description and title and AI-driven dubbing system that can convert what you're saying in the video (you or anyone else) to be dubbed based on what you're saying in their native languages. Apparently, Indonesian is covered in this subject, to which I brought up the attention of the old post I wrote back in 2021, where the AI was at its infancy (there wasn't even an AI chatbot like ChatGPT at that time). Ngl, there are translations that are either wacky or just don't fit right in based on the language for...

 I simplify all map-based mods I have into this one big post. The mods I cover are based on map editing that I discovered while I was developing the 3.0 update of my SPW Swap and VisMod Collection. I gotta hand it to kokeo1 who discovered the idea of actor injection from one mission map to another; although theoretically we  can  edit missions to make a new one, the mission itself is "cooked" in a way that we can only edit what's available at hand. Creating a new mission requires us to have a reverse-engineered source code and dev assets to work with, which is not easily obtainable due to Ace Combat 7  is not even an  indie  game. That didn't stop some modders to modify the existing ones. I'm pretty sure you have heard the Ally F-22A Mobius One mod by now. This accomplishment alone made me interested in learning how kokeo1 (the author) modify such mission in a way that Mobius 1 (for all we know and love in the Ace Combat franchise)  canonically ...