Agung Paramtapa's Journal

Amidst modding works and new drama after New Year 2026, there's this thing that've been feeding my curiosity for God knows how long, and it started months ago as I'm having a weird philia that I'll explain below. I'm not a type of having a child fetish or smth in that regard, but back when MTV was a thing, I remembered a couple of things about one of the music playlists. From what I remember, it started in a white screen for few seconds, then the whole image turns into a orange brownish environment (dimly lit room?) having a young man (IIRC, he aged like me back in the 2000s) in front of a mirror with a shirt hanging on the front of his body. The song starts quite soft right after  the shirt fell from his body, went outside the camera POV that's pointing to the mirror. I don't watch the whole music video but in the reff segment, the song turned into some kind of soft rock with the drummer being the same young man (?) singing it. Idk if it's Indonesian or...

  To start this post, fanon means everyone can make crazy and weird ideas, right? Much composed to that of a fan fiction? Well, on my search for new Boruto wallpaper, smh this came up in the picture searches leading to a fanon version of Boruto Uzumaki, which is beyond me that the gal who called herself  Yuheng of Liyue Qixing  (the machine translation smh gave up on this one 😅 despite it sounded Chinese to me) decided to make the article  exclusive  to the Naruto Fanon website (with also no redistribution or citation to that site unless the author has given permission). Like, bruh, why? It's normal for someone to cite an article or source for research purposes, like, for essay or paper assignments (I was an Informatics graduate and I did an essay for graduation, citing articles and such to be linked up with Mendeley - great site and citation referencing app for scholars and academic students, BTW), and there's no need to be barred under copyright unless someo...

  Idk what's wrong with the tool lotsbiss provided but this is just  miserable 😞; the tool that I tried and got from Mod DB is  at best  used as a model replacer on its own, and when I tried to extract the model (I tried the A-10A as an example), it turns out to be a weird square-y and like, boxy model that to me, it looks like someone has put together a drawing on a piece of paper and colored it with a crayon or smth 😄.  The same thing happens with another example model that loaded with 3D Object Converter app that it got  bad polygons  that turned up to be  this bad , to which I highly doubt if it's even usable as a reference point for aircraft modeling and replacer.  TBR with ya, I've heard of the name lotsbiss, and in the translated Readme, he's a Chinese modder (mod maker), one of the legends that once made the AC7ModTools app for texture viewing. No offense, but it seems to me that, back when he was the king in H.A.W.X. modding, he ...

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...